The Village at Winterpark Resort

Construction in the Village is making great progress! Vertical construction is underway on the first commercial and residential units (buildings 24 through 26, which includes lofts 113 and 114), while foundation is being poured for buildings 31 and 32 (where lofts 101 through 105 reside) and framing is being built for buildings 27 through 30 (lofts 106 through 112). The Village cabriolet system has been designed and installation should begin this summer. A new bridge in the Village will be completed by the end of April. And the final touches in the parking garage structure should be completed in the summer, including the north stairs, exterior metal panels and permanent signage.

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With over 30" of new snow in the past week, winter has finally showed up! The resort operations staff continues to prepare and open new trails as they feel they can make them safe and fun enough for guests to use them.

While not the best for skiing, the warm weather we were enjoying before the snow allowed us to make a lot of progress on Fraser Crossing, Founders Pointe, and the landscaping. Now we are going from floor to floor and room to room, making final touches and locking doors to finished units behind us.

Even though Fraser is very close to completion, we still need a few small components of the life safety systems of Founders to be completed before we can make Fraser safe and fun enough for owners to move into. Besides finishing up life safety in Founders, we continue the push to finish the carpentry and mechanical electrical trim out.

I'm confident we are going to have a lot of happy new owners once in there homes. The hallways, the homes and the amenity deck, are just simply stunning.

-Kevin Haupt, Construction Manager

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As a construction manager for a big time developer I write this construction update with my office window open on a beautiful warm and sunny fall day in Winter Park and think this is why I live here. I look at every sunny day as a blessing from above as another day to pour concrete, plant trees, wash windows and do final touch up on the exterior paint. As an avid skier all I think is SNOW. Obviously I’m a very conflicted person.

Site work continues to be finished up on both buildings. The third floor of Fraser Crossing has been furnished; punch listed, fine tuned and is being turned over to our operations partners at IHM to start the installation of house wares. Founders Pointe is almost been completely turned white. (In the construction business that means all the rough plumbing and electrical has been completed and it’s been dry walled). Now we start on the finishes.

-Kevin Haupt, Construction Manager

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Village Core:

The final concrete pour on the middle deck of the parking garage was completed last week, which leaves one final pour on the upper deck schedule for early October. The final concrete columns are being poured this week, and the parkade concrete is wrapping up. Fire protection has begun in the garage, and well as construction of the electrical rooms.

Underground utilities continue to progress, and excavation for the new vehicular bridge foundations is underway.

Fraser Crossing and Founders Pointe:

The big push for buildings Fraser and Founders is finishing the exterior of the buildings and the perimeter landscaping. The big reality check was the snow on the roof this morning. On the inside, we have the entire floor of Fraser Crossing completed. The cleaning crew started the final clean of this morning and the architects are doing there final punch of this floor this Friday. The inside of Founders Pointe is so full of workers right now it looks like the inside of a bee hive.

-Kevin Haupt, Construction Manager & Brian Muszynski, Construction Coordinator

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Village Core:

The Village Garage is moving along quickly with the final concrete pours occurring in the next two weeks. We have all the walls poured with the exception of the 42” cash walls on the upper level. Utility work is progressing as well with water and sewer wrapping up this week and shallow utilities being installed over the next two weeks.  Construction of the new bridge will begin in the next two weeks as well and coordination has been completed to install the garage gates by mid-October. The design for the village signage has been revised and final coordination for installation is proceeding this week. Completion of the garage is on schedule for mid-November. Foundations for the commercial and residential buildings on the west side of the village will begin in October and final road paving and utilities will completed in early November.

Fraser Crossing and Founders Pointe:

Construction on Fraser and Founders continues to move onward and even outward. The ski area is closed for the summer which also allows construction crews a little more to room to perform site work. Including the demolition of the existing parking hut that was located in the center of Winter Park Drive which will be replaced yet this fall with a new parking hut that will be located in a similar location further south.

Fraser Crossing's finishes are now really shaping up nicely. The first load of trees arrives around September 20th and the first plantings to take place will start on the Amenity deck. We are now nearly completed with flooring in the homes from floors three through six which now allows us to start the painting of common areas which will then be followed by flooring in these areas shortly thereafter. Installation of furniture, fixtures and equipment on Fraser is scheduled to begin the first week of October.

Now that drywall has been substantially completed in Fraser the contractor has moved those crews to Founder’s to essentially double the crews in that building. There is a tremendous amount of activity on every floor in Founder’s including completion of the roof, mechanical, and electrical systems. As soon as dry wall is complete on levels three to six in the next two weeks, trim and finishes will begin on those levels while drywall in completed on the first tow floors.

To say that there is a lot going on is an understatement.

-Kevin Haupt, Construction Manager

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You can tell from the outside that Fraser Crossing is moving along at a break neck pace. The stone façade on the front of the building is for the most part completed. New curb and gutter has been poured along the front of the buildings along Winter Park Drive so that all the shallow utilities’ can be installed which will be followed by new sidewalks. The push on the inside is now on the final finishes; they started carpet this week on the third floor and will be moving upward. The much anticipated Amenity deck is shaping up very nicely. Rock walls are going up and the heated pavers are going down.  Founders Pointe framing and rough mechanical has all been completed and drywall will be starting from the bottom up shortly.

-Kevin Haupt, Construction Manager

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