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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.

Monday, October 15, 2007

More moving.

Monday, October 15. It was time for the movers to arrive. The first picture shows a nearly empty community room. (The fire extinguisher alerted everyone to the raised electrical box in the floor).














By noon, the room was about half full. There was room for the first group meal in the new community room as Jon Stevens (beard) and the movers shared pizza for lunch. Jon inadvertently wore a blue shirt so he fit right in with the movers.





By about three o'clock, all of the furniture and appliances had been moved from Building A into the community room for temporary storage until the apartments are ready for occupancy. Building A will be ready by October 22 for the demolition preparation to begin. Pictures three and four show the carefully arranged items. Everything was carefully fit together like a big puzzle to maximize the usage of space.




























The last picture shows the generous check donated by Gensler, our architect, being presented by David Calkins and O'Neal Furr and accepted by Joe Hightower. Gensler's invitational golf tournament, held last Saturday, benefited Hospitality Apartments. Thank you, Gensler.


1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

WOO HOO!!! I'm so excited for the new Hospitality Apts and thanks to Lynn for the great updates. Tyler and I were there from Oct. 06 thru the first of March 07 and were so grateful to help as the asst. manager during part of that time. Tyler is still cancer free and attending college. He is part of an Honors Society PTK and is trying to raise some funds for the apts as part of his community service project. Y'all are teriffic and we will be forever thankful. God Bless you all----Ramee and Tyler Thompson from Natchez MS

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