They’re going in as I type!
And we have a roof
Much of the rough framing has been completed. It is amazing to walk through doorways and see exactly where each room will be.
After Thanksgiving there will be major milestones like new windows and doors and a completed roof.
Soon, for the first time in who knows how many years, 204 and 206 East Girard Ave will be dry inside after it rains.
More framing pics: Continue reading “And we have a roof”
Article in Philadelphia Neighborhoods blog
Last week Lauren Macaluso from the blog “Philadelphia Neighborhoods” came by the buildings to do a piece on our project. It came out yesterday, it’s pretty cool and even has an accompanying video.
Check out the entire article -> Fishtown: Owners Seek to Build Highest-Standard Green Buildings
Hopalong Cassidy
There are layers and layers of cool wallpaper on some of the walls of these buildings. One of my favorites is in the very back room of the 2nd floor of 204.
I Googled “Hopalong Cassidy Wallpaper” and found out it was from the 1950s.
If I wanted to buy a roll I could for a mere $500.
Luckily Greensaw loves the old walls as much as we do, and they proposed the idea of “windows to history.” They will frame out a rectangle in the new walls exposing the old wall which they will preserve with a sealant. There will be 4 of these history windows throughout the buildings. I love that we’ll have these reminders of how the buildings looked when we saw them for the first time. They were a mess, but I still found a lot of the decay to be beautiful.