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Six month Progress Report 10/1/2011 SWAP Grant # 11-G550-27FL |
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Site prep and concrete slab completed on 3/30/11. Framing and roofing completed on 6/08/11. We started salvage of the 53rd street barn on June 4, 2011 and finished on August 27, 2011. This was our first salvage of an entire building. We figured it would supply us with all the wood needed to side and complete the interior racking for our new storage barn, as well as a chance to show how completely a building could be reused. While this turned out to be a much larger job as far as volunteer hours (over 348) than we imagined we did get great newspaper coverage (see attached articles) showing that almost everything from the barn was recycled. We estimate over 40 tons of lumber was either ground up for fuel or saved for reuse. We also separated the shingles and took them to the landfill for recycling. Only one small pickup load of trash actually ended up in the landfill. Presently the reusable barn wood is being stored in our new but not yet finished storage barn (photos enclosed). We have also recorded the complete day by day salvage operation on our website grgdavenport.org. Kathy Morris of the Scott county waste commission and Jack Haberman President GRG met with both the Davenport Historic Preservation Commission and the Davenport economic development department and have gotten them to include a sentence in the new draft preservation ordinance: ”Before a demolition permit is issued, the petitioner shall provide evidence to the Commission that a recycling/salvage company has completed an assessment of the feasibility of diverting as much reusable materials as possible away from the landfill.” This was not nearly as strong as we wanted but thought it was a start. This ordinance still has not passed the city council but we are planning on speaking to Davenport Mayor next month, after the elections, about working on a separate ordinance to encourage recycling on all demolitions. On September 24th and 25th, 2011 we took part in the Gold Coast – Hamburg District home tour by having the Architectural Rescue Shop open for tour participants. It gave us a great chance to tell our story to people who are interested in old homes. We were visited by over 300 of the 750 tour people including our Mayor Bill Gluba and our state senator Joe Seng. We also sold over $600 worth of salvage. Sales of salvage from April through September 2011 were $3,201 with $894 from barn salvage. We recorded 525 volunteer hours during that period. Submitted by Jack Haberman President Gateway Redevelopment Group |
| Gateway Redevelopment Group, Davenport, Iowa |
