From our office manager:

Next week, the office will be open Monday, 8/15, 6-9pm. Further updates about next week’s hours will be posted on the office door and shared here on the bulletin board ASAP.

A request from a resident. Comments appreciated. And if folks would like to send me photos to share (I don’t believe you can post them in the comments), I can pass them along or create a gallery.

I’m wondering if any other residents have opened up their kitchen some more than it’s original boxed in state.  I’ve seen some old Zillow listings of units with removed walls or a wider arch. 

Is that kitchen wall load bearing?  Did their contractors have to do anything special to remove it? 

Would love to hear any stories or experiences about opening the place up a bit. 

I’ve also updated the Links page on this site. There are now links to the new fire safety info as well as links to various sites with info about how heat pumps work. And I’d like to remind people that if you changed your heat pump filters when the AC started up in May, you should start thinking about changing them again in a few weeks. If it’s been even longer than that, you should be changing them now.

The Lowell Folk Festival is coming up this weekend. They’ve shifted things around a bit—the dance tent is on Arcand Drive (no JFK plaza stage this year) and I believe the Market Street stage is being moved from the park out front onto Market Street itself. The St. Anne’s Courtyard stage and the Boarding House Park stage will be as usual.

Street closures will be as follows according to their website:

• Wednesday, July 27th: Arcand Dr. CLOSED beginning at 5AM (for the duration of the festival)
• Friday, July 29th: Market St between Shattuck and Palmer CLOSED beginning at Noon (for the duration of the festival)
• Full Festival footprint [this usually includes closing Merrimack and Shattuck Streets, at least on Saturday]: Friday, July 29th from 3pm-11pm, Saturday, July 30th from 11am-11pm and Sunday, July 31st from 11am – 8pm (ish depending on breakdown) Sunday

Get ready to hear lots of clanking tent poles out front over the next week. The Folk Festival is one of my favorite weekends of the year and the weather is looking good (if a tad warm—gonna wear a hat and carry a water bottle!), but I still urge folks to take care. My own family will be making sure we have our masks with us and expect to be making regular judgement calls as we try to balance fun and safety!

From a resident:

FREE SWIVEL COUNTER STOOLS!! (See pic)

Text 412-708-2622

Must pick up by Friday morning.

Thank you!!

In response to recent requests, some general information about our fire alarms and other fire safety systems has been compiled. Some of this should be appearing on our glass-front bulletin boards in the next few days, and it should eventually be making its way into the Canal Place welcome packets. In the meantime, here are the links to printable pdfs:

A general information handout: https://www.canalplaceone.com/alarms-etc.pdf

And a map of exits and equipment: https://www.canalplaceone.com/firesafetymap.pdf

A message from Georgi:

Hi Everyone! My client in CP3 is moving and she has a console table – 48” long and 29” high (and I’m going to say 16” deep because I’m not sure I got that measurement right!). 

It needs its legs tightened up and the top needs some work to remove/hide 2 water stains made by drinking glasses – but you can’t beat the price – FREE!!!

Give me a call at 978-764-5574 and we can make arrangements for you to see it.

We have an additional resident with a mobility-impaired family member who really needs a parking space in the surface lot rather than in the city garage during the repairs to our basement. Can we get another volunteer with a surface lot space to take a Leo Roy garage space for the duration? It will keep your car cooler! 🙂 Please contact Brittanye during lobby office hours or Patti or me if you can help. Thanks!

Also, a long sleeve, red shirt jacket was recently lost somewhere around our driveway or garage. If anyone has found it, please turn it into the lobby office and/or let me know.

A black iPhone was found by the side door. It has been left at the Lowell Police Station to be claimed. 

Residents should be aware that a raccoon was reported roaming the basement garage and hiding in the garage ceiling this evening. Please take extra care when in the basement until this is resolved.

I know at least one person has reached out to management but I’m not sure if they’ve made contact yet.

Georgi asked me to post this:

Hi Everyone

I want to thank all of you (who are much more computer-literate than I am) for your suggestions and fixes for my iPhone. Kate especially – she invited me to her place and we spent about an hour getting my phone ‘tuned up’

Again, thanks so much for all the suggestions! This is a GREAT site for Canal Place – thank you Ruth, for ‘manning’ it!

Georgi

Just want to remind folks again that the new admin email for this site is canalplaceone@gmail.com. I had one email make it to me through the old address and at least three that didn’t this week so please make sure to use the gmail address.

Also, any iPhone experts out there? Georgi is looking for advice:

Hi Everyone

I need to talk to someone who has a good working knowledge of how an iPhone works.

My iPhone 8 is, randomly, not allowing incoming calls to ring through; they just go to vmail. 

I visited an AT&T store today; the guy played with my phone for about a minute, handed it back to me saying he didn’t know what was wrong and proceeded to try to sell me a new phone.

I’m not averse to getting a new phone; I would just like someone who understands iPhones and doesn’t have a financial gain in my buying a new one if I can get my old one to work for a bit longer, to have a look at it.

Please call me at 978-764-5570 (I’ll be checking vmail a lot since it won’t probably ring for you!). Anything you could do to advise me (even if it’s “yep, you need a new phone” would be appreciated!