Construction Equipment

MAY 25, 2017

Chicago has one of the best passenger rail systems in the country and with the selection of Riverside Investment & Development to renovate the elderly station, riding the rails will become even better. The 1925 Beaux-Arts limestone station borders Chicago's Loop on the west side.

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BD+C

AUGUST 26, 2013

An upgraded locker room, expanded weight room, and updated dining room with an outdoor patio greeted the Chicago Bears when they arrived at Halas Hall for practice this month. The improvements are part of a major expansion and renovation of the Bears’ headquarters in Lake Forest, Ill.,

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Construction Equipment

APRIL 19, 2018

2018 is quickly becoming a banner year for Chicago public transportation. billion renovation and this month brings Metra's $84 million in rail construction projects. Last month saw the approval for O'Hare's $8.4

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Construction Marketing Ideas

MARCH 25, 2018

If you are a renovator contemplating a new or improved blog, you should take a close look at Sebring Design Build’s site. Sebring focuses on residential renovations in Chicago and […]. Don’t copy it, of course (that is cheating).

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HardHatChat

AUGUST 12, 2014

Recently, Englewood completed the 23,000-square-foot Harry Carays 7th Inning Stretch and Chicago Sports Museum at Chicagos famed Water Tower Place. At Englewood Construction, we have had the good fortune of being attached to several high-profile, upscale downtown Chicago restaurant construction projects.

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ENR Construction

JULY 27, 2022

Google plans to renovate the 1.2-million-sq-ft million-sq-ft Loop building, completed in 1985, in a sustainable way.

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HardHatChat

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

The Chicago blizzard of 2011 is a story we’ll be talking about for generations. 3, 2011, that didn’t mean the best Chicago contractors weren’t working. If you’re involved in Chicago retail construction , or any type of commercial construction in a cold weather climate, take note of the checklist below.

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BD+C

JUNE 19, 2023

Adaptive reuse: 5 benefits of office-to-residential conversions FitzGerald completed renovations on Millennium on LaSalle, a 14-story building in the heart of Chicago’s Loop. OFFICE-TO-RESIDENTIAL – A NATIONAL TREND This trend goes far beyond Chicago.

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ENR Construction

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Design-build team of Walsh, SOM and Murphy Group persevered through curveballs to recreate Chicago's Ellis Island as two hotels.

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ENR Construction

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

This $83 million renovation was put on hold after construction began as the City of Chicago considered landmark status for the historic historic North Pier Terminal building.

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Contractor Magazine

OCTOBER 3, 2016

announced today that it has provided full renovation of two large public restrooms at the legendary Drake Hotel in Chicago. Cicero's Development Corp. read more.

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ENR Construction

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

The Chicago Bears recently unveiled a 162,500-sq-ft football operations addition and a 30,600-sq-ft renovation of existing space at Halas Hall in Forest Park, Ill.,

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ENR Construction

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

million sq ft building sat empty for decades before this redevelopment restored and reopened it as offices.

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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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Construction Marketing Ideas

MARCH 20, 2017

Sebring Services, which provides remodelling contracting for Chicago’s western suburbs, has developed a truly powerful blog, with plenty of content. One powerful post caught my attention, because if we had followed the concepts outlined in it, we would have saved ourselves quite a bit of grief on a renovation project at our own home.

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HardHatChat

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

There’s no doubt that local businesses will have much to celebrate if on October 2, 2009, Chicago wins the 2016 Summer Olympics bid. But just how would Chicago hosting the Olympics affect the city’s restaurant and retail construction activity ? Here are a couple of my predictions…. I say back the bid! Bill Di Santo.

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HardHatChat

OCTOBER 28, 2019

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. Our very first project with the brand was to relocate its original Chicago flagship store to Michigan Avenue in 2008.

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BD+C

APRIL 12, 2013

Plans are moving forward to convert an unused, century-old Chicago rail artery to a 2.7 Architects Building Owner Contractors Designers Cultural Facilities Engineers Facility Managers Sports and Recreational Facility Designers / Specifiers / Landscape Architects Reconstruction / Renovation'

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BD+C

APRIL 22, 2021

Chicago-based Omega Yeast, the largest supplier of brewer’s yeast in the U.S., The company purchased an existing building a block away from the original space, but during the renovation, Omega Yeast realized it was already outpacing this new space as well.

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BD+C

JULY 13, 2016

The engineering and architectural firm Arup has been selected to lead the design work for renovations to Chicago’s historic Union Station. The City of Chicago, railroad service company Amtrak, and a collection of Chicago transportation entities, including the commuter railroad service Metra, worked together on the decision.

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HardHatChat

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Michigan Avenue in Chicago is seeing a mix of high-end retailers and value retailers, a trend that will continue in 2013 in markets across the country. To do this, let’s focus on the famed Magnificent Mile in Chicago. This year, I wanted to use a micro example to highlight macro retail and restaurant construction trends.

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HardHatChat

MAY 15, 2013

Englewood completed renovations to guests rooms and the main restaurant as well as created a fitness and wellness center above the main ball room of the famed Drake Hotel in Chicago. This number is expected to increase in 2013, sparking Chicago hotel construction. Smith Travel Research reports that U.S. We’ve done it all.

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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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HardHatChat

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

For shopping mall owners, this has meant finding ways to reconfigure areas with mall renovation projects to support more retailers with smaller footprints. Englewood recently did this with Harry Caray’s 7 th Inning Stretch and Chicago Sports Museum in Chicago’s Water Tower Place.

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Construction Superintendent Magazine

JUNE 5, 2014

Chicago, Ill. -- Foster Design Build LLC has recently announced that they have nearly completed the design idea of converting a 1890s firehouse into a luxury home. The latest firehouse project has also caught attention of many leading architects and popular media. frontpage'

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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 Mall renovation work was a highlight of 2014. The past few years have been dominated by commercial construction renovation work, but this year saw a strong return of ground-up construction.

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BD+C

JANUARY 18, 2019

Yesterday, the city of Chicago inaugurated its Public Library’s 81 st branch, a 16,500-sf adaptive reuse of a two-story building in the Windy City’s West Loop neighborhood, which itself is being transformed into a live-work-play community. Blinderman Construction conducted the renovation.

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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

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! for what we considered the ultimate office tenant renovation project. Don’t design in a silo.

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HardHatChat

MAY 31, 2012

While there are three sides to every story, recent commercial construction news stories like this one from the Chicago Tribune , “Construction firm caught in contract probe” , really burn me up. The best Chicago construction firms play by the rules and do business above board. I don’t mean to come off as preachy, I’m just mad.

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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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Construction Equipment

APRIL 18, 2018

Addison in Chicago as Pepper Construction gave Wrigley Field a winning renovation. The months from the end of the Cub's 2017 season to the start of this baseball season have been hectic at 1060 W.

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BD+C

APRIL 14, 2017

Take the case of the iconic Willis Tower in Chicago, whose owners recently announced a $500 million facelift of the nation’s second-tallest building. That renovation will include a 30,000-sf outdoor deck and garden and a new three-story, all-glass structure that will sit on top of the skyscraper’s existing street-level stone plaza.

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Business Facilities

MARCH 9, 2021

Discover will hire locally for nearly 1,000 new jobs, employ minority-owned businesses in the renovations and operation of the former Target store in the city's Chatham neighborhood. Read: Discover Customer Care Center Coming To Chicago’s Chatham Neighborhood at BusinessFacilities.com.

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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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BD+C

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Leopardo Companies, a construction firm serving Chicago and the Midwest, has released its 2017 Construction Economics Report and Outlook, an in-depth analysis of factors that impact development, renovation and build-out costs in commercial facilities, including the office, industrial/manufacturing, retail, multifamily, healthcare and lodging sectors. (..)

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HardHatChat

AUGUST 11, 2010

Chicago Place shopping mall retrofit. The end result is new, renovated retail space that is clean and modern with dark millwork and flooring accented by horizontal lines of jewelry cases that pop with strategic lighting. It’s taking the mall jewelry store concept to a sophisticated new level. Michigan Ave.,

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