1470 Chapin St- The Gracie Condominium

Lots going on at our project in Columbia Heights. This week, the building was officially named "The Gracie Condominiums." In construction news, we're framing out the second floor and getting ready to go up with the new third floor. In the basement, the excavation contractor started work this morning removing the old concrete slab and about a foot and a half of dirt in order to get taller ceilings.

This was the back of the building earlier in the week.

Over the last few days, the masons worked to cut a new opening for the basement unit patio door. It was also put there so the bobcat could get into the basement to remove dirt. However, when they came yesterday to start construction, the bobcat wouldn't fit! It took the masons the rest of the day to make the opening 1 foot wider for today.

This morning, the bobcat came and fit into the new opening with no problem.

This was the progress by the end of the day. There was a lot of brick and dirt in the backyard, so it took half of the day just to clear it out enough to get inside. They were able to take one dump truck full of inside dirt today, and then they'll be back tomorrow and monday.

Also, the cinderblocks were delivered to start with the new party walls for the top unit addition. They will begin putting up these walls over the upcoming week.

2431 Ontario Rd- Work Starts

We just started demo this week on our next 4 unit building in Adams Morgan. The existing house needs extensive demo and we're working now to tear out the non-load bearing walls. The best part of the house is the view, which we can enjoy from the roof now, although it will be much more spectacular when we build the penthouse unit.

Here are the "before" pictures of the house.

The house had some neat trim on the main floor, but unfortunately it had already been torn out of the upper level, so we were unable to preserve it.

Here's the living room:

The kitchen was pretty beat up.