Chandler officials and developers began the process toward building an office facility on Wednesday thats expected to bring hundreds of jobs to the Price Road corridor.

Kieckhefer Properties and Willmeng Construction Inc. broke ground Wednesday on Chandler 202, a three-story, 140,000-square-foot office building located near the intersection of Frye Road and Ellis Street.

The Class A office facility can be used as either a single- or multi-tenant property and is expected to provide 700 to 1,000 jobs when completed. No companies are planning to move into the space as of yet. Completion is scheduled for March or April 2015.

Chandler Chamber of Commerce president and CEO Terri Kimble said the development is an important addition to the Chandler economy.

Its more jobs, its more job creation and this is more opportunity, she said. Right now, we dont have a whole lot of vacant buildings to be able to bring companies into, and this adds one more tool for economic development to be able to help fill these buildings.

The building was originally planned in the 1990s, but 9/11 and a struggling economy caused the project to be delayed, said Bill Woodruff, general manager of Kieckhefer Properties.

The projects groundbreaking was initially scheduled for April, but the buildings design was tweaked to be taller, pushing the start to June.

When we first came out here, this was 40 acres of farmland and we had a plan to put streets in, put buildings on and this is the final piece to it, Woodruff said.

The Price Road corridor is known for its plethora of tech companies including Intel, Orbital and Infusionsoft. Other prominent companies in the corridor, which stretches south of the Loop 202 Santan Freeway, include Nationstar, OnTrac, eBay, PayPal and Wells Fargo. Wells Fargo is the citys fourth-largest employer.

Jim Smith, an economic development specialist for Chandler, said the Chandler 202 building is a natural fit for the corridor.

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Construction spending barely increased in May as gains in spending on nonresidential projects such as office buildings and public construction were largely offset by a big drop in home building.

Construction spending edged up 0.1 percent in May after a much stronger 0.8 percent April increase, the Commerce Department reported on Tuesday. The back-to-back gain followed a period of weakness in which spending fell in January and February and was flat in March.

The industry has struggled with an unusually severe winter which curtailed building activity in many regions.

Construction activity totaled $958.1 billion at a seasonally adjusted annual rate in May, up 6.6 percent from a year ago.

Economists are forecasting that housing and overall construction will regain momentum in coming months, helping to boost overall economic growth.

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By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. construction spending barely increased in May as gains in spending on non-residential projects such as office buildings and public construction were largely offset by a big drop in home building.

Construction spending edged up 0.1 percent in May after a much stronger 0.8 percent April increase, the Commerce Department reported Tuesday. The back-to-back gain followed a period of weakness in which spending fell in both January and February and was flat in March.

The construction industry has struggled with an unusually severe winter which curtailed building activity in many regions.

Construction activity totaled $958.1 billion at a seasonally adjusted annual rate in May, up 6.6 percent from a year ago.

Economists are forecasting that housing and overall construction will regain momentum in coming months, helping to boost overall economic growth.

However, housing suffered a setback in April, falling 1.5 percent. Single-family home construction was down 1.4 percent while apartment construction dropped 0.6 percent. Overall, housing construction is up 7.5 percent from a year ago.

Non-residential construction rose 1.1 percent, led by a 4.3 percent rise in construction of power generating facilities. Construction of office buildings was up slightly but spending on hotels and the category that covers shopping centers both showed declines.

Spending on government projects rose 1 percent with a 2 percent jump in spending on state and local building projects offsetting an 8.9 percent decline in spending by the federal government on building projects.

A slump in construction in the winter contributed to the economy shrinking at an annual rate of 2.9 percent in the January-March quarter, the biggest decline since the first quarter of 2009 during the depths of the Great Recession.

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WASHINGTON - U.S. construction spending barely increased in May as gains in spending on non-residential projects such as office buildings and public construction were largely offset by a big drop in home building.

Construction spending edged up 0.1 percent in May after a much stronger 0.8 percent April increase, the Commerce Department reported Tuesday. The back-to-back gain followed a period of weakness in which spending fell in both January and February and was flat in March.

The construction industry has struggled with an unusually severe winter which curtailed building activity in many regions.

Construction activity totaled $958.1 billion at a seasonally adjusted annual rate in May, up 6.6 percent from a year ago.

Economists are forecasting that housing and overall construction will regain momentum in coming months, helping to boost overall economic growth.

However, housing suffered a setback in April, falling 1.5 percent. Single-family home construction was down 1.4 percent while apartment construction dropped 0.6 percent. Overall, housing construction is up 7.5 percent from a year ago.

Non-residential construction rose 1.1 percent, led by a 4.3 percent rise in construction of power generating facilities. Construction of office buildings was up slightly but spending on hotels and the category that covers shopping centers both showed declines.

Spending on government projects rose 1 percent with a 2 percent jump in spending on state and local building projects offsetting an 8.9 percent decline in spending by the federal government on building projects.

A slump in construction in the winter contributed to the economy shrinking at an annual rate of 2.9 percent in the January-March quarter, the biggest decline since the first quarter of 2009 during the depths of the Great Recession.

The sharp downturn reflected not just bad weather but a decision by businesses to slow restocking of empty shelves and trim their capital spending on equipment. Additionally, the trade deficit widened in the first quarter, which also held economic activity back.

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Anchorage, AK (PRWEB) June 30, 2014

In mid-June, Mint Dental Alaska broke ground on a brand new four-story office building on Tudor Road and Lake Otis in Anchorage.

According to Jon McNeil, DDS, Mint Dental Alaska decided to construct the new building as a way to expand its services for patients in the area and improve customer experience.

"This new office is important to us as it will allow us to better serve the Anchorage dental community in a friendly, state-of-the-art facility," Dr. McNeil said. "Patients' wait times will be reduced significantly, making for a better overall experience when they visit the dentist."

In addition to its four stories of retail and office space, the building will also feature underground parking and an all-new Mint Dental Alaska office, Dr. McNeil said. The community will be able to benefit from this addition of new space for stores and offices along with expanded dental care.

"This will benefit the area, as it will allow more shops and businesses to lease space and serve the local community," he said. "We are financing this building's construction because we believe in Anchorage and want to support its economy as well as its dental health."

Currently, Mint Dental Alaska offers a variety of different dental services and procedures -- from dental cleanings and check-ups to sedation dentistry, cosmetic dentistry, emergency dentistry and much more. The new office building will allow Mint Dental Alaska to provide all of these services to even more people in the surrounding area.

"We hope people continue to think of Mint Dental Alaska as a dental clinic that provides the best dental care for our patients," Dr. McNeil said. "With this expansion, we hope to continue our tradition of serving the community with the same quality service as we always have."

The new Mint Dental Alaska building is scheduled to open in the fall of 2015, according to Dr. McNeil.

Mint Dental is an Anchorage dentist office specializing in comprehensive dental services for the entire family. Visit online at mintdentalalaska.com

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The Office of the Australian Building and Construction Commissioner (ABCC) (20052012) was an independent, statutory authority, responsible for monitoring and promoting workplace relations in the Australian building and construction industry. The ABCC provided education, investigated workplace complaints and enforced compliance with national workplace laws in the industry. The ABCC did this by:

The ABCC was abolished on 31 May 2012, and many of its functions were taken on by a new independent, specialist agency called Fair Work Building & Construction.

The Royal Commission into the Building and Construction Industry was established in August 2001 and tabled its final report in March 2003.

The Royal Commission found that the building and construction industry was characterised by a widespread disregard for the law, cataloguing over 100 types of unlawful and inappropriate conduct.[1]

The Commission also found that existing regulatory bodies had insufficient powers and resources to enforce the law.

The Building Industry Taskforce (BIT) was the predecessor to the ABCC, and was established on 1 October 2002 as an interim body prior to the establishment of the national agency envisaged by Royal Commissioner Cole.

In March 2004 the Interim Taskforce became a permanent taskforce, operating until the BCII Act created the ABCC in October 2005.

Nigel Hadgkiss was the director of the BIT from October 2002 until it was subsumed by the ABCC. On 29 September 2005 the Hon. John Lloyd PSM was appointed as the inaugural ABC Commissioner. ABC Commissioner Leigh Johns took up his appointment on 11 October 2010.

On 16 February 2012, legislation to abolish the ABCC passed the House of Representatives by 71 votes to 70. The legislation passed through the Senate on 21 March, and the agency was officially abolished on 31 May 2012. On 1 June 2012, a new independent regulator, Fair Work Building & Construction, was created to take on many of the functions of the ABCC.

The ABCC could commence civil penalty proceedings against individuals and organisations who engaged in unlawful industrial action.

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The Tower at PNC Plaza, a 33-story office building project at the corner of Wood Street and Fifth Avenue in Downtown Pittsburgh, hit a milestone last week: Workers installed the final steel beam for what will become the new global headquarters for PNC Financial Services Group. The buildings construction, which began in 2012 and is scheduled to finish by fall of 2015, will employ a total of 2,500 people, with up to 500 working at any given time.

Its anyones guess whether the hundreds of white collar workers who will eventually take their desks inside will give much thought to how their new workday home, which PNC calls the greenest building in the world, was put together.

Tapping away at keyboards or punching phone numbers inside, theyll be surrounded by thousands of tons of beams and look out through hundreds of huge glass windows that help cycle heat in and out to regulate temperature. Harder to visualize are the precise calculations that went into determining how much that steel skeleton would compress as floors and weight were added, the feats of skill and teamwork employed to drop the pre-fabricated windows weighing hundreds of pounds each into place and the minor miracle of scheduling and trucking that delivered the innumerable individual pieces of the tower to a congested Downtown job site every day, among myriad details.

Post-Gazette staff writer Robert Zullo and photographer Michael Henninger spent weeks detailing the construction of the building so far. Heres what they have seen.

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Mayor Castro and city officials today announced plans to build the first high rise office building downtown in a quarter century, 1200 WOAI news reports.

The Public Private Partnership agreement, which is still very much in the planning stage, would involve the developer Weston Urban, which is the developer of the very successful Weston Center downtown, to work with the city and Frost Bank to build the Frost Bank Tower, which officials say would be in the 'forty story range,' at Flores and Houston Street.

"This will increase housing in the downtown area, consolidate city offices, and facilitate the construction of the first new office building in downtown since 1988," Castro said.

The plan involves Frost Bank turning over it's headquarters to Weston Urban and the city turning over the Main Plaza Building to the developer.

"Weston Urban would construct a new office tower, which would serve as Frost Bank's headquarters, on the northwest corner of Flores and Houston Street."

Weston Urban CEO Randy Smith said the structure would be 'iconic.'

"I hope that this would be recognized to celebrate one of San Antonio's great corporate citizens," Smith said. "Through this proposed project, Frost's commitment to downtown amplifies Weston Urban's."

Smith said the building will also allow Weston Urban to redevelop the Main Plaza into condominiums, so people can live on Main Plaza, next to the historic San Fernando Cathedral, in the heart of the city.

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A Tacoma man is renovating a formerly run-down office building on the corner of South 9th and J streets. Photo taken June 26, 2014.

KATHLEEN COOPER Staff writer Buy Photo

A local man is breathing new life into a run-down office building in Tacomas Hilltop neighborhood.

The Hilltop has a lot of potential, owner Jim Sheridan said Thursday. Along with other private investors, Sheridan bought the building at 919 S. Ninth St. this spring. Its been vacant for years, the target of vandals and wire thieves.

Most recently the roof had started to collapse.

For a before view of the building, click here for a look through Google Street View.

Sheridan doesnt have a tenant yet, but he began construction with the goal of landing one who is interested in the renovated space.

Most owners of vacant buildings dont put money into repairs until they have a tenant and the accompanying revenue stream that allows them to secure a loan. Sheridan wasnt up for that strategy. He has put on a new roof, taken the building down to the studs and installed new wiring, plumbing and air systems. Outside will have additional brick and stucco, as well as new landscaping. He estimates by the end of the renovations hell have spent $150,000.

The inside will be shell space until he has a tenant.

I wanted to take the bull by the horns and try to attract those tenants. I dont see how it can work any other way, he said. Sheridan, 44, has lived in the area since the 1990s, when he moved here while serving in the Army. He also owns Events on Sixth, a 90-year-old former Baptist church at 2520 Sixth Ave. that he renovated in 2011-2012.

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