When Opportunity Knocks: The New CTE and Business Campus in Forney, Texas
By Grace Calengor
September 20, 2024
Forney Independent School District in Forney, Texas, is giving a whole new meaning to career and technical education—and a whole new building in which to learn. Sitting just east of Dallas, Kaufman County, in which Forney is located, grew 7.6% in 2022-2023, making it the fastest-...
Staging the 2024 Olympic Trials Venues
By Brian Elliott
July 17, 2024
The fan experience at major sporting events like the 2024 Summer Olympic Trials goes far beyond the thrill of the competition itself. It encompasses the ambiance of the venues along with the various amenities they offer. Imagine a baseball game without peanuts and hot dogs, the e...
Liftin' on a Prayer: Jon Bon Jovi's New Nashville Bar
By David McMillin
May 6, 2024
When the last notes of the evening ring out on Nashville’s Honky Tonk Highway, there’s one location in Music City that’s been staying very busy: 405 Broadway. What used to be an empty parking lot will soon be JBJ’s Nashville—Jon Bon Jovi’s five-story, 35,000-square-foot bar with ...
Great Expectations: Is Your 2024 What You Thought It Would Be?
By Grace Calengor
April 24, 2024
Nearly a month into Q2, is your 2024 all you wanted and more? Economists and industry experts shared their predictions at the end of last year, but now Construction Executive checks in with Dan Rosenberg, a construction and real-estate lawyer with Much Shelist P.C., about his exp...
Plan of Steel: Raleigh's Newest Adaptive-Reuse Project
By Grace Calengor
April 23, 2024
A former steel fabrication and manufacturing plant might not be the most obvious candidate for an adaptive-reuse project. But Grubb Ventures, which purchased the Peden Steel facility in Raleigh, North Carolina, in 2017 following its previous redevelopment of Dock 1053 just across...
Home Sweet Homestead: Renovating the Omni Homestead Resort
By David McMillin
March 21, 2024
As HITT Contracting’s senior vice president for the hospitality sector, Peter Lanfranchi has worked on just about every type of hotel—from high-quality luxury properties with heavy millwork to limited-service accommodations with tight deadlines. With all those spectacular project...
History on Deck: A Deeper Dive on the Restoration of the USS Alabama
By Grace Calengor
March 21, 2024
On Jan. 9, 1965, the USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park in Mobile Bay, Alabama, officially opened to the public. With 12 decks to explore, and resting alongside an aircraft pavilion, tanks and artillery, the submarine USS Drum and more, the Alabama has since garnered more than ...
Seeing the Light: Upperroom Dallas and the Future of Construction Technology
By Christie Chapman
January 25, 2024
Imagine a future in which you don a headset to enter a virtual-reality simulation of a construction site before it exists. A future in which a robot analyzes a space slated for renovation, recording each minute detail, from measurements to materials, in a fraction of the time and...
Round and Round: The Las Vegas Sphere
By Grace Calengor
November 29, 2023
How does the typical contractor approach building something taller than the Statue of Liberty, wider than a football field and with the most square footage of LED lighting in the world? Perhaps it’s enough to say that Sphere Entertainment Company is not your average contractor—an...
On-Time Delivery
By Christopher Durso
October 1, 2023
The last time Construction Executive saw Jeff King, he was standing between two hulking frameworks of steel and concrete on a patch of frozen ground in Arlington, Virginia, trying to describe the future. On that glacial day in January 2022, Amazon’s HQ2 project was very much a wo...
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