Fire (Station) in the Hole

The form work for the Koons garage is now done and  so is Cherrydale’s brief landmark crane, visible from the Washington Monument even. Of course a new one will come around soon as the County has awarded the Fire Station 3 construction contract to Whiting-Turner, according to the Washington Business Journal. The 4.49M contract includes the fire station as well as finishing 21st Rd east of the fire station and building the pocket park on 21st Rd. Work is schedule to start in January.

OK, it’s been a while since I’ve updated so I have quite a few pics. I’m going to do in two posts, one today, one tomorrow. Today I’ll focus on progress up until Dec 4. Tomorrow I’ll post construction done from Dec 5th to yesterday — although I wasn’t around to see most of it.

The cement for the last floor section was  drying when I last posted.

It dried & rebar installed for the upper section of the southern wall – now just fill with grits:

Looking north – prepping for the last part of the western wall:

(This one won’t be a holy place except maybe when neighbors yell holy crap when car alarms keep going off)

A step further to completing the western wall:

And done:

Garage facade from Old Dominion (looking south):

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