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Transit, museums and hospital projects continue to provide work across the region, while the condo and apartment market slows down

The first step toward transforming a closed 900-acre psychiatric hospital site near Annapolis, Md., into a sports and entertainment complex could begin as early as next year, under a plan presented by Mark Burdett, owner of the Major Lacrosse League’s Chesapeake Bayhawks.

The Allentown, Pa., Neighborhood Improvement Zone Development Authority has given initial approval to a $16.6 million plan to renovate the city’s Holiday Inn hotel.

The Md. 355 bridge over the Monocacy River was closed last week after a commercial vehicle struck its superstructure.

High above New York City’s streets, ironworkers building the 70-story One Manhattan West tower are laboring inside of a six-story, 900-ton steel-mesh cocoon that hydraulically crawls up the sides of the building as they erect structural steel around the tower’s concrete core.

Officials will use design-build to cut 18 months and $35 million from earlier estimates.

Development of the Suffolk Down racetrack is moving forward whether or not Amazon opts to build its second headquarters in Boston.

A high-rise tower with mixed-income apartments will soon rise in Cambridge’s Central Square above existing brick and other low-rise buildings that harken back to earlier days.

The latest addition to Virginia’s growing portfolio of P3-built tolled express lanes officially got underway on Nov. 20, with the ceremonial groundbreaking for the $3.7 billion Transform 66 Outside the Beltway project.