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How to Avoid a Commercial Construction Scandal

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Pursuing those jobs meant we would have had to use shoddy subcontractors or non-union labor where union labor would have been best. And if you’re not in a union town, like Miami, then align yourself with the best vendors. And yet, when we work in union markets like Chicago, Boston, New York and St.

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How to Choose the Best General Contractor to Partner with for your “First” Commercial Construction Project

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It’s a pretty cool ground-up commercial construction project for us because not only is it the first time we’ve worked with this national retail brand, but it’s also the very first Farm & Fleet store in the Chicago area. Navigating the ins and outs of a new market: If you take a set of plans and build the exact same project in both St.

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Mastering theme park construction coordination

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Here’s a rundown: Cahokia Mounds Museum and Interpretive Center – Collinsville, IL: This museum honors the history of a pre-Columbian Native American city that sat across the Mississippi River from present-day St. Hard Rock Cafe and retail center – St. Louis, MO: On its face, this is just another restaurant construction project.

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More than a headquarters: Deepening roots for Glik’s and Korte’s next generation

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Ralph Korte and Joe Glik, stewards of their own construction and retail legacies respectively, first crossed paths in the early 1970s. After building Glik’s retail locations in Missouri and Illinois across four decades, The Korte Company took on an even bigger venture for this century-old retailer: A new 50,000-square-foot headquarters.

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Dan Scott, conductor of the orchestra

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Then, the local carpenters union approached Host with a deal. The marginally roadworthy bus could be seen all over the St. Louis area and also made regular stops as far away as Cedar Rapids, Iowa; St. Another job was the Wehrenberg movie theater in O’Fallon, Illinois—the first stadium seating theater in the St.

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The benefits and drawbacks of mixed-use development

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The five-story, 231-unit apartment complex includes 15,000 square feet of retail space on the ground floor. Union Station in St. Louis, Missouri. The Walgreens retail store on 22 nd Street in Washington, D.C.

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

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DuPage County is in close proximity to North America’s largest inland port, the Centerpoint Intermodal Center, which provides direct access to the BNSF logistics park and the Union Pacific Joliet Intermodal Terminal. Louis, Indianapolis and Detroit—significant markets that I-69 will bring closer. “We 50 percent of all U.S.

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