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CONSTRUCTION BEGINS FOR BATTERY PARK COMMUNITY CENTER IN NYC

by admin September 28, 2010

NEW YORK CITY — Stalco Construction has begun construction for the new Battery Park City Community Center. The 60,000-square-foot project will comprise two cellar levels, a street level and a mezzanine. It will feature a curving, 550-foot long glass arcade wall that will face West Street immediate north of Ground Zero. The wall will sit opposite of two swimming pools and a gymnasium inside the building, and two ball fields and a soccer field outside the building. The community center will also feature a fitness center, a theater/auditorium, dance studios, locker rooms, classrooms, offices, a cafeteria and a kitchen. The project architect is Hanrahan Meyers Architects, and the construction manager is The LiRo Group. The owner, the Hugh L. Carey Battery Park City Authority, anticipates the project receiving LEED-Platinum certification.

September 28, 2010

CONSTRUCTION UNDERWAY ON $12.7 MILLION EXOTIC ANIMAL FACILITY

by admin September 28, 2010

MOORPARK, CALIF. — Construction has begun for the new $12.7 million home of Moorpark College’s Exotic Animal Training and Management Program (EATM). Replacing two portables that have served EATM’s staff, students and 150-plus animal inhabitants, the new facility will include two 50-seat classrooms, a veterinary medicine laboratory, a bookstore, a ticket booth and faculty offices. Overcoming the challenges of working in close proximity to exotic animals and building the structure into the campus’ hillside, Heery International is providing construction management services for the 13,000-square-foot facility, which is slated for completion in April 2011. Based at Moorpark’s Ventura County, Calif., campus, the EATM prepares students for careers working with animals in television, film, zoos, theme parks and more.

September 28, 2010

Civic Midwest

31,000-SQUARE-FOOT EDUCATION CENTER COMPLETE IN ST. LOUIS

by admin September 23, 2010

ST. LOUIS — St. Louis-based Kwame Building Group has completed the construction of William J. Harrison Northside Education Center for St. Louis Community College in St. Louis. Located in the Jeff-Vander-Lou neighborhood, the $10 million, 31,000-square-foot center opened for classes in August. Designed by KAI, the property is seeking LEED Gold certification as a green building. Green elements include heat pumps in classrooms and offices, controllable lighting, the use of recycled materials, low VOC paint and non-toxic building materials and furnishings.

September 23, 2010

Civic Texas

DATA CENTER COMPLETED AT UT-AUSTIN

by admin September 23, 2010

AUSTIN — A $32 million data center has been completed on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin, a project approved by the UT board of regents in 2008. An existing facility was renovated for the state-of-the-art data center. It will house enterpise-wide services critical to students, faculty and staff, including Blackboard, WebSpace, UT Direct, e-mail, Web Central and all mainframe functions. The facility includes approximately 4,700 square feet of space for computing equipment.

September 23, 2010

Civic Texas

SCHOOL OF ROCK COMES TO SOUTHLAKE

by admin September 23, 2010

SOUTHLAKE — School of Rock has leased a 7,525-square-foot space located at 3220 Southlake Blvd. in Southlake for its third Dallas-Ft. Worth location. The performance-based rock music school plans to open nine more schools in the Metroplex by 2013. Dean Tarpley, owner of School of Rock Southlake, also owns schools in Dallas and Frisco. Dan Harris of Dallas-based SRS Real Estate Partners represented School of Rock in the transaction, while James Keoughan of RE/MAX represented the landlord.

September 23, 2010

Civic Midwest

CHURCH EXPANSION UNDER WAY IN ILLINOIS

by admin September 21, 2010

O’FALLON, ILL. — Swansea, Ill.-based Holland Construction Services is constructing a new building for the first phase of an expansion project for New Life in Christ Interdenominational Church in O’Fallon. The $3 million, 8,500-square-foot pre-engineered building will be located at 689 Scott Troy Road. The building will have a standing seam roof, stained concrete floors, an exposed steel ceiling with several skylights and an exterior reflecting pool with two fountains. The second phase of the planned expansion includes a 17,645-square-foot auditorium and sanctuary that will accommodate approximately 1,000 seats.

September 21, 2010

Civic Texas

PEROT MUSEUM CELEBRATED BY MURAL IN UPTOWN DALLAS

by admin September 21, 2010

DALLAS — The Perot Museum of Nature & Science, which broke ground last spring and is expected to open in early 2013 in Dallas' Victory Park as an expansion of The Museum of Nature & Science, has gained support from Houston-based PM Realty Group and Lyda Hill, philanthropist and owner of several commercial real estate buildings in Dallas. Hill's 2811 McKinney building, managed by PM Realty Group, in uptown Dallas has unveiled a mural measuring 80 feet wide by 22 feet tall celebrating the museum's expansion. The Perot Museum of Nature & Science at Victory Park was designed by the California architecture firm Morphosis.

September 21, 2010

Civic Texas

HOUSTON AREA SENIOR LIVING DEVELOPMENT SECURES FINANCING

by admin September 20, 2010

MISSOURI CITY — Hampton Pointe Manor, a 78-bed assisted living facility in Missouri City, has secured a private equity investment from The Kalikow Group of Westbury, N.Y., on behalf of KEP Hampton ALF. Located at Hampton Drive and Murphy Road near downtown Houston, Hampton Pointe Manor is the initial phase of the Hampton Pointe master-planned community. It is being developed and operated in partnership by Wallace Bajjali Development Partners and Outer Marker Properties.

September 20, 2010

Civic Western

BARNHART BREAKS GROUND ON $5 MILLION ACADEMIC FACILITY IN NE KERN COUNTY

by admin September 20, 2010

RIDGECREST, CALIF. — Barnhart Balfour Beatty has broken ground for the construction of a $5 million career and technical education building on the campus of Sherman E. Burroughs High School located at 500 E. French Ave. in Ridgecrest. The first new construction in the Sierra Sands Unified School District in nearly 20 years, the 18,845-square-foot building will include laboratory, classroom and office space. Designed by Westberg + White and funded by Proposition 1D Career Technical Education grant funds and a state loan, the project is scheduled to be completed in November 2011.

September 20, 2010

Civic Midwest

$15 MILLION CAMPUS RESIDENCE HALL UNDER WAY IN ST. LOUIS

by admin September 17, 2010

ST. LOUIS — Harris-Stowe State University has selected Kwame Building Group as program manager for its $15 million on-campus residence hall. The 70,000-square-foot residence hall will offer housing for 200 students as well as the campus’ new dining hall. The environmentally friendly facility is being funded through the U.S. Department of Education’s Historically Black College University Capital Financing Program. Grice Group Architects and Trivers Associates are providing architectural services for the project.

September 17, 2010

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