Remember the before and after pics of the 3rd floor of 204?
Well, look at the 3rd floor of 204 now!
Dramatic change
Goodbye, Roof
Hello, sky!
Brick Walls All Gone
I haven’t been up to the 2nd and 3rd floors of the buildings lately, because of the demo, but today I was able to go up and see the back brick walls completely gone from the 3rd floor.
Here is a pan-o-rama view. It was Heath’s (Greensaw project manager) idea to take a pan-o-rama pic, that’s his head on the right.
Here are before and after pics of the view from the 3rd floor of 204 facing South towards the back of the buildings. Amazing!
Goodbye, Brick wall
The back brick wall of 206 is history. You can click on the image to see a larger version.
Here We Go!
First up is structural deconstruction. There are a few brick walls in shaky shape that need to be replaced, so they are coming down. Everything will be taken to Revolution Recovery after a short ride down the brick slide.
While waiting for the building permits to come through, I’ve been learning about the materials we will be using including: 100% reclaimed interior doors, 100% reclaimed flooring materials, 90% reclaimed framing materials and 100% recycled drywall. We will be reusing what we can from the building itself and getting other materials via the Resource Exchange.
Marsha from Greensaw sent me this info on The Resource Exchange.
The Resource Exchange, is a nonprofit reuse center and workshop space dedicated to promoting creative reuse, recycling, and resource conservation by diverting valuable materials from the waste stream and redirecting them to artists, builders, educators and the general public. The organization’s first program, reSETS, targeted waste materials specifically generated from the entertainment industry. Since the program’s inception, approximately 30 tons of lumber, scenery, and set decoration destined for landfill was salvaged for reuse, and over 600 tons of additional material, previously considered “waste”, was recycled.
The organization has diverted valuable material from many local productions, including: Law Abiding Citizen, The Last Airbender, The Walnut Street Theatre main stage, The Dark Fields, Garza, television series pilots and studio productions.
Neat!
I love how so many pieces of Philly will all come together to create these renovated buildings. After it is done these building will contain a million stories.