It's not every day I get to sign the last steel beam on a major project before it is hoisted into place. It is even more rare that I get to share this honor with a two ft-tall Megellanic penguin dressed in his black and white birthday suit.
The $1.6-billion Washington State Convention Center expansion project in downtown Seattle has a new contractor and a clear path toward the start of construction in 2017, while development on the Pacific Northwest’s largest hotel continues next door.
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.
Despite its marquee riverfront location in Chicago’s West Loop, a sliver of land today known as 150 North Riverside sat vacant for decades, effectively orphaned.