CityMarket at O Men at Work

What is going on behind the curtain?  Men at work.

You may have noticed that part of the historic facade at City Market has been covered in scaffolding these past few weeks.  We're excited that the restoration process on the market's east wall has kicked off with cleaning of the existing historic brick.  This process is expected to last through the summer. 

Once we've removed the paint and other coatings from previous restorations, we'll proceed to repoint the wall with new mortar.  We'll also be replacing damaged brick with brick salvaged from the other walls on the building.  Once we've finished the east facade, we'll move to the market tower brick and then the south wall.

Just north of the Market Facade are two mock-ups that we are using to evaluate material samples and construction methods.

Shaw: Boom

If you missed Saturday's article about Shaw, you can read it here:


http://www.washingtonpost.com/realestate/neighborhood-profile-shaw/2012/07/11/gJQA26BEgW_story.html


While there are a few inaccuracies in the article, the bottom line is what we who know Shaw know that Shaw is a great place to be.


Click on the arrow below and take a stroll around CityMarket at O on O and note how that historic market connects to the new and much, much bigger and much, much better Giant:

CityMarket at O Fullspeed

If you haven't checked out the hole at 7th and O lately, check out the youtube below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS-JCR3hKTY

Living Classrooms Comes to Shaw

Over 1,000 people have signed up at the Clark Trailer on 7th and P looking for jobs.

While Clark has hired workers for work at the CityMarket at O and others have been referred to and  hired by Clark at CityCenterDC, the need.extends far beyond the hiring capacity of these two construction projects. 


Roadside looked beyond construction and focused on the 400+  full-time jobs that will need to be filled at CityMarket at O's Giant Food Store (opening late 2013) and its 182-room Cambria Suites Hotel (opening early 2014).


Roadside Development and Clark partnered with Living Classrooms to provide Shaw's first 4-week job readiness training session for 18 students.  The sessions included class sessions on goal setting, resume writing and interviewing as well as exposure to various professions and opportunities in the retail and health care sectors. 

Highlights of the classes included presentations and question and answer sessions with representatives of Giant Food Store, Clark Construction and HomeCare Partners.

Bernard Johnson of Giant answering questions from Living Classrooms' participants

Please join Living Classrooms on Friday, June 29 from 10-1 at Gibson Plaza to celebrate the participants and their accomplishments.

CityMarket at O Bottoms Out

"Bottoms Up" for Clark Construction's excavation and concrete crews.  They have finished digging the "hole" and are now starting to build the projec tback up. 

We joined Clark celebratory barbecue for the excavation and concrete workers in what will be the B2 Parking Area on May 11...

    

Staying on schedule means that you will be push your shopping cart here for your holiday grocery shopping in 2013.  

CityMarket at O Construction Update

Gingerbread O Street Market

As you may have noticed, the pile driving is finished and quiet has returned to Shaw.

Excavating is well underway and will continue into April.

Some CityMarket trivia:
 --2,000 cubic yards of dirt are trucked from the CityMarket construction site each day.
 --If construction continues on pace, the new and vastly improved Giant will open in 21 months.
 --CityMarket's 500 space parking garage and truck court will have car sharing, bike sharing, electric car charging stations and ample bike storage for residents and visitors
--Giant will have an entrance and exit in the old market tower and 7th and O Streets and reactivate this important corner of Shaw

If you missed the November 18 Groundbreaking, enjoy the photos below:

Mayor Gray and 2400 jobs created by CityMarket at O project

Jack, really this was the  final O Street Market groundbreaking

Jack making sure that Giant is no more

CityMarket at O Construction on Schedule

The pinging that you will hear beginning later this week is the noise of progress at the CityMarket at O construction site.  The pinging will be coming from pile drivers that will be driving piles around the four edges of the project site on O, 7th, 9th and P Streets. (From Wikipedia,  a pile driver is a mechanical device used to drive piles into soil to provide foundation support for buildings or other structures.)


The historic market facade has now been stabilized and secured to withstand the excavation and WILL NOT be disturbed.


Construction hours on the site are from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. and pile driving is anticipated to last through January 2012.


We apologize in advance for the noise and appreciate your patience. 
Just remember, pinging = progress in Shaw in 2012.