For developers, being highly visible can boost business prospects, so on the Park District project in Dallas, Trammell Crow and its partner Met Life selected top-down construction to accelerate the schedule and get the project moving toward the skyline sooner. The top-down method allows vertical construction to begin while excavation continues below, removing excavation as a separate phase.
Being out of the ground sooner “gives you a leading edge on the competition, who are looking at potential tenants,” says Jeff DeBruin, a principal at Trammell Crow.