Cindy Riley - Wed August 19, 2015
Shoppes at Legacy Park to Revive Cedar Crest
Scheduled to open this fall, the Shoppes at Legacy Park in Tuscaloosa, Ala., will serve as a major shopping center for the college town best known for Crimson Tide athletics. Located off McFarland Boulevard and 13th Street in much of the former Cedar Crest neighborhood, the $55 million project is being built in an area hard hit by a devastating twister in 2011....
Eric Olson - Wed August 19, 2015
McClam & Associates Expands Runway at S.C. Airport
A project to lengthen the runway at the Fairfield County Airport in central South Carolina is set to upgrade the facility, and help it stay economically competitive. Luckily, the contractor, McClam & Associates, is up to the task....
Tue August 18, 2015
Century-Old Mass Grave Thwarts Highway Project
SCHUYLKILL HAVEN, Pa. (AP) - Officials say a highway construction project in eastern Pennsylvania has unearthed remains from victims of the Spanish flu pandemic a century ago and brought the work to a halt....
Mon August 17, 2015
Eyesore Cured in Memphis
Originally constructed as a Sears mail-order processing warehouse and retail store, the historic Crosstown Concourse building is undergoing a dramatic renovation in downtown Memphis, Tenn. Considered an eyesore and primed for demolition just a few years ago, the 14-story, 1.5 million sq....
Mon August 17, 2015
119-year-old Southwestern Ohio Paper Mill to Be Demolished
WEST CARROLLTON (AP) A 119-year-old former paper mill in southwestern Ohio is set to be demolished. The Dayton Daily News reports the demolition of the 40,000-sq. ft. (3,716 sq m) building that once housed Ahlstrom West Carrollton LLC will be paid for by the company, saving the city of West Carrollton hundreds of thousands of dollars....
Wed August 12, 2015
South Coast Improvement Completes Cedar Dell Renovation in Dartmouth, Mass
South Coast Improvement Company (SCI), a design-build general contractor serving New England and the Mid-Atlantic states, recently finished a restoration project at The Residence at Cedar Dell, an independent, assisted and memory care living home at 628 Old Westport Road in Dartmouth, Mass....
Wed August 12, 2015
Track Construction Begins on New Haven-Springfield Rail Line
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) Construction of a second track for the expanded rail line from New Haven to Springfield, Mass., has begun, and commuters will be bused along the route for the next year. The project will boost north-south rail transportation from six daily round-trip trains to 17 a day south of Hartford and 12 north of Hartford....
Irwin Rapoport - Tue August 11, 2015
Cleared for Takeoff: LaGuardia’s $4B Venture
New York City’s LaGuardia Airport, starting in 2016, will be the subject of a $4 billion demolition and rebuilding project — to be done by a private-public partnership initiative (P3). The major components of the work will take 39 months to complete, following the groundbreaking early in the new year....
Thu July 30, 2015
St. Louis River Bridge to Close for $16M in Upgrades
ST. LOUIS (AP) A key Mississippi River bridge between St. Louis and Illinois closed July 20 for at least four months of roughly $16 million of improvements. Crews are expected to remove the Martin Luther King Bridge’s deck, replace the middle truss span and make structural steel repairs and paint, the St....
Wed July 29, 2015
First Part of $11M Bridge Rehab Project Complete
The first part of the Waterbury construction project on Interstate 89 is complete. Official say new technology is helping to keep the project moving along smoothly. “This is a big project for us,” said Chris Cole, VTrans deputy secretary....
