The "Buy-a-Foot" campaign, to raise funds to help build the APM Restoration Center, has reached an important milestone.
With a donation from AAA lifetime member Jeri Bousum, over half of the available square footage has been spoken and paid for, for a current total of over $35,600.00.
That the "Buy-a-Foot" campaign has reached this goal in a little over eight months in today's economic realities is a testament all our members, their families, AAA chapters, EAA chapters, corporations and foundations and their belief and faith in the APM, it's programs and future. The directors of the APM and I humbly, "Thank You" all.
Though we have yet to start construction, planning and acquisition of materials for this facility continues. The steel trusses for this structure have been acquired and the decking material for the roof is currently being negotiated on. CAD engineering and construction drawings are currently being prepared. We have begun discussions with a well known manufacturer of hangar doors as to the possibility of using one of their products on this facility. Plus pledges for materials and components, such as cement block, in floor heating tubing, electrical components and alternative power supply sources continue, raising the total of monies (including Jim Miller's seed money) and materials pledged to well over $50,000.00. We look forward to the arrival of spring and the beginning of the actual construction of this facility.
But where do we go from here? Well we hope that by reaching this milestone it will help encourage others to become part of this campaign, to join with us and "get your piece of the rock", as it were. While we realize it will be an uphill effort until every last plot in this structure is spoken and paid for, I would like to point out, to all those who may be considering joining with us in seeing this facility built, that your choice of plots and neighbors has now been reduced by over half :>)
So please consider joining with the likes of Addison Pemberton, Paul Poberezny, Robert Mikesh, Morton Lester, John Seibold, Randy Sohn, Hal Shevers, Lew Shaw, Joe Norris, Susan Dacy, the directors of the AAA and APM and many others in becoming plot owners and neighbors within the APM Restoration Center.
Brent Taylor
APM Treasurer