Bay doors are in! Getting installed Friday...

They’re in- looking good

Beautiful! What a great project!

Love them.

Looks great!

All in. Chain hosts to open and close, really nice job on the fit.

very nice...

Looks great!!!

That looks really nice.

All done?

I'm enjoying see you do this!

Looks good.

Wow! This is awesome!

Doors really "pop" in that style

Very nice. Please keep us updated as you move along.

I may have missed it but where is this?

Very cool

Finally some major progress. Work, Snowmageddon, materials availability and grandkids have been in the picture but last couple of weeks everything has been ramping up. We're making really good progress recently. Electrical is partially done in the station, met with a plumber yesterday and we got everything lined out. Met with a concrete guy Monday and he's going to start in 2 weeks. Lots of effort has been going into the accessory building which is really good because I was thinking we would do the station first then work on the building next door. It's really coming together now.
ADA-compliant bathroom is a pain. The size is ridiculously large and we probably were grandfathered in from needing to do one but I did not want to have the city come in after construction and say we had to add one...

Interior front- the previous owners had covered a portion of the windows with cinderblock and brick veneer and boarded up the transoms and let them rot.


Glass out and cinderblocks ready for the taking.


Inside back window that was completely rusted out and blocked in- removed and then we moved the adjacent window into the slot and are going to cut a door to the courtyard in place of the window where we removed the good window. Only cracked one pane getting it out.



All the storefront and frontside windows/transoms ripped out and framed in. Glass man came by and measured for the replacement windows/transoms/front door.

More pictures.

Bathrooms gone and ready for revision.


Interior bathroom demoed and plumbing ready to remove.


Front after removing the crappy cinderblock work- they had the row of green tiles covered up!


Storefront windows and new door are on order. Today should be spent cutting out the window that we're converting to a door and then start building all the walls inside. Plumbers are supposed to be here next week to re-do the plumbing in both buildings. Also finally located someone to replace the tile portion of the roof and he should be out next week for a look-see.

A long labor of love. Thanks for the updates. Not everyone has your vision and few understand the satisfaction of bringing something back like you are.

Thanks. It's really exciting to see the progress increasing. It's hard to explain but I find it more fun to figure out how to get the old, neglected buildings back to life and updated while trying to keep as much as possible original or at least similar to what it was supposed to be.

Glad you didn't throw away any old lumber.

I really like these old buildings.

Good stuff. Drove through there on Sunday and looked great!