When the Van Andel Institute (VAI) began to plan its new Education and Medical Research Center in Grand Rapids, Mich., it wanted to compete successfully with such renowned facilities as the legendary Salk Institute...
When seen initially on a rainy January day by its eventual owner and developer, the Fulton Building, a 95-year-old office building in downtown Pittsburgh, was surrounded by blight. But 41 months later, the...
On June 2, 1900, three-year-old John Skelton Williams, whose father was the president of Sea-board Air Line Railroad, celebrated the ongoing construction of the Main Street Station in Richmond, Va., by helping drive...
Beginning in 1996, cable television billionaire and philanthropist Alan Gerry purchased the original Woodstock festival field and 1,700 surrounding acres in Sullivan County, N.Y., with the intent to turn...
It stands just 660 feet from a major fault line, in a region that experiences dozens of temblors a year. It will face winds that exceed 100 mph and experience typhoon conditions several times a year. The soil it sits...
In 1997 a study by the city of Omaha recommended building a new performing arts center to ease the crowded schedule at the Orpheum Theater. The Orpheum itself was in need of renovation, and its acoustics did not...
From its humble beginnings as a tiny pharmaceutical college founded by 14 Boston pharmacists, the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences has grown to become the largest school of its kind in the U.S...
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