GARDEN CITY, GA. — Officials in Garden City are working with private developers on the 40-acre Town Center, an 800,000-square-foot mixed-use development located on Dean Forest Road in Garden City. The development will feature a new 33,000-square-foot city hall, which will deliver in August; the 10,500-square-foot Georgia Public Safety Training Center Regional Police Academy, set to open in late 2010; and the relocated city visitors’ center, the Dotson House, which will re-open in late 2009. Additional proposed buildings include a West Chatham library branch and a 20,000-square-foot Fire Administration Building. The project also includes a planned beautification of Dean Forest Road.
HACKENSACK, N.J. — Hasbrouck Heights, N.J.-based DMR Architects has broken ground for the first phase of the new Bergen County Command Center in Hackensack. The two-story, 30,000-square-foot building will house Bergen County’s 911 Communications Center and the Office of Emergency Management and Emergency Operation Center. The center will have space for 34 operators. The offices had previously been located in separate buildings, with each town in Bergen County operating its own 911-call center. Completion is expected in early 2010.
PARRIS ISLAND, S.C. — The St. Louis division of Walton Construction will break ground on the $25.3 million Parris Island Barracks Complex this month. Completion is slated for November 2010. The facility will house all Marine recruits east of the Mississippi. Features of the project, which is to be constructed to Silver LEED specifications, include a three-story barracks, a headquarters training complex and a mechanical plant. VOA Associates and the New Orleans division of Walton Construction will help with the development.
CINCINNATI — The Village of Fairfax Police Department substation has been completed within Regency Center Corp.’s Red Bank Village shopping center located in Cincinnati. Regency Centers donated an outparcel and the construction for the 1,400-square-foot facility. The substation, which will open on January 29th, will supplement the main police station situated approximately 3 miles from the shopping center. Funding for construction was provided by Tax Increment Financing, in conjunction with the Port of Greater Cincinnati Development Authority and the Village of Fairfax. The 176,160-square-foot Red Bank Village retail center will be anchored by a 151,765-square-foot Wal-Mart Supercenter, which is scheduled to open in November. Additionally, a 75,000-square-foot office component has been completed at the project. The two two-story office buildings were developed by Miller-Valentine Group.
EXETER, N.H. — Bedford, N.H.-based Eckman Construction has completed the $7.3 million renovation of Seacoast School of Technology in Exeter. Located on Linden Street, the school serves the seven area high schools and provides 12 programs of study. Renovations included a new building for the Automotive Service Technology program that contains two classrooms and a 12-bat auto repair facility, a new main entrance, a new space for the on-site teaching pre-school, a new air conditioning system, and upgrades to the building’s mechanical and electrical systems. The project was designed by Lebanon, N.H.-based Banwell Architects.
DALLAS — The Dallas office of Corgan Associates has been selected to design the new Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education and Tolerance. The 50,000-square-foot building, which will be located in Dallas’ West End district, is applying for LEED certification. The general contractor for the project is The Beck Group. The Dallas Holocaust museum was established in 1984. It was previously located in the basement of the Jewish Community Center in north Dallas. The museum moved to a temporary location on Record Street in 2005.
ST. LOUIS — KAI Design & Build has completed St. Louis City’s Gateway Transportation Center located at Spruce and 15th streets near Scottrade Center. KAI Design & Build provided architectural services, as well as plumbing and fire protection engineering services for the project. A 37,000-square-foot terminal building was completed in August. The $27 million multi-modal building provides facilities for Amtrak passenger trains and Greyhound bus services in a single 700-foot-long structure. A MetroLink light-rail station, a local bus transfer station and a taxi stand are situated adjacent to the new building. Train passengers walk through an enclosed glass walkway to reach the Amtrak train platforms at one end of the facility. On the north wing of the building, Greyhound has 10 bus bays. The project, which was completed in four phases, was funded by federal, state and local government agencies, with participation from Amtrak, Greyhound and MetroLink. The general contractor, St. Louis-based K&S Associates, began working on the project in 2006.
SAN DIEGO — Johnson & Jennings General Contracting has completed the build-out of the School of Architecture at Woodbury University, which is located at 2212 Main St. in the Logan Heights community of San Diego. The 27,000-square-foot improvements included construction of two classrooms, a library, three large studio spaces, a model-making shop, a computer lab and faculty offices. Rinehart Herbst provided architectural services for the project; IR2 Interior Resource Inc. provided interior space consultation.
ANN ARBOR, MICH. — The University of Michigan has plans to construct a Basketball Player Development Center adjacent to Crisler Arena, which is located on the university’s Ann Arbor campus. The U-M Board of Regents is expected to approve the approximately $23.2 million project this Thursday. The approximately 50,000-square-foot facility will include two basketball courts, team locker rooms, a video theater, spaces for strength and conditioning as well as athletic medicine, and offices for coaches and staff. Athletic resources and gifts will fund the building, which will be used by both the men and women’s basketball programs. The board is expected to appoint Jickling Lyman Powell Associates as the design architect for the project.
HOMESTEAD, FLA. — Davie, Fla.-based Pirtle Construction has completed the 145,888-square-foot State School TT-1. The Miami-Dade County Public Schools’ facility is located at 955 S.E. 18th Ave. in Homestead. Tilt-Con Corp. provided slab-on-grade and tilt-up concrete work, and Miami-based Zyscovich Architects designed the property.