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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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

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

If your retail construction contractor can build retail stores like this on Michigan Avenue…. If you worked for Auto Zone, you couldn’t do auto store renovations for Advanced Auto. If you did retail construction for Hollywood Videos then you couldn’t build Blockbusters.

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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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JULY 24, 2014

Michigan St. the developer of Schlitz Park, has received a $500,000 grant for remediation and demolition costs related to the latest renovation at the former Schlitz Brewing site on West Galena Street. The company plans to spend $6.3 million to abate, demolish and remediate an existing structure near Milwaukee’s lakefront.

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AUGUST 1, 2014

Along with new renovations, Samsung’s Austin Research Center also grew its presence with about 200 engineers dedicated to design and development of the latest technologies for mobile application processors. This is Samsung’s only location in the world outside of South Korea that manufactures chips for the electronics giant.

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Pro Builder

JANUARY 9, 2023

Square footage: 390 sf Builder/Remodeler (entrant): New Urban Home Builders, Grand Rapids Architect + Interior Designer: Deidre Interiors, Grand Rapids Green Verifier: GreenEdge of Michigan , Holland, Mich. Photographer: Geoff Shirley Photography. had a vision. and a healthy respect for the home’s initial design intent.

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JULY 24, 2019

With approximately four out of five manufacturers having less than 250 employees, West Michigan manufacturers are lean, innovative and offer a wide variety of capabilities. Manufacturing currently accounts for 15 percent of all jobs in the region and remains the heart of West Michigan’s economy. NORTHERN VA IS DATA CENTRAL.

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