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Progress Report on the Loft Common Areas
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Progress Report on the Loft Common Areas
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" What are you doing about this front door this is an original -- you can see the thickness of it it's it's very very heavily constructed we're going to try to retain it is the main entrance to the building. We'll strip it back to its original woodwork it's gonna take a lot of work and how to word this kind of an oversized door out of a hundred years on at the turn buckle is. -- OK and this will keep. Keep any security and gentlemen that we a lot of the people out -- we -- all -- so once you're -- this space you're in. In the -- in the corner of the building going the elevators and this is -- an actual individual unit here that's true this is actually continuation of the unit that enters the vestibule. It was a office for the electric for the various companies -- over the years among them or -- the roof oriented businesses right now for the wood paneling -- right correct. -- You know left the building the the brick out the wood paneling will be preserved as the become a large studio and actually bomb could be a one bedroom -- commercial use were on the first floor -- And -- the building you don't do by the way arrested unique nature of this neighborhood yet now over here we've got the caged elevator in the old out that. This not been washed down or anything right well we're using -- axis of construction materials obviously this elevated we'd love to restore and get it's operation for the use of people who live here. You've had to drop the ceiling in the people's action -- that well I'll let conduit going in overhead we're trying to maintain a yet who are firing its ceiling and that's the easiest way to box and also it. Contributes about. Right proportions for the -- What are we looking at here in this was an original. One of the main service medals for the entire property. We're gonna reuse the conduit in the penalty connection junction box for alarm equipment to the red wire all of this red wire that's right new fire alarm that -- OK."
" And then this as the secondary means the resume -- cannot back an -- and -- storage staircase pulling -- virtually to the roof. There will be. Door cut into the brick wall of the building itself I think we're immigrant. -- Putting in the secondary means that the -- has been a real big drop. Two of the biggest jobs in the entire building and stores all the way up in the roof not only that you're giving up a lot of square footage. How much you've figured that it -- your budget how much money. I think there's all of the middle of the building it's going to cost 500000 dollars while considered. But you gotta have a -- old. Once you get down with a bottom that's the way out into the out -- to clearly they've -- Look at the thickness these walls kind of a lot about to speak. We're looking at a hundred year old building's. Roof time. Structured around here's got to be. We'll have a can carry the weight of the rest I have found that go to. There's solid -- but before we started this."
