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August 11,2010Chicago-based architecture firm Solomon Cordwell Buenz & Associates is designing the Broward County Supervisor of Elections' new 72,000-sf office complex, which will occupy 12 acres within the new Riverbend mixed-use transit oriented development in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. The $22.8 million Supervisor of Elections' (SOE) offices will include a 30,000-sf green building, which will pursue LEED ce...
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August 11,2010Retail vacancy rates nationwide have risen slowly but steadily during the past two years, and there is evidence of overbuilding in several large metropolitan markets. But continued healthy levels of big-box and grocery-store-anchored strip mall development have tempered the overall losses in construction activity in the retail subsector, keeping it well out of range of the double-digit declines...
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August 11,2010Construction is under way on a $24 million expansion and renovation to California Polytechnic State University’s College of Architecture and Environmental Design building. Designed by Austin Veum Robbins Partners, San Diego, the expansion will add 50,000 sf to the facility, providing laboratory, lecture, administrative, and gathering space for the school’s construction management de...
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August 11,2010The third phase of construction has begun on the Town Center at Virginia Beach, Va. It will feature a 38-story, 512-foot-high hotel and residential tower with 36,000 sf of retail space in the building's podium. Designed by Brennan Beer Gorman Architects of Washington, D.C., the Town Center project will be Virginia's tallest building upon completion in late 2007.
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August 11,2010Flanked by super-sized versions of its signature golden arches, the new flagship McDonald's restaurant in downtown Chicago bears a striking resemblance to its predecessor of 50 years ago. Like Ray Kroc's original 1955 franchise restaurant in the Chicago suburb Des Plaines, the new outlet features dual parabolic arches that intersect a sloped, wedge-shaped roof.
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August 11,2010Total nonresidential construction spending through the first two months of 2001 continued to run an exceptional 9.4 percent higher than during January and February last year. However, the growth is likely to slow, finishing the year at 4 percent, more than 7 percent below spending growth for 2000. In 2002, the growth rate is projected to rebound to 7.
