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August 11,2010On a beautiful spring morning, eerily reminiscent of one clear September morn last fall, New York City's former World Trade Center site silently, solemnly and officially passed the torch May 30 from the recovery phase to whatever is to come next. With poignant understatement, survivors of Sept. 11 gathered quietly at Ground Zero with victims' families and hundreds of construction workers, polic...
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August 11,2010Following the new urbanism trend taking place in the Atlanta metropolitan area, Fayetteville, Ga., is seeking to harness its growth with a 110-acre development near the city's town square. The development, called The Village, will contain a mixed residential neighborhood with commercial development in an urban setting.
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August 11,2010Encompassing 398,000 sf on 121 acres, the Calvary Chapel Murrieta in Murrieta, Calif., will be one of the largest nondenominational evangelical churches in the country upon scheduled completion in 2010. The $140 million campus, located on a hilltop in the French Valley, will have a a 3,500-seat sanctuary, a 1,200-capacity fellowship hall, a 2,500-seat athletic stadium, a 6,000-seat outdoor amph...
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August 11,2010A dramatic cantilevered aluminum-and-glass canopy will mark the main entrance of the $68.5 million St. Joseph Hospital Center and Medical Office Building in Orange County, Calif. Designed by Chong Partners Architecture, San Francisco, the facility will include a three-story, 87,000-sf cancer center, a seven-story medical office building, and six levels of parking.
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August 11,2010New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg recently announced the site selection for the $700 million, 870,000-sf East River Science Park. The complex will be constructed on a parcel of city-owned land in the Bellevue Hospital Center, near New York University. The project is a major component of the city's effort to make it a center for life sciences and biotech research organizations.
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August 11,2010Hurricane Katrina abruptly changed construction materials price trends. Before the hurricane, most material prices were steady to slightly lower during the summer months, except for concrete, gypsum products, and aggregates (production capacity was insufficient to accommodate the normal seasonal rise in demand for these products).
