Mike Current says he almost had a nervous breakdown in anticipation of the first lift of the site-preassembled, glass-enclosed pedestrian bridges that link CityCenterDC's 11-story office buildings across a 24-ft-wide alley.
"Everyone was so adamant that [my scheme] wasn't going to work," says Current, vice president of TSI Architectural Metals Inc., the Upper Marlboro, Md.-based erector of the five bridges for the Washington, D.C., development. "There were a lot of people ... waiting for us to fail.