Fire (Station) in the Hole

Posts Tagged ‘Lee Hwy’

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:

Curb, gutter, sidewalk installation on the north portion of 21st Rd. started last week and the first section of sidewalk went in yesterday.  Below is a quick photo sequence of the work so far. Also, FYI, I uploaded the interior plans to the “Architectural Drawings” page.

Over the past weeks the Koons Toyota garage has revealed itself to be fairly handsome, all things considered. Certainly it adds value to Koons. It could even be argued that the garage is more elegant than the main building. All things considered.

Then last week they went and slapped on some really cheezy ginormous numbers for its Lee Hwy address — as-if it would be hard to find. But its the size plus the 2nd rate kitschyness of the numbers that really kills the deal.  It forces ones eyes — well at least mine —  to a structure that previously blended in to the neighborhood. I wonder why they didn’t imbed the address into the facade. Bleh. Multi-million dollar garage and $1.98 wall wart. Go figure. No doubt the birds will be flying over singing “cheap, cheap.”