Destruction and rebirth of the Quinn Building in Spokane.

 

I purchased this building in 1980 and it was built as a Safeway store in 1929. I made it an ad agency out of it.

My daughter Bonnie took over some 10 years ago and things are about to change in a big way.

Here we see the foot of my grandson Randy Young knocking down the lath and plaster of the original

ceiling of my advertising office in Spokane. It was raining rocks and dust for days in the office. Bonnie wanted

the building to look "industrial", open and airy. What?????

The employees had to find other places to conduct business in other parts of the building while this

place was "cleaned up".

 

This past weekend was time to take apart the kitchen/lunch room and these T-111 panels started

coming off. That was the easy part. The floor I put down some 30 years ago has to be removed as well.

And the wood beams in the ceiling. They were a bit dangerous in their removal!

 

That's Jerry Jr working a tile machine for digging out the tiles but the underlayment made it real tough.

Grandson David Young, Bonnie's other boy, found another answer with sweat and muscle and a crowbar to

lift sections at a time and that helped. That's Jordan to the left giving advice and help.

 

When it started coming together I sure felt a lot better to see things envisioned by others. Offices to

the left and right with the center open to the ceiling. Now it all starts to make sense.

 

That's the conference room in the front of the windows, sofas and chairs and tables to make it real

comfortable to work in and the floor with carpet that looks awesome! Windows are now in the office

areas and doors have yet to be decided.

 

This is what you would see from the reception area. I would say that looks inviting for someone to be

impressed? That's the new Quinn look on the sign that will be hung somewhere.

 

The front is still being worked on but as you can see a water feature has been installed and the

wrought iron fence has been installed. Glass has yet to be installed on the top panels. My daughter

is some kind of gal! I'm some kind of dad but don't tell anybody!