Monday, October 5, 2009
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Update on Construction
Hello everyone,
The weather has not been good to us. The rain has slowed down our subcontractor who is putting the footings, piers and foundation walls in. The footings, piers and foundation walls are concrete reinforced with steel that is basically placed in holes in the ground. When it rains the holes get filled with water and the soil turns to mud. It has caused the steel erection to be pushed back a week to October 12, 2009 instead of October 15,2009. Hope everyone is doing well. Terry
The weather has not been good to us. The rain has slowed down our subcontractor who is putting the footings, piers and foundation walls in. The footings, piers and foundation walls are concrete reinforced with steel that is basically placed in holes in the ground. When it rains the holes get filled with water and the soil turns to mud. It has caused the steel erection to be pushed back a week to October 12, 2009 instead of October 15,2009. Hope everyone is doing well. Terry
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Constuction
Hello everyone,
We started construction on Tuesday, September 15,2009(exactly 10 months after the fire). The first step is to pour "footings" which are the concrete pads which will support the steel reinforced concrete piers (all underground)that support the steel columns which will be what you see above ground. They will be pouring concrete all September to create these underground support structures.We are hoping the steel erection starts by the end of the month. It should take about three weeks to erect all the steel. We are looking at a tentative reopening date of April 1st for the entire facility. We hope to reopen Perkins/Legends before that but are still waiting on some information from the engineering firm before we can firm up that date more. I will post shorter more frequent updates now that something is actually happening. Best wishes to everyone. Terry
We started construction on Tuesday, September 15,2009(exactly 10 months after the fire). The first step is to pour "footings" which are the concrete pads which will support the steel reinforced concrete piers (all underground)that support the steel columns which will be what you see above ground. They will be pouring concrete all September to create these underground support structures.We are hoping the steel erection starts by the end of the month. It should take about three weeks to erect all the steel. We are looking at a tentative reopening date of April 1st for the entire facility. We hope to reopen Perkins/Legends before that but are still waiting on some information from the engineering firm before we can firm up that date more. I will post shorter more frequent updates now that something is actually happening. Best wishes to everyone. Terry
Saturday, September 5, 2009
Permit Issuance
Hello Everyone, I finally have something to post. We received a permit yesterday. Here is an update.
PERMIT ISSUANCE:
Our plans from the Jeffords Engineering were submitted on June 19, 2009. McKenna Associates, our architect, submitted his plans a week later on June 26, 2009. Tuesday July 28,2009, Bova Engineering, the engineering firm hired by the Town of Plattsburgh to review our professionals' plans, responded to the plan submission in a letter to the Town Building Inspector requesting additional information. On August 11 and August 12, our Engineering and Architectural firms resubmitted their plans incorporating the items requested by Bova Engineering. On September 3rd at 12:32 pm I was informed by the Building Inspector, Steve Imhoff, that we were going to receive our building permit upon his receipt of one more signed stamped copy of Plans from both our Architect and Engineer. The architect and engineer from Jeffords Steel were out of the office on Thursday so we submitted the plans from both on Friday and received our Building Permit. We are now awaiting word from our foundation subcontractor and our steel erection subcontractor when they can plug us into their schedules. I will post another blog as soon as we get the scheduling from these sub contractors.
INSURANCE:
We have received our insurance money for the building part of our claim and are still awaiting determination of the amount to be approved on the Personal property Claim and when they will pay the Business Interruption Claim.
TIMELINE:
As soon as we work out the construction schedule in the next couple weeks I will give you a tentative construction schedule. I hope everyone is doing well. Terry
PERMIT ISSUANCE:
Our plans from the Jeffords Engineering were submitted on June 19, 2009. McKenna Associates, our architect, submitted his plans a week later on June 26, 2009. Tuesday July 28,2009, Bova Engineering, the engineering firm hired by the Town of Plattsburgh to review our professionals' plans, responded to the plan submission in a letter to the Town Building Inspector requesting additional information. On August 11 and August 12, our Engineering and Architectural firms resubmitted their plans incorporating the items requested by Bova Engineering. On September 3rd at 12:32 pm I was informed by the Building Inspector, Steve Imhoff, that we were going to receive our building permit upon his receipt of one more signed stamped copy of Plans from both our Architect and Engineer. The architect and engineer from Jeffords Steel were out of the office on Thursday so we submitted the plans from both on Friday and received our Building Permit. We are now awaiting word from our foundation subcontractor and our steel erection subcontractor when they can plug us into their schedules. I will post another blog as soon as we get the scheduling from these sub contractors.
INSURANCE:
We have received our insurance money for the building part of our claim and are still awaiting determination of the amount to be approved on the Personal property Claim and when they will pay the Business Interruption Claim.
TIMELINE:
As soon as we work out the construction schedule in the next couple weeks I will give you a tentative construction schedule. I hope everyone is doing well. Terry
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Hi Everyone. Here is the status on the different topics I have been reporting to you on.
INSURANCE:
We still do not know the amount the insurance company is going to pay us. The insurance company and I both hired independent adjusters to settle this claim. Our adjusters had their estimates done in March, 2009. The insurance company’s adjuster just filed his report with the insurance company within the last 10 days. It is now up to the insurance company’s executives to approve the amount. We do not know when that will occur. However, they have paid us enough money to start construction.
BUILDING PERMIT:
I have been informed by Jeffords Steel, who is doing the foundation and steel aspect of the plans, that they are ready to submit for a permit on Monday, June 22, 2009. John McKenna, our architect, who is preparing all the architectural design and building code compliance design, is also ready to submit his plans on Monday, June 22, 2009. Once they submit, the plans will go to an engineering firm out of Glenville, NY who will do the code compliance review. We wish this could be done locally but unfortunately it is not. We are not sure how long this review will take and if he will find some items that need to be revised. We hope this does not occur. We are hoping the review process takes no more than two weeks. Jeffords would then schedule their steel erection contractor to erect the steel. We are hoping for that steel erection work will commence the week of July 13, 2009. The steel erection would take approximately 3 weeks to complete. We are intending to hire a lot of subcontractors in order to move the construction along more quickly.
BALANCE OF THE BUILDING PLANS:
We have other professionals designing the fire alarm, electrical, HVAC (heating, ventilating and air conditioning) and sprinkler system (every part of the building will be sprinklered). McKenna is doing the plumbing. These plans needed to wait until the architectural design (floor plans, etc.) were done. We hope to have these completed well before the steel structure is completed so they can be submitted for review by the Town hired engineer. This would allow for a continuous construction process.
CONSTRUCTION SEQUENCING:
The delays we have experienced are changing our priorities to get various phases of our operation back up. Our business interruption insurance (covers continuing expenses like mortgage payment, insurance, real estate taxes, administrative payroll etc.) is now definitely going to run out before we get completely back open. This is putting much greater emphasis on getting certain businesses, like Perkins, back open as soon as possible. Then part of the continuing expenses gets covered by that business because it is back open. We are shooting for an October opening for Perkins. We would try to reopen Legends as soon as possible after Perkins along with the Grand Ballroom. We would try to open the health club and the hotel at the same time rather than open the hotel first. This is because it would now be December and there is not much hotel business at that time but it is a great season for the health club business with people joining health clubs due to New Year’s resolutions.
CLOSING:
I hope everyone is well. I assure you we are doing everything possible to commence rebuilding. If we can help with anything, please let us know.
Best wishes, Terry
INSURANCE:
We still do not know the amount the insurance company is going to pay us. The insurance company and I both hired independent adjusters to settle this claim. Our adjusters had their estimates done in March, 2009. The insurance company’s adjuster just filed his report with the insurance company within the last 10 days. It is now up to the insurance company’s executives to approve the amount. We do not know when that will occur. However, they have paid us enough money to start construction.
BUILDING PERMIT:
I have been informed by Jeffords Steel, who is doing the foundation and steel aspect of the plans, that they are ready to submit for a permit on Monday, June 22, 2009. John McKenna, our architect, who is preparing all the architectural design and building code compliance design, is also ready to submit his plans on Monday, June 22, 2009. Once they submit, the plans will go to an engineering firm out of Glenville, NY who will do the code compliance review. We wish this could be done locally but unfortunately it is not. We are not sure how long this review will take and if he will find some items that need to be revised. We hope this does not occur. We are hoping the review process takes no more than two weeks. Jeffords would then schedule their steel erection contractor to erect the steel. We are hoping for that steel erection work will commence the week of July 13, 2009. The steel erection would take approximately 3 weeks to complete. We are intending to hire a lot of subcontractors in order to move the construction along more quickly.
BALANCE OF THE BUILDING PLANS:
We have other professionals designing the fire alarm, electrical, HVAC (heating, ventilating and air conditioning) and sprinkler system (every part of the building will be sprinklered). McKenna is doing the plumbing. These plans needed to wait until the architectural design (floor plans, etc.) were done. We hope to have these completed well before the steel structure is completed so they can be submitted for review by the Town hired engineer. This would allow for a continuous construction process.
CONSTRUCTION SEQUENCING:
The delays we have experienced are changing our priorities to get various phases of our operation back up. Our business interruption insurance (covers continuing expenses like mortgage payment, insurance, real estate taxes, administrative payroll etc.) is now definitely going to run out before we get completely back open. This is putting much greater emphasis on getting certain businesses, like Perkins, back open as soon as possible. Then part of the continuing expenses gets covered by that business because it is back open. We are shooting for an October opening for Perkins. We would try to reopen Legends as soon as possible after Perkins along with the Grand Ballroom. We would try to open the health club and the hotel at the same time rather than open the hotel first. This is because it would now be December and there is not much hotel business at that time but it is a great season for the health club business with people joining health clubs due to New Year’s resolutions.
CLOSING:
I hope everyone is well. I assure you we are doing everything possible to commence rebuilding. If we can help with anything, please let us know.
Best wishes, Terry
Friday, May 29, 2009
Update
Hi Everyone,
I never imagined in my worst nightmare that we would be this long without having started reconstruction of the Comfort Inn Complex. I am not going to belabor this negative aspect of this situation.
BUILDING PERMIT
The only thing we are waiting for to start construction is the plans from our architect. He has promised to supply us with them today. Jeffords Steel has the plans completed for the steel frame and for the foundation. All of what has been torn down will be replaced with a steel structure. Our intention is to submit the Jeffords Steel plans and our architects plans to the Town of Plattsburgh Building Inspector's Office on Monday, June 1st. They will forward the plans to an engineering firm out of Glenville, NY who they have hired to review the plans. We are hopeful that he can review the plans in a week. We are also hopeful that the plans do not get kicked back for revisions. Then Jeffords would schedule their subcontractor to erect the steel. He has projected a little over two weeks to erect the steel. All things proceeding without a hitch, we would have the steel frame erected by the end of June.
Balance of the Plans
While the above mentioned process is occurring, the architects plans will be distributed to the professionals who design the electrical, plumbing, HVAC (heating, venting and air conditioning, fire alarm and sprinkler systems. Hopefully they get their plans done before we finish erecting the steel so we can get our second phase building permit which would carry us through to completion of the project. This will enable us to finally get an estimate of the cost to rebuild the structures.
Insurance
We have not received final settlement on the insurance proceeds. The insurance company is delaying paying us for reasons unknown to us. However, we have received enough money to start construction.
Timetable
I wish I could provide better information here. From when we start construction, we think we need 4 1/2 to 5 months to get the everything back open (with the possible exception of the health club which may be later)-so end of October/early November. Perkins and the banquet business should be sooner but the town is requiring more scientific testing on the existing structure before we can build, even put a roof back on. Without a roof, the weather is causing more and more damage to these buildings making the scope of work increase and therefore a longer time to complete the work. Once our engineers can provide the testing and they approve the testing, we can set a timetable to do that work.
Best wishes to you
I know this has negatively impacted your lives and I am truly sorry for that. It certainly has negatively impacted mine too. I am working as hard as I can to get our property back up as soon as possible and better than ever.
I never imagined in my worst nightmare that we would be this long without having started reconstruction of the Comfort Inn Complex. I am not going to belabor this negative aspect of this situation.
BUILDING PERMIT
The only thing we are waiting for to start construction is the plans from our architect. He has promised to supply us with them today. Jeffords Steel has the plans completed for the steel frame and for the foundation. All of what has been torn down will be replaced with a steel structure. Our intention is to submit the Jeffords Steel plans and our architects plans to the Town of Plattsburgh Building Inspector's Office on Monday, June 1st. They will forward the plans to an engineering firm out of Glenville, NY who they have hired to review the plans. We are hopeful that he can review the plans in a week. We are also hopeful that the plans do not get kicked back for revisions. Then Jeffords would schedule their subcontractor to erect the steel. He has projected a little over two weeks to erect the steel. All things proceeding without a hitch, we would have the steel frame erected by the end of June.
Balance of the Plans
While the above mentioned process is occurring, the architects plans will be distributed to the professionals who design the electrical, plumbing, HVAC (heating, venting and air conditioning, fire alarm and sprinkler systems. Hopefully they get their plans done before we finish erecting the steel so we can get our second phase building permit which would carry us through to completion of the project. This will enable us to finally get an estimate of the cost to rebuild the structures.
Insurance
We have not received final settlement on the insurance proceeds. The insurance company is delaying paying us for reasons unknown to us. However, we have received enough money to start construction.
Timetable
I wish I could provide better information here. From when we start construction, we think we need 4 1/2 to 5 months to get the everything back open (with the possible exception of the health club which may be later)-so end of October/early November. Perkins and the banquet business should be sooner but the town is requiring more scientific testing on the existing structure before we can build, even put a roof back on. Without a roof, the weather is causing more and more damage to these buildings making the scope of work increase and therefore a longer time to complete the work. Once our engineers can provide the testing and they approve the testing, we can set a timetable to do that work.
Best wishes to you
I know this has negatively impacted your lives and I am truly sorry for that. It certainly has negatively impacted mine too. I am working as hard as I can to get our property back up as soon as possible and better than ever.
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