Smile! You're on Camera

We installed security cameras around the building. 2nd Avenue Storage runs unmanned several hours a day and we wanted our tenants' belongings to be as safe as possible, monitor traffic, and be able to see what was happening remotely. All feeds can be viewed on the TV screen in my loft. To notify customers they were on camera, we made some signs. Honestly, self storage is boring, and people associate it with an unpleasant chore, so I try to make it easy to use and less boring than other storage facilities. Keeping with this idea, I didn't want to buy off the shelf signs, so the accordion player and I put on our creative caps and painted some signs of our own. I think they were a success, because everyone that sees them smiles. And smiling is the point: they're on camera.

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Knocking out walls

Appleseed knocked out the parts of the rear wall that will form the garage doors. Apparently this is dangerous and can collapse the building so I went to Chicago that day. You can see from the picture below where they installed a steel beam to reinforce the wall, and covered up the openings with plywood. They're also digging for the concrete floor footings. The digging revealed the original base for the wooden support beams. I thought it was interesting these were brick, but now that I think about it, I don't what else they would have been.

Finally, they've started building the forms to pour the concrete ramp coming down from the alley.

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