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(Contact information: 713.790.9120. PO Box 25213, Houston, TX 77265-5213. hospitalityapartments@yahoo.com) Since 1968 the Hospitality Apartments, located south of the Texas Medical Center in Houston at 7300 Bertner Avenue (formerly 7219 Cecil Street), have been providing free temporary housing (up to three months) and a welcoming, supportive environment for out-of-town medical center patients and their caregivers. Entries in this blog follow the demolition of old apartments (begun spring, 2006)and construction of 46 new apartments and community room/office (begun November 2006). For more information, see the summary page, posted March 6, 2006, and the video, posted September 22, 2006. TO RECEIVE A COPY OF THE CURRENT NEWSLETTER, SEND AN EMAIL TO hospitalityapartments@yahoo.com. A COPY WILL BE EMAILED TO YOU.

Friday, August 10, 2007

Lots of pictures!

r These pictures were taken Friday, August 10. Don't forget to click on a picture for a bigger image. The first picture shows the built-in desk in the new office. Above the desk there will be a sliding glass window that will open into the entrance area of the community room. In picture two, you can see elevator doors -- the white rectangles in the middle of the picture on the first three floors. The elevators are in the west building. In picture three, the backhoe drive is excavating the area where the cement driveway for the dumpster and community room air-conditioning units will be poured. This area is just on the other side of the green wall in picture two. Utility lines go under this cement driveway. Obviously, installation of those lines will have to be completed before occupancy of the community room building as the office volunteers prefer to work in an air-conditioned space! Picture four shows pink insulation being delivered to the fourth floor of the west building. The insulation has already been installed in the east building and sheetrocking of the apartment walls has begun there. Picture five shows the siding panels for the south stairwell in the east building. Picture six is of the apartment building, taken from the south east area of the property. Picture seven shows the community room building, after being partially cleaned and almost ready for painting. You can see some of the round lights in the ceiling of the porte cochere. The driveway has been partially graded.





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