Hoffman built one of the city’s tallest buildings in the South Waterfront area, and achieved LEED Gold certification for the project. The Ardea comprises a 31-story main tower with a five-story ‘sidecar’ building; both have retail space on the ground floor with condominiums above totaling 587,000 square feet. A three-and-a-half-floor parking garage below street level rounds out the project. The parking lot was constructed using a top-down approach to allow the parking lot and the tower to be constructed simultaneously. Hoffman reduced the concrete pour cycle from an eight-day cycle per floor to six days, cutting 50 days off the schedule.