The Township Auditorium Foundation

The ceiling in the auditorium is the first to get the new paint colors as our vision for the Township really starts to take shape!

The color scheme for the auditorium is in more neutral tones.

Carpet is installed in the new administration offices in the lower level

No the windows are not that clean!  They have been removed as the installation of all new windows begins!

Just a few of the new electrical panels that are being installed.

Work continues on the new lobby, equipment is lifted up to the roof.

With the boiler up and running, workers finish installing the new ceiling tiles and the painters start the primer on the ceiling.

Temporary doors are installed in two of the offices in the lower level, we should be moving into them by the end of next week

The cold weather slowed us down a little, cement in the front lobby was to be poured on Friday, Jan. 8, but to cold!  So today we see both the cement being poured and the new ceiling tiles being installed in the Auditorium!

The Putzmeister is not being used since this is a ground level installation, I am a little disappointed but not much!

The small yellow machine packs the dirt down and is run by remote controll by the gentleman in the brown jacket!

The beautiful new ceiling tiles are being installed, no more brown stains from a leaking roof!  Happy days are here again!!

Happy New Year everyone!  The cold weather is not helpful, but at least it stopped raining (except Christmas day!)  We continue to make progress although right now it is mostly work by the plumbers and electricians so our photo opportunities are few!  Getting ready to pour the cement for the floor of the new lobby entry!  Hopefully the weather will cooperate!  More pictures of the putzmeister could be coming soon!  The new grid for the ceiling tiles inside the auditorium is almost completed and work begins on the rigging for the stage!  Dry, warm weather would help a lot!

With the return of good weather (at least for a few days) work progresses on the new lobby, here the new mens and womens restrooms are roughed in.

this is the view of the Columbia skyline from the new first balcony lobby!

There is always plenty of heavy machinery at work!  Now that we have had a few days of dry (but cold!!) weather, work has begun on back filling the area for the new main lobby.

Finally a sunny Wednesday, our first in about six weeks!  A lot of demolition has taken place the last few days, in this photo they are demolishing the Henderson St. entrance, making way for an entire new door frame and door. 

The main steel structure for the new lobby is in place, the cement floors have been poured on the first and second balconies and workers begin back filling on the main entrance.  Inside work continues on our new offices and dressing rooms, we hope to be in our new offices the first week of January.  Once we move out of our offices on the main level, the demo guys will be back to take out walls to begin construction of the new concession stand.

My favorite big machine was back on site last week!! The Putzmeister!  9 truck loads of cement were poured last week for the floors on the first and second balconies and a retaining wall.  It seems that every week we get about 2 and a half days of good weather and the rest is rain! 

Also last week they began the work to tear out the ramp that went to the lower level.  The new handicapped ramp will go in at this location making it easier for people with disabilities to access both the new box office and the front entrance of the Township.

The rain has slowed down work on the new lobby but today’s sunny weather has everyone working at full speed!

top photo: welding continues on the new lobby, next photo: the new lobby takes shape!  next photo; workers prepare decking for next weeks cement pour for the lobby of the first balcony; bottom photo: a view from the first balcony new lobby.

work continues on the ceiling in the auditorium.

79 years of paint are removed from the floors in the existing lobby area on the first and second balconies.

Removal of the wood from the existing stage floor has begun in preparation for the new stage floor.  The wood that is salvaged from the removal will be installed in the new conference room floor in the administration office area in the lower level.

It has been cold and damp but the steel work continues on the lobby addition!

Sparks fly!  With most of the steel in place, the welders begin their work!

This photo is of the new cross over corridor part of the backstage addition.  With this addition, performers will be able to go from stage left to stage right without disturbing the performance, in the past performers had to cross from behind the back curtain, this will give us more performance room on the stage.

The rain has finally stopped and work continues on the new lobby!  One more tractor truck load of steel arrives and waits to be off loaded for the lobby.

This week the old ramp to the lower level on the Henderson St. side of the Township will be filled in.   In the lower photo cement, is poured to reinforce the existing cement walls that will be filled in and the new, more accessible disabled ramp will be installed.  The new ramp will provided access to the new box office and main entrance to the Township, the lower level will be accessible by the new elevator which will access all four levels of the Township Auditorium