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--- history [2014/08/05 15:35] – suzuki650xs
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 After a time, it felt like the group needed a space to call our own, to share tools and host activities that libraries aren't set up to handle.  Like, um, Firenados.  Soldering and welding. Hack and Tells.
-So we begged our friends to join a board, filed paperwork to incorporate, and began looking at spaces around town. We put out a public call to discuss it, and Kim Roberts of //Evolution Arts Collective// came and offered EAC's warehouse as a 'convertible space'. The board voted yes and we started moving tools in late May.  **We opened our doors on June 1st, 2014** and four of us pledged membership dues!  We've been growing and adding members ever since...
+So we approached James Pittman and JT Smith to create a board, filed paperwork to incorporate, and began looking at spaces around town. We put out a public call to discuss it, and Kim Roberts of //Evolution Arts Collective// came and offered EAC's warehouse as a 'convertible space', **900 sq feet**. We opened our doors on **June 1st, 2014** and the four of us pledged membership dues!  Our membership and tools have been zooming upwards ever since.
+Within a year we were bursting at the seams of the 900 sq ft space, and started looking for larger buildings. After some dead ends, we found a great new space on **Robertson Road**, with **3,400 sq feet**, a separate room for "clean" projects (like electronics and crafts), and lots of parking. Done!  We moved in **on July 1st, 2015**, to what felt like a vast, empty space.
+In November of 2015, the IRS recognized us as a 501( c) 3.
+After three years in that "immense space", every tool area was bursting at the seams, members were flowing around each other as they built things, and we were scratching our heads to fit new tools. So we started looking again, and after a lengthy search found a fabulous building on the former **Oscar Mayer** site. With **14,000 sq feet**, a separate room for woodworking (dust *cough cough*), and a great location, it was everything we'd hoped for!  In May of 2019 we started moving in, with a grand opening on **Sep 21, 2019**. Then, in **December 2021** we expanded into an adjacent part of the building, increasing the size to over **21,000 sq feet**!