Midwest

HOFFMAN ESTATES, ILL. — Leopardo Cos. has started construction on four suburban Chicago municipal projects totaling $31 million. One of the projects includes the $15.5 million, 70,000-square-foot West Chicago Community Recreation Center at Reed-Keppler Park. The facility will feature a three-court gymnasium, three-lane elevated jogging track, large fitness equipment area, dance/aerobic studio and group fitness room and indoor playground. Leopardo also began work on the 11.2 million, 31,000-square-foot New Lenox Police Department, which will include a multi-purpose/training room and staff areas for code enforcement, investigations and command staff. The last two projects include the $2.2 million, 10,000-square-foot Bartlett Fire Station and the $2.1 million, 10,000-square-foot expansion of South Barrington Village Hall, a two-story, 7,000-square-foot police station.

MILWAUKEE — F.J.A. Christiansen Roofing Co. Inc., a branch of national commercial roofing provider Tecta America Corp., has completed the installation of a 100,000-square-foot rooftop athletic field in Milwaukee. The field, located on the top of a 780-car parking facility on the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE) campus, will be used for collegiate soccer and lacrosse and other youth sports. The roof structure will also slow the rate of stormwater runoff. Hunzinger Construction Co. served as the general contractor for the project. Uihlein-Wilson Architects designed the athletic field. The development opened August 23.