Mornin’ brick-o’s. Hope this humpday finds you well. To begin with, some updates of work ongoing and upcoming. Some trees around the mall are starting to be framed, and according to 300 block captain Mary DeViney, we can expect to see strings of lights back up in the branches soon, as well as grates going down over the roots. Brick Watch has always loved ambling down the Mall on a balmy summer night beneath the lit branches of our willow oak trees. Soon, brickies…soon.
Work continues on the mystery manhole at Third Street, which will delay the rebricking in front of Vivian’s and Rapture until mid-April. There’s also "zoning, way finding, downtown directory, maintenance standards being completed" according to DeViney. If you don’t know what zoning, way finding, downtown directorying, and maintenance standardizing are, well, then Google them. And when you’re done, tell us.
Yesterday we had a question about what would be done with those wee bits ‘o’ brick that are filling the gap between newly finished areas and as-of-yet-unfinished areas on the mall. To answer this question, BW turned to the Ole Faithful of brick-based questioning, Barton Malow Project Manager Chris Weatherford.
"All full bricks that are filling in will be reused. And the pieces of cut brick will be reused as they are or recut to fill in gaps and edges," said Weatherford. "We’re doing a ton of recycling on this job. I’ll have the exact number at the end, but it is going to be near 90 percent."