- Projects awarded
Downtown San Diego will see its first new high-rise building in more than a decade. The 23-story Broadway 655 will include 356,000 sf of office space and four stories of residences. It was designed by Carrier Johnson of San Diego. General contractor Webcor Builders, San Mateo, Calif., will become a ......
- Brokers see more tightening before construction
boom.
The Manhattan office market should continue to experience rising rents and a decrease in availability in 1998, according to a year-end report issued by Grubb & Ellis New York. According to the real estate study, there was an absorption of more than 6.45 million square feet of office space in ......
- Yale Robbins publishes '92 construction
guide.
Yale Robbins, Inc., New York City-based publishers of residential guides, newsletters, and market surveys, has released the latest edition of its Guide to Construction Activity. The comprehensive directory provides a survey of the city's commercial and residential market, including plans for more than 35,000 apartment units and more than 106 ......
- PWC hosts construction chiefs at networking
event.
Take about 30 CEO's, commissioners and directors from the public and private sectors. Add 275 contractors, professionals and suppliers from the construction industry. Include 15 exhibit tables marketing goods and services from vendors. Mix thoroughly for three hours. The result is the quarterly Grand Networking Event hosted by Professional Women ......
- NY Building Congress honors Claes Bork and David
Childs.
Nearly 1,100 building industry leaders and prominent New York City officials saluted two industry titans - Claes Bjork, president and CEO of Skanska AB, and David Childs, Partner at Skidmore, Owings and Merrill LLP - during the New York Building Congress' 78th Anniversary Leadership Awards Luncheon at the New York ......
- New Jersey's Top Contractors Survive the Downturn
It is no secret that the bottom dropped out of the office construction market, but work continues on industrial and warehouse/distribution centers. Moreover, governmental agencies have continued apace with work on airports, marine facilities, tunnels and bridges, highways and toll plazas, hospitals, educational facilities, dams, petrochemical refineries and power-generating plants, ......
- Giuliani administration continues to push water system
sale.
Deputy Mayor Peter Powers urged leaders of the design, construction and real estate industry to advocate Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's proposed sale of the water system, the proceeds of which would fund New York City capital construction. Powers made the plea at The New York Building Congress breakfast forum, one day ......