While many housing projects are sitting on the table waiting for the economy to pick up, Mercy Housing California is serving up a buffet of new developments around the state. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" “Things have slowed down the last couple years with the recession, but [work] is coming in and we are fully staffed and I think we will meet our goal this year,” says Rick Sprague, regional director of resource development for the San Francisco-based company, which develops, finances and operates affordable housing for low-income families, seniors and people with special needs. “There were some delays
The Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners unanimously approved the Environmental Impact Report for the project to replace the aging, 42-year-old Gerald Desmond Bridge at the Port of Long Beach with a new, nearly $1 billion span. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" The Port of Long Beach, in partnership with Caltrans, will oversee the project to design and build a higher, wider bridge parallel to and just north of the existing Gerald Desmond Bridge. Once the new bridge is completed and open, the old structure will be taken down. The project will generate an average of 4,000 jobs per
FKP Architects’ senior associate and project designer, Mezio S. Zangirolami, AIA, LEED AP, was recently named among the Houston Business Journal’s 2010 “40 Under 40” honorees. The annual awards program identifies 40 leaders on the rise who excel in their industries, are respected business leaders and show leadership in their communities. Zangirolami graduated from the University of Houston with a bachelor’s degree in architecture. TEXO, the combined chapter of the North/East Texas Chapter of the Associated General Contractors and the Associated Builders and Contractors North Texas, named Hank Mouser of Balfour Beatty Construction, its 2010 Safety Professional of the Year.
The Burbank City Council has approved development applications submitted by the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority for construction of a $120-million Regional Intermodal Transportation Center (RITC) and associated improvements at Bob Hope Airport. The authority says it intends to put the project out to bid in late winter/early spring 2011. Airport spokesman Victor Gill says the authority has already contracted gkkworks to provide program management services for the RITC, and the Los Angeles firm of Anil Verma Associates is providing construction design services. Completion of the project is expected by December 2012. The RITC will allow air, rail, bus, and rental car
A design/build team led by San Carlos-based Gonsalves & Stronck Construction recently completed a historical rehabilitation to one of Woodside’s oldest and most significant equestrian properties. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" The Folger Estate Stable, together with the other buildings that formed the grand country estate of the coffee magnate James A. Folger II, was designed in 1905 by Arthur Brown Jr., famous for later work including San Francisco City Hall, Coit Tower and other California landmarks. Even in this youthful work, Brown’s Beaux-Arts training and personal genius is clearly evident in a design that draws upon 17th-century French
RJC Architects reports the completion of the $54.5 million Marine Corps Special Operations Command (MARSOC) headquarters at Camp Pendleton. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" RJC Architects, in partnership with RQ Construction Co. of Carlsbad, designed and built a 89,000-sq-ft headquarters building and a 21,000-sq-ft academic instruction building at the 33-acre MARSOC complex located within the 125,000-acre Marine base in north San Diego County. The new headquarters building includes command offices, auditorium, medical department and a secure compartmentalized information facility.
During the dismantling of Gold Ray Dam, a 106-year-old timber cofferdam and 70-year-old concrete dam near Medford, Ore., the Rogue River blew through a sand spit, changing course and freeing the river�s run for the first time in over a century. Photo: River Design Group Oregon�s Gold Ray Dam is razed two weeks ahead of schedule after an unexpected breach. Photo: River Design Group Oregon�s Gold Ray Dam is razed two weeks ahead of schedule after an unexpected breach. Scott Wright, project manager for the Corvallis, Ore., office of design-build contractor River Design Group, says that the entire process actually
The State Allocation Board reports that it has allocated $408 million for shovel-ready school construction projects across the state. These state matching funds will help finance 78 school construction projects within 42 school districts and are expected to create more than 7,000 new jobs. �Today�s action by the board moves these 42 districts to the head of the line and gets them the funding they need to start construction on vital education facilities,� says SAB Chair Cynthia Bryant. �New construction activity spurs job creation and gives our economy the boost it needs to get back on track.� The funding was
Urban Housing Communities LLC reports that construction has begun at The Crossings at Big Bear Lake, a 42-unit affordable housing community developed in collaboration with the city of Big Bear Lake�s Improvement Agency and Bank of America. Upon completion next summer, the $17-million community will offer healthy, supportive and eco-friendly apartment homes to local working families earning between 30 percent and 60 percent of San Bernardino County median income. Architecture and planning firm KTGY Group, Inc. of Irvine is the architect on the project and Irvine-based SL Residential is the general contractor. The Crossings at Big Bear Lake will offer
The San Francisco Bay Area city of Fairfield reports that it has closed its bond financing for the Frank-Lin Distillers Products Ltd. construction project. The city worked through the California Enterprise Development Authority (CEDA) to issue a $22-million, tax-exempt Recovery Zone Facility Bond. Proceeds of this bond were used to finance the construction of a $34-million, 288,000-sq-ft building on 15 acres in the Tolenas Industrial Park. Frank-Lin was the first completed Recovery Zone Facility Bond project in California to go through the state reallocation process. San Jose Construction is the general contractor on the project. The engineering firm is Kier
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