Take a 10-minute walk around the Haymarket and you’re bound to ask “Hey what’s that?” at least two or three times.
The area is filled with changes as at least 15 projects are underway or close to starting.
Of course, it all starts with the $150 million Pinnacle Bank Arena in the northwest corner of the Haymarket, but more and more development is beginning around it.
The parking lot south of the post office is torn up and will be home to the Yard, a retail/entertainment area with a year-round market and coffee shop, bars and restaurants. Developer WRK has yet to announce tenants of the Yard, which is set to open by August 2013.
To the west of the lot, the historic train station canopy is being taken down to be refurbished. A key feature of the new West Haymarket district streetscape, the canopy will be on the sidewalk next to the area's main drag, Canopy Street.
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Crews already have taken down a segment to allow sewer and dirt work on the extension of Q Street.
Also west of the Yard, two L-shaped, six-story buildings will offer first-floor retail and housing above designed to appeal to students and young professionals. One of the buildings may house a boutique hotel.
Straight south of the arena, the new three-story beige and brick District Energy Corporation power plant will heat and cool development and the arena.
To its west is the new Amtrak train station that opened June 26.
Directly west of the old Lincoln Station, dirt movers are smoothing the area to create temporary parking to replace the torn-up lot near the post office.
The train engine and caboose, a feature at Lincoln Station, have been moved farther south to extend Q Street. The rest of train cars were removed from behind the station in May.
A parking garage at Seventh and O streets soon will get underway.
Two new hotels and two new restaurants are also cropping up.
A pizza place will eventually go in the old Salvation Army space between Seventh and Eighth near P Street and the makers of Toast, a restaurant in Fallbrook, will create a restaurant in the Seaton and Lea building on the northwest corner of Eighth and Q.
The hotels, on either side of R Street near Eighth, will be a Courtyard by Marriott with first-floor retail and a Hilton Garden Inn.
Hawkins Construction is beginning dirt and sewer work on the new Pinnacle Arena Drive.
N Street is now open from Eighth to Ninth Street.
Work has yet to begin on the pedestrian bridge that will connect the arena to parking and festival space for outdoor markets, concerts and other events.
Map of Haymarket changes
Click on the icon for more information, a photo and a link to the stories about that project.
* Green icons are new construction
* Red icons indicate demolition or removal
* Blue icons indicate renovation