ENR MidAtlantic Contractor of the Year, James G. Davis Construction, is known for historic modernizations, such as the Uline Arena in Washington, D.C. The building, the site of the Beatles’ first U.S. concert, is being converted into 245,000 sq ft of multilevel office and retail space, including a flagship store for outdoor-gear retailer REI.
About five years after Jim Davis’ father, James G. Davis Sr., sold James G. Davis Construction Corp. to a British firm in 1985, the younger Davis decided to join with company colleagues Dennis Cotter and Bill Moyer to buy back the firm.
Rosslyn, an Arlington, Va., neighborhood across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., is about to see a change in its skyline with the mixed-use Central Place development now under way.
As workers on the Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project Silver Line Phase 2 project set the bottom half of the form for one of the aerial guideway straddle bents at Dulles International Airport, Jennifer T. Alcott captured the immense effort.