Maryland Center for the Arts Inc. is planning to develop the Center for the Visual and Performing Arts on a 41-acre site in Abingdon. Preliminary plans call for three theaters, ranging from 100 to 1,200 seats; art galleries; classrooms; a heritage museum and parking for several hundred cars. H3 Hardy Collaboration is the designer. The project is valued at $25 million. Center for the Arts Inc., 1362 Brass Mill Rd., Belcamp, 21017. DR#06-00873694.

Massachusetts The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is planning to repair the 3,000-ft-long north jetty at Newburyport Harbor in Salisbury. The work involves placing 25,000 tons of 1- to 12-ton armor stone to fill in existing gaps and will include substantial moving and rehandling of existing stones to obtain the required interlocking placement. The project is valued at between $5 million and $10 million. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 696 Virginia Rd., Concord, 01742. DR#14-00516485.

North Carolina Cape Fear Commercial is planning to develop Dungannon Village, a two-story, 24,439-sq-ft live-work building that will serve as a central gathering place for the Autumn Hall master-planned community in Wilmington. The building will contain a post office and restaurant on the ground floor and apartments on the second floor; 98 parking spaces are included, as well. LS3P Architects is the designer, and the Thomas Construction Group is the general contractor. The project has been valued at between $10 million and $15 million. Cape Fear Commercial, 3517 Wrightsville Ave., Wilmington, 28403. DR#09-00589509.

Oregon The National College of Natural Medicine is planning to expand its existing campus in Portland. Increasing the school's floor area to 342,700 sq ft from 120,130 sq ft, the project comprises a 40,000-sq-ft academic building with a 33,000-sq-ft underground garage, a second 24,470-sq-ft academic building, a 15,000-sq-ft outpatient-clinic expansion and a 19,370-sq-ft, 71-space parking structure. Later phases will add a student life center and library. Hennebery Eddy Architects is the designer. The project is valued at $25 million. National College of Natural Medicine, 049 S.W. Porter St., Portland, 87201. DR#12-00464644.

California JP Construction has started building the Lexington Hotel in Scotts Valley. The 128-room, three-story, 70,030-sq-ft building will have one level of underground parking. Merced Hospitality Inc. is the project owner. The project is valued at $21.1 million. JP Construction, Attn: Juan Perez, Owner, 13901 Euclid St., Garden Grove, 92843. DR#15-00469069.

Idaho Ralph L. Wadsworth Construction has started building the replacement Snake River Twin Bridges on Interstate 84. The project entails replacing both the eastbound and westbound bridges and realigning the westbound and eastbound on-ramps at the Delco interchange. The Idaho Dept. of Transportation is the project owner. The project is valued at $17.9 million. Ralph L. Wadsworth Construction, 166 E. 14000 South, Draper, Utah, 84020. DR#14-00723811.

Oklahoma Haskell Lemon Construction Co. is starting to widen and resurface a 4.596-mile-long stretch of state Highway 102, from 3.06 miles north of state Highway 9, extending north. The project has been valued at $11.2 million. Haskell Lemon Construction Co., Attn: Joe Ridley, 3800 S.W. 10th St., Oklahoma City, 73147. DR#14-00644048.

Pennsylvania Mascaro Construction Co. is starting work on the redevelopment of the Union Trust Building in downtown Pittsburgh. The 15-story, 550,000-sq-ft office building, erected in 1916, was designed in Flemish-Gothic style. The Davis Cos. is the owner. The project will create a multi-use environment by repositioning 40,000 sq ft of ground-floor retail space, producing an indoor-outdoor environment, lined with restaurants and cafes; a 5,200-sq-ft fitness center; 400,000 sq ft of modernized office space; a 375-seat auditorium and a 75-seat tiered lecture hall; and a new 190-space underground parking garage. The project is valued at $75 million. Mascaro Construction Co., 1720 Metropolitan Ave., Pittsburgh, 15233. DR#14-00451058.

Louisiana 4/7 The City of Kenner is seeking bidders to carry out an improvement project at Wastewater Treatment Plant No. 3. The work will consist of constructing new headworks; two new clarifiers; a raw-activated and waste-activated sludge pump station; a scum pump station; miscellaneous hydraulic boxes, and the decommissioning of the north and south headworks. The project is valued at $16 million. City of Kenner, Attn: Brenda Campos, Purchasing Director, 1801 Williams Blvd., Kenner, 70062. DR#15-00455700.

Mississippi 4/7 The University of Mississippi Medical Center is seeking bidders to construct the Translational Research Center in Jackson. The eight-story, 222,000-sq-ft building will contain two completed floors as well as six shelled floors, for future expansion. The completed floors will contain a vivarium and a research incubator center. Foil Wyatt Architects is the building's designer. The project's value has been estimated at $46.4 million. University of Mississippi Medical Center, Attn: Sam Hathorn, Director of Purchasing, 2500 N. State St., Jackson, 39216. DR#12-00411244.