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July 28, 1998 Building Exterior: • The building was constructed in 1978, and looks like a 70's era shopping mall. It is dated. A total rehab of the exterior wall will be required for conversion to offices. • Exterior walls are 6'/cinch thick precast concrete panels, approximately 21 feet wide, and in excellent condition. They are finished primarily with exposed aggregate, painted. Interspersed in some panels are faces of smooth or ribbed -texture concrete, also painted. There are no windows or openings in the walls except for doorways and one glazed opening at the former Penney's store. A substantial number of windows or glazed door- ways will have to be cut in order to convert to offices. • The precast concrete panels at the former Penney's and Upton's stores have been stuccoed and divided into smaller panels with galvanized control joints. The stucco appears in gener- ally good condition at both stores, but hairline cracks show some failure and streaking on the Penney's walls. • The building apparently had at some time rainwater leaders from roof overflow scuppers to under -sidewalk trench drains. These no longer exist. • The roof is a sloped built-up asphaltic membrane roof with exposed aggregate. Judging from the number of visible leaks on interior ceiling tiles, the number of roof patches at areas where water stands and around equipment, and the areas of exposed asphalt or bleed -through, the entire roof membrane and roof insulation, should be replaced. There is a good slope from a central ridge to both east and west, but roof drains are inadequate and poorly placed at the low sides of the roof. Some overflow drains exist, but recent flashing repairs on the west side have covered some overflow scuppers. Despite the positive slope, several areas on the roof show where ponding occurs, frequently in the same areas where repairs have been made (modified bitumen sheets). • Plexiglass dome skylights over the central mall area appear in very good condition with no evidence of leaking. Building interior: • The building is really a group of three contiguous buildings comprising approximately 170,000 sq. ft., of which 150,000 was previously leasable. The two stores at the north and south ends of the complex are approx. 40,000 and 47,000 sq. ft. Converted to offices, the project would become a Group B (Business) Occu- pancy rather than Group M (Mercantile) under the Standard Build- ing Code. Exit travel distance limits to existing exterior doors would not change, however, since code allows 250 ft. in fully sprinklered buildings for both occupancies. • Interior structural elements such as steel columns and bar joists are not now fireproofed, and depending on new space usage would probably not require fireproofing. • All interior materials and finishes including ceilings, flooring, walls and water fountain require complete demolition and removal. Some exterior walls may be insulated, but extent is unknown, and is likely inadequate to meet current energy savings criteria. It is impractical to assume that anything more than the building shell and structure are salvageable for reuse. • Costs will be incurred for adding acoustical attenuation materi- als to negate the noise from passing trains 4 or 5 times a day will be required. • Current ceilings are 2 x4 -ft. lay -in acoustical tile, suspended at approx. 15-17 ft. in the mall, and at about 13 ft. in the anchor stores. Throughout the facility, ceilings are in mediocre -to -poor condition, with many stained, broken, and sagging tiles. Even 34 Rnox 106 fnE 0 it 0