InTents December 2021/January 2022 - 26

engagements, lounges, technology
displays, art exhibits and party space.
According to John Hutchins, vice
Paramount Studios in
Hollywood, Calif., was home
for this 164-by-377-foot tent
structure that featured hard
wall, doors, translucent tops
and lighting. Photos courtesy
of 616GC LLC.
president of Leavitt & Parris, Portland,
Maine, the client speciically needed a
multifaceted event space on City Hall
Plaza in the middle of downtown Boston.
To meet this need, the Leavitt & Parris
team installed seven different Losberger
structures in a variety of sizes; 38 bays of
11-foot vertical glass walls; nine bays of
26-foot horizontal insulated glass walls;
15 bays of 13-foot horizontal insulated
glass walls; and 15 glass door sets. In
addition, 20,000 square feet of Bil-Jax®
TF2100 looring (with heights ranging
from 16 inches to 14 feet off the ground)
with perimeter skirting was installed,
as well as 4,000 square feet of plywood
and stringer looring, 24,000 square feet
of turf, custom stairs, railings, landings
and Bil-Jax AS2100 ramps, and 355,000
pounds of Block and Roll®
ballast.
In addition, the home's gorgeous
setting meant that unloading and setting
up multiple structures on a perfectly
manicured lawn 250 yards from the truck
unloading area made this an extremely
challenging installation.
The result: The team created a
wedding reception backyard venue that
blew away the wedding guests. " The
blackout dance tent with its incredible
decor elements, along with the reception
dinner tent with black vinyl, was over the
top, " Olsen says. " While they were clients
before the wedding, they will also be
referring their friends and associates to
Aztec Events & Tents. "
BIG CITY CHALLENGES
It seems apropos that for a conference
celebrating technology, business,
science and the arts, Leavitt & Parris
employed state-of-the-art tent structures
to house the numerous speaker
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" The biggest challenge is that nothing
could be staked, " Hutchins says. " We had
to secure all structures with ballasting-
except for one that could be anchored
into concrete. We also had to deliver 18
semi-loads of equipment into the center
of downtown Boston, onto City Hall Plaza.
Trucking into any major city is an issue,
plus unloading onto a public plaza makes
into even more dificult. Add on top of
that the fact that we had to have all 16
trucks delivered in one day. So scheduling
and timing all 18 trucks to come in, two at
a time, and spaced appropriately so that
they could be unloaded and then gone
before the next two trucks arrived was
deinitely a challenge. Especially so, when
dealing with maneuverability through
the city, trafic coming into the city and
timing of each unload. "
The day before shipments came in,
every leg post for the loors and ballast
location was marked on the plaza surface,
so when ballast blocks were unloaded
most of them were immediately placed
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