Fire (Station) in the Hole

Posts Tagged ‘Koons Garage’

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:

I’m so woefully behind on my posts that they are pouring the 1st floor floor today. So lots of catch up to do, which I will do over today and tomorrow.

Today I’ll focus on the completion of the 1st floor walls which was done sometime around September 16. Here is a brief tour from just about every angle. The only angle I didn’t include is looking east on Old Dominion because there really isn’t much to see from that position and the fire station will block much of it from that approach. Pictures below start out on Lee looking east and gradually wander north towards Old Dominion.

Looking Northeast From Lee Hwy:

Looking North From Lee Hwy:

Looking Northwest From Koons Service Dept (Old Dominion Corner):

Looking Southwest on Old Dominion — The Old Dominion Entrance:

Looking West on Old Dominion. The Front of The Garage:

A lone crewman works Sunday starts to cover the ground with gravel to prepare for pouring the 1st floor floor (more tomorrow):

It’s hard to believe that there will be a 3-story garage here in about 3 months. The exterior wall continues to grow ever so slowly. Here is a summary of last week’s work:

A short section of the east wall along with rebar and form for its growth toward Old Dominion:

The other section of wall being started at the south end of the site:

A view of the site from the SW corner (Lee Hwy & 21st Rd):

A view from the site’s NW corner. Rebar for the east wall is in the foreground:

Behind The Scenes: If you are wondering what’s behind the form or how its secured these two are for you:

Finally, we bid adieu to our portable power friend, Aggreko. We hardly knew ye.