A Store Is Born - Week 1

Folks,

We've started construction on the store. Not much to look at, but it will give you an idea of the layout. If all goes well, we will be complete in 3 weeks and open end of the month of May. In the meantime, keep checking back weekly on the progress. We're going to educate you on how to build the the biggest and best brick and mortar video game retail store in the country.


AWNINGS
If you saw earlier photos, you would think they're made from wood. NOPE! All metal. These are made out of aluminum and painted too look like wood. The paint job was so impressive that the landlord was fooled and as a result the previous tenant was required to install sprinkler heads.
Notice the metal cone-shaped objects in the middle the frame? We'll need to bring in a professional to move those sprinklers inside the store and some torches to cut those bolts out of the metal frame. We'll need to get a mason to fill in the bricks. Turns out the bricks were applied AFTER the awnings were installed.

LIFT

Check out the lift. I love this thing. We have high, 25ft. ceilings. We're going to run all the wires across these ceilings. Also, we need to mount all the lighting. Ledders are fine, but these contractors will spend hours up there.

LOSE A WALL, GAIN ANOTHER

The previous tenant needed a large, 800 square foot storage room and built a wall to separate the space. Well, we don't need a lot of storage, so we decided to open the space and use it for what else, more gaming. This back area will be used for old school gaming and best of all, PARTIES! Yes, we will rent out this back space for Video Gaming parties. Who needs a clown when you and your friends can teach grandma how to play on the Wii.

Oh, and for those who need an idea of what 800 square feet look like, just walk into any of our competitor's stores. Their entire retail space is approximately this size, give or take a few hunder sqare feet. We have additional 2000 sqare feet of breathing room in case claustrophobia decides to creap up on you.

CONDUIT

We wanted to give the place an industrial look. Notice the open ceiling and concrete flooring? We like that. So why not continue with that industial look by running all wires and cabling on the outside of the walls. We're got conduit all over the place. Don't worry, come next week the entire place will be painted black.