DMcFadden
Puritanboard Commissioner
After 6 years of planning, burning through $5 million in development costs whether we ended up building or not, pre-marketing in a down housing market, scrambling in a difficult economy to obtain financing, getting underway, completing the project on time and more than $1 million under budget, and getting jerked around by contradictory instructions from bureaucrats . . . we received the full approval from the State of California yesterday to extend our existing Certificate of Authority and Residential Care for the Elderly License.
* We begin to move in residents this next week (including a prominent missiologist and author of nearly a dozen books, several retired pastors, the rocket scientist responsible for the fuel on the moon shots, and a bunch of very interesting people).
* The 15 month effort included excavating and carrying away the equivalent of 1,700 dump trucks full of dirt for the underground parking lot, erecting a 135 foot crane in the middle of the project to lift the all steel framing modules into place, having as many as 165 workers on site at once, and experiencing NO injuries, accidents, or lost work due to injuries!!!
* Our design-build team successfully planned and engineered the project around an existing mature oak tree without doing it any damage in the process. The arborist says that it is healthier now than it was before we began the work.
* For those of you who prayed for me during this difficult time . . .
THANK YOU VERY VERY VERY VERY MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It would be so cool if my grandparents lived there (he's a very retired ABC minister; they probably live exactly where they need to be)
