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At the Catapult Kitchen, our goal is to make this process easier and reduce barriers to entry for companies in the culinary world.
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These “surprises” delayed the project and added $200,000 to the bottom line. Launching a food-based business can be challenging, a process containing many regulations and ample start-up costs. We found some non-hurricane related surprises when we removed the concrete slab on the first floor of the building. You may have noticed that work on the building slowed to a crawl about 2 months ago.
#Catapult lakeland windows
The windows were not attached to the frames or the building?. When we found one of our iconic windows laying in the parking lot, and we were able to inspect the framing, we realized that we had a huge problem. We knew restoring the building’s windows was going to be a very expensive proposition ($400,000), but we were committed to complete restoration. This also wasn’t the first time our historic window restoration team had to give us bad news. Pinoy Cravings is a Filipino-inspired pop-up food company while Omusubee sells Japanese rice balls. The structural steel required to repair and secure the building was going to cost over $600,000. Two local Asian-focused food businesses, Pinoy Cravings and Omusubee, recently won launch micro grants from Catapult Lakeland. Even an untrained eye like mine could see that the east and west walls needed shoring up and the roof trusses were “off” and had been significantly damaged in the past. We knew the building had serious structural issues and had experienced significant wind event(s) in the past. This wasn’t the first time our structural engineer had given us bad news. Hurricane Irma’s winds twisted the Cash Feed building’s steel trusses like pretzels, blew the terra-cotta stucco west wall in on itself, pushed the east wall out on itself, and blew out one of the iconic and historic, steel-framed windows on the front of the building facing Lake Mirror.