On Thursday, May 13, 2021, the First of the Mobile Construction Trailers Were Pulled Off of the Northeast Corner.
The featured image for this blog is of the first three construction trailers that had been towed to the site. More construction trailers would arrive in stages. Another team would be brought in to place each trailer per the specs.
On Sunday, November 27, 2016, the construction trailers began to arrive on the northeast corner of the site. Rumor had it that over time approximately 30 trailers would form a compound housing the offices of McCarthy (the contractor), on-site inspectors, and other project personnel. At the time, it was hard to imagine all of the trailers in one area. For a number of days prior to their arrival, electricians, plumbers, and carpenters worked the area to ensure that all of the trailers would have all of the needed services.
At the beginning of the project, the converted pod construction offices were temporarily placed on the southeast corner of the site.This is the site where the Mary ‘M’ apartments once stood (the corner of Anderson Street and Prospect Avenue). Approximately one-year after the apartments were razed, mobile modular construction trailers were pulled onto this section where they served as the construction offices.The northeast corner of the construction was a multipurpose location. In the spring of 2016, it was graded and asphalted for use during the groundbreaking ceremonies. After the groundbreaking ceremonies the construction workers used the section as a parking lot. In November of 2016, mobile modular trailers to be used as the construction offices were moved on to the area. Finally, the trailers are being moved off of the site to make way for the new northeast parking lot.Positioning the temporary mobile modular trailers that will be used as construction offices. Four days after the first trailers arrived, a placement team was on-site, positioning the trailers where they would rest for nearly three and a half years.
Where Did the Onsite Offices Go?
With the hospital towers in the background, one of the mobile construction office sections is about to leave the site.The cab towing the mobile modular trailer pulls out of the new hospital entrance.After a wide turn out of the main entrance to the Medical Center, the mobile modular unit make a slow exit toward Anderson Street. By the end of the day, nine trailers were pulled off the site.
After graduate school Dennis accepted a position at Loma Linda University. He worked there for 42 years in the areas of administration and financial management, also teaching accounting and management to dietetic students at the School of Public Health. Through the years Dennis has chronicled the growth of the campus, including the construction of the Drayson Center and the Centennial Complex and the razing of Gentry Gym. He is the author of "The Mound City Chronicles: A Pictorial History of Loma Linda University, A Health Sciences Institution 1905 - 2005." dEp 09.30.2016 🔨
