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Vicki Wiltse and her husband had some spare money, an old house and a cramped, ugly kitchen. It was time to remodel.
"We took down the whole entire wall, put a wrap-around bar; brand new granite," said Wiltse, 55, who recently paid $130,000 for a Boynton Beach house that she's almost done renovating. All that's left is to hang the pictures and throw a house-warming party this weekend.
In Boynton Beach, small-scale residential construction is on the rise, according to city workers who approve permits. That means more people, such as the Wiltses, are beautifying their kitchens, repairing their roofs and installing new air conditioners.
The upward trend is a portent of better times, says Nancy Byrne, interim director of the Boynton Beach Development Department. People have been saving and struggling since the crash, and now, with some money but not enough to buy new, they're investing in their homes, she speculated.
Byrne predicts construction in Palm Beach County's third-largest city could reach 2007 levels by the end of September.
"Things are really on the upswing," she said.
In Leisureville, a cookie-cutter senior community on the west edge of the city, Eric Nelson, 77, spruced up the living room and kitchen of his 1970s winter home. The kitchen, he said, "was a large closet" with rotting cupboards and "cheesy" dcor.
"It was dreary to go down there," said Nelson, who spends most of the year in Concord, Mass. "And it shouldn't be dreary to go down to Florida."
In February 2011 he applied for a permit and had a contractor make it like new.
In the 2006-2007 fiscal year construction in Boynton Beach reached astronomical heights. The Development Department issued 5,452 permits for construction valued at $244 million.
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RSV Building Solutions, a Vancouver-based commercial construction company specializing in new construction, remodeling, maintenance and tenant improvement projects, has started a renovation project for AHA! (Alling Henning Associates Inc.), a local communications firm.
The renovation involves expanding AHA!s current office in Vancouvers City Hall building to the entire sixth floor, adding 3,418 square feet for a total of 15,324 square feet of office space. RSV will add 19 new work stations, four new offices, two conference rooms, a kitchenette and will remodel the caf area, including adding a soda dispenser and new cabinetry.
This is a great opportunity to serve such a wonderful local business, said RSV President Ron Frederiksen. AHA! is a fantastic client and we are extremely excited to be a part of its growth.
RSV began construction April 16, and has had workers operate at night to prevent disturbing the offices daytime operations. The first phase of the project includes building out the open space on the 6th floor and remodeling the caf, as well as adding the conference room, with a projected completion date near the end of June. The second phase involves remodeling the former Moss Adams kitchen area, with a projected completion date near the end of July.
RSV worked with LSW Architects and Cohabit Design & Construct on the project.
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An imposing brick building encircled by black fencing has been growing on Lower Sacramento Road in Woodbridge. It's the new office for the Woodbridge Irrigation District. District staff are still unpacking and sweeping up the last of the construction dust, but the project is complete.
The new office blends Italian and and Spanish styling with a sense of Woodbridge history, and puts district operations right next door to the facilities they manage.
It cost $1 million to build, but the district didn't borrow a cent to pay for it.
"It's bought and paid for," said district manager Andy Christensen proudly. "Now we have a place to convey our rich history. We couldn't do it in the old building."
The district has been in a constant state of construction since Christensen joined them in 1996. Between building the new dam, the fish screen, the fish ladder and now this new building, there seemed to be no end to the projects. But now they are all complete, and the district can turn its attention to improving canals and pipelines in the field.
District staff spent two years planning the building and lining up permits. Designers were keen for the new structure to blend in with other brick buildings on Lower Sacramento Road, such as Cactus Mexican Dining and Woodbridge Crossing.
"We didn't want something ultra-modern," said Christensen.
Spanish and Italian influences are present in the sandy tile floors, the marble counter and open, airy layout.
On the left in the main hallways is a lighted display case full of historical Woodbridge artifacts. It holds rusty mining equipment, photographs of women walking on the 1891 dam and a water level recorder that uses a clock mechanism to mark the change in water level at the dam for a week at a time.
The case is bordered with beams dredged up from 25 feet below the riverbed. District staff ran into the 16 foot beams when they excavated that portion of the river to build the fish screen in 2008. They were the support piles for the 1891 dam. Now the beams are dotted with replica square iron bolts designed to match those used in the original Woodbridge Dam.
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