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American Girl’s New York City Flagship Store: An Englewood Construction Retail Showcase

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At Englewood Construction, we’re proud to say we’ve already been “on tour” with American Girl for the last 10 years, working with the popular retail brand to build, remodel and maintain American Girl Place stores across the country. Grand Entrances (And Tight Squeezes). Instead, we had to use regular entrances.

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Commercial Construction Strategies: Flagship Stores to Footprint Expansion

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Over the last few years, Englewood Construction has been involved in several flagship store and brand expansion projects with our national retail, fitness, and restaurant clients. Flagship Retail Relocation – American Girl Building or relocating national retail flagship stores nationwide is nothing new to Englewood Construction.

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Rivian Plans Showroom in NY

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Rivian has signed a lease in Brooklyn for its first New York City retail store. The group will be opening a flagship in Williamsburg, according to a statement on Monday. The lease at 360 Wythe Ave. spans more than 12,000 square feet and will be a showroom for electric vehicles. Williamsburg's…

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Redevelopment Plans for Belmont Park Unveiled

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The National Hockey League's New York Islanders and the New York City Football Club have revealed plans to bring back the glory days of the racetrack's underused property. And they're off. Each group submitted their proposal to the Empire State Development group and local officials on Sunday.

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Prologis to Build First Multistory Warehouse in the U.S.

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Growing e-commerce sales are causing retailers to look for faster and more efficient distribution models. Some are locating their warehousing closer to their customer, but square footage for new warehouse facilities is tight in densely populated transportation hub cities such as New York City, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

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Expanding the exterior footprint

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While cities occupy just three percent of global land area, by 2050 they will be home to two-thirds of the world’s inhabitants according to Gensler’s, 75 percent of the world’s population will live in cities, according to Gensler’s Aleksander Sasha Zeljic in a June 2018 interview with Architectural Products magazine.

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Who Invented the Chocolate Eggcream?

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Jerome Lemelson and Gordon Gould were both born in New York City in the early 1920s. Many in the scientific community snickered when Gould produced his spiral notebook–which he had taken to a candy store in his New York City neighborhood in 1957 and had notarized–and filed his claim as an inventor of the laser.

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