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Flagship Store Retail Construction: 3 Reasons Brands Still Build in a Flagship Location

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With our firm’s long track record in retail construction, we’ve witnessed firsthand the ebb and flow of activity across this sector over the years. It’s true the retail mix among flagship stores in prime locations is changing. Today, many of those traditional mall retailers have closed their flagships.

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Commercial Construction Industry Trends: The “Highs” and “Lows” that Shaped 2019

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With the countdown on to 2020 – and the start of a brand-new decade right around the corner – it’s time for our annual look back at the commercial construction industry “highs” and “lows” from 2019. In the past, RECon was pretty much dominated by retail, with just a smattering of reps from restaurant and other sectors.

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Commercial Construction 2020 Trends: Cannabis Retail, Senior Housing and Restaurant Construction Lead the Way

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Englewood’s business development team attended ICSC’s CenterBuild conference in December, where conversations revolved around retail activity and opportunities in 2020. As we kick off 2020, we have a lot of optimism about our industry and the sectors we’re active in, but we also recognize there will be challenges ahead.

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Legalized Marijuana: Opportunities and Impact for Commercial Real Estate and Construction

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First of all, the time frame for leasing and building out a space – whether a dispensary or cultivation facility – is often dictated by when new laws around marijuana usage go into effect. Take Illinois, where recreational marijuana dispensaries can open for business as of January 1, 2020. Good News for the Local Retail Landscape.

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Top 10 Tallest Buildings of 2020

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Development of the Jeddah Tower in Saudi Arabia has been tormented by political, financial and work issues, with the proposed finish date of 2020 estimated to be unreasonable for a long time now. Jeddah Tower Could this be the year that the tallest synthetic structure ever at long last tops out?

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Luton Town FC to start new stadium before end of 2023

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The club’s development arm, 2020 Developments, has just released new images as it gears up to fast-track the planned new stadium in the heart of Luton’s town centre. The club is pressing ahead with its Power Court stadium plan with the aim of submitting detailed plans before for its first match in the Premier League.

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Father-Daughter Duo Turns Commercial Building Into Affordable Housing

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worked to rehab a vacated property and make it fit for occupancy, and by June, it will be a residential haven for dozens of new tenants In 2020, father-daughter duo Marva Hammond and Charlie Falletta formed the nonprofit Southbridge Community Services and bought a dilapidated building in the Southbridge neighborhood of Wilmington, Del.