Facility Plan & Improvements (2015- 2020)
The Third Street Center Facility Plan includes many upgrades and improvements that were not attempted during the original renovation due to funding limitations. Now, after several years of tenants and community members using the building and hundreds of meetings, events and celebrations in our community spaces, we feel these improvements are needed.
To see our evolving Facility Plan document, click here. You can see our efforts and progress below.
2016 Improvements
A virtual Third Street Center
We began inputting the dimensions of the Third Street Center and planned improvements into Google SketchUp model.
Logo on front doors in case folks forget where they are
Upgraded the entry ...
New display shows how Third Street came to be
... and told the story of how Third Street Center was created
TSC parking plan improvements
Worked with CU Denver Graduate students to create a new parking plan
The Round Room taped off
Repaired and re-surfaced the Round Room wooden floor.
Cars powered by the sun! A BMW, a ford, & a Toyota charging up
Installed the a four car capacity Electric Vehicle charging station (Thanks to CEO & CORE)
New water lines serving a Round Room Restroom
Installed new hot and cold water lines to the 4 restrooms and 7 suites in the Round Room (Thanks Garfield FMLD)
New windows & doors (west side of gym)
Began planning to install windows in Gym in spring 2017
TSC Cruiser #1
We added the first Cruiser to the TSC Bike Fleet
North side bike path before and after
The Town of Carbondale paved the bike paths on the north and south side of the facility
Dry well re-construction
The also helped dig up and repair a dry well on our south side
New (old) chairs for the Gym
Accepted a donation of comfy chairs for the Gym (Thanks Aspen Ski Co.)
New interior signage
Added signs to help folks find meetings & events
Look what’s at the end of the rainbow!
Happy to part of such a vibrant, inspiring, and fun place.
2017 Improvements
Women’s Restroom Renovation
Our lovely womens' restroom ready for renovation.
Renovation begins
Restroom sans toilets and partitions
New walls
Yellow cement block begone
New sink in and partitions beginning to take shape
New restroom ready for use
Much nicer
Gym before windows
Our lovely "gym" ready for renovation
Let There Be Daylight!
What a difference a week makes
The first light in the gym
Window #3 and wider door
Window #3 and wider door inside view
Windows in on west side
The Window Cutters
Stoneworks Masonry taking a donut break
New Doors
Big Windows!
Are new window are roughly 11'x5'
East windows and doors installed
Cilundu Coffee opens in May
and we love it!
Best coffee in the Valley.
Gym before repainting
After repainting the interior
New Water Fountain
Our new water fountain / water bottle filling station. We have avoided 10,000 plastic bottles this year. Thanks to Garfield County Public Health for donating the unit.
New LED lights throughout the building.
Thanks to Garfield FMLD for helping with this project as well.
New LED lights in tenant and common space
Even in the coffee shop
The big light in the middle is actually a skylight
A Mini Power Plant
In June our solar panels produced twice the electricity we needed. We put the extra on the grid.
Third Street Aerial
It's good to get a different perspective at times.
Aerial photo by Michelle Smith
The gym back in action at night
and new activities during the day!
All ready for the RF Coop Annual Meeting
Onto the next phase!
2018 Improvements
So long Gym
Hello Community Hall
New LED accent lights
give us a way to set the mood in Community Hall
Thanks to contributions
we updated our sound board
and installed a projector
Thanks to everyone
who made Phase One of the Gym renovation possible
We find the darnest things in our drains
Big thanks to the Town of Carbondale & FMLD
for our new fencing (Smoke from Lake Catherine Fire make for a hazy Sopris view)
Mark installs a new frame
for the Garfield Building Energy Navigator
We’re a Clean Power Plant
How much solar electricity does your building produce?
An empty space
becomes the new home of og the Carbondale Bike Project
Giving old bikes a new life
just as Third Street Center gives new life to an old elementary school
New automatic paper dispensers in the restrooms
Particulate build up in the heat exchanger.
The challenge of old heating pipes in an old building.
9 year old failed boiler. Sigh. Before & After removal.
Draing and refilling the heating system before new boilers go in.
New boilers
Getting the boilers hooked up
New piping for the double boilers
Plumbing
is complicated
$80k later …
Two new smaller boilers working in tandem to heat the 45,100SF building. If one goes down, we're ready.
Additional lights outside
make a difference on dark winter nights
Solar lights are great
Mark tests out our new carpet cleaner
and our new floor cleaner.
Both are awesome.
2019 Improvements
The new magnetic separator protecting our new new boilers from particulates in our heating system
New wall treatment in Community Hall
Framing & insulation to help with acoustics
Mark wrapping the columns in fabric after installing framing and insulation
Before, during, & after
Before
During
After
Wall mounted speakers
We’re getting there. Next up – new flooring
Parking cones! Some improvements are relatively simple.
Front entry improvements
A place to work, chat, & drink coffee!
Mark Burrows made some great improvements to Suite 26A
AC in Community Hall
(its tough to take a picture of cool air)
Our sink hole outside of Senior Matters
Town of Carondale Public Works to the rescue
Ready for new asphalt
Now if we just had the money to fix the entire parking lot 🙂
When your roof drain leaks in the building
When you are fortunate to have a talented Facility Manager
2020 Improvements (despite a Pandemic!)
The sewer line failed from one of our restrooms in later 2019
Cast iron sewer lines corrode and fail over time
All Valley Resources to the rescue with a big thanks to tenants and the Town of Carbondale for helping to finance the repairs
Tools of the sewer lining trade
Liner for the sewer lines
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Ordered at the start of the year, we finaly got our new Calawy Doors in June
Skyhook Solar EV Charger arrives
Perfect solution for a parking lot with no electric service
Thanks to Rob Pew for making it happen
2021 Improvements (still in a Pandemic :/
2018-2022 Planned Improvements
- Implementing Phase 2 of the Gym Renovation (improved sound
lighting AC ambiance and flooring); - Installing new exterior doors at the main entrance
- Installing new exterior doors in the Calaway Room ;
- Renovating the main men’s restroom;
- Cleaning and lining our sewer lines to extend the useful life (they are old and cast iron) and prevent failure
- Expanding parking on our east side (including an east entrance to the building for tenants and events).
- Improving the main parking lot (including repaving, better lighting, ADA parking close to the main entrance), solar awnings and EV chargers; and
- Installing solar awnings and an event plaza on the south side of the building and Community Hall.
- Creating a community kitchen.
