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Flagship Store Retail Construction: 3 Reasons Brands Still Build in a Flagship Location

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Apple’s first flagship store was in Chicago on Michigan Avenue, where tourists and locals alike quickly became familiar with – and grew to love – the unique environment it offered to interact with the brand’s latest products. A quintessential example of this is our long-time client American Girl.

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How to Win the Olympics of International Retail Construction

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Building Michigan Avenue flagship stores for international brands like Zara is a sweet spot for Englewood Construction. With the 2012 Summer Olympics right around the corner, it got me thinking that with London six hours ahead of Chicago, much of what we’ll be watching will be old news taped from earlier in the day. So at 7 p.m.

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West Michigan Lands Largest Third-Party Data Center In Eastern U.S.

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West Michigan Lands Largest Third-Party Data Center In Eastern U.S. The new SUPERNAP data center will establish the beginning of a 2 million square-foot state-of-the-art, high-tech campus in West Michigan. SUPERNAP Michigan will be 2 milliseconds from Chicago and 14 milliseconds from New York. Credit: Switch).

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Five Retail Construction Tips from Zara’s New Magnificent Mile Store

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Michigan Ave. in Chicago. For those familiar with Chicago, you may also know this store offers a prime corner location on the city’s famed Magnificent Mile. If your commercial general contractor’s main office is in another time zone from you or your project, the GC should work on your clock, not theirs. Chuck Taylor.

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Five Predictions for Commercial Construction Trends in 2012

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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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Predictions and National Trends in Commercial Construction

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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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Should You Hire A Commercial General Contractor Who Works For a Competing Brand?

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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.