Today there is a lot going on in our office. We are currently turning our boardroom area into a mock up of one of our guest rooms. Lets just say Jermaine and Adam cannot seem to find their desks. We have furniture, art work, the bed, carpet and more all being delivered today and installed. This is very exciting to see the layout in person.
We briefly walked the construction site today and I wanted to show you our progress on the outside of the building. I will be posting more updates as the outside comes together but it is turning out very well and WE are excite how close to the rendering our hotel looks.
FRONT OF THE BUILDING:
BACK OF THE BUILDING:
A quick stop at the property today to peak around and we wanted to share with you our new signage of the property which reveals a little inside look at the hotel interior design. There are renderings of our lobby, a guest room and our fourth floor indoor lounge area. We will post more photos on Monday of the hotel as we will be walking the property when the weather is a little less wet.
We have had some great progress on the exterior metal panels being installed and even have two small sections with windows on the north side of the building, so stay tuned.
We hope you all have a great weekend and if you are in River North near Huron St at LaSalle, swing by and have a look at our new signage.
The sun was out for our #sitevisitfriday tour, we noticed some cool things taking place and want to share then with you. The back side of the lower section of the hotel skin is up and complete. Stay tuned for more outside skin being applied soon!
After the skin was complete a little testing took place, in the video you can see water testing on the seams for leaks.
As if we were in London and you hear “Mind The Gap”. On the construction site with the core drilling and holes being make it is “Mind The Holes”. The team does a great job letting us know where there are holes.
A great future guest room floor corridor.
Graciously sized guest rooms. It expands to the right where you cannot see at the moment.
The old construction site sat for a long time so we needed to remove all the old fire proofing on the building and apply new. Remember, safety is key.
From all that core drilling, the valves for the plumbing are waiting patiently to be installed in each room.
Have a great weekend and thanks for reading!
Well it is Friday and we wanted to show you the exterior. Cold, wind, snow, rain, it doesn’t stop LendLease our construction company from moving forward. When we had some beautiful sun the past couple days before this last snow storm, the new exterior skin was being applied to the building. This is a very difficult project as the entire outside is placed on the building like a puzzle. We are excited to see it go up over the next several weeks and give the building that distinct architectural look it was meant to have.
The entire process of building a hotel and brand is sectioned out into phases. Each phase has its scope of work and what is to be completed and when. It may seem like you are jumping around but in the big picture these phases are all related to each other and have to be completed in order.
Building The Godfrey 