Everett, MA

MetroRock construction started in early 2004, with a target opening date in summer 2004! The pictures are presented in reverse order - oldest early construction pictures at the bottom, the newest pictures up top.
Construction was all but complete in July, 2004 - for newer pictures of MetroRock, check out our route setting page.
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Surfacing and texturing of the walls is complete, and holes are being drilled for the T-nuts on which holds will be mounted:

The walls have been fully assembled, and texturing of them has begun:

The last frames to go up were in the bouldering area, at the front of the gym. As you can see, the wall boards are nearing
readiness to be surfaced:

Next, the wall boards are mounted onto the frames, and you can start to see the true shape of the gym features:

After cleaning up the space, the next step was putting up the framing for the rock walls:

When we first started out, the space was raw warehouse - nothing special to look at other than a large, tall piece of space:

More pictures coming soon, so please check back often!

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