u/Serenata67

After reading today's Press-Gazette article about the Shipyard District plans/funding and looking at the renderings, I'm wondering if the Shipyard project planning group is in talks with the Mason St reconstruction group. Especially since the Shipyard project is planned by the city and the Mason St reconstruction is planned by the state, I really wonder if they're thoroughly in conversation with each other.

The renderings show Mason St at its current elevation, despite most of the plans proposed for the future of the Mason St bridge involve lowering the bridge. The plans for Mason St do usually include going over the railroad tracks to provide a path across the river that avoids the trains, so I don't know if the renderings or plans would be drastically impacted by the reconstruction.

Mason Street bridge's actual reconstruction timeline (at this moment) would set the construction not to start until 2031, with planning still going on until then. However, the preliminary design will be coming out shortly after the Shipyard project finishes construction. (Shipyard construction estimated to be done in 2027; bridge preliminary design coming out late 2027 to early 2028.) There would be time to redesign things after Shipyard construction is done, clearly, but if they have to redesign things, that's a waste of taxpayer money and time.

I'm looking forward to the Shipyard moving forward, and am hopeful this is a sign that they're moving past the delays and controversy that previously marred this project. I just worry that this will cost a bunch of money and then limit the ability for Mason St to do what's best for traffic patterns and such. I hope they're partnering and doing what is best for the city and its residents.

I am having the ceiling of a room replaced following mold remediation. They had to put in support beams so we did a coffered ceiling look. So far there was an electrician to update some electrical, a construction crew to install the beams, and the drywall/plaster crew. All are crews hired by the same general contractor. The paint crew comes in Monday. They will be painting the new ceiling and the walls, since there is new plaster where the ceiling meets the wall. They will not be painting windows, doors, or baseboards, as they are outside of the scope of the project and insurance coverage, but they will be painting surfaces that touch those areas.

After the mold remediation, the room was spotless. They removed every possible speck of dust.

Now, the room is filthy after construction and drywall. Every windowsill is caked in sawdust and plaster dust. The baseboards are crusty on the top edge where it meets the wall as well as the vertical surface. The floors are caked in drywall dust that won't sweep up and chunks of debris. Link to photo of current room status: https://photos.app.goo.gl/uMvJTF4Pgv9Nvstv9

[Mini-rant: We were in the process of restoring the original hardwood floors in this 130-year-old house. We had peeled up the linoleum, but hadn't done a finishing sanding yet. The drywall guy assumed our "dirty" floors were going to be carpeted and didn't cover them.]

Anyway, who is responsible for clean up of the mess left behind by construction and drywall/plaster?

Regarding paint crew: should I be scrubbing the window trim and baseboards before the paint crew comes in so they get clean edges, or do they clean up the edges? If they're going to clean the surfaces they touch, who cleans the surfaces they aren't touching, like inner window frames and sills?

Regarding the floor: should I expect the GC to restore the floor to its previous condition (no plaster but not totally finished), or do I just have to eat the cost of an extra-long floor sander rental, additional sanding pads, etc.? I would think that he should be responsible for at least a coarse grit sanding to remove the plaster and I will finish with the finer grits, but is that reasonable?

I've never worked with a GC before, so I don't know what to expect. I appreciate your help and kind advice!

EDIT - UPDATE: I just heard back from Department of Public Works. What is being eliminated is the temporary access that was created down by the Baycare Clinic that was temporary right-in, right-out. Access from West Mason to the Frontage Road will be restored and they are doing some reconstruction of that intersection to make it better. There will be access from westbound West Mason to the south frontage road.

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https://www.greenbaywi.gov/m/newsflash/home/detail/996

It looks like, if I'm understanding this correctly, that they are closing off access to the West Mason Street frontage road permanently from Mason St at Hinkle. (This is the section of the West Mason frontage road where there's Los Banditos, Chilis, Parker Paints, The Hot, etc., not the frontage road by Walmart and Festival. I know it's been closed for a while during the reconstruction, but it sounds like now that Hinkle will connect to Hobart, the "right in, right out" access (and all other access) will be removed at Mason St. I understand that this intersection SUCKED as it was before -- I grew up in the residential neighborhood between Southwest and MacArthur that is directly adjascent to all of this. (I now live on the east side as an adult.)

My question is, if you are traveling from the east to the west (westbound) on Mason St, how are you supposed to get to the businesses on this frontage road? The Hinkle intersection was the only place to get onto it before. You can't turn left onto Packerland, then left onto the frontage road. You can't turn onto the frontage road at any other intersection on Mason St. (The red arrows on the diagram.) Are you supposed to do the equivalent of a U-turn at the Trojan Dr roundabout, then turn right onto the frontage? (The orange arrow on the diagram.) Are you supposed to go through the residential neighborhood by Southwest and around to get to the businesses? (The purple arrows in the diagram.) Or are you supposed to cut over on Taylor before the highway, go through that residential neighborhood on 9th/West Point, then to Hobart to Hinkle? (The blue arrows in the diagram.) That seems like a lot of hassle -- and extra traffic in the residential neighborhoods -- just for some CCQ at Los Banditos. I can see people also cutting through the gas station at Packerland... or are they closing off their parking lot access to prevent this?

It's entirely possible that I'm misunderstanding the reconstruction, so I'm hoping someone here who perhaps lives in that area and is keeping up to date on the project can clarify what the plan is... and if you're happy about it or not.

I'm in a situation where an Oxford comma would really clarify things. I received an email from a rewards shopping browser extension that offered a deal "because you've shopped at Shipt before." The offer has different reward amounts for "Order Delivered," "Start Membership," "First Order," and "C360 Order." This seems to imply that each of these different actions is independent of the others and any activity that falls into one of those categories would qualify for that category's reward amount.

The lack of a comma appears in the Exclusions. The exclusions state "Only eligible for new membership, first order and completed order." Without an Oxford comma, this can mean either (1) new membership purchases OR first orders OR completed orders, or (2) new membership purchases OR first orders that are also completed.

Am I getting overly pedantic about this? (Maybe this isn't the right crowd to ask if I'm being "overly pedantic.") It seems like they are aware that I'm not a new Shipt customer; the initial email stated that I'm being sent the offer because I've previously made a purchase through Shipt. Furthermore, the fact that there are different reward rates for each action seem to show that a completed, delivered order is not the same as a first order. So logically, it seems like they're different. However, are they trying to be sneaky with that lack of a comma?

What do you think, my fellow grammar geeks?