Avison Young provided early development services for Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, a two-story, 50,000-square-feet medical office building, located in Concord, Massachusetts. These services included developing budgets and schedules, coordinating and monitoring all consultant activities during the design phase and managing the permitting and approvals process. The firm also acted as owner’s representation to Normandy Real Estate Partners during pre-construction and construction phases of this project. Given that the tenant had to vacate its previous location by a certain date, the schedule was tight with no flexibility. In addition, the tenant added multiple enhancements to the project, which required completion during […]

NEW YORK, N.Y. — Lend Lease recently recognized the completion of the National September 11 Memorial Museum. Lend Lease served as the construction manager for the National September 11 Memorial & Museum.   The 9/11 Memorial opened on Sept. 11, 2011 in commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks. Designed by Davis Brody Bond, the museum will display monumental artifacts linked to the events of 9/11, while presenting intimate stories of loss, compassion, reckoning and recovery that are central to telling the story of the 2001 and 1993 attacks and the aftermath. It will communicate key messages that […]

Skanska USA Building has signed a contract to construct a new eight-story patient tower and renovate an existing facility at Lee Memorial Health System's Golisano Children's Hospital of Southwest Florida in Fort Myers, Florida. Skanska, leading a joint venture with Gates Construction, will include its full 75 percent share of the contract — totaling $108 million — in its first quarter order bookings. The total contract value is $144 million. The new patient tower of the Golisano Children's Hospital will include a pediatric emergency department located on the second level, featuring its own entry for children. There will be a […]