JE Dunn Construction is moving apace with a $5.7-million interior buildout for an upscale steakhouse, Steak 48, to Apex SouthPark, a luxury mixed-use development taking shape in Charlotte, North Carolina. On the first floor of the Apex SouthPark complex, Steak 48 will occupy approximately 9,600 square feet and offer diverse, fine-dining experiences featuring a collection of intimate dining rooms including patio seating. The fully exposed kitchen, with its floor-to-ceiling glass walls, offers diners a unique view into the culinary experience. Developed by Childress Klein and Ascentris, Apex SouthPark is a destination complex of specialty restaurants, fashion options and other retail, … Read more
Parish Episcopal School’s Noble Family Performing Arts Center Tops Out
Later this month, the construction team and school will celebrate the topping out of the Noble Family Performing Arts Center at Parish Episcopal School’s Midway Campus in Dallas, Texas. The new performing arts center—part of a 55,000-square-foot campus expansion—will host student performances, community and milestone events, awards ceremonies and high-caliber speakers and cultural events. McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. broke ground on the project in November of 2019 and it is expected to be complete by spring of 2021. The Noble Family Performing Arts Center includes a 515-seat performance hall, 120-seat black box theater, rehearsal rooms, a film screening room and … Read more
Construction Begins on Forsyth Pointe Mixed-Use Development in Missouri
Construction has started on Forsyth Pointe, a mixed-use development in the central business district of Clayton, Missouri, the county seat of St. Louis County. McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. is the construction manager overseeing all construction work, including the delivery of self-perform concrete services on the cast-in-place building foundations, elevator cores and parking structure. Developed by US Capital Development and totaling nearly 1 million square feet, the Design-Build project includes two Class A office towers—the east tower at 10 stories and 265,000 square feet and the west tower at eight stories and 210,000 square feet—with more than 20,000 square feet of … Read more
Construction Milestone Reached on Plano ISD Fine Arts Center Project
An important milestone in the construction of the Plano ISD Fine Arts Center, located in Plano, Texas, has recently been reached with the completion of the project’s architectural concrete walls. The tall and carefully designed walls are focal points that the rest of the center’s design was largely based upon. McCarthy Building Companies, the general contractor, is self-performing the concrete work in this facility that features a 1,500-seat multi-purpose performance hall with an upper-level balcony and lower-level orchestra pit, a 250-seat studio black box theater, a rehearsal studio for music and dance and a visual arts gallery. The concrete package … Read more
History Unearthed at San Pedro Creek Culture Park
It’s common for Texans to “Remember the Alamo!” with the Spanish mission being by far the most storied landmark in San Antonio, if not the entire state. However, there are many other parts of San Antonio’s 300-year past that also bear remembering. Sometimes it just takes some digging—with historical records or, in the Sundt-Davila joint-venture project team’s case, a Cat 308 mini excavator—to bring them to the public’s attention. During earth work on what will be a public entertainment plaza, part of Phase 1.2 of the San Pedro Creek Culture Park project, the project team recently uncovered the foundation of … Read more







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