Old building, new space - Area515 is moving

[Tim-S]

If you have already heard something about this, the new development is ... I signed a lease. We will formally occupy the new space on January 1, 2017. I do not know when construction in the back area will be done. As soon as it is, I will beg for everyone's help to prepare the new area and help us move.

This Saturday morning, I will be at the space by 10am to move the stuff we have stored in a back office to the garage for now. This has to be done so the landlord can get a construction crew in to demolish all the offices for us. If a couple of people are free, I'd really appreciate extra hands.

If this is a surprise to you, here's the what/when/why/wtf of it all:
The building we are in is falling down. There are two load-bearing walls in the three floors above us, and nothing is underneath those walls on the main floor or in the basement. To brace the building as recommended by a structural engineer, the landlord is constructing beefy load bearing walls in the basement and main floor. One of those walls will run directly through our current space (it will literally block our front door). If we stayed put, our workshop would become very very narrow.
Instead of dealing with that, we are moving to a different part of the building -- the back area that is currently office space. The side entry next to the loading zone on the West side of the building will become our front door. The landlord will demolish the offices, but we will have to paint and fix the flooring. In the end, it is an upgrade. We will gain ~550 sq ft of workshop (growing to 2300 sq ft indoors), in addition to keeping the existing 1100 sq ft we have in the garage. We will also have access to ~800 sq ft of questionably useful and difficult to access space in the basement.

[Allan Merz-Rosendale]

I'll be sure to keep an eye on posts, then, and visit often. January 1, you say? That ought to be interesting. When do we begin moving all the things on the west wall?

[Bailey Steinfadt]

That is the question. We're keeping in touch with the landlord and the construction company and will let people know more when we know anything. 

In the meantime, everyone please take home larger projects/items that you own that aren't going to be used in the next month. Then there's that much less to deal with on moving day. I'll attempt to dig out my Bacon Dispenser and relocate it soon. 

On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 3:14 PM Allan Merz-Rosendale <allan.r...@gmail.com> wrote:

I'll be sure to keep an eye on posts, then, and visit often. January 1, you say? That ought to be interesting. When do we begin moving all the things on the west wall?

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[Tim-S]

Latest is that construction will start in January, and we'll likely move in late Jan or early Feb.

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[Tim-S]

So, at long last ... construction in the back area is scheduled to resume in the next week or two.

Please do not store anything in the construction zone behind our space. It will be at risk of ending up in a dumpster. We've used that area as overflow / messy work space while waiting for construction to resume. I have moved everything of ours that I found back there (thanks again for painting the table tops, shelves, and whatnot, Justin).

Past that, please stay tuned. Construction will take time, but I'm hopeful that we will be moving soon. Believe me, you will know when the time comes -- I'll be begging for help getting the new space set up and everything moved.