C R Y D E R P O I N T 6 JANUARY Resident Manager Bill Newell and Board President Jill Davis discuss progress of temporary lot Seawall Project MEANS A LOT Temporary Resident Parking Needed Before Construction Can Begin With an estimated total cost of more than $4 million and lasting approximately a year, the Cryder Point sea wall project will see the rebuilding of hundreds of feet of sea wall and the replacement of most of the complex’s drainage system. When finally complete the project will ensure the safety and security of Cryder Point property for decades to come. Unfortunately, such a massive undertaking requires the use of equally massive construction vehicles, which will need access to the sea wall area throughout the process to deliver hundreds of enormous boulders, and entry is not readily available from the street. “As the plans to rebuild the sea wall developed, it was clear that we’d have to vacate parts of the outdoor parking areas in order to provide a enough space for the construction vehicles to move in and out of the site,” explains board president Jill Davis. Approximately 45 parking spots, which border the west side of the 01 Building and the east side of the 41 Building, are affected. “For a good part of the planning, our focus was on the budget and obtaining financing for the project. It had originally been slated to begin in the fall, and we were a lot less concerned about the weather then. When the project became so delayed, a light bulb went off that our displaced residents would probably be facing really bad winter weather,” Davis said. “We were imagining folks driving around, looking for parking and trudging through snow and ice back and forth to the buildings carrying heavy bags, not to mention digging their cars out,” Davis explained. “The parking question went from being about residents’ convenience to being about their safety.” 6 CRYDER POINT COURIER | JANUARY 2015 | WWW.QUEENSCOURIER.COM The Board, along with Resident Manager Bill Newell, examined all options to facilitate the displaced resident vehicles. Having affected residents park on the already congested neighborhood streets in exchange for six months’ free parking upon the project’s completion was dismissed pretty quickly. “I mentioned this idea at the last shareholders’ meeting. There were a number of people in attendance who will be displaced. Nobody volunteered, and I wasn’t The Courier sat down with Board President Jill Davis to discuss the project and learn how the Board resolved this issue. Area in yellow shows the location and size of temporary parking lot A “lot”of construction materials
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