Construction timeline – Lenfest Center – Coatesville Train Station

Below is a time-lapse slideshow of progress photos of the Lenfest Center.

It's interesting because well, it's the Lenfest Center. But it also demonstrates part of the construction timeline.

This is only physical construction work in the slideshow.

If the construction timeline was a clock, 59 minutes would be legal and planning, 55 seconds would be demolition and landscaping and 5 seconds would be constructing the building. That's the construction timeline, from a skyscraper to a single-family home.

Right now the new Coatesville Train Station demolition is nearly complete.

Natural Lands Trust - Lenfest Center Slideshow

It took Don Pulver of Oliver Tyrone Pulver Corporation 11 years to begin construction of the Coatesville Marriott Hotel. That’s a long time for a Pulver project.  But:

As Don Pulver said, “People were trying to stop us every day. You had to fight to do the work.” 

FROM:

The revitalization of the City of Coatesville is beginning. There was a concerted effort to kill it before it was born.

Mr. Pulver, “Everything’s touch and go today. Everybody’s trying to stop us every inch of the way. But we refuse to be stopped.”

FROM:

Mr. Pulver, “It has to happen, now or never.”