With the news that the window coverings had come off of the
Osteria Morini space in the
Lumber Shed, I went racing down there with hopes of pressing my camera up against all that glass to get some photos of the opening-any-minute-now restaurant from Chef Michael White. Alas, I arrived during training, and so was THWARTED (because I'm way too shy to have just gone ahead and taken the up-close shots with 40 people staring at me).
I did get at least a couple of surveillance-type shots from a respectable distance, which
I posted in a new photo gallery you should check out, but here's a preview:
The restaurant is expected to open next week, perhaps the 19th or the 20th, but at this point we know it will open when it opens.
The
photo gallery also has a few other fun shots from the other projects currently under construction (residential buildings
Twelve12,
Park Chelsea and Toll Brothers's
River Parc), such as the turret at 4th and M getting quite a makeover:
Plus, the
Park Chelsea has gotten new signage, but more interesting is the outlines now forming of the new stretch of I Street that will run between 2nd and New Jersey when it opens (probably not any sooner than spring 2014):
Also, while they aren't terribly showy just yet, I have built two more of what I call my
Expanded Photo Archives for both the
Park Chelsea and
River Parc projects, to bring together more before-and-afters from a wider/farther array of angles than I usually display on the project pages. (Yep, I'm partying like it's 2007.)