Fire (Station) in the Hole

Posts Tagged ‘Koons Garage Construction’

First, let me apologize for being unsociable.

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Last week was a busy one. Not so much for the garage as 21st Rd., where crews started work on curb and gutters from Lee Hwy to approx where the mini-park will be developed. I’m going to hold off posting pics from that work for a day or so because there are a lot of them. Check back in a few days or link to the RSS feed and wait for notification.

Last Saturday most of the brick veneer work was finished. The only totally unfinished section left is a small section on the east side and a tiny part of the NE corner. There are also a few areas that have not been mortared yet.

Also, last week, the railing out side the Lee Hwy exit was painted beige to match the roof.

So with not too many to-do items left to check off on Koons garage construction and the FS3 site getting a chance to dry out with this great weather it seems a hand-off to Whiting-Turner shouldn’t be too far off now for sure. Anyway here’s a couple more garage construction pics from last week:

Enough with the snow. The copious amounts of snow being removed from the Koons Toyota Garage on Saturday:

Now for a little Back To The Future. Back on Feb 5, before the snow was all that was anyone’s mind, the switch was flipped for the lights. Here is a “before” and “after”:

One of the last steps to completion is repaving the area between the Koons service bay and the garage. Here the base is being laid down:

I think this is how we all feel now. (If you can’t tell what it is, its snow breeching the northern wall of the Koons Toyota garage.)

Here’s a before Snowpocalypse I and after Snowpocalypse II. First picture was taken Feb 1, right after the Jan 28 mini storm that dropped a few inches. Second picture was taken yesterday morning. Yeah, wow.

If you are wondering how this affects the completion of the garage and “Ground Breaking” for Fire Station 3, Arlington County has a progress meeting with the FS3 contractor, Whiting-Turner scheduled for Feb 17. That should be around the time FS3 construction starts in earnest.