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August 11,2010Nicholas Abraham found it peculiar when a growing number of tradesmen seemed to be hanging around his self-storage developments. It's common for small businesses to rent out storage space, but this was different. "There were an awful lot of tradesmen renting out storage areas to use as workshops as well as for storage," says Abraham, whose eponymous Boston-based real estate company develops and...
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August 11,2010A$50 million high-tech traffic management command post completed this fall in Hawthorne, N.Y., is expected to help Empire State transportation officials, emergency management personnel, and state police better manage recurring traffic congestion and identify and respond to traffic incidents, which is costing the state $6.
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August 11,2010The curtain opens on the Tuscarawas Performing Arts Center at Kent State University in early 2010, giving the New Philadelphia, Ohio, school a 1,100-seat multipurpose theater. The team of Legat & Kingscott of Columbus, Ohio, and Schorr Architects of Dublin, Ohio, designed the 50,000-sf facility with a curving metal and glass façade to create a sense of movement and activity.
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August 11,2010Trump selects SOM. New York-based developer Donald Trump has selected Skidmore, Owings & Merrill to design his proposed "world's tallest building" in Chicago. The multiuse tower could be as tall as 1,500 feet. Field Enterprises is planning to sell air rights above a parking garage adjacent to Trump's planned project, raising the possibility that Trump could purchase the rights and e...
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August 11,2010Largely untouched since the days of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the historic campus of Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago got a much-needed boost with the opening of a student residence complex designed by IIT alumnus and Mies protégé Helmut Jahn. A July 22 ceremony celebrated the completion of the $28 million State Street Village complex, which consists of three interconnected...
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August 11,2010The industrial vacancy rate edged up to 9.9% in the first quarter from 9.7% at the end of 2005, but remains below the 10.7% rate achieved in the first quarter of last year. Construction spending is still increasing for both factories and warehouses, but construction starts for both building types declined sharply so far this year, suggesting that spending on job sites will peak very quickly for...
