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August 11,2010Searching for an ideal location for a new community center and park, the city of El Paso, Texas, selected an unlikely spot: a detention pond that was riddled with crime and ignored by the development community. The city challenged the Building Team to turn the 100-acre detention basin on the west side of town into its new Westside Community Park and Recreation Center.
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August 11,2010The Ben J. Selkirk & Sons Building, the last original structure still standing in the once-thriving Gaslight Square area in St. Louis, has been restored and converted into loft apartments and commercial space as part of the ongoing redevelopment of the historic district. The new Motorworks development features 14,000 sf of commercial space on the first floor and 10,000 sf of loft apartments...
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August 11,2010Healthcare construction spending is currently only 2.3% above a year ago, and has been stuck at a $35–36 billion annual pace for more than a year, after rising 40% over the previous two years. The recent market weakness has been entirely in medical office buildings and special care facilities, such as nursing homes.
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August 11,2010Growth in real, inflation-adjusted gross domestic product (GDP) slowed to an annual rate of just 1.1 percent during the final quarter of last year, according to preliminary estimates from the U.S. Commerce Department. Final revisions for the third quarter of 2000 pegged GDP gains at a 2.2 percent annual rate-not the 2.7 percent rate originally estimated.
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August 11,2010Amid the "dot-com" fever gripping the A/E/C universe, one of the industry's giants has been working at a steady pace developing its vision of the path towards automation. At a reception in New York recently, Carol Bartz, chairman and CEO of Autodesk, outlined strategies for the company's product lines.
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August 11,2010Miller Construction Company, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., has completed construction on a high-tech robotic storage facility designed to store and protect valued possessions such as exotic automobiles, fine wines, artwork, and jewelry. Designed and built to resist Category 5 hurricanes, the RoboVault facility features automated storage retrieval, biometric recognition, private access with 24/7 securi...
