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Yes, it is true and we are excited! It has been long and coming but we are finally making a long time dream become a reality.
We acquired our deed on September Friday the 13th 2013 and broke ground today 10 days later.
This 11 month project involves a 15,000 square foot 4 story building with allot of history and character.
The building was built in 1910 and has very nice brickwork and stairways. The building was abandoned in 1997 and has been empty since.
Over the years of abandonment, it has greatly deteriorated and was brought to our attention through a city auction.
This building gives MoS the opportunity to gut it out and recreate the headquarters, missionary, studios and facilities we need to advance.
Here are a few pictures and it will be fun to share and to watch it transform from this stage to a final productive studio.
Demo is starting from the roof and working our way down. We are first replacing the roof and beginning demo on the top floor as you will see in the pictures below.
Objective is to bring the walls down to the original brick and restore the original wood plank floors. It's a big project but we have a great crew of workers getting this done in great time.
These following pictures are the results at the end of day one. Many walls and ceilings were removed and roof construction has begun.
The piles will be removed on day two and the rest of the floor gutted out.
As I was sitting in front of the building in the stairway to the entrance, a lucky friend was on my back and sat at the door of our new headquarters.
A couple shots of the exterior..
And the demo begins!....
Some views out the windows on the fourth floor.
More to come as we progress!
We acquired our deed on September Friday the 13th 2013 and broke ground today 10 days later.
This 11 month project involves a 15,000 square foot 4 story building with allot of history and character.
The building was built in 1910 and has very nice brickwork and stairways. The building was abandoned in 1997 and has been empty since.
Over the years of abandonment, it has greatly deteriorated and was brought to our attention through a city auction.
This building gives MoS the opportunity to gut it out and recreate the headquarters, missionary, studios and facilities we need to advance.
Here are a few pictures and it will be fun to share and to watch it transform from this stage to a final productive studio.
Demo is starting from the roof and working our way down. We are first replacing the roof and beginning demo on the top floor as you will see in the pictures below.
Objective is to bring the walls down to the original brick and restore the original wood plank floors. It's a big project but we have a great crew of workers getting this done in great time.
These following pictures are the results at the end of day one. Many walls and ceilings were removed and roof construction has begun.
The piles will be removed on day two and the rest of the floor gutted out.
As I was sitting in front of the building in the stairway to the entrance, a lucky friend was on my back and sat at the door of our new headquarters.
A couple shots of the exterior..
And the demo begins!....
Some views out the windows on the fourth floor.
More to come as we progress!