Condo Pictures

Christopher Horrell

Nov 6, 2005

One of the things I do to amuse myself while waiting for the condo to be built is to take pictures of it's progress. And you can see them here on my Flickr account.

There's not a hell of a lot of progress to see at the moment, which is kind of disappointing. There has been some visible demo work, but since it's really a rebuild/restoration I'm assuming all the real action is going on inside the building.

It's nice to see some progress though and I'll be taking some more pictures in another couple of months or so.

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