Edificio Amalia

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Location

District: 1st., Carmen

Canton: 1st., Central

Province: San Jose

Situation

Center of San Jose, at First Avenue and Seventh Street

Property registry

Tomo: 1121 Folio: 450 No. 83603 As. 2

Tomo: 367 Folio: 75 No. 2753 As. 16

Surroundings

North: First Avenue with 25.53m. of frontage.

South: Luis O. Siebe Beer, with 25.83m. of frontage.

East: Seventh Street with 24.52m. of frontage.

West: Gordiano Fernández with 25.26m. of frontage.

Extension

(658.96m2), according to the registered survey plot plan number - 2733-66.

Services

All of the needed publics service: drainage, electricity, public lighting, telephone line distribution system, sewage, trash collection, sidewalks etc.

Property description

Corner property almost square, with 25.53 meters fronting First Avenue, 24.52 meters fronting Seventh Street, South 25.83 meters fronting the neighboring building, West 25.62 meters fronting the neighboring building.

Section

The property is located in the center of San Jose within the commercial center, close to the Hotel Aurola. This zone is commercial with a high concentration of hotels, churches, banking centers, stores, public and private offices.

Building description

The five story building consists of 2808 square meters of construction. The first floor has a double height ceiling with a mezzanine which covers part of the first floor and is designed for commercial use. The second, third, fourth and fifth floors are for office space and designed to be subdivided with modular or lightweight partitions to facilitate easy alterations of space divisions. The sixth floor is a large area for elevator machinery.

• The design of the building is modern, the walls facing the streets are of glass curtain wall construction with natural colored anodized aluminum extruded sections. and exterior walls covered with Nicoyan marble.
  
  
• The building foundation consists of isolated steel reinforced concrete plates designed for soil support of 8000 lb/in 2, according to the recommendations of the soil study. The interior and exterior walls are prestressed concrete, with veneer of concrete block or brick. The office areas are divided using removable plywood partitions. The floors are prestressed concrete with beams every 20 cms. and with a 5 cm. cap of concrete. The roof structure is steel trusses covered with galvanized iron.
  
  
• The main staircase and the emergency staircase are prestressed concrete and structural metal with oak handrails.
  
  
• The floors are polished terrazzo tiles with bronze dividers. Staircase treads are preformed terrazzo. The first floor doors fronting the street are extruded aluminum with tempered glass, interior doors are of wood with plywood decoration.
  
  
• The electric installation is via conduits hidden in the walls and ceilings with adequate control panels. A water storage tank exists under the first floor with pump capable of 40 lb/in2 and a galvanized 30 gal. There is also a pneumatic tank with a pump capable of 10 lb/in2. Sewage systems consists of 4 in. cast iron tubing.

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