Updates from the Etna Center for Community
Week of January 20-26, 2025

Above. Interior finish demolition advancing at second floor.
Innermark Construction (subcontractor, interior selective demolition) made significant progress on the interior plaster demolition. All three floors of the historic structure now have the original framing exposed. Seeing the full window heights and the entire width of the building is now possible at the second floor, the level that felt the most closed off.
1. Second floor, north apartment. 2. Narrow hallway at second floor. 3. Suzie, Megan, Bridget walk the third floor during Owner-Contractor Meeting 4 (1.22.2025).

Above. Third floor plaster demolition in progress.
By the end of the week (1.26.2025), interior plaster had been removed from the third floor perimeter walls and demolition of the original chimneys and chases was in progress. The ceiling framing still remained. Once removed, the timber trusses will be visible as well as the full height of space, an +18' double-height room.
1. Second floor, south apartment with smaller room framing removed. 2. Megan and Bridget review second floor progress. 3. Innermark Construction's laborer organizing demolished wood lath. 4. Innermark Construction's laborer clearing debris.
1. Bridget, Etna Community Organization signing Application for Payment 1. 2. Demolition progress on first floor, north. 3. TI Services meeting with Innermark at first floor, south.
Throughout the week, the crews battled subzero temperatures, dipping below a wind chill of -9 degrees on Wednesday (1.21.2025). Even with TI Services having arranged for temporary heat in the building, the cold was still a significant challenge for workers and progress. While meeting on site with Suzie Tata and Chris Buckley of TI Services for the Owner-Contractor Meeting, Etna Community Organization's representatives Megan Tuñón, Bridget Barrett, and I signed the first Application for Payment, a significant milestone. Work completed to date was $97,133 or 35% complete of the selective demolition contract of $273,779.
1. Rear demolition continued 2. Rear demolition progress. 3. ORM's excavator arm in rear demolition debris. 4. View of rear demolition progress from third floor window.
Exterior work at the rear building demolition was paused on Tuesday and Wednesday for the below-freezing temperatures, but by Thursday, Odell Minniefield Jr's crew at ORM Contracting returned to continue sorting the debris and hauling it offsite.
Future work anticipated:
Continue interior demolition of three-story building.
Continue exterior demolition of rear two-story buildings.
Begin installation of masonry anchor bolts for three-story building's rear facade.