ENR Construction

DECEMBER 3, 2020

MKA specifies new ArcelorMittal steel products to create larger upper-level spaces in the 51-story tower and deal with site issues near Chicago Union Station.

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HardHatChat

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Englewood Construction recently completed a Season’s 52 on Chicago’s Magnificent Mile. In our own backyard, numerous Chicago mixed-use construction projects will be going up next year. Also in Chicago, the New City Development at Halstead Street and Clybourn Avenue will break ground with 366,954 square feet of retail.

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HardHatChat

JUNE 12, 2014

For one week each year, the commercial construction industry converges on the desert city as national retail construction firms, retail brokers and retailers all get together to make deals and plan for the following year. In the Chicago-area alone, we can point to several major shopping center construction projects taking place.

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Construction Dive

APRIL 2, 2018

The city has also approved $4 billion in bonds to pay for upfront construction costs and to refund outstanding bonds from other city deals.

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Construction Dive

MARCH 15, 2018

The airline has dropped its opposition to the $8.5 billion expansion in exchange for city hall agreeing to speed up construction of three gates it will use.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

MAY 4, 2016

More than 700 new jobs have been created by 16 tech companies in Chicago recently, Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced as he helped open the newly-completed expansion space at 1871 , the city’s first-of-its-kind digital startup hub. According to Built In Chicago, 143 companies raised more than $1.7 Source: 1871).

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HardHatChat

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

The grocery market has been extremely hot in the Chicago area. In the depths of a historically cold Midwestern winter, one market has remained particularly hot for Chicago commercial general contractors—grocery store construction. Shopping cart placement may not seem like a big deal, but with grocery store construction it is huge.

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Construction Equipment

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

An agreement was announced Sunday between the City of Chicago, United Airlines and American Airlines to build the final new runway under the O’Hare Modernization Project.

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ENR Construction

JANUARY 25, 2019

Now, Chicago is going with a completely closed process to pick the designer of a new terminal at O'Hare International in a process that's just as bad. The cost of the design for a new Kansas City International Airport has nearly doubled since a developer was picked in September 2017 in a very open, if chaotic, process.

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HardHatChat

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Earlier this month, the Englewood Construction team was honored to be recognized as one of the Best Restaurant Contractors in Chicago by Chicago Architects.

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Pro Builder

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Markets like Lake County, IL, Albany, NY, and Chicago represent a strong and slow North, where the majority of for-sale homes are still below the national median sale price of $407,000. These markets don’t have much volatility.”. Housing Markets. Affordability. Housing Markets.

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HardHatChat

JUNE 21, 2012

Construction budgets can make or break a deal. Recently, we were performing a pre-construction analysis for a retail client on a Chicago-area property. Armed with our data, the client was able to secure Buy Buy Baby as a tenant and the deal worked out financially. Keyword Cloud Best Chicago Contractor. March 2010.

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Construction Equipment

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Crain's Chicago reports Uptake Technologies and Caterpillar are extending their partnership under new terms that benefit each company by uncoupling some of their dealings.

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HardHatChat

AUGUST 11, 2010

Chicago Place shopping mall retrofit. The big shopping center landlords and office building owners aren’t going to release any funds until a deal is signed. Bottom line, landlords are forced to realize their threshold for pain, which means all deals are taking longer to get done. Michigan Ave.,

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HardHatChat

DECEMBER 5, 2017

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. We recently collaborated with a rock climbing gym to evaluate an old 8th-floor food court in a Michigan Avenue building in downtown Chicago.

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HardHatChat

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

So it is with great pride that I announce the completion of our most successful Chicago design build office construction job to date – the new headquarters of Englewood Construction! Our new office is bigger, brighter, more energy efficient and centrally located to our staff and Chicago commercial construction projects.

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HardHatChat

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

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. Currently Savers has three Chicago-area locations, but we wouldn’t be surprised to see that number increase in 2012.

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Contractor Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2016

The Plumbing Contractors Association (PCA) Midwest will honor three outstanding individuals who have shown a great deal of personal commitment, ingenuity and passion to improve the plumbing industry. read more.

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HardHatChat

DECEMBER 9, 2014

According to a recent article from Crain’s Chicago Business , signed contracts for construction projects in the Chicago area were at $4.3 billion during the first six months of the year, up 16 percent from deals during the same period a year ago. Englewood recently began work on the Stratford Square Mall in Bloomingdale, Ill.

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Green Building Law Update

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

This post is a compilation of the highlights from the just completed Greenbuild International Conference and Expo that took place last week in Chicago. RELi is going to be a big deal. Possibly more accurately stated, this is a report on the state of the LEED green building rating system. The state of LEED is strong.

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HardHatChat

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

a Chicago suburb. For those of you who may not follow golf, let me assure you, the Ryder Cup is a HUGE deal. Like I said, it’s a big deal. The competition has never been in the Chicago area and it hasn’t been in the central time zone since 1971. If you don’t know, Englewood Construction’s headquarters is in Lemont, Ill.,

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

MARCH 8, 2022

Chicago Women in Trades has been helping women move into jobs in the construction industry since 1981. Lauren Sugerman, Director at Chicago Women in Trades. The Infrastructure Deal has the potential to help close these gaps and to encourage more women in the construction industry both in and outside of the field. .

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Construction Equipment

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Crain's Chicago Business reports a $8.54 billion deal will likely be presented in the Chicago City council this week for a massive expansion of O'Hare International Airport. The report says three million square feet of passenger area will be added. Total terminal space would expand from the current 4.3 million square feet to 7.4

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HardHatChat

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

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. Currently Savers has three Chicago-area locations, but we wouldn’t be surprised to see that number increase.

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Pro Builder

JANUARY 20, 2021

The list of cities where renting is a better deal than buying includes Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, and the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn in New York City. According to ATTOM's analysis, renting is now more affordable than buying in 18 of the 25 most populous counties in the U.S. Read More. .

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BD+C

OCTOBER 16, 2023

They hold the key to facilitating real change in dealing with rising vacancy rates and reinvigorating downtowns and business districts. The opportunity for cities is massive. To that end, we’ve been working with multiple municipalities across North America to understand how this challenge can be navigated.

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HardHatChat

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. Because it can become a bad game of “who’s on first?” Cold dark shell.

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Pro Builder

AUGUST 27, 2020

Buyers in San Francisco want fire-sale deals, and they’re not settling until they find them. Chicago, Philadelphia and New York were among the 10 other places where the rate of price drops rose from the prior year during the four weeks ending Aug. metro areas. during the most recent period in our data—the four weeks ending Aug.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

JULY 10, 2013

GE has been selected by ComEd, a unit of Chicago-based Exelon Corporation and the electric utility serving Northern Illinois, to deliver approximately four million smart meters from 2013 to 2021 in a deal worth more than $200 million. Since 2011, GE has grown its presence in Chicago, adding more than 500 jobs.

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Viewpoint Construction Technology

APRIL 30, 2019

Green rooftops on skyscrapers, like this one in downtown Chicago, may soon be required in New York City. 14B ‘Green New Deal’ for NYC Has Opportunities, Drawbacks for Contractors. A $14 billion ‘Green New Deal’ proposed by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio aims to reduce greenhouse emissions up to 30 percent by 2030.

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HardHatChat

DECEMBER 17, 2010

We saw much-improved activity in shopping center construction – not necessarily the building of new malls, but in general commercial contractors working with landlords and developers on pre-construction services , such as commercial construction budgeting to help them propose attractive lease deals for new tenants.

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HardHatChat

APRIL 12, 2019

Maybe the lease deal is taking longer than expected, or maybe there are design changes requested during municipal approvals. An example of this was a restaurant/hotel project in downtown Chicago our team was asked to bid by a previous client. Project Plans Are Not Fully Finalized.

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HardHatChat

JULY 16, 2019

Englewood Construction is in the midst of two adaptive reuse projects right now – one a former meatpacking facility in Chicago that we’re updating for office, retail or restaurant use, and the other a former convent we’ll be converting into a senior living community. What modifications or updates need to be made to building systems?

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The Korte Company

AUGUST 2, 2023

She’d graduated with an accounting degree at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, worked at a Big 8 public accounting firm, passed the CPA exam and learned the ins and outs of construction accounting at Pepper Construction in Chicago. Meanwhile, Rob’s hometown of Chicago was a great place to launch their careers. They didn’t.

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Pro Builder

JANUARY 28, 2022

Steel’s South Chicago Works, the world’s largest structural steel mill at the time, employing 20,000 workers. To balance the material coming in, the gambit was to make deals and trade ingots, mostly on paper, with another mill. Then dad returns on Tuesday morning to talk pricing and ask about available deals.

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Construction Specifier

OCTOBER 1, 2021

It is this last group that is often the most puzzling to deal with, as it represents a myriad of approaches without clear modern parallels. Moreover, they occurred frequently, as in Boston (1872), Chicago (1871 and 1874), and New York (1835 and 1845). San Francisco was the site of seven major fires between 1849 and 1851.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

APRIL 26, 2013

Since we’ve attended the big BIO show for years, we noticed some subtle differences in this year’s confab, which wrapped up yesterday in Chicago. A big new booth from Russia and a much larger presence from China were notable in Chicago (and we thank our Russian friends for installing the most comfortable couches on the show floor).

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