New $700M Live! Casino & Hotel Philadelphia Project First Integrated Entertainment Destination in Region

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Live! Casino & Hotel Philadelphia, an affiliate of The Cordish Companies, has selected Gilbane Building Company to serve as the general contractor for the new $700-million project. Located in the heart of the South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Stadium District, Live! Casino & Hotel Philadelphia will transform the area into the first integrated sports, entertainment and casino resort destination in the region. The 1.5-million-square-foot facility will include 2,200 slots and electronic table games, more than 150 live action table games, an upscale 200+ boutique hotel, popular restaurants and live entertainment venues, valet parking and an approximately 2,700-space parking garage. Gilbane will lead […]

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Flagship Mercyhealth Hospital Houses Only State-Designated Children’s Hospital in Northern Illinois

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Mortenson has reached completion of Mercyhealth’s Javon Bea Hospital and Physician Clinic–Riverside, a $505-million regional tertiary specialty women and children’s hospital, adult hospital and multi-specialty clinic in Rockford, Illinois, marking the end of the largest construction project in the city’s history. The new facility, which houses the only state-designated children’s hospital in northern Illinois, and a regional perinatal center with 52-bed level III (highest level) neonatal intensive care unit, opened to patients in January. Mortenson prioritized hiring locally and women and minority representation on the jobsite, with more than 90 percent of craft workers living within 49 miles of the […]

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Topping-Out Ceremony Marks Milestone for The Q Transformation

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A major construction milestone in The Q Transformation to update and modernize the 25-year–old publicly owned Quicken Loans Arena was celebrated with a special topping-out ceremony to hoist the project’s final steel beam into place atop of the arena, located in Cleveland, Ohio. General contractor on the project is Whiting Turner. The topping out culminates almost a year of structural steel work on the project, which began in February 2018. More than 4,750 pieces of steel, equivalent to 1,229 tons, have been installed to form the frame of the arena’s new north atrium and south entrance. The new street-facing exterior […]

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Construction of Second Underground Proton Therapy Vault at Siteman Cancer Center Affords Complexity, Challenges

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Kadean Construction has begun building a 48,000-cubic-foot, underground concrete vault to house a 120 ton cyclotron for Siteman Cancer Center’s second proton treatment facility in St. Louis, Missouri. The vault is being built beneath a parking garage on the Washington University Medical Campus, which also includes Barnes-Jewish Hospital and St. Louis Children’s Hospital, in the city’s Central West End. When completed in mid-to-late 2019, the 40-foot-deep vault will house the massive cyclotron, which will produce a focused beam of isolated protons for “pencil-beam scanning,” an advanced form of radiation therapy for patients treated at the S. Lee Kling Proton Therapy […]

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Children’s National Breaks Ground on One-of-a-Kind Pediatric Research and Innovation Hub

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Children’s National Health System recently marked the official start of construction on its pediatric research and innovation campus with a groundbreaking event. It will be distinct nationally as a freestanding research and innovation complex focused on pediatric medicine. Children’s National is renovating four existing buildings on a nearly 12-acre portion of the former Walter Reed Army Medical Center campus located in Washington, D.C. This includes a research and innovation building, an outpatient care center, which will include comprehensive primary care services for the community and a conference theater. With 160,000 square feet of research and innovation space—and room for expansion—Children’s […]

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