The Gracie Condominium- Moving Along

Our project in Columbia Heights is moving along really well. We finished framing out the middle two units, and now we're working on building the other two condos. The basement had to be dug down and we'll be pouring the new concrete slab on Thursday morning. The top unit is a whole new floor, and the masons have been working hard to build up the walls with cinder blocks.

We'll be meeting tomorrow with a cabinet designer and we should be ordering the kitchen cabinets by the end of the week. We're leaning towards a darker espresso color but we're looking at several options.

In the rear of the building, we decided to remove the old brick and just build a new block wall. The new block will be significantly stronger. Also, the new window and door openings were all in new places, so it would have been a very difficult process to cut and rebuild all of the openings with the old brick. The new wall will make it much easier to do so.

After the wall was taken down, the concrete guys worked today to install the rebar in the new footer.

This picture was taken over the weekend before the rain, but you can see that they are starting to make progress with the new walls. They had to take down a lot of the old brick because it was loose. Once they got to a point that was stable, they reinforced it with concrete and rebar and then started with the new blocks.

This is another house around the corner that uses a very similar paint palette to what we will use on our building. Our color is a slightly less dark shade of tan.

This is at our other condo project (The Charles Condo) but it's a great picture of our new signs. They were printed and installed last week. Definitely an upgrade over the previous banners.