March, 2003 - Page 1

Posted March 14, 2003

Shock! Horror! Scandal!

They're actually doing work on the Ormsby House!

I was completely blown away to see work really ramped up in March. After weeks of glacial progress, things really started hopping this month. Maybe they were waiting for the threat of snow to leave, or something, but they brought in the workmen and the heavy equipment and started tearing into the old south side parking lot. Here is a long view of Curry Street looking towards the hotel. You can see the piles they drove in December to support the sky bridge.

One of the first things they did in March was to dig shallow pits around the piles, a few feet below ground level.

I know it doesn't look like much, but you have to remember that this was the first significant work they had done in three months.

The piles are lined up, standing at attention, just waiting to find out what comes next.

They also started cleaning up the parking lot itself, tearing up curbs and asphalt and the astroturf that was passing for landscaping around the joint.

Keep moving.