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SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

What Every Developer Should Ask General Contractors During the Retail Construction Bid Process. For my first blog post, a lot of people at Englewood Construction suggested I write about how to choose a retail construction company. Does your proposal include the complete scope of work specified in the bid documents?

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DECEMBER 22, 2011

We saw drawings for new Chicago restaurant projects, retail construction work, office renovations, school construction and learning center additions – you name it, we saw it. LOW – Unfortunately, we weren’t the only ones receiving drawings to bid on new commercial construction projects. I was wrong.

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MAY 31, 2012

Don't forget to vet your general contractor's background and experience when reviewing bids. While there are three sides to every story, recent commercial construction news stories like this one from the Chicago Tribune , “Construction firm caught in contract probe” , really burn me up. Playing fair starts at the top.

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MAY 18, 2011

While I think everyone in the retail industry likes to hear news that 2011 retail sales are up – as it usually means new retail construction projects are in the pipeline – it’s still tough for shopping center landlords to make deals work with retail tenants. This is most popular with big retail leases in 2011.

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HardHatChat

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Here’s a look at our top 2016 commercial construction “highs” and “lows”: Low: Mall Retail Tenants Choose Local over National. As a national commercial construction firm, it’s not surprising the majority of our 2016 revenue came from work outside our home market of Chicago. High: Big Opportunities in Big Box Retail.

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HardHatChat

JULY 11, 2013

Englewood recently began work on Season’s 52 in Chicago. The summer always brings more commercial construction activity, more bids, and, as a result, higher pricing. Also, a lot retail construction projects are initiated in the summer to have everything complete by November 1, just in time for the holiday shopping season.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Value-based retailers like hhgregg, Ross Dress for Less and Savers should experience construction growth in 2012. It’s that time of year when our team predicts the 2012 commercial construction trends – from what’s on tap for Chicago retail construction to national restaurant construction and hospitality construction.

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DECEMBER 17, 2010

With so much desirable retail space available, many brands were taking advantage of desirable shopping center rents and tenant allowances to add a new store location and increase market share. While sustainable construction was a hot button in 2010 office construction, green retail and restaurant construction did not gain as much traction.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2013

As commercial construction news reports say business continues to pick up, we are happy to see some new faces around the office at Englewood Construction. The activity level that we saw in the fourth quarter of 2012 in new retail, restaurant and hospitality construction projects is double what we saw a year earlier.

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HardHatChat

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Value-based retailers like hhgregg, Ross Dress for Less and Savers should experience construction growth in 2012. It’s that time of year when our team predicts the commercial construction trends for the upcoming year– from what’s on tap for Chicago retail construction to national restaurant construction and hospitality construction.

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HardHatChat

AUGUST 21, 2012

The difference is we weren’t on vacation; we were bidding new restaurant and hotel construction jobs to keep up with the thousands of new residents moving to the area due to the oil boom. a flagship store in a vertical mall like Water Tower Place in Chicago…. What’s your project?

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JUNE 6, 2014

President Obama has awarded Chicago a $70 million grant from the Department of Defense to build a $320-million Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute. Mark Kirk, representatives from UI Labs and World Business Chicago, and various industry partners who supported the winning bid were at the White House for the announcement. “We

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HardHatChat

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

I’ve got to ask, are you still competitively bidding the bulk of your commercial construction projects? When you competitively bid a project your general contractor can find a subcontractor that gives a lower construction estimate than what was in the original bid and pocket the savings for themselves. Really, you are?

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APRIL 12, 2016

The other day I was talking with a Chicago-area client who didn’t realize Englewood is a national general contractor that manages national commercial construction projects across the country. He asked me, “You only have offices in Chicago, right? So how does that work?”. It can be a time saver, as well as a money saver.

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JANUARY 19, 2010

Because without skilled subcontractors a commercial construction general contractor is just a guy in an office. I like caramel corn as much as anybody, but I would tell subs there were only two things we needed – a competitive bid and outstanding service. Without the best bid, we can’t win the project.

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The Korte Company

JUNE 16, 2022

Vernon, Illinois satellite office when he heard a rumor. That’s the Walgreens, the country’s second-largest health and wellness retail brand. Dennis called up to Walgreens’ home office in Deerfield, Illinois, near Chicago. The project bids in seven days.”. Bids are still due Friday.”. But still no luck.”.

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OCTOBER 15, 2009

According to the fall 2009 issue of Development magazine, while hotels and retail properties are the most problematic in terms of default, foreclosure or bankruptcy, office distress is up 118 percent year-to-date in 2009 versus 2008.

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HardHatChat

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

As a shopping center landlord or retail developer, you might find yourself with a big empty retail space you need fill – especially if you had Borders or Circuit City as a tenant. Of course the best Chicago commercial contractors will also factor due diligence with municipalities into their budgets. The answer is none.

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HardHatChat

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

If so, you probably put those documents in a banker’s box or two and then stored them in your office. And without anything to print, then there’s nothing to mail – no more fees for overnight bid-request mailings. Or maybe you paid to have the documents stored in a warehouse. But not anymore.

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ENR Construction

JULY 20, 2012

The mixed-use project will include retail, office, residential and entertainment spaces. A Chicago-based partner who joined Trahan brought to bear his experience at Skidmore Owings & Merrill on a series of convention-center projects in China. ENR Texas & Louisiana. share: more » print. 07/20/2012. By Scott Lewis.

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AUGUST 6, 2012

EFH owns Texas power generator Luminant Energy, retailer TXU Energy and 80% of transmission and distribution utility Oncor Electric Delivery. Kurt Knipp becomes chief operating officer of Environmental Systems Design Inc. ESD), a Chicago consulting engineer specializing in high- performance building systems. Dessau is No.

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JULY 6, 2016

Chicago is the nation’s rail hub that connects six of the seven class one railroads. per square foot, lower than the Chicago Market average of $4.84. rail freight passes through Chicago’s rail yards. On a daily basis, 500 freight trains and 37,500 carloads of rail freight leave the Chicago metro region (i.e.,

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OCTOBER 30, 2017

The company has added new engineering and production test cells, an enlarged energy center and a new office building to assemble the QSK95 and QSK120, the most powerful high-speed diesel engines in the world. In August 2017, the City of Ruston won the bid to host the Dixie Youth Baseball 2019 World Series at the new Ruston Sports Complex.

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Business Facilities

AUGUST 1, 2014

We also configured our Renewable Energy Leaders category to rank the metros that are using the most renewable energy, with some surprising results (hint: the top-ranked metro is the home of the oil bidness). (To Lexington is a diversified growth engine for health and educational services, technology, retail trade, and manufacturing.

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Business Facilities

OCTOBER 20, 2017

The first round of the public bidding war launched by Amazon boss Jeff Bezos (who posted a detailed RFP early last month and invited everyone in North America to submit proposals) officially ended on Thursday. The bids most likely will be counted in the hundreds. The bids have ranged from extravagant (NJ Gov.

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