NEWPORT BEACH, CALIF. – The Civic Center and Park Project has completed construction in Newport Beach. It is located at 100 Civic Center Drive. The $110-million project contains a total of 117,000 square feet. It includes an 88,000-square-foot office building, community room, a 150-seat city council chambers, a 14-acre park and a 450-space parking structure. It also included a 17,000-square-foot library expansion. The center is slated for LEED-Silver certification. The three-phase construction schedule began in May 2010. The project was built by C.W. Driver.
CHICAGO — Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is expected to announce sometime today plans for a $173 million, 10,000-seat arena for DePaul University’s basketball teams to be built near downtown Chicago, reports the Chicago Tribune. The basketball arena will be located near McCormick Place and be built with $125 million in public funds — $55 million in tax-increment financing and $70 million in hotel taxes, according to the newspaper. Plans also include the construction of two mega hotels on the property in the hopes of growing convention and meeting business in Chicago.
RICHARDSON, TEXAS — The Beck Group has broken ground on the 110,000-square-foot addition for the Naveen Jindal School of Management at The University of Texas at Dallas in Richardson. SHW Group designed the $25 million project to meet LEED standards. The addition will include classrooms, faculty offices, seminar rooms, studios, research centers and an area for the undergraduate honors program. A portion of the facility will be built out while the remaining area will be left as shell space to allow for future growth. The Beck Group anticipates to deliver the addition in fall 2014.
KINGSVILLE, TEXAS — Satterfield & Pontikes Construction has delivered a new $35.8 million border patrol station in Kingsville for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection station features a 47,000-square-foot main station building, a 22,000-square-foot maintenance building, 8,000-square-foot warehouse, 4,000-square-foot canine facility, 2,000-square-foot covered fueling station and a 3,000-square-foot car wash facility. VOA Associates designed the complex to achieve LEED Silver certification, and Satterfield & Pontikes completed the station's construction four months ahead of schedule.
NASHVILLE — Music City Center, a 1.2 million-square-foot convention center, will open its doors Sunday, May 19 in Nashville. The $585 million project spans six city blocks and includes a modern exterior glass curtain wall and limestone panels. The center features 60 meeting rooms, two ballrooms, 32 loading docks and a garage for 1,800 vehicles. In terms of design, the facility's undulating roof “represents the rolling hills of Tennessee and the sound waves that can be overheard by musicians playing in clubs on Broadway,” according to architecture firm tvsdesign. tvsdesign, Tuck-Hinton and Moody Nolan designed the facility, and Bell/Clark/Harmony provided construction services. A grand finale event will be held May 20 with concerts by Sheryl Crow and Phil Vassar, among others.
PECOS, TEXAS — The Sperry Van Ness National GSA Team of Mark Phillips and Tim Strange has arranged the $4 million sale of a federal courthouse in Pecos. Phillips and Strange represented the property seller, Oklahoma-based Dominion Group, in the transaction. Bruce Marshall of Sperry Van Ness/Datavest Inc. represented the buyer, UIR, a private equity group. The 41,146-square-foot, two-story courthouse is located at 410 S. Cedar and encompasses an entire city block.
ELMHURST, N.Y. — New York City officials and employees from Stalco Construction Inc. celebrated a topping-out ceremony for the $27.8 million, 30,000-square-foot Queens Library at Elmhurst. The new four-story library, which is expected to open in 2014, will be double the size of the former library and feature separate library areas for adults, children and teens. Stalco Construction was the general contractor. Other project team members include architect Marpillero Pollak Architects, structural engineer Severud Associates, mechincal electrical and plumbing engineer Ads Engineers, lighting designer See/Arch and landscape architect Wallace Roberts & Todd.
BROOKLINE, N.H. — Eckman Construction has built a 6,000-square-foot building, located on Route 13 in Brookline, for the Brookline New Hampshire Police Department. The building also includes 1,900 square feet of unfinished space on the second floor, which will be used for storage. A secure sally port will allow for the safe transfer of prisoners into and out of vehicles, and provides direct access to a booking area with two holding cells and evidence storage. The facility also includes offices, men’s and women’s locker rooms with showers, and an interview room. Eckman worked with the town and the Safety Complex Building Committee for two years prior to the voter approval, which funded the construction at a town meeting in March 2012. Manchester, N.H.-based Dennis Mires, PA The Architects designed the project.
ATLANTA — Carter, an Atlanta-based real estate investment, development and advisory firm, has been selected to provide program and project management services for three colleges in Georgia — Agnes Scott College, Berry College and Spelman College. At Agnes Scott College, Carter will guide the design and construction for the renovation of Campbell Hall, a four-story former science building. The 51,450-square-foot building will be transformed into a living and learning center, which will include student housing, academic classrooms and meeting spaces. For Berry College, Carter is currently working on project management for the renovation of the Richards Memorial Gymnasium, which will include offices for Berry College athletic teams, a 4,000-square-foot weight room, a 3,000-square-foot locker room, grass practice fields and an indoor practice/training facility. Carter has also been working with Berry on an athletic stadium for its new NCAA Division III football program. In Atlanta, Spelman College selected Carter as a program manager to oversee the redevelopment of the 53,000-square-foot Read Hall into a wellness center. The program is part of Spelman's Wellness Revolution, and includes a new gym, four-lane swimming pool, wellness classroom and teaching kitchen, multipurpose rooms for fitness activities, an indoor track, lockers and administrative offices. The new …
SPENCER, IND. — Architect George Ridgway and Pritchett Brothers, a Bloomington-based general contractor, have completed the renovation of the Tivoli Theatre in Spencer, located about 17 miles northwest of Bloomington. The transformation includes restored interior and exterior features and an addition to the north side of the building, which provides a kitchen, restrooms and additional office space. A project cost was not disclosed. Construction on the theater began in April 2012. Cook Group Inc. sponsored the renovation of the theater, which is owned by Owen County Preservations. The theater originally opened on New Year’s Eve in 1928. The Tivoli was damaged in a fire in 1985, but continued to operate until 1998 and fell into disrepair.