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McClone Construction Company specializes in structural concrete and concrete formwork. Since 1975, we have completed more than 1,000 structures throughout the United States.

From the beginning the company has enjoyed an outstanding reputation for safety, quality, integrity, and performance. We continue to expand our operations to meet the needs of our clientele and provide opportunities for our Team Members.

McClone Construction Company provides a number of different construction services which include: Structural Concrete Formwork, Structural Concrete Packages, Design-build Parking Structures and Multi-story Structural Concrete Frames.

We take pride in knowing that our Clients expectations will be met or exceeded, and our dedication to quality can be seen in all aspects of our work.

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As a company, we strive for continuous improvement, and we know that our Team Members fuel that improvement. Thats why we are building an organization that not only provides a safe work environment, but also gives our team members the opportunity to achieve their personal goals.

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Developers provided additional details at a community meeting Wednesday on a massive proposal that envisions a hotel, housing, office and retail space at the Hill Farms property on Madison's West Side.

Smith Gilbane is looking to turn a 14-acre property adjacent to the under-construction state office building at the Hills Farms location into a collection of mixed-used buildings. The proposal, called "Madison Yards," would have four roads built to divide the land into five blocks.

The project could likely total hundreds of millions of dollars.

The developer intends to submit an application in October to turn the land currently zoned "suburban employment" into a "planned development" zone and hopes to begin construction in late 2018.

The area is bounded by University Avenue to the north, North Segoe Road to the east and Sheboygan Avenue to the south, and it would largely replace a surface parking lot.

The conceptual layout of the Madison Yards development.

Smith Gilbane, a joint venture of Milwaukee-based Summit Smith Development and Providence, Rhode Island-based Gilbane Development Co., is constructing a $150 million, nine-story, 600,000-square-foot office building and a $36 million parking structure for the state.

Once the new building is complete, a roughly 60-year-old state office building at Hill Farms will be demolished, and its land used for the private development.

More than 100 people turned up at Covenant Presbyterian Church to hear about and weigh in on the proposal.

A major concern for attendees was the density and any parking spillover into the surrounding neighborhoods. On the University Avenue side, buildings could reach up to 15 floors.

Sean Roberts, vice president of development for Summit Smith, said the height would be comparable to two nearby 12-story condo buildings off North Segoe Road. Residential buildings on the Sheboygan Avenue side of the development would stand three stories.

"The massing we're going to show is based on the concept now," Roberts said. "None of those projects are fully cooked."

Smith Gilbane also plans to create a 1-acre green space in the center of the Madison Yards project, but several residents criticized the amount of area dedicated to open and green space compared to the overall size of the property.

Others pressed the development team to make strong commitments to sustainable architecture and renewable energy components, such as solar panels.

Roberts said those ideas would be explored, but he noted any finalized designs would go through a separate city approval process if the rezoning is allowed.

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As the beginning of the new school year approaches, the first phase of construction work at Waseca Junior Senior High School is wrapping up

Superintendent Tom Lee says the project is right on schedule, and construction work at Hartley Elementary School, the Central Building and Waseca Intermediate School is done.

Work at district buildings has included replacement of old boilers at Hartley along with other renovation work and security upgrades at all buildings. At WIS, for example, the main office has been reconfigured so that there is a clear sightline to the vestibule between the exterior doors and the doors leading into the school.

Phase one of construction at the high school is wrapping up, with just shy of 38,000 square feet renovated.

The new main entrance of the east side of the building will be ready but construction on the new office will continue. It is on schedule to be completein time for the Minnesota Educator Academy in October.

Phase two of construction begins next week. That's constructing classrooms on the west side of the building in old C wing and the northern part of B wing.

Construction on the new performing arts center will also continue into the school year. Lee says the structure should go up rather quickly because it's precast concrete. The goal is to seal it up by Nov. 1 so workers can continue construction on the inside over the course of the winter.

Phase two will be turned over around the holidays, around which time phase three all of A wing and the southern part of B wing will see construction until May.

The rest of the building the girls' locker rooms, the industrial tech and ag areas and the central part of building, including the music rooms all the way down to the new parts of phase one will be renovated next summer.

Students returning at the start of the year will see some new rooms, including seven science classrooms with finished case work, chemically resistant floors, windows to catch natural light and shared prep rooms.

"It's a 2017 science lab instead of a 1972 science lab," Lee said.

Outside the new rooms are breakout spaces, areas included to allow students to conduct classwork in open seating areas.

Among the objectives for the district were to bring in as much natural light as possible and install a balanced HVAC system.

"One of the issues that we had in the building was that you'd go from one room that was very hot to another room that was really cold," Lee said.

The pipe and duct work for the heating, ventilation and air conditioning system has been completed to address that.

Outside of school construction, the district this year is rolling out one-to-one Chromebook devices for all 7-12 grade students.

Waseca School Board earlier this year decided to provide Chromebooks to high school students for free. The district has since developed a responsible use document that says anyone who breaks a device must pay for it.The district will also have device covers for sale.

Over at the Central Building, a new playground for the preschool will be installed by September. The junior high will this year occupy all of the second floor and most of the third floor of the Central Building. They will come back to the high school next year.

The district has added new access sidewalks to the home and visitors stadium bleachers and made the home bleachers handicapped-accessible.

Waseca welcomes over 21 new staff members. A permanent dean of students position was added to the high school, and Waseca High School Assistant Principal Jason Miller will be the full-time junior high principal at the Central Building this school year.

The district has received an Alternative Delivery for Specialized Instructional Services (ADSIS) grant, which is part of a program that provides aid to school districts in an effort to reduce inappropriate referrals to special education. This grant allowed the district to add six new staff positions, three of which the state paid for and the other three paid by the district. Four of the six are behavior intervention specialists.

Reporter Jacob Stark can be reached at 837-5451 or follow him on Twitter @WCNjacob.

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Rather than renovate the 60-year-old state office building that sits on the site Madison Area Technical College has identified as the future home of an expanded South Side campus, officials plan to demolish the facility and build one in its place.

Materials submitted to the colleges district board, which were made public on Wednesday, lay out MATCs plans for the building at Park Street and Badger Road that now houses the Wisconsin Department of Employee Trust Funds.

The department is vacating the building next spring and moving into the new Hill Farms state government offices.

The college wants to construct a 45,000-square-foot facility with classrooms, offices for student services and specialized lab spaces to teach students in nursing, early childhood instruction and a range of science programs, among others.

It would open in fall 2019 at a cost of no more than $13 million, officials said. MATC hopes to expand the building early in the next decade to 75,000 square feet.

One lingering question after MATC leaders announced the South Campus Initiative to cheers from local business and community leaders at a press conference Monday afternoon was whether the college would look to renovate the building or tear it down.

College officials wrote to the district board that, Given the age and condition of the facility and the need for extensive rehabilitation or demolition, the $2.8 million that MATC will pay a developer for the site is essentially the value of the land.

Building a facility will be more cost-effective and better meet MATCs needs, according to the college.

The project has been a years-long effort for MATC President Jack E. Daniels, who says opening an expanded campus to serve South Side residents will help reduce racial disparities by making the colleges services more accessible in a diverse but historically underserved part of Madison.

Donations from the Irwin A. and Robert D. Goodman Foundation, which contributed $10 million, and the American Family Insurance Dreams Foundation, which gave $1.3 million, will cover most of the cost of buying and building the facility.

The college is also looking to raise $3 million in additional funding for the project, and borrow $1.5 million for new construction, according to the board materials.

The district board will vote both on the chosen site for the South Side campus and the plan to demolish the building during a meeting at 5:30 p.m Sept. 6 at MATCs Truax campus.

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The demolition phase for a large office, lab and retail space at 399 Binney St. is complete, and construction workers are currently laying concrete foundation, according to Alexandria Real Estate Equities.

The real estate company plans to build a 165,000-square-foot office and lab building, as well as 1,500 square feet of retail space, according to the projects CoUrbanize page. Steel erection is expected to begin in the fall.

The Binney Street development is in the middle of the One Kendall Square buildings. Several business will remain open throughout both projects, including Kendall Square Cinema, Friendly Toast, Flat Top Johnnys, and Cambridge Brewing Company, according to previous reports.

The Binney Street project will include a new plaza with ample outdoor seating and informal gathering spaces leading to the cinema.

Alexandria also plans to rebuild the sidewalks and install trees along Binney Street and Cardinal Medeiros Avenue.

The work will lead to improved visibility at the intersection of Binney Street and Cardinal Medeiros Avenue, Alexandria said.

Binney Street is currently a one-way share road for cars and bicycles, according to the projects website. There is currently two police details Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., on Binney and Cardinal Medeiros Avenue who are tasked with assisting pedestrians cross the streets safely.

Construction is scheduled to be completed at the end of 2018.

The real estate company also bought the seven-building collaborative science and technology complex at One Kendall Square for $725 million in June 2016, according to previous reports.

According to the Boston Business Journal, it was one of the biggest real estate sales of 2016.

The seven buildings currently at One Kendall Square includes 644,771 rentable square feet (RSF), consisting of 48 percent office, 36 percent office/laboratory, and 16 percent retail space.

Currently, the campus is 98 percent occupied, but 55 percent of the leases will expire by 2019.

The campus also includes a seven-level, 1,507 parking space garage.

For updates on this project, visit courbanize.com/projects/399binney/updates.

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Greystar takes out $88M construction loan for downtown Fort Lauderdale project

The city of Fort Lauderdale approved the site for a 25-story, 329-unit apartment tower with ground-floor retail space

ByAmanda Rabines | August 30, 2017 04:30PM

Rendering of 790 East Broward Boulevard Inset:Ashley Heggie

Greystar just scored an $88.1 million construction loan for a high-rise rental tower in downtown Fort Lauderdale, property records show.

Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company provided the financing for the project at790 East Broward Boulevard. Greystar paid $19.5 millionfor the site in May. It encompassesthree separate parcels, including a nearly 26,000-square-foot office building, parking lot and five-lane drive-through teller.

Records show Greystar entity GUGV 790 Broward Property Owning LLC secured the loan.Greystars managing director of finance Ashley Heggie was not immediately available for comment.

The city of Fort Lauderdale recently approved the site for a 25-story, 329-unit apartment tower with 6,871 square feet of ground-floor retail space. Records show the property spans about 1.92 acres.

In a previous interview, Todd Wigfield, senior managing director of Greystar Development and Construction Services said the buildings main tenant, Chase Bank, will move back into the building once its complete. He added that construction was set to begin as soon as Greystar relocates Chase to a new, temporary location.

Apartment and condo buildings have been popping up around the downtown Fort Lauderdale area. Nearby, Related Group is buildingIcon Las Olas, a 455-foot tall condo tower. The Kolter Group is also planning100 Las Olas, a 45-story mixed-use condo tower.

Greystar is a national owner and builder of apartments. It currently operates four luxury apartment communities in Fort Lauderdale, including Blue on Marina Boulevard, The Queue, Solmar on Sixth and Elan 16Forty. The company is the largestoperator of apartments in the United States, managing over 400,000 units in over 150 markets globally, according to its website.

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The Mayors Commission on New Government and Judicial Building is getting closer to making a recommendation to Columbus Council on what to do with the 46-year-old structure.

On Wednesday, architects presented members with three conceptual site studies to consider. Later, the group began making plans for a series of forums to seek public input.

Before they put the pictures up, I just want to say, concepts are concepts, Mayor Teresa Tomlinson told the group, as architects prepared to share their PowerPoint slides. They dont necessarily go exactly on the property where theyre located. They dont necessarily look like that. Remember this is not the design committee. Our objective is to get some conceptual proposals to submit to council so that they can consider. And there would be another design committee, or however they want to structure it, in the future.

Tomlinson said the commission plans to have four simultaneous public forums in about 10 to 14 days, which would give the city time to advertise the meetings. At the same time, the commission will be working on a rough draft of the report that will be submitted to council.

And then were off to the races, she said. ... I dont want to make any promises, but I see this getting to council in the Octoberish timeframe.

The conceptual site studies were presented by Tim Jensen, a partner with Hecht Burdeshaw Architects, and Michael Starr, a partner with 2WR. They presented three scenarios for the building:

Scenario 1 - Renovation of the existing tower and wings

Scenario 2 - Renovation of the tower only

Scenario 3 - Total new construction

Starting with Scenario 1, Jensen said renovations to the facility would involve totally gutting the building.

If you imagine the existing structure is there, everything is gone, he explained. So, literally, at the end of the day when the demolition is finished, the sun will shine through, the wind blows through. All you have is structure. Theres no HVAC. Theres no electrical. ... Theres no skin. You would have the ribs that run throughout the building.

... Now, that doesnt quite get us enough space, he said. And so, what we would then do is have an addition that surrounds the tower to make up that space.

Scenario 2 would require significant modification to include a multi-story base added to the existing tower, which would be used for judicial purposes only. The plaza would be removed and a two-level parking deck constructed. Another structure would be built on the site for city administrative offices.

Scenario 3 would involve total new construction. The existing building would be demolished and replaced by two structures a justice center and separate city administrative building. Underground parking would take up the entire southern half of the block.

Starr said Scenario 2 and 3 are common in that they include useable, public green space.

It would rely upon spaces on the north and south side to say, Hey, citizens of Columbus, this is your space, and these are your buildings, he said.

The plans also call for secure entrances for employees and judges, a situation that doesnt exist in the current building, causing safety concerns.

The architects said the cost to renovate the tower and two wings (Scenario 1) would cost about $100,430,602, when demolition, construction and start-date of the project are taken into account. The cost for renovating the tower for judicial purposes and building a new city office building (Scenario 2) would cost $105,417,822. The cost for constructing two new buildings (Scenario 3) would cost $115,506,520.

All three estimates include an increase for time through 2023. They dont include expenses for development of the interior.

The concepts were developed based on 75,000-square-feet for city administrative offices and dont include space for city employees currently located at the annex, the architects said. But they agreed, at the request of commission members, to modify the site plan to include people from the annex, which would require another 27,000-square feet The proposals also include undeveloped space for future growth.

It could be that we could sell the annex building and get some cash for all of this, Tomlinson said.

Kristen Miller Zohn, a local art historian and commission member, asked if the facade and design of the building would be affected in Scenario 1.

Yes and no, said Jensen. Its a new facade. But the intention is we could go back to something thats very similar in nature. ... Today, you have these two columns and what appears to be glass between them, right? So, everything will go away, except for the columns that you see. We would intend to put glass back in between there again, and there would be some other embellishments to the degree that we needed them for functionality.

Zohn then said: So, in none of these scenarios does the original aesthetics of that style of building from 1971 remain intact.

The architects said the amount of space available at the site, code restrictions and the security required for handling prisoners would prohibit the building remaining exactly the same as it is today.

Stay 100 percent completely intact? No. Thats true, Jensen said.

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The Stark County Auditor's office is temporarily on the third floor of the Stark County Office Building until December. Workers are renovating and reconfiguring the auditor's second-floor offices so the public has one common point of entry, so officials have a large meeting space, to improve security and to get all of the auditor's office staff not in the information technology department on one floor.

CANTON Alan Harold became Stark County Auditor in 2011, and he noticed that several people would wander around his offices often looking confused.

To execute a property transfer, people had to visit three locations in the "little maze we have here," in the auditor's office inside the County Office Building downtown, which stretched from the eastern side of the second floor by the county treasurer's offices, to the south side and to the west side by the commissioners' offices, Harold said. And the auditor's fiscal department was on the third floor. Visitors were often asking for directions to the department they needed.

The auditor's second-floor staff moved up temporarily to the former third-floor offices of the Adult Probation department. The county has hired a contractor to reconfigure and renovate the auditor's second floor offices to establish one public entrance, convert office space into a large meeting space and revamp the office floor layout so Harold's entire staff can be consolidated onto the second floor.

The work is scheduled to be completed by December.

Harold said the office had more than one public point of entry besides the entrance by the reception desk. Any member of the public could pop into most auditor employee's offices with no notice. Harold felt it wasn't very secure. With the employees spread throughout the building, it made efficient communication between staffers more difficult.

In addition, Harold cut his staff by 23 employees. Much of the old layout had empty space. He felt it would be more efficient to consolidate the second-floor staff and the third-floor staff into 14,000 square feet on the second floor and add new security features.

Planning

Last year, Harold and his staff started planning the entire office layout in consultation with the commissioners, who control some of the funding and oversee the building's operations. The cost of the contractor, NL Construction of Canton, ended up being $367,601 after the cost was estimated at $430,000. The architect, Motter and Meadows, cost about $27,000.

About $100,000 of the bill is being funded from money remaining from the auditor's closed Bureau of Motor Vehicles office, which was shuttered in 2014, and about $300,000 is coming from the real estate assessment fund, which is funded by a percentage of property taxes collected.

Harold has 78 employees. Twenty-seven work in the county's information technology department on Fourth Street NE. The remaining employees work in the Stark County Office Building.

The staff moved out of the second-floor offices by July 20 and into the vacated third-floor offices of what was Adult Probation, which moved into the Frank T. Bow building.

Consolidation

Harold will return to his office on the second floor and near him will be stationed staffers who handle business vendor's licenses, dog tags, property tax supervision and Board of Revision appeals.

The eight Fiscal Department staffers, who handle the county payroll for 2,600 county employees and the payment of $220 million a year in bills for the county, will vacate the third floor and move to the second floor, where the appraisers once had their space.

It will be up to the commissioners to reassign the third-floor space to a new tenant.

He said the workers will eventually remove asbestos in a safe manner from the flooring in the 50-year-old building, replace the 25-year-old carpeting and repaint the walls. Angela Blakney, Harold's executive assistant, who's been involved in much of the planning, picked out a light shade of gray for the new carpet. Harold's office will also buy new furniture and frame old county maps to display on the walls.

Reach Repository writer Robert Wang at (330) 580-8327 or robert.wang@cantonrep.com. Twitter: @rwangREP

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Meyer, Scherer & Rockcastle and Mortenson Construction are poised to design and build the city of Minneapolis new downtown office building, an up to 10-story structure that will consolidate city employees.

The citys staff is recommending Minneapolis-based MSR Design, teaming with Copenhagen-based Henning Larsen Architects, for the $6.2 million architecture and engineering contract. The staff is going with Golden Valley-based Mortenson for the $4.7 million construction management contract.

The recommendations, based on a competitive bidding process, are expected to go before the City Council on Thursday. The citys Ways and Means Committee approved the recommendation Monday.

A parking ramp at 501 Fourth Ave. S. in downtown Minneapolis will be torn down to make way for the new building, which will be seven to 10 stories high with 250,000 to 300,000 square feet of interior space. The site is diagonally across from City Hall, at 350 S. Fifth St.

The city hopes to achieve Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Gold-level certification for the new building. LEED Gold is the U.S. Green Building Councils second-highest certification level for resource-efficient buildings.

Josh Stowers, principal and architect with MSR, said in an interview that its too early to share specifics on the design. But he said the new tower will be a very sustainable building that will last the test of time.

I am a true believer in what they are trying to do, Stowers said.

In a press release, the city said it has been exploring plans for a new downtown office building since 1999. At present, several hundred city employees work downtown in seven leased or city-owned buildings. Some of the buildings need maintenance and renovation.

Sarah McKenzie, the citys media relations coordinator, said the project will be financed by city bonding. The projects cost hasnt been determined yet, she said.

The city plans to sell two buildings in connection with the project: the City of Lakes building, 309 Second Ave. S., and the Public Service Center, 250 S. Fourth St., McKenzie said.

Schematic design for the new building is expected to begin in September, followed by parking ramp demolition in summer 2018 and construction in fall 2018. The new building will be complete by summer 2020, according to the city.

A designer-selection panel considered factors that include experience, key team members, the proposers understanding of the project objectives and other factors, according to city documents.

Thirteen teams responded to the citys request for qualifications for design services, and the city received four proposals for the construction-management contract, according to city documents.

Perkins + Will provided predesign and planning services.

The new office building will house offices, public service areas, break and staff spaces, a public lobby, conference rooms, and short-term parking, according to a request for proposals. One level of underground parking is planned for staff and building visitors.

Demolition is expected to cost $2.5 million, not including abatement, soft costs and contingency, the RFP noted.

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