September 14th, 2006 has become a historic day worth celebrating for years to come. After months of anticipation the Marina Grande - North Miami Beach project is installing their first production auger cast pile today. There will not be a brief ceremony at Auger Pile #101 later today. Drinks and food will not be served, but at least live music will not be provided.

Allow me to provide you, the reader, with a flashback of the events that helped get us to where we are today. First, Randy Seneff came to the project cold and alone. Shortly thereafter Joe Llanes came to join Randy. Eric Montes de Oca was next on site followed by John Ryan. As quickly as John showed up he was taken from the team never to return (he is now at The Everglades). Randy has been placed on injured reserve and hopefully will return soon (from CSD).

The first batch of new additions were Angie Suarez and Marilyn Masferrer. Following them was Bruce Watson, Matt Lomenick and Brian Kibler. The team is looking forward to standing steel and going vertical.

Stay tuned for future periodicals where you’ll learn how to build a high rise using only helicopters and barges.