Community Updates

Our finals plans have been completed, and will resubmit all our permits after the holiday break. We began painting, with our green being approved to move forward. We are workshopping our secondary brick color with neighbors, and will begin priming the entire building after the holiday.

We are still waiting on final plans for plumbing, electrical, and elevator work to secure our final permits to get us to the finish line. In the meantime, we finished exterior masonry work (no more holes), power-washed the walls, and began priming to paint the entire building in the coming weeks!

Our beautiful staircases were installed, our first floor walls are completely framed and ready to be fire raided, we are in the process of redrawing our second floor plans to make room for our elevator, paint is continuing to be chipped away, and PECO came out to cover our electrical lines for worker safety.

After weeks of delay, we have finally obtained our electrical permits! Electrical work is underway, our new stairs are being installed, additional paint scraping is occurring on the exterior, and we are waiting upon some new plans to obtain our plumbing permits.

We made progress with out masonry work, we finished half of our exterior stonework, and scraped paint off of our exterior walls in preparation for our new exterior colors!

This week our construction crew finished masonry on the exterior and interior of the building. They filled in holes in the sidewalk and demoed the exterior stairs to make space for our ADA ramp. We also demoed out space for our doors and windows! Next week we are going to wash the exterior of the building to prepare for final masonry work and the start of painting!

Progress has been a-plenty! We bumped out our exterior wall 4 inches, our electrical permits have been approved, our stairs have been installed, and masonry, plumbing, and electrical subs are to begin work in the next two weeks.

This week is all things structure! Reinforcing cross beams, double enforcing the stairs, and building the new staircase with structural integrity. Generally making sure things are safe for the next phases.

Construction is progressing quickly and the next step is to excavate 8 inches—4 inches for stone and 4 inches for concrete in the basement. Once complete, we'll raise the surface back to floor level and lay down the subflooring.

The layout and installation of the metal framing, forming the structural backbone of our home, will be worked on through this week and next.

Currently, we are in the ground excavation phase.

We established the safety fence around the perimeter.

We have excavated 80% of the debris in the basement area and removed dirt in the amount of approximately three 30-yard dumpsters.