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Challenges & Opportunities in Commercial Construction

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As a National General Contractor working across multiple verticals in the commercial construction space, we understand the challenges (COVID and Supply Chain) facing our retail, restaurant, hospitality, and senior housing clients. That certainly makes it difficult to schedule your opening. This has been a big growth area for Englewood.

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What are Today's Best New Retail Developments? | Hard Hat Chat

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What are Today’s Best New Retail Developments? With the way the commercial real estate market has been the last several years, people are looking to commercial construction experts for the best construction tips on how to proceed with a successful new retail development. Construction budgets can make or break a deal. Restaurant.

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4 Commercial Construction Trends and Predictions for 2018

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Some new grocery trends, such as the popularity of curbside pickup and delivery services being introduced by many store chains, have real potential to change facility and infrastructure needs, which could result in an uptick in grocery construction and renovation projects. 2: Remixing the Mall. 3: Taking the Temperature of MOBs.

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Commercial Construction Trends: Three Headlines That Won’t Die In 2019

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But for general contractors and our clients, the result is higher project budgets and challenges in construction scheduling. Reshaping the Retail Landscape. The good news for subcontractors is the labor shortage means higher profitability, because they are working at-capacity and able to charge a premium for their services.

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JLL Report: Retail renovation drives construction growth in 2016

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A strong retail sector has helped drive 2016 U.S. construction activity with retail construction projects up 24.4% Overshadowing the good news is a cloud of economic uncertainty that has companies laser-focused on lean budgeting and smart spending decisions. . year-over-year.

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CRE Construction Project Site Selection: 3 Tips for Finding the Perfect Match

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Case in point, a developer once asked us to price out a retail-to-restaurant conversion on the first floor of a Chicago high rise. Once we budgeted out the cost of installing black iron as well as other improvements to power and cooling systems, the developer decided it was not realistic to convert the space.

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Commercial Construction Project Management Trends: How to Survive the Incredible Shrinking Timeline

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One of the biggest challenges for commercial construction firms today is the tighter project timelines that have become the norm at every phase of a project – from shorter deadlines for submitting initial bids and budgets, to quicker resolution on addendums and change orders, to compressed schedules for construction and delivery.