Ground was broken recently on West 27th Place, a mixed-use, market-rate student housing development adjacent to the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. CityView, an institutional investment firm focused on urban real estate, in-city housing, and metropolitan infrastructure, is the owner of the project. The developer is Los Angeles-based Symphony Development, the architect is Clark & Hedrick Architects Inc. and the general contractor is Cobalt Construction Co. The project is registered for LEED gold certification. �If certified, West 27th Place will be the first and only LEED certified, amenity-rich student housing option at USC,� says Sean Burton, president and
Grossmont College in El Cajon will break ground Aug.8 on a major $39-million renovation of its student center and its combined administration and student services building. Over the last few years, Grossmont College has added or modernized six classroom, laboratory and learning resource buildings, as well as constructed a multistory parking structure and made major changes to the campus entrance and perimeter roads. Architects Mosher Drew Watson Ferguson designed the Griffin Center to bring people together with social spaces including dining areas, lounges, game room, bistro, retail space, student organization and student government offices, student health, and meeting room space
The Guy West Bridge at California State University-Sacramento will close for five weeks beginning July 18, as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District begins construction on a $3.2 million levee improvement project on the American River. �We�re going back and fixing gaps in the levee system that were not addressed in earlier construction,� says John Hoge, Corps project manager. Hoge says when the bridge opened in 1967, the Corps had a contract to construct approximately 20 miles of cutoff wall along the north and south banks of the American River, but the contract did not include dealing with
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors, as expected, formally approved the 700-acre Hunters Point Shipyard-Candlestick Point redevelopment phase 2 project by a vote of 10-1. According to Kofi Bonner, regional vice president of Lennar, the developer, the next step is to deal with any �legal issues and challenges.� Following that, Bonner says steps will include continuing the entitlement process through state and regional agencies, significant amount of planning and engineering work still needs to be done to execute the approved plan, go to capital markets to seek the necessary funds for the project, oversee the Navy�s cleanup efforts before transferring
Charles Pankow Builders Ltd. has broken ground on the renovation and modernization of the existing 12-acre Civic Mall in downtown Los Angeles.Pankow was selected by the Grand Avenue Park Development LLC, which is developing Civic Park for the county of Los Angeles. Completion is scheduled for June 20, 2012. Pankow managed the preconstruction and is providing construction services for the $56-million project, which includes the reconfiguration of the circular garage ramps off of Grand Avenue, remodeling and upgrades to the historic Arthur J. Will Memorial fountain, and extensive improvements to the landscape, hardscape, stairs and ramps, irrigation. In addition, the
McCarthy Building Cos. Inc. and architect HOK joined California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in a public ceremony this week to start work on America�s first �Health and Wellness City� at the former March Air Reserve Base in Riverside County. Named �March LifeCare Campus, the 10-year, $3.3-billion construction project will encompass 246 acres, housing some 6 million sq ft of health related structures, including a hospital, medical office buildings, retail, a hotel, a continuing care retirement community, wellness centers and healing gardens as well as facilities for veterans, skilled nursing, spiritual healing and ambulatory care. Governor Schwarzenegger summed up the significance of
Work on track relocation, a pair of bridges and two roadways continues at the 240-acre Railyards project in Sacramento despite a pending foreclosure. In June, Illinois-based Inland American Real Estate Trust initiated foreclosure proceedings against Atlanta-based Thomas Enterprises after the developer defaulted on $187 million in loans. Thomas Enterprises has 120 days to repay or renegotiate the loans. In the meantime, North Highlands-based MCM Construction Inc. and subcontractors Sacramento-based Teichert Construction and West Sacramento-based Alling Iron Works continue work on a cast-in-place, prestressed box girder bridge on 5th Street. More than 100 piles are in place. Concrete for the southern
The Transbay Joint Powers Authority reports that the official opening date of the Transbay Temporary Terminal and the closing of the existing Transbay Terminal will occur on Aug. 7, and at the same time work will start on the demolition of the existing terminal, which was built in 1939. The Transbay Temporary Terminal, located on Howard and Main streets, will serve as the temporary bus facility until the completion of the new Transbay Transit Center at First and Mission streets in 2017. According to the TJPA, Livermore-based Evans Brothers is the demolition contractor, a joint venture of Webcor/Obayashi is the
Casa Dominguez, a new mixed-use, affordable development built with neighborhood transformation in mind, has just been awarded LEED for Homes platinum certification. photo credit: Jeromy Roberts It is the first multifamily housing in Los Angeles County to achieve such distinction. (It is also the sixth LEED for Homes certified platinum multifamily project in California, the 13th for affordable multifamily developments in the U.S. and the 20th for multifamily projects in general in the country.) �There is such a minuscule number of projects of this nature in the entire world to receive such recognition as LEED platinum status. This is a
More than two weeks ahead of schedule, McCarthy Building Cos. Inc. has completed construction of the new 279,000-sq-ft Rady Children�s Hospital Acute Care Pavilion in the Kearny Mesa area of San Diego. Rady Children's Hospital Designed by the San Francisco office of Anshen+Allen, the new $260-million Acute Care Pavilion is the first acute care facility in the state to meet the rigorous standards for quality and safety mandated by the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD), while also achieving the level of occupant health and environmental sustainability required to earn LEED-certified status. The facility will be equipped and
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