We were able to set up our business bank account today! We have a deadline of January 12 to set up EFT payments for our utilities, otherwise, we would have to pay an $800 deposit for 36 months. I'd rather hang on to that money, as opposed to letting Colorado Springs Utilities hang on to it. I was beginning to wonder if we would get our LLC documents in time...
Speaking of CSU, I received our variance from their Wastewater division engineers today. As I stated before, they wanted a $45,000 1000 gallon Interceptor set below grade out in the parking lot. After much diplomacy/meetings/lobbying by our archtect, they agreed to give us a variance to place a grease trap inside. The one they specified in the variance is way overkill, though. They want us to install one that is 48" x 36" x 27" below grade, which means cutting the concrete slab and digging down quite a ways. Paul and Heather have a small grease trap in their shop (The Raven's Nest). They have been in operation for about four years (or more???) and have only needed to clean their small one once. If we put in the one CSU wants, I'll have to put it on my long range calendar to clean it in 2015. We'll be driving Jetson's cars by then!
Our architect is going to have the plumbing/mech engineer write up a calculation sheet based upon the capacities of the components that will be plumbed to the grease trap. We are hoping to convince them that a much smaller unit will suffice.
Tracy visited a couple of coffee shops today to get a feel for lighting. I need to develop a lighting plan prior to Thursday. Ryan is field walking subcontractors on Thursday to get some rough numbers for construction. We are going to do some recessed can lighting, some wall sconces, lots of track lighting for artwork, and a few drop down lights (blown glass). She checked out some Starbucks and
It's a Grind:
Jim and I stripped one of the separation walls of drywall yesterday, and took down about 1200 sq ft of ceiling tiles. I started to demo the framing, but had to move some electrical outlets. That pretty much wrapped up the day. I had planned to go back over there and finish that wall demo, and remove the remaining ceiling tiles and grid. I ended up spending the whole day dealing with the bank stuff, LLC stuff, getting our variance from CSU and passing the information along to Vic (architect), talking with some vendors for security systems and credit card processing, getting our EFT set up for utilities payments, and sending out some Judo team photos. I plan to be at the shop tomorrow to continue demo work. One day is a button down Ralph Lauren shirt, the next is camo cargo pants and an old t-shirt...
OK...
Since I was posting webshots, here is one more. This is a Mapquest capture of our shop location:
Just south of us on Printers Parkway and the connecting roads are numerous medical buildings. I plan to print a larger version of this map and drive around and label the map with the buildings and companies that are there. It is unbelievable how much there is. The city's Fire Department Headquarter Building is there, as is the El Paso County Regional Building Department.
You can see that the Olympic Training Center is a couple of blocks to the Northwest, as is Memorial Hospital, which is huge! The Memorial Hospital Headquarter building is jsut to the right of us, and the Chidlaw buidling is right behind us. I'd like to post the labeled map within a week or so just to show you how concentrated the area is. The demographics report said there were over 18,000 employees within a one mile radius of us. There is also a high density of residential, not to mention the largest athlectic park in the city one block west... Memorial Park has the City Parks and Recreation Headquarters, as well as the velodrome, a lake, indoor swimming pool, ice skating/hockey center, too many football/baseball/soccer fields to count, and the International Fallen Firefighters Memorial...
In fact, here is an aerial shot:
OK, that's enough blogging for tonight, except I need to share this:
1Corinthians 13:4-8
Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails...
A friend of mine was recently separated and wants very much to repair and save his marriage. I won't mention names, but please pray for them. God will know who you mean. The passage above can help all marriages if used by both people in sincerity...
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