Texas & Southeast On the Scene: June 2025
Photo courtesy Sundt Construction
Sundt Construction has completed the Broadway Street reconstruction in San Antonio. The progressive design-build project renovated a one-mile section of the roadway that connects the city’s historic downtown core with northern neighborhoods to make it safer, more sustainable and more accessible, Sundt says. Completed with design-build partner AECOM, the project scope included expanded pedestrian walkways, protected bike lanes and on-street parking, with major improvements including new water, sewer, electric and telecom mains, nine new bus stops, advanced pedestrian lighting and signalized intersections. Sundt says the project’s green infrastructure approach includes bioswales to naturally treat stormwater runoff before it reaches the San Antonio River, saving $400,000 and improving environmental outcomes. Joseph Dooley, the company’s senior vice president and Texas district manager for its transportation group, pointed to the team effort in “reconstructing a key urban artery while coordinating with nearly 100 stakeholders and preserving San Antonio’s historic character.” The project earned an Associated General Contractors Build America Award in the highway and transportation renovation category, the firm said in April.
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Robins & Morton notes two recent project completions—Fifth Third Park, a 200,000-sq-ft baseball stadium in Spartanburg, S.C., and AdventHealth Meadow Pointe emergency room in Pasco County, Fla. Announced April 3, Fifth Third Park is a 3,500-seat stadium for the Hub City Spartanburgers of the South Atlantic League, a High-A affiliate of Major League Baseball’s Texas Rangers. It can accommodate up to 5,000 fans and features a 7,000-sq-ft club, multipurpose event spaces, concourse level boxes, an outfield berm in deep left field and the team store, ticket office and future retail space opening to a new plaza. Robins & Morton was general contractor, working with architect McMillan Pazdan Smith. The project also includes a six-level, 230,000-sq-ft parking garage with 650 spaces connected to the stadium. In Pasco County, Robins & Morton and AdventHealth opened the $26-million medical facility April 24, a more-than 13,000-sq-ft freestanding emergency department located in the rapidly developing area between AdventHealth’s Wesley Chapel and its Zephyrhills facilities. The Pasco County ER includes 12 patient beds, two triage rooms, imaging and lab services and a pediatric-friendly room. HuntonBrady was architect for the project, with Robins & Morton serving as general contractor. The facility was constructed in just nine months, says Todd Watson, the contractor’s Florida division manager.
Rendering courtesy Robert A.M. Stern Architects
Texas Christian University and development partner Endeavor Real Estate Group broke ground April 29 on two apartment-style buildings that are among the first to be inspired by the university campus master plan. The first phase of the Morado on Berry development aims to add sophisticated residential amenities and retail space to the campus. The school’s partnership with Austin-based Endeavor was announced in mid-April to construct a mixed-use development on the southern edge of the campus to support goals outlined in the university’s strategic and master plans, including expanded housing to support intentional student-centered growth. The two buildings together will add a total of 780 beds of Class A+, highly amenitized housing and 25,000 sq ft of ground-floor retail space set to be complete by the fall 2027 semester. Project team members include Robert A.M. Stern Architects as architect, Lake|Flato for design, The Beck Group as construction manager, OHT Partners as general contractor and Kimley-Horn as civil engineer.
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Nashville-based Hodgson Douglas Landscape Architects marks 40 years in business. Founded by Joe Hodgson and Jim Douglas in 1985, the company says it has increased revenue sixfold and expanded from seven to 23 employees. It expects to add another 10 team members by 2030, reflecting the busy Nashville market and its commitment to build a supportive, collaborative workplace. The firm also recently refreshed its brand, centering its new approach on “clarity,” a concept it says shapes both its design style and approach to client experience. The company is providing landscape architecture services for upgrades of Centennial Park in Nashville—also serving as a creator of the master plan design for its Cockrill Springs quadrant, which includes an outdoor amphitheater and new water feature highlighting the historic Cockrill Spring. For the project, the firm will work with Metro Parks Planning Dept., Collier Engineering, Dryden Architecture and Design, the Centennial Park Conservancy and others. Construction is expected to be completed in 2025. Hodgson Douglas Landscape Architects also is involved in the central neighborhood hub of Nashville-based Vanderbilt University, where four new residential colleges are planned. Vanderbilt says the new central neighborhood project would be “an extension of the dramatic transformation in the West End neighborhood, which was completed in August 2024 after 12 years of planning and construction and includes thoughtfully designed green and collaborative spaces that will incorporate sustainability and accessibility in line with goals of the FutureVU initiative.” The effort continues the firm’s work on the program underway since 2013. Other Nashville projects in its portfolio include reenvisioning Fort Negley, a UNESCO Site of Memory; exterior design efforts at the Frist Art Museum; and work on the Tennessee State Museum. Outside the area, the firm has led major landscape architectural projects in Illinois, Florida, Alabama and North Carolina.
