First Layer Comes Off Tower at 8 a.m. Thursday

The Community Center tower, aka "the shroud of Marin," is scheduled to be unveiled tomorrow morning, three years after the city wrapped it with white plastic following repeated problems with dry rot.

According to construction manager David Oliveira of Cal-Bay Construction, the company that has done the most recent round of repairs, the plastic will start coming down about 8 a.m. and "it will come off quickly."

No ceremony is scheduled for the unveiling of the tower, which has been wrapped in a cover since 2007, and for the better part of the past decade. Repairs began in April.

The final stage of construction is planned for July 7, when the scaffolding will be removed and the building once again will be accessible through the front entrance.

To keep you up to date on the progress of the repairs, Albany Patch will document tomorrow's unwrapping in photographs and print, and will be there next week for the removal of the scaffolding.

Share your photos and thoughts about the tower below, or e-mail editor Emilie Raguso at emilier@patch.com.

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