Burris Donation Gets Swede Run Barn Restoration Back on Track
Burris Construction CEO William Burris wrote a check for $5,000 so organizers could finish the stalled restoration project.
Thanks to a generous donation from Burris Construction CEO William Burris and his wife, Linda, the organizers of the Swede Run Barn restoration now have enough money to finish the project. Just earlier this month, the project was “dead in the water,” according to project organizer Julie Maravich. Supporters had raised roughly $19,000, but had spent that and still owed $12,000 on previously completed work, plus needed another $5,000 to finish the project. After reading a news story recently about the project’s stalled status, William Burris opened up his checkbook and made a $2,500 donation. When his wife read the story she told him, “‘It says they need $5,000. Why didn’t you send them $5,000?’” he recalled. “I hadn’t seen that.” So he …
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3:41 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Actually Ed, Yes, I do think $36,000 is a lot for a restoration of a small, single room, stone barn. No plumbing, no electricity, sparse amenities, etc... An estimated $160,000? Must have been the same "engineering report" that priced out Zelley Park and it's absolute waste of what, a quarter million for components that couldn't last a year and vast amounts of free labor. It's no wonder the town … more ›