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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).

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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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3 Secrets to Successful Landmark-Status Building Construction Projects

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In fact, we’re in the middle of one of those projects right now as Englewood Construction relocates American Girl’s flagship store in New York City from its current 5th Avenue address to a well-known landmark property – 75 Rockefeller Plaza.

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Managing from the Mother Ship: How a National Commercial Contractor Operates

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The other day I was talking with a Chicago-area client who didn’t realize Englewood is a national general contractor that manages national commercial construction projects across the country. Here’s what we think are the most important things it takes to manage national projects from the mother ship (in this case, our office in Lemont, Ill.):

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Lessons learned from 70 years of building cities

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Sasaki is designing for cities to not only be more socially and environmentally just, but more human. Stillness in the City Between Second and Third Avenue in New York City is a hidden oasis called Greenacre Park. As beautiful as it is functional, Greenacre belongs to everyone in New York City.

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FITWEL may be the Future of Building Sustainability

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Today, still in beta, the Center for Active Design, a nonprofit established by then New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg in 2013, is the operator of FITWEL. Building managers submit their questionnaire answers, with photographic evidence where applicable, to receive a FITWEL rating.

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“Buy buttons”, online intermediaries and the marketplace tradeoffs

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A perspective of New York City from Google’s NYC headquarters. As well, we use online services to source relatively inexpensive offshore contractors for back-end work on our websites and list management. So what makes sense — how do you deal with the changing rules of the game?