Before and after: Ross Trimmer works on the marquee at Old Manchester Lofts. (Photos by Burl Rolett)
As a rash of new apartment complexes rises in Manchester, a local startup helped spruce up an incumbent development this week.
Ross Trimmer of upstart Sure Hand Signs hopped in a lift bucket to rehab the marquee sign at the Old Manchester Lofts on Porter Street.
Trimmer touches up the sign.
Trimmer launched Sure Hand Signs in 2012. The business was hatched out of painting jobs he did as a tattoo artist at True Tattoo on Richmond’s Southside.
“We got a bunch of sheet metal, started practicing and started learning,” he said. “Over time, I got a little bit better, and all of a sudden people were asking me to paint things.”
Trimmer called Sure Hand his “three-quarter-time job.” He is still a tattoo artist, now at Lucky 13 Tattoo on Broad Street, but hopes to make painting his full-time business.
Trimmer works out of Anchor Studios, a three-month-old downtown art studio at the corner of Broad and Foushee streets. Sure Hand’s clients have included Y&H Mercantile on Robinson Street and Parkside Barber Shop at Innsbrook.
The Old Manchester Lofts is a 108,000-square-foot, 80-unit building developed by Robin Miller and Dan Gecker. It was an early entrant in what has become a neighborhood-wide development spree in Manchester.
More reading: Sure Hand Signs bringing back old school signage (RVA News)
Before and after: Ross Trimmer works on the marquee at Old Manchester Lofts. (Photos by Burl Rolett)
As a rash of new apartment complexes rises in Manchester, a local startup helped spruce up an incumbent development this week.
Ross Trimmer of upstart Sure Hand Signs hopped in a lift bucket to rehab the marquee sign at the Old Manchester Lofts on Porter Street.
Trimmer touches up the sign.
Trimmer launched Sure Hand Signs in 2012. The business was hatched out of painting jobs he did as a tattoo artist at True Tattoo on Richmond’s Southside.
“We got a bunch of sheet metal, started practicing and started learning,” he said. “Over time, I got a little bit better, and all of a sudden people were asking me to paint things.”
Trimmer called Sure Hand his “three-quarter-time job.” He is still a tattoo artist, now at Lucky 13 Tattoo on Broad Street, but hopes to make painting his full-time business.
Trimmer works out of Anchor Studios, a three-month-old downtown art studio at the corner of Broad and Foushee streets. Sure Hand’s clients have included Y&H Mercantile on Robinson Street and Parkside Barber Shop at Innsbrook.
The Old Manchester Lofts is a 108,000-square-foot, 80-unit building developed by Robin Miller and Dan Gecker. It was an early entrant in what has become a neighborhood-wide development spree in Manchester.
More reading: Sure Hand Signs bringing back old school signage (RVA News)