HardHatChat

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

The increased commercial construction activity paved the way for some large new retail construction projects and restaurant construction, as national retailers and restaurant owners became more confident in the improving economy. When more retailers are packed together, some can get lost in the shuffle.

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HardHatChat

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Here are our predictions of the four commercial construction industry trends we expect will shape our work in different sectors – and the construction landscape overall – in the year ahead: Senior Housing Communities Woo Workers with Facility Updates. Developers Think Outside the Big Box to Fill Retail Vacancies.

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JUNE 19, 2023

rcassidy Mon, 06/19/2023 - 14:58 Richard Whitney, Vice President, FitzGerald More than 11,000 units of multifamily housing have been created in the last two years alone by converting outmoded office buildings into much-needed residences. OFFICE-TO-RESIDENTIAL – A NATIONAL TREND This trend goes far beyond Chicago.

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BD+C

JANUARY 26, 2015

The construction of a new, standalone office building adjacent to the United Center has been announced in Chicago. The new facility will house Chicago Bulls, Chicago Blackhawks, Levy Restaurants and United Center employees who currently operate out of the United Center, as well as a new Blackhawks and Bulls retail store.

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BD+C

JUNE 13, 2018

Sangamon in Chicago’s West Loop will become the largest office building in the U.S. to achieve Passive House certification (and only the second building overall) if plans recently unveiled by Mark Goodman & Associates, Inc. The building will offer 268,000 sf of office space and 7,800 sf of ground-floor retail. .

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

10 Cities at Greatest Risk for Possible Housing Crisis. Realtor.com warns of a housing crisis on the horizon for 10 US cities with the highest delinquent FHA loans. Houston has the second highest number of delinquent FHA loans, followed by Chicago, Washington, DC, and Dallas. cbroderick. Tue, 09/29/2020 - 10:04. As of Sept.

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BD+C

JANUARY 26, 2015

The construction of a new, standalone office building adjacent to the United Center has been announced in Chicago. The new facility will house Chicago Bulls, Chicago Blackhawks, Levy Restaurants, and United Center employees who currently operate out of the United Center, as well as a new Blackhawks and Bulls retail store.

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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. I’ve made the comment before that I can plug an experienced restaurant construction team into a retail or hospitality project, and pretty much assume things will go smoothly.

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HardHatChat

JANUARY 6, 2020

Englewood’s business development team attended ICSC’s CenterBuild conference in December, where conversations revolved around retail activity and opportunities in 2020. Retail Developers Will Play All Sides: . As we’ve discussed previously on this blog, there are unique challenges and opportunities associated with work in this arena.

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HardHatChat

APRIL 20, 2010

For those familiar with Chicago retail construction , think back a couple of years to when the dated Orland Park Place interior mall underwent construction and turned itself inside out to became one of the area’s most successful outdoor shopping centers. Sportmart at Orland Park Place (now a Sport Authority).

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BD+C

JUNE 20, 2014

It looks like the historic yet long neglected Old Main Post Office in Chicago will get a face-lift pretty soon. British investor Bill Davies of International Property Developers North America (IPD) has partnered up with Chicago-based Sterling Bay Cos. on a $500 million first-phase project, the Chicago Sun-Times reports.

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HardHatChat

JULY 25, 2016

It’s a pretty cool ground-up commercial construction project for us because not only is it the first time we’ve worked with this national retail brand, but it’s also the very first Farm & Fleet store in the Chicago area.

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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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BD+C

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Multifamily Housing Construction Office Building Retail Centers Transit Facilities Warehouses Transportation & Parking Facilities' The Windy City is the latest U.S. city to enact legislation that mandates building energy benchmarking and disclosure for owners of large commercial and residential buildings.

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HardHatChat

APRIL 16, 2013

Unlike traditional retailers, restaurants are not feeling the pressure of on-line competition. Olive Garden is building its first location in Chicago. In the past, its owners wouldn’t have wanted to pay high restaurant development costs to compete with the neighborhood Italian restaurants that seem ubiquitous in a city like Chicago.

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HardHatChat

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

For example, in Englewood’s home market of Chicago, the Commission on Chicago Landmarks must do a comprehensive review of drawings to make sure they meet its qualifications, rules and regulations, before the project goes before the Chicago Department of Buildings for permitting.

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BD+C

MARCH 15, 2013

The Chicago Preservation Society (CPS) released its annual list of the buildings at high risk for demolition.

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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. This is most popular with big retail leases in 2011.

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HardHatChat

APRIL 30, 2012

Recently, our director of operations Chuck Taylor was featured in a Chicago Tribune article based on the reporter’s curiosity about a hotel peephole he kept in his office. What made this peephole so interesting was that it was salvaged from the hotel construction renovation we did of a HoJo in Chicago.

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BD+C

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Multifamily Housing Construction Office Building Retail Centers Transit Facilities Warehouses Transportation & Parking Facilities' The Windy City is the latest U.S. city to enact legislation that mandates building energy benchmarking and disclosure for owners of large commercial and residential buildings.

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HardHatChat

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

If your retail construction contractor can build retail stores like this on Michigan Avenue…. If you did retail construction for Hollywood Videos then you couldn’t build Blockbusters. Conversely, there have also been retail construction clients like the Limited that said ‘if you can build a GAP then you can build a Limited.’

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HardHatChat

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Here’s what stood out to me: Englewood’s retail portfolio includes experiential concepts such as American Girl Place in Chicago. The Retail Evolution: Shopping Mall, Flagship Store & Big Box Construction The past decade brought more ups and downs for the retail sector than the escalators we installed in malls.

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HardHatChat

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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BD+C

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

The first annual BUILDING Chicago /Greening the Heartland conference and expo kicked off yesterday at the Holiday Inn Chicago Mart Plaza. During the show, more than 125 speakers and panelists will deliver 72 continuing education sessions to hundreds of AEC professionals. Body Image: read more.

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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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BD+C

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

The first annual BUILDING Chicago /Greening the Heartland conference and expo kicked off yesterday at the Holiday Inn Chicago Mart Plaza. During the show, more than 125 speakers and panelists will deliver 72 continuing education sessions to hundreds of AEC professionals.

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Construction Marketing

JUNE 30, 2015

The kitchen is usually the first room in the house that needs updating. This home improvement can be the most expensive upgrade to a house. As more homeowners are adding decks and patios to their backyards, it instantly becomes more appealing to prospective buyers when the house is for sale. Remodeling the Kitchen.

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BD+C

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Embedding resilience into building solutions is the theme at the BUILDING Chicago /Greening the Heartland expo and conference , September 9-11 at the Holiday Inn Chicago Mart Plaza.

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HardHatChat

AUGUST 21, 2012

Just don’t consider a GC to build a Ruth’s Chris Steak House if all its built are Dairy Queens and Dollar Generals. Retail, restaurant and hotel construction projects usually make the most sense for national general contractors as these are disciplines where a brand standard needs to be recreated in multiple locations.

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Business Facilities

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

It is administered by the Illinois Housing Development Authority (IHDA) and offers $7,500 in down-payment assistance with an interest rate as low as 3.75 In addition to driving the housing market, first-time homebuyers also invest in furnishings, appliances and home goods. Quinn launched the Welcome Home Illinois program in April.

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BD+C

MARCH 14, 2013

462 buildings); Chicago (353); New York (325); and Atlanta (304). With 528 buildings totaling 112.5 million sf, Los Angeles topped the EPA's ranking of the U.S. metropolitan areas with the most Energy Star certified buildings in 2012. Rounding out the top five are Washington, D.C. read more.

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HardHatChat

MARCH 21, 2023

Two recent examples in Chicago are the Green Exchange and the Regal Mile Movie Studio Complex: Both were former large warehouses adapted to bring new life and usefulness to the community. But there is one potential project in particular that has us excited; the redevelopment of Chicago city-owned property at 1769 W.

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BD+C

AUGUST 7, 2023

Multifamily Housing Senior Living Design Apartments In a previous article , I laid out seven lessons that I’ve learned from more than 40 years of planning and designing senior living environments in the U.S. and around the world. This was immensely helpful in creating the appropriate message and brand for this community.

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OCTOBER 11, 2017

After microchips became the central components of an emerging digital economy, one of Moore’s successors at Intel updated the theorem and applied it to silicon wafers; Intel exec David House declared that chip performance would double every 18 months. CHICAGO AIMS FOR THE TOP OF THE TECH CHART. Photo: tedescopictures.com).

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JUNE 1, 2018

An 82,114-square-foot Amazon Prime facility in Chicago, IL. Responsible for sourcing Hershey chocolate to Midwest retailers, there’s usually $1 billion of inventory inside at any time. Since Amazon now owns the robotic system mentioned above, it makes sense that the system is in use in many of the company’s fulfillment centers.

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MAY 11, 2012

Multifamily housing unit construction increased across the board. In addition, nonresidential construction activity increased in the Philadelphia, Cleveland, Richmond, Atlanta, Chicago, and St. Louis districts, and healthcare construction expanded in the Cleveland and Chicago districts.

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MARCH 22, 2016

The metropolis of Los Angeles was the top food processing location in BF ’s 2015 Metro Rankings Report, earning the number one ranking in our metro Food Processing Employment Leaders category, edging Greater Toronto’s burgeoning food processing hub and the traditional food processing crossroads of Chicago as king of the foodies.

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