Reviewing the plans

Mike goes over the plans on the site at the ground breaking on Monday. Last night we had a conference call and reviewed the plans in detail for three hours. My ear just about fell off. But we successfully worked out many details.
Mike reviews the plans with some of his employees
Everyone gets a peek at the plans that are hot off the press. This is the first time that many have seen them, as Adam, E.J and I have been working for all these years (yes it has been years) to perfect them, so that hopefully there will not be many changes as we go along. The Town Manager, Jim Stevens, is looking at the 3D images that we have on this blog. Mike told me last night that he really liked the looks of the building and feels that it will be good for Nederland.

The building will blend with it surrounding environment. One of the principals that I have used in the new building and remodeling that I have done in the past, is to try to fit the project into the neighborhood. In this case, a lot of what I really like in a home or business, I was not able to use.

Nederland has it own unique personality. Having arisen out of the needs of a mining community, a lot of the things that decorated homes in Boulder or Denver and even Gilpin County are not present in Nederland.

The buildings are more utilitarian and functional, I guess the new word is organic. In actuality, the people did not have the money or the ability to transport superficial decorations up into the mountains, they had to concentrate their energy and money for more useful things. Therefore,
Nederland grew from roots of functionality.

After a fire many years ago, the town had to be rebuilt. At that time they had a change to upgrade somewhat. One can now see influences around town of a more decorative style of architecture.

Arch 11, and I have striven to incorporate many of these influences into this building. We sincerely hope that we have succeeded and from all the comments that I have heard we certainly are headed in the right direction.