CHICAGO, Ill. — The Lend Lease Chicago office completed the construction of the Hyatt Place Chicago/Downtown — The Loop, a brand new sustainable hotel located at 28 North Franklin, in the heart of Chicago, Illinois" Downtown Loop Area. Working in collaboration with Palmetto Hospitality Group of Chicago, LLC, OTO Development and VOA Architects, Lend Lease provided construction management services for the new 18-story, 143,000-square-foot hotel featuring 206 guest rooms ranging from king, king studio, queen and ADA room types. The hotel offers guests a wide range of amenities including a more than 1,500-square-foot exercise facility on the third floor, an … Read more

A bustling center filled with robotics, drones and startups could become a new economic powerhouse in Las Vegas, Nevada. And, The Korte Company could be a big part of it. With efforts led by The Korte Company’s Sallie Doebler, the firm partnered with Focus Development, Joseph Beare & Company and SH Architecture to form Build a Better Las Vegas, the team that won first prize in the Strong Cities Strong Communities (SC2) Las Vegas Challenge. The Korte Company team won $500,000 for a proposal to repurpose the existing Cashman Center into the Las Vegas Unmanned Aerial and Robotics Resource Center. … Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas — DPR Construction, in joint venture with Fortis Construction, recently broke ground on a new data center for Facebook in the AllianceTexas development in north Fort Worth, Texas. The 500,000-square-foot facility will incorporate the latest in computing infrastructure design. The facility is expected to be online starting in late 2016. This Fort Worth project is the fourth Facebook data center campus built by the DPR Fortis Mission Critical team. Previous projects include : Facebook's first ground-up data center in Prineville, Oregon Two 370,000-plus-square-foot facilities in Forest City, North Carolina, as well as ancillary buildings A 300,000-square-foot data center … Read more