It's been a great journey, challenging, but over the last six weeks or so we've really started being able to make some visible progress. On Friday two weeks ago we wrapped up our second round of fund raising, so we ordered our 5BBL brew house, and then yesterday the construction crew showed up to our building at 22 Zerkel Street in Luray to start the demolition.
This building's previous life was as retail stores for the last 10 years - an appliance store and then a scooter store. There were a few iterations before then too, but it originally was an ice storage facility for the railroad, and then a creamery.
There's not much left to indicate those earliest operations, but there are signs of the stores. You can see the floor paint in some of the attached photos that show where the old display shelves were, and if you look closely at the duct work you'll see hooks and such that were used to hang fan belts when the place housed an auto parts store.
The main element of our demo was to get rid of an old demising wall that was put in to separate the appliance show room from the warehouse area where parts were stored. The wall was simple frame construction with particle board, and had a small office built into it at the end. On the public side, there was a sales counter, and in the back there were work counters with electrical conduit and several outlet for small repairs.Our construction crew got in there and made pretty quick work of things at this stage. David says they are close to being finished already. We'll be doing most of the fit-out now, to be followed by electrical and then mechanical/plumbing, all of which will be completed before our equipment arrives.
I'll post again on the construction progress soon - and also will put something up about the brew house order.
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