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Commercial Construction Strategies: Adaptive Reuse for Big Box Retail

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With a number of traditional retailers closing locations or going out of business, they are leaving millions of square feet behind for redevelopment. Our first experience with this was turning an old Kmart into a mixed-use retail development. This adaptive reuse trend is now extending to abandoned big-box buildings.

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Is Amazon Eating Our Road Budgets?

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Judith Crown of the Better Government Association , a watchdog group in Illinois, raises an interesting issue in her latest article.

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Illinois: Unveiling the Future of Digital Design and Manufacturing

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Illinois’ Tenth U.S. percent are in manufacturing, while nearly 20 percent are in the wholesale and retail sectors. Interstate 294 is the eastern boundary of the Village, with interchanges at Lake Cook and Palatine Roads, and provides easy access to Chicago’s Loop and the interstate highway system. Of those jobs, 33.5

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Lessons learned from our museum construction projects

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We thought a lot about that when we built the Cahokia Mounds Museum & Interpretive Center in Collinsville, Illinois. This maximizes the museum’s ability to comfortably channel visitors to its various focal points, including a large glass display wall, a wide-screen theater, a multi-purpose space and a retail area.

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Logistics: On the Road, Water or Rails…or in the Air — AGAIN

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THE DUPAGE COUNTY, ILLINOIS ADVANTAGE. DuPage County is accessible to the 52 railroads in Illinois, which makes the area the nation’s largest rail gateway, providing access to every state in the continental U.S. Canada and Mexico, while its access to over the road transportation is apparent. Shorr Packaging Corp. It spans 1,786.47

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Healthcare construction in 2022: Flexible, scalable ambulatory surgery centers

The Korte Company

Anderson Hospital, a healthcare provider serving suburban and rural communities in southwestern Illinois near St. It’s funny how the fates of modern healthcare and modern retail came together with the well-documented conversion of retail suites inside dead malls into ASCs or specialty clinics.

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Writing the book on smarter warehouse design and construction

The Korte Company

million-square-foot distribution center in Edwardsville, Illinois. Just up the road from the town that took the company’s name, the facility totals 819,200 square feet. The world’s largest e-retailer is a frequent repeat customer, too. Our first Hershey project was construction of a massive, 1.1

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