Fire (Station) in the Hole

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Last week the exposed concrete facade was painted pretty much bringing an end to the Koons Garage construction. A wood fence was constructed around the electric box on the Koons property and a new chain link fence was installed as railing at the Lee Hwy garage entrance. Chain link is a rather “interesting” material to use. You’d think steel tube railing would be preferred.

As far as the Koons Garage is concerned its all nickle and dime stuff now. I’ll post the garage constuction video whenever it goes into use and the bus stop shelter is installed for completeness.

Time to move on to Fire Station 3 construction ////////////////////////////

Lee Hwy Side of Garage Looking North East:

Completed Sidewalk In Front of Lee Hwy Side of Garage. More To Come Next Year:

Liriope Planted In East Side Utility Strip on 21st Rd.; Trees On West Side Next Year:

Fences:

Old Dominion Side of Garage Looking Southeast:

FS3 Site Tanned, Rested, and Ready:

This blog is officially pre-empted by Snomageddon, Snowzilla, Snowpocalpse, or whatever you are calling this ridiculous snow of 2010. I had a regular construction update prepared, but snow rules. (Bonus: bookmark this post and re-live it in August. I think it might be looking pretty good then).

Of course we all thought the December snow was our “once a decade” storm. Who knew it would be followed by a “once a century” storm (well, I certainly hope so at least).  I have a couple videos to show the damage, and pics too. (Be sure to kick up the video to 720p and watch full screen for full impact). No idea what this does to the construction schedule, but can’t be good.

Dec. & Jan. Storm Comparo — take a look at the far northern wall on the left side in both pics:

Close up of the far northern wall:

Video as storm winds up Friday Evening:

Video during storm on Saturday Afternoon:

Lee Highway Looking West; East:

21st Rd @ Lee Looking North:

Between Service Bay and Garage:

Time to glass the place up a bit, plus brick veneer work continues:

Brick veener:  installation 21st Rd. side, in place on 21st Rd, and creeping down Lee Hwy:

Glass Pane Installed On Side of Lee Hwy Stairwell:

Vent Relocated? (Top last week, Bottom this week):