If it weren't for the weather.......

Lots of people stop me every day and ask "how's the building coming along?".

Well, it's coming along okay. One of the advantages of building a building using integrated (green) design is that so much design work is done up front--and in this case hand-in-hand with the building team, that there are fewer "hiccups" during construction. It's one of the reasons that building green is economical. Glitches on the construction site cost a lot more than glitches on the computer design screen.

The one big glitch that we've had in construction has been the weather. And even at The Community Foundation, we haven't figured out how to control that. If it's precipitating, the crews aren't allowed to work up on the steel, so rain snow and ice, which haven't been in short supply this year, slow us down.

Still, we think we can take occupancy of the building about July 24. We'll post it here as we get more news.