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Commercial Construction Trends: Why More Clients Are Choosing the Design-Assist Model

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While we’re big fans of design-build construction, wherein the contractor fully “quarterbacks” the project by taking ownership of all elements, from selecting architecture and engineering firms to subcontractor partners, another great option we’re seeing more and more clients choose recently is the design-assist construction model.

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Suffolk Construction establishes Suffolk Sustainability Group

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He has guided the sustainability process on over 30 million square feet of projects across many different building types and sizes, including K-12 schools, higher education facilities, mid-rise and high-rise residential, commercial interiors, retail interiors, and commercial office buildings.

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Converting downtown office into multifamily residential: Let’s stop and think about this

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Preliminary feasibility studies are flouting the conventional wisdom, showing that it’s more fiscally responsible to raze a commercial tower and replace it with a ground-up residential tower rather than an adaptive reuse into residential. It is only possible if owners and bankers give up on their old model, and their old valuation.”

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Commercial Construction Tips on Dividing a Retail Box into a Multi-Tenant Space

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As a shopping center landlord or retail developer, you might find yourself with a big empty retail space you need fill – especially if you had Borders or Circuit City as a tenant. When it comes to the physical construction of subdividing your retail space, it’s always smart to “dance with the one you brought.”

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FEATURE STORY: 2013 Economic Development Deal of the Year Awards

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Mott is leading a rebalancing of information technology at GM under which the majority of IT work will be done by GM employees instead of being outsourced, which has been the GM model for most of the last three decades. “We based Pinewood Studios was interested in establishing a U.S. The state pursued the project from multiple fronts.

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State by State Incentives Guide

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The incentive is available for non-retail businesses engaged in commerce for profit that fall into certain categories. ARB must approve hybrid truck and bus models for them to become eligible for the program. Please Note: Feasibility Grants may be used in conjunction with Total Project Participation Grants. TAX INCENTIVES.

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BUSINESS REPORT: Texas – Innovation Moves Front And Center In Austin

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The City intends to create a financially feasible, operationally self–sustainable signature facility that will promote economic development, create jobs and enhance educational offerings. million square feet of retail space and 8.2 Sugar Land Town Square is a 32–acre, award–winning, mixed–use, public–private development. Perry said.

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