Urban rooftop gardens

Had a great tour of a roof top garden on the westside today. Designed by Kevin Songer, the roof for Breaking Ground Contracting is a fully integrated polyculture roof, bringing together food producing plants and pollinator attracting flowers that ensure the continued regrowth of both. See more at http://breakinggroundgreenroof.com/

A stones throw from I-10 and in full summer sun, this garden thrives off the condensation lines from the surrounding HVAC units.

The visiting bees come for the the flowers and help pollinate to create things like tomatoes, peppers and eggplant.

What would you grow on your rooftop?

100,000 lbs of rock looking small

Just one of many trucks adding to the 100,000 lbs of rock being used to secure the footing pouring at the most critical part of the building.

No buried treasures yet

Despite our subcontractor's best efforts by digging 5-6 foot deep holes everywhere on the property, we have not unearthed any treasure or historic artifact. The cooler stand in the middle is the elevator shaft, which goes 40 feet down now and will go 40 feet up when the building is complete.

The only time you want to see a grease trap

Before it's in operation!

What's the size of a Suburban and the weight of the lunar orbiter tapes found at an abandoned McDonalds?

Our new grease trap.

Outreach August 23

This morning principals from BSRG, DCOOP,& DWMeyers, split into three teams and made an effort to meet the entire ground floor retail community of Historic 5 Points. The outreach, organized by Keymer, was to let the neighborhood businesses know how to keep updated about the project and give a platform (this blog) for feedback, questions, and concerns.

We are committed to being great neighbors both during and after our construction project and feel and open dialogue with the community is helpful for all. On that note, you'll notice a new hotline number over on the right side bar. Simply call 904-701-4OAK with any questions, complaints, or even compliments!

Pumping Concrete

BREAKING: Watching it being poured is more exciting than watching it dry.

Rebar River and a Starbucks Solid

Tomorrow, this trench and the remaining footers are going to be filled with 32 yards of concrete. That's enough concrete to fill Starbucks up 6 feet high...get your coffee early.

Bird's eye view

Trenching for Safety

A quick interview from DW Meyers on the trench work happening at the site. Stay tuned for more videos about our project as well as exciting breaking news.

Waitin on concrete trucks