We made the paper this week with our Sand Hill Farm Apartment’s project appearing in the Culver Citizen. Beth Pare and her son came out in the rain for a walk-thru this past Tuesday. Despite the rain there was still a lot of activity at the site. Drywall was being delivered as we spoke.
There’s not much doubt that the follow-thru on our Stellar 2016 application pledge of completing workforce housing helped us secure Stellar Community designation in 2017. Preliminary site work had already begun when the Stellar Site Visit occurred. Our successful Stellar designation makes this phase I of workforce housing. Our application for IHCDA funding goes in this July. We will be starting with a market study shortly and will plan for that construction in 2019.
Progress has been good this week. All but four windows are in place. Those four have been left out on the second floor until the rest of the drywall is delivered. The drywall will be place on the second floor through those openings using a boom truck. The majority of the exterior doors have been installed. The shingles are on. The interior winding stairs to the second floor bedrooms have been installed. And progress continues on Plumbing and Electrical rough-in.
Last week we had meetings with Elkay to discuss the cabinetry that they are providing. They made an additional change to include Elkay sinks in each unit. Thank you Elkay!
I received a notice yesterday that we have been selected to be part of the the IEDC’s 2o18 Century and Half-Century Award Class. Figured I’d better go ahead and apply now since the award may not be around in 10 years when our Century in business rolls around. Plus I probably won’t be here to fill out the paperwork in 10 years! (I need to change our tagline on the home page! We’re at 90 years now!)
It’s particularly remarkable for Easterday Construction to make this milestone as a family business. Very few family businesses make it past the 2nd generation, let alone into the 4th as we have. I’m sure that Great Grandpa Easterday didn’t plan for this since he didn’t even bother to keep the records of our actual start date!
Those of us working here now can only take a little of the credit, as we’re standing on the shoulders of those that came before us. I will be honoring them when I accept this award.
So I get to go down to the Statehouse on April 11th to receive the award. Maybe I’ll get a photo op with Governor Holcomb… or maybe Henry! I’ll report back here afterwards.