Golden Gate Point
Association, Inc.
136 Golden Gate Point #702
Sarasota, Florida 34236
ggp@goldengatepoint.net
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July newsletter is out with Breakfast details, click here.
Security Alert
Thursday, June 18th a young man knocked on several doors in GGP, at 4:00 am in the morning, claiming to need help. He claimed his father lived next door, but wasn't home, and he needed money so he could get home.
Apparently he in prior weeks approached several people in the day time, with a similar story.
If you see or encounter this individual, keep yourself safe, and call the police immediately.
July 18th Breakfast
!!!Save the date for our annual July breakfast!!!
Secretary of State, Honorable Kurt S. Browning will be our speaker!
The event is at the Bird Key Yacht club, July 18th at 9:30am. Stay tuned for further details.
July 4th Plans / Status
(17 June 09)
Curb work has now progressed up to mid block west side, in front of Harbor House West (226). Bricks are presently in front of La Bellasara, and will be in front of 350 building end of next week.
At the end of next week, the contractor is shutting down for a week of scheduled vacation. Friday, June 26 will be their last day of work, until after the 4th of July (they restart on July 6).
Where the bricks temporarily stop, they will pour a temporary curb allowing traffic onto the bricks from both ends for that week.
This will make is easier to use the road during the holiday. However we still don't want excess visitor traffic on our construction site during this period. We concerned with damage occurring to curbs and other infrastructure that in it's temporary condition.
On 4th of July Saturday, we are moving the "road closed, local traffic only" signs to the middle of the entry, for the "fireworks" evening. Starting about 5:00pm before the fireworks, we plan to have a guard at the entry. As a city construction side, we have the "ok" to keep traffic restricted to residents and invited guests. (in other words, we're keeping the casual visitor out from just using our area as a parking lot).
So, if you are having a fireworks party, walk down to the guard after 5:00pm on Saturday, and give him a list of your guest so he can easily let them in. If you are going in and out at this time, the guard is going to ask to see something with your address. (drivers license, tax bill, etc).
Have a great holiday
(be sure to click on Phasing discussion, to see further updates)
Road status and upcoming July 4th. (28 May 09)
Brick are now back underway. See Construction Work. Also visit the Phasing discussion, for updates on where the road closures are going to be over the next few week. Also there is a discussion about plans for the July 4th time period.
Bricks To Restart Monday
on 5/18/09
The replacement bricks are in town, and the contractor will start re-laying them Monday morning. They plan double crews, so should move rapidly down the street. Within a few weeks (probably 3-4) they will likely "catch up" with the concrete curbs, and then will be limited in "speed" to the pace of the concrete curb work.
So the overall schedule is not affected, as it was "paced" by the concrete work, not the bricks. It will however be very nice to starting cleaning up a major portion of the project, by getting the bricks down.
Finally, this re-install will have the main field of brick placed on a 45 degree herringbone pattern. The 90 degree prior pattern was ending up with small cuts of brick, that we and the city found objectionable. We've concluded this will be a better look.
Brick Setback
Thursday 4/23/09
Turns out there was a manufacturing issue with the bricks. They vary in dimension, making for "poor" alignment. There was a problem at the Georgia plant. The contractor has stopped laying brick, and new brick, from a North Carolina plant is on the way.
It will be here about 2 weeks, and they will start over. The contractor has "double" brick crews available, and will quickly catch up. They can lay brick faster then the concrete guys can pour curb, so the "big" schedule is not effected.
Everyone (city, contractor, sub-contractor, and Us) is disappointed, but better to fix it right now!!
The very first bricks were laid at 10:00 am Monday April 13, 2009. Please see Phasing discussion for road closures related to brick. 
(L to R) Chairman Streetscape Brent Parker architect, Former City of Sarasota commissioner/mayor Mary Anne Servian, and Golden Gate President Denise Watermeier, lay the first brick for the GGP Streetscape project. Below President Watermeier lays a bricks.
Picnic planned for April 18, 2009 atop the Phoenix. Click here for a flyer on the picnic, and here for the current newsletter also about the picnic.
For phasing status on the streetscape, click here .
Link to woodruff and Sons web site, our streetscape contractor
Groundbreaking was held Sat Sept 20, 2008
(L to R) Chairman Streetscape Brent Parker architect, Mitch McKnight Engineer Wilson Miller, Denise Watermeier President GGP, Phil Smith landscape architect David Johnston and Assoc, Richard Clapp City Commissioner, Dale Haas City public works director, Lou Ann Palmer Mayor of Sarasota, Ken Shelin Vice-Mayor , Rolf Brautigam Woodruff and Sons contractor, Alex Davis-Shaw city engineer, Ferdie Barnard engineer Wilson Miller.