Good news about our new Highland Park apartment project… and bad news

In our business, you get surprised all the time in ways both great and terrible.

Take this new project we’re doing in Highland Park…

It turns out there’s a two inch layer of concrete under the floor, meaning we can experiment with doing polished concrete for less than it would cost us to do hardwood.

concrete, apartment, rehab

The bad news is that a few of the previous tenants decided it would be a good idea to use cement to attach awful tiles to the underlying concrete… meaning we somehow need to deal with this:

concrete, floor, Highland Park

Someone is going to spend a lot of time in this apartment with a grinder of some sort…