our first week

Fun news: looks like we’ll be able to open the dance studio and the gallery by mid-October.  I guess it takes commercial building permits 6-8 weeks to process, so we’ll be building the studios later.  Ultimately, this is good, since it saves us some money that we can then redirect into nice floors for the dance studio.  And speaking of that wonderful little room, thank you thank you thank you to everyone that has come out to help us so far.  We love you, and you are all amazing.  We had no idea that room was going to be in that bad of shape, and it feels awesome driving home every night knowing our friends are helping us get it where it needs to be.

We’ve been lucky enough to have a photographer on hand during this process, so that the masses can take a peek at what we’ve been up to.  Keep in mind this part of our warehouse was built in the early 1930′s.  We have the yellowed newspapers to prove it.  The dance studio is our first priority, and we’ve found we’ll really have to destroy it before we can rebuild.  Hit the fancy ‘more’ tag  for a visual rundown of the dance studio’s deconstruction, courtesy of the fantastic Bill Wendl (who gets dibs on a set of the LINWELD sign letters, since LINWELD is an anagram of I WENDL).