Tower crane at N. 3rd and Walnut streets
This weekend, a 255-foot tower crane made its temporary home in Harrisburg, ready to help construct an 11-story academic building for Harrisburg University’s campus.
From Friday to Sunday, crews assembled the crane that is taller than the Pennsylvania State Archives Building and Hershey Park’s Kissing Tower and can lift the equivalent of 14 Honda Civics.
When walking down 3rd Street towards Chestnut Street, residents can see for themselves how tall the crane is.
This is a major step in the $100 million HU project to increase the school’s educational space, enough to accommodate an additional 1,000 students, according to HU officials.
In the facility, HU plans to offer student service offices, as well as rooms for courses dealing with advanced manufacturing, health sciences and interactive media. It will include general-purpose education offices as well. The building will have 170,000 square feet of educational space and 40,000 square feet of unfinished shell space.
Baltimore-based Whiting-Turner Contracting Co. is the construction manager for the project, and Stantec, based in Butler County, PA, is the architect and engineer. The project is expected to support over 150 construction jobs.
HU officials said the project will likely be finished and the building open in 2023.
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