We now officially own the land - weclosed on the purchase on Jan 31st. Woo hoo! Proud new owners of a grassy strip of land partially occupied by our neighbor's rottweilers.
On Thursday the fine folks from Hive made their way to Nashville to view the site, discuss the plans, and visit a local modular manufacturing facility. Marc Asmus and Bryan Meyer spent a few hours checking out the neighborhood. Although amazed at the amount of new development in Germantown, they are perplexed as to why the city is so unfriendly to modern allowing modern design in the area. They said out loud many of the things I have been wondering lately - like why is the Design Review board so concerned with our design when we are surrounded by industrial buildings, chain link fences, dilapidated old (but not historic) shacks, and barking rottweilers. Unreal.
The plans are getting dialed in. The master on main works out nicely since we now have a cool loft space upstairs to use as an office. Good news from the site visit is that the lot slodes sharply enough that we can add some more windows to the basement. With 8 feet clear in the basement that will make it some very usable space if we need to expand.
It sounds like the factory visit went well. Geometric Building Systems in Lewisburg is eager to start building some modern modular homes. We should have the flexibility to get everything built just as Hive designs it. GBS even has some local contractors that they work with so we are a bit less nervous about finding somebody to do the site work.
Shouldn't be too much longer now before we will be ready to submit to the Design Review Board. That should be fun.
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