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oce space. I even oversold the amount of set we could actually build and later was horrified by the enormity of the task. The final proect was forty five thousand square feet. rt Director ackie ay tracked a number of statistics throughout the proect. It would take three miles of cable, forty thousand square feet of carpet, one hundred period desktop computers, one hundred fifty desks, etc., and all during a national supply chain crisis. t a certain point, I began to get cold feet. The space looked incredibly long and impossibly narrow. There were some walls not in the original site plans which blocked the sweeping views I'd envisioned. lso, I had promised the creatives that I would take out the existing Tbar ceiling to give the space the industrial look that the original had. The crew would have to remove some walls and disconnect some existing electrical and plumbing. e would have to have an engineer doublecheck to make sure we didn't remove something structural. This turned out to be more time intensive than I had anticipated. Two weeks evaporated and the ceiling was still intact. bove the ceiling was a mess of cables for lighting, pipes, air conditioning and insulation. ll the lighting would have to be reinstalled after the ceiling was gone and all the existing pipes and duct work exposed would have to be painted one color. Then the show would have to restore it all to its original state after wrap. The coordinator estimated this could be an additional quarter of a million all in. e decided the result wouldn't be worth the time and risk, so we cut it. It turned out to be fortuitous as we needed the extra time. Many thanks to construction coordinator Star Fields, who harassed me every day on the subect of the ceiling until I gave in and canceled it. D E F G