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He gutted the entire building, remov
ing more than 900,000 pounds of plaster
replacing it with drywall, which is a
much lighter material
fie has scraped away plaster, exposing
scrubbed brick walls. He also has taken
tiny pieces of oak wood from the building
and formed an entryway floor in one of
the apartments.
"More and more I've learned not to
fight the building's structure. A lot of the
creativity lies in the design."
He used house jacks to lift up the sag
ging building, and then he and his crew
inserted new posts to reinforce the struc
ture. Like chiropracters'
"We're kind of like chiropracters," he
said. "We rebuild the spine of the build
ing." Brygger has five of the six sections
done and all of the apartments in those
sections are rented.
The apartments range in size from 600
to 1,200 square feet, and no two apart
ments are alike.
"I wanted to make a marriage bet
ween what I feel my market is and what
the building or apartment space wants to
be."
Brygger said he chooses his tenants
carefully. He wants tenants who not only
can afford the apartments, which rent for
$300 to $400 a month, but who have the
"Persian rues" and other like amenities.
He requires a one-year lease and allows
caia ana lovers, of course."
No drapes
He doesn't allow renters to put up
drapes because, he said, each window is
like a picture." The window frames are
made from pine and have blinds.
Each apartment has its own air condi
tioning and heating units, and two ten
ants reported that heating bills were un
usually low. Brygger attributed this
mainly to insulation and thermo-pane
windows in the apartmemts.
A tenant said, "You just don't find
this kind of quality in an apartment."
Brygger said that using high-grade
materials has strained him financially.
However, he will be receiving a $14,000
matching funds grant for the renovation
from the Department of the. Interior's
historical preservation fund.
Aside from financial strains, Brygger
said the physical strain of often working
70 hours a week has taken its toll.
"I don't want to be a workaholic, but
I've had to adopt that mode.
"I'd like to travel and play tennis
more."
Brygger said he probably wouldn't
take a similar project in the future.
"It's too much of a drain on my re
sources." However, he said he would stay
in the architectural field.
Brygger said he doesn't expect great
financial reward from the building.
"The reward," he said, "is the prestige
of owning a beautiful building."
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