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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. As such, we carefully scheduled other work around them. Grand Entrances (And Tight Squeezes).

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Commercial Construction Industry Trends: Reflecting on the Highs and Lows of 2018

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It’s especially exciting to see our scope of work with clients evolve to encompass not only refreshing and remodeling existing senior communities, but also collaborating on adaptive reuse projects. Low: Labor Shortage Shapes Schedules. The result was the potential for scheduling complications and missed project deadlines.

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4 Commercial Construction Industry Trends and Predictions for 2019

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We see this as a natural next step to the work Englewood has already been executing with senior housing operators to refresh and remodel resident amenity spaces and common areas at older properties. Developers Think Outside the Big Box to Fill Retail Vacancies. Subcontractors Say No Thanks to Off Hours.

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Challenges & Opportunities in Commercial Construction

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As a National General Contractor working across multiple verticals in the commercial construction space, we understand the challenges (COVID and Supply Chain) facing our retail, restaurant, hospitality, and senior housing clients. That certainly makes it difficult to schedule your opening. This has been a big growth area for Englewood.

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What are Today's Best New Retail Developments? | Hard Hat Chat

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What are Today’s Best New Retail Developments? With the way the commercial real estate market has been the last several years, people are looking to commercial construction experts for the best construction tips on how to proceed with a successful new retail development. Restaurant. Shopping Center. Hospitality. Office/Industrial.

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3 Tips to a Successful High-End Restaurant Construction Project

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Recently, Englewood completed the 23,000-square-foot Harry Carays 7 th Inning Stretch and Chicago Sports Museum at Chicagos famed Water Tower Place, remodeled the 30-year-old, five-star Spiaggia on Michigan Avenue and helped rebrand and reimagine Fultons on The River into River Roast in Chicagos popular River North neighborhood.

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5 Signs Your Shopping Center Construction Contractor is Costing You Business

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When it comes to current retail and commercial construction trends , we all know there aren’t a lot of new shopping centers under construction right now, or new office buildings under construction for that matter. What’s wrong with a general contractor focused on commercial construction costs and his construction schedule?