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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. While most of us will accept delayed Olympic news due to the time zone difference, the same isn’t true when working with international brands and new retail construction. So at 7 p.m.

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Customer Relationship Management: Why Good Relationships Are Good Business in Commercial Construction

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Here are three examples of great customer relationship management practices: Opening New Doors: Growing a business often entails thinking outside the box about where and how to mine opportunities, so having an extensive network of relationships to tap into is incredibly important in making new connections that lead to new business.

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Retail Construction Trends 2010 Update: Outside the Big Box

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But that doesn’t mean we aren’t seeing interesting retail construction projects or innovative commercial construction retrofits, like the 23 up-and-coming new-store concepts as noted by Retail Traffic. Michigan Ave., There also is definitely something in the water with baby/children-focused retailers. Bill Di Santo.

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Wolgast Corporation Marks 75th Anniversary

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Gerald’s sons, Lynn and the late Patrick and Mark Wolgast left their own legacy on the general contracting company by diversifying to include Design-Build and Construction Management services, helping start the local Associated Builders and Contractors Association Chapter, and forging a relationship with McDonald’s Corporation in the 1980s.

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The Keys to Making Big Box Retail Construction Projects Successfully Fit Smaller, Urban Footprints like CityTarget on State Street

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Englewood Construction has worked on a number of Chicago retail construction projects in high-traffic urban areas, such as American Girl Place on Michigan Avenue. Is this a new retail construction trend ? Michigan Ave., Who do you think will be the next big box retailer to offer a small store concept? Probably so.

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

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Michigan Ave. But what I want to do is tell you what you may not know about the retail space construction of this Zara store and how to apply this information to your next retail construction project. 1. Hidden traps in retail construction approval process. Have a question on Zara’s Michigan Avenue store?

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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.