Remodel and Construction News
Welcome to MBC Next and our Near Term Projects
To make it simpler to handle, we have organized the different projects into three groups of work. The groups represent a set of plans that are organized together and submitted to the city at one time for approval and permits. In addition, we work with our General Contractor in these groups, with their bids and contracts organized in this manner. Currently the three groups we are working on are:
Sanctuary Expansion: This is the largest grouping of projects. It centers around an addition to the front of the Sanctuary (toward the street) for new ministry rooms and bathrooms. However, it also includes the remodel of the Children’s area, the expansion and remodel of the lobby/entrance, as well as the Fellowship Hall Bathrooms (on the north end of the Children’s wing).
Fellowship Hall. This is the work to remodel the hall by removing the current drop ceiling and opening it up to it's original look, as well as upgrading the interior of the hall. It also includes the remodel and expansion of the kitchen, and the site wide electrical upgrade.
Fischer Bathroom Remodel: This is the remodel of most, if not all, the bathrooms in the Fischer building, including the expansion of two downstairs bathrooms into ADA compliant bathrooms.
Note: For a fuller description and list of projects in this phase, and potential future phases, click on the button called “Plans”.
February 18th:
[New 2/18] The Hall demolition in support of the remodeling will begin on Thursday 2/19. Specifically, on the 19th and 20th, "soft demo" will occur. Then starting Monday 2/23, Remediation will begin - this effort will take about a week to 10 days to remove and package the material, and then retest the hall. All this work needs to be done and complete before "real" construction begins.
NOTE - this means that the Hall and Kitchen are now unusable.
[New 2/18] Fischer Bathroom Remodels, with the start of work on the Hall / Kitchen, we will also resume work on the Fischer Bathrooms. Specifically the Upstairs west Bathrooms will be taken off line and remodeled at this point. These two bathrooms will be remodeled into single user bathrooms (meaning you can use either).
[New 2/14] The Sanctuary we had responded to the first set of city comments on our plans recently, unfortunately, just as we were finishing them we received another set of comments that were delayed for some reason. These came from the Public Works department review. In those comments were several requirements that are difficult to fathom. We have obviously reached back for clarification - and there are some avenues to appeal the decisions, but if upheld they ultimately will add some cost, but more importantly delay the start of this work. To be clear, these issues come up because of the addition, and not the remodeling of the existing buildings. Please pray for the team as we review our options on how to proceed with both the city as well as our projects.
A look at our progress
Just a few pictures of what has happened so far!
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