As of 9/30/2024
On Wednesday, September 25, our 210 North Central Avenue landlord forwarded a letter he received from the Town of Greenburgh Buildings Department. The letter, which was also sent to KG&D and Murphy Brothers, requested additional information for our building permit application. We have been in touch with Lauren from KG&D. She has assured Denise, Susan and Lisa that they will pull together the information and get it to the buildings department as quickly as possible.
As of 9/20/2024
Susan Greenberg met with members of the construction team at 210 yesterday. They wanted to see our space and ask questions so they're ready to hit the ground running when the building permit comes through!
As of 9/19/2024
As of September 12th, we have signed a contract with Murphy Brothers Contracting and the application for the Building Permit has been filed with the Town of Greenburgh.
Click here to review the plans.
As of 8/21/2024
The board has chosen the contractor who submitted the far-lower bid, to do the renovation at 210 NCA.
We await an updated proposal from them, based on some details we asked them to specify. As soon as that is submitted, our architects at KG&D will resubmit our application to the town of Greenburgh for a building permit.
As of 8/2/2024
We met with 3 contractors this past week for walk-throughs. We have proposals from 2 contractors. The board will be reviewing them with Russ and Lauren, considering price, scheduling, availability, and other factors. We expect to accept a proposal early next week so the application for the building permit can be submitted.
Stay tuned!
As of 7/25/2024
As of today, we have three contractors visiting the space at 210 North Central Ave Suite 130, preliminary to responding to the request for proposal with a bid, and selection of contractor for the application for building permit. Our architect, Lauren, and at least one board member (Susan), will be joining the contractors at each of these meetings.
Thursday 7/25/24 2 pm Murphy Brothers Contracting
Friday 7/26/24 11 am Frank's Contracting
Tuesday 7/30/24 9 am Matty Romito
As of 7/19/2024
We hit a very frustrating bump in the road this week: For the first time in their experience, our architects (KG&D) had their application for a building department permit refused because it did not include contractor info, including cost estimates. We have spoken with the architects and agreed to contact our proposed contractors ourselves (which Denise and Susan have done) to alert them to expect an email from the architects soliciting their bids on our project based on the plans. (KG&D stressed that they would ask contractors to suggest "value engineering" items, which translates to places where we might implement cost-cutting alternatives to proposed plans.)
When we have those bids in hand, we can select a contractor quickly and KG&D will submit the revised application. In the meantime, we also got approval of our building plans from the owners (who remarked, “beautiful plans” when they saw our proposal). They completed and notarized a required affidavit of ownership—which will also be part of the revised application.
We have reminded KG&D of the need for speed here—although they already knew. Everyone involved is primed to move as quickly as possible.
Lisa, on behalf of the team
As of 7/14/2024
Russell Davidson of KG&D Architects and his associate, Lauren Irons, Architectural Designer, are the team working on our space. They are responding in a timely manner and are proceeding with due diligence.
Recent steps have been:
· June 26th Denise "checked in" with Lauren regarding permitting and contracting. Denise gave them the list of contractors gathered from the congregation. Lauren is preparing to file for permits in mid-July. The construction plans, which need to be much more detailed than the concept plans that were submitted to us for review, were being drawn up and readied for the application. This step is done by the engineers.
· July 9th Lauren contacted us on behalf of the engineers, requesting access to the space to finalize the plans. Susan coordinated this with the building’s property manager.
· July 10th Lauren requested the check to the Town of Greenburgh for the building permit application ($2500) and a signed and notarized "owner authorization" form so KG&D could submit for the building permit on our behalf.
· July 11th Susan and Denise coordinated getting the documents printed, signed, notarized, and returned.
· July 12th Susan picked up the notarized form and check from Denise and drove them back to Lauren at KG&D in Mt Kisco, so that she can file for the building permit Friday or first thing Monday.
It usually takes about a month for the building permit approval process. During this time, Russ will distribute the plans to contractors for bidding. Then we review bids and engage contractors so construction will hopefully commence some point in September or early October.
We know this is longer than everyone hoped. Any of you who have experienced construction projects knows that this process—from beginning to end—always take longer than expected.
On Wednesday, September 25, our 210 North Central Avenue landlord forwarded a letter he received from the Town of Greenburgh Buildings Department. The letter, which was also sent to KG&D and Murphy Brothers, requested additional information for our building permit application. We have been in touch with Lauren from KG&D. She has assured Denise, Susan and Lisa that they will pull together the information and get it to the buildings department as quickly as possible.
As of 9/20/2024
Susan Greenberg met with members of the construction team at 210 yesterday. They wanted to see our space and ask questions so they're ready to hit the ground running when the building permit comes through!
As of 9/19/2024
As of September 12th, we have signed a contract with Murphy Brothers Contracting and the application for the Building Permit has been filed with the Town of Greenburgh.
Click here to review the plans.
As of 8/21/2024
The board has chosen the contractor who submitted the far-lower bid, to do the renovation at 210 NCA.
We await an updated proposal from them, based on some details we asked them to specify. As soon as that is submitted, our architects at KG&D will resubmit our application to the town of Greenburgh for a building permit.
As of 8/2/2024
We met with 3 contractors this past week for walk-throughs. We have proposals from 2 contractors. The board will be reviewing them with Russ and Lauren, considering price, scheduling, availability, and other factors. We expect to accept a proposal early next week so the application for the building permit can be submitted.
Stay tuned!
As of 7/25/2024
As of today, we have three contractors visiting the space at 210 North Central Ave Suite 130, preliminary to responding to the request for proposal with a bid, and selection of contractor for the application for building permit. Our architect, Lauren, and at least one board member (Susan), will be joining the contractors at each of these meetings.
Thursday 7/25/24 2 pm Murphy Brothers Contracting
Friday 7/26/24 11 am Frank's Contracting
Tuesday 7/30/24 9 am Matty Romito
As of 7/19/2024
We hit a very frustrating bump in the road this week: For the first time in their experience, our architects (KG&D) had their application for a building department permit refused because it did not include contractor info, including cost estimates. We have spoken with the architects and agreed to contact our proposed contractors ourselves (which Denise and Susan have done) to alert them to expect an email from the architects soliciting their bids on our project based on the plans. (KG&D stressed that they would ask contractors to suggest "value engineering" items, which translates to places where we might implement cost-cutting alternatives to proposed plans.)
When we have those bids in hand, we can select a contractor quickly and KG&D will submit the revised application. In the meantime, we also got approval of our building plans from the owners (who remarked, “beautiful plans” when they saw our proposal). They completed and notarized a required affidavit of ownership—which will also be part of the revised application.
We have reminded KG&D of the need for speed here—although they already knew. Everyone involved is primed to move as quickly as possible.
Lisa, on behalf of the team
As of 7/14/2024
Russell Davidson of KG&D Architects and his associate, Lauren Irons, Architectural Designer, are the team working on our space. They are responding in a timely manner and are proceeding with due diligence.
Recent steps have been:
· June 26th Denise "checked in" with Lauren regarding permitting and contracting. Denise gave them the list of contractors gathered from the congregation. Lauren is preparing to file for permits in mid-July. The construction plans, which need to be much more detailed than the concept plans that were submitted to us for review, were being drawn up and readied for the application. This step is done by the engineers.
· July 9th Lauren contacted us on behalf of the engineers, requesting access to the space to finalize the plans. Susan coordinated this with the building’s property manager.
· July 10th Lauren requested the check to the Town of Greenburgh for the building permit application ($2500) and a signed and notarized "owner authorization" form so KG&D could submit for the building permit on our behalf.
· July 11th Susan and Denise coordinated getting the documents printed, signed, notarized, and returned.
· July 12th Susan picked up the notarized form and check from Denise and drove them back to Lauren at KG&D in Mt Kisco, so that she can file for the building permit Friday or first thing Monday.
It usually takes about a month for the building permit approval process. During this time, Russ will distribute the plans to contractors for bidding. Then we review bids and engage contractors so construction will hopefully commence some point in September or early October.
We know this is longer than everyone hoped. Any of you who have experienced construction projects knows that this process—from beginning to end—always take longer than expected.
