Umpqua Health kicked off construction Friday for its new medical office building in Roseburg on Newton Creek and NE Stephens. (SBG)

ROSEBURG, Ore. - Umpqua Health kicked off construction Friday for its new medical office building in Roseburg on Newton Creek and NE Stephens.

It will house 12 doctors to start.

The idea is to expand health services in the community, including physical, behavioral and dental care.

Umpqua Health serves 26,000 people in Douglas County, which is a quarter of the population.

"It'll meet our current goals and it will also meet our long term goals to expand and grow to serve the residents of Douglas County," Sue Goldberg with Umpqua Health said.

She hopes it will attract more doctors to the area as well.

They say the site could eventually have an urgent care and imaging lab.

It's set to open late next year.

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A two-story, 16,000-square-foot office building will be added to Wilton Park. ( J. Elias ONeal)

A local real estate firm is preparing to finish off one of its earliest office park developments and its doing it on spec.

The Wilton Cos. soon will begin construction on Wilton Park III, a 16,000-square-foot office building on a 1-acre parcel at 5003 and 5101 Dickens Road.

Its the third and final phase of the companys Wilton Park office complex near the intersection of Staples Mill and Dickens roads.

This is something that has taken us years to plan, CEORichard Johnson said. Were starting to see some movement in the office market that is encouraging.

Plans call for a two-story building with 8,000 square feet of speculative space on each floor.

It squares up nicely, vice presidentHunt Gunter said. The smaller building will allow for future tenants to be more custom in their buildout.

Two homes on the property will be razed. (J. Elias ONeal)

Two homes on the property will be razed, Johnson said. Wilton paid $230,000 for the residence and land at 5003 Dickens Road in 2006, and $250,000 for the 5101 Dickens Road property in 2014, according to county records.

The Henrico County Board of Supervisors in November 2015 approvedWilton to rezone the parcel from residential to commercial. The countys planning staff approved its plan for development on May 25, allowing the firm to move forward with construction.

Richmond-based Hourigan Construction has been tapped as the projects general contractor, while Freeman Morgan Architects designed the building. Ashland-based Wilmark Engineering is the engineer.

Crews hope to deliver the office building by year-end, Johnson said, weather permitting.

Wilton first bought into what would become Wilton Park in 2004, after Capital One vacated the original 35,000-square-foot building at 4901 Dickens Road, which was constructed in the 1970s.

It was originally built for First & Merchants National Bank as a credit card processing facility, Johnson said. Eventually, the company would merge with a number of banks that would later become Bank of America.

In 2006, hesaid, Wilton launched phase two of the office park, where it constructed a two-story, 35,000-square-foot office building at 4905 Dickens Road.

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A view of a construction site at One Dekalb Ave in White Plains.(Photo: Carucha L. Meuse/The Journal News)Buy Photo

WHITE PLAINS - Bulldozers pushing mountains of earth, cranes whirring as they lift steel beams, jackhammers breaking pavement and all sorts of power tools screeching through various tasks.

Call it the symphony of a building boom.

Drive around the city these days and you're sure to spot hard-hatted construction workers in day-glow safety vests, uniformed cops directing motorists around buildingsites and occasional traffic delays as heavy equipment or trucks laden with building materials maneuver into or out of tight spaces.

White Plains hasn't seen this kind of construction activity since the late 1990s and early 2000s when The Westchester mall, the City Centerand Ritz-Carlton complexes and Renaissance Plaza were built. Those projects transformed the downtown business district, giving the city its first skyscrapers and enhancing its reputation as Westchester's shopping mecca.

The new developments are more mixed-use in nature, with a bigger emphasis on the creation of new housing. The former Westchester Pavilion mall, for example, is being replaced by two residential towers. The former AT&T office building at Hamilton Avenue and North Broadway is also slated for transformation intoluxury apartments.

"It's an exciting time in the city because all of the planning and work that's gone into these projects is coming to fruition," Mayor Tom Roach said. "It helps create jobs, promotes new business and is great for the property tax base and sales tax revenue."

For a variety of reasons, he said, "attracting residential development has been a priority. We're still gaining momentum, but it's absolutely essential."

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Residential projects bring jobs and employers and creates demand for restaurants, and service-oriented businesses. Local laws require 10 percent of new residential units to be affordable, and allows White Plains to assess a fee, based on the number of units, to be used for for citywide recreation and parks improvements and programs.

More than that, Roach said, "bringing people downtown is great forthe morale of the city. People want to live in a place that's bustling with nightlife, entertainment, dining and shopping."

Marcia Gordon, president and CEO of the Business Council of Westchester, said creation of downtown housing attracts young professionals and people who are downsizing, and provides a talent pool for businesses looking to hire.

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"Recruitment of talented young professionals is very important to business, and having that talent pool living downtown helps attract and retain new businesses in the community," she said.

John Ravitz, the council's executive vice president, added that White Plains and other Westchester citiesworking to revitalize their business districts "are adding another piece to the puzzle. People who live downtown spend money. They use service businesses. They go out to eat. They go out for entertainment. People see that they don't necessarily have to go to New York City to live work and play."

Here's an update on a few of the projects approved over the last two years that are now in various stages of development:

One Dekalb: A six-story, 77-unit luxury rental apartment building is to be built on a 38,000-square-foot lot created in part by the recent demolition of five houses along Maple Avenue between Dekalb Avenue and South Broadway. Foundation work is expected to begin soon on the project, which is slated to be completed in a year. White PlainsBuilding Commissioner Damon Amadio said asbestos removal from the demolished homes was done in compliance with state and local regulations, under a Westchester County permit. The asbestos removal had been a concern of neighbors. The project is being developed byOne Dekalb LLC.

440 Hamilton Ave.:An $87 million project to convert the former AT&T office building at the corner of Hamilton Avenue and North Broadway is being done by American Equity Partners. They'll add a floor to the 12-story building, which will be refaced with a modern glass facade. The project will include41 studios, 120 one-bedroom and 84 two-bedroom apartments. Those include seven duplex maisonettes with private ground floor entrances and five penthouses. A market, cafe and host of other amenities will also be built. The city has not yet received requests for construction permits, but the Westchester Industrial Development Agency announced on May 19 that it has approved inducements to help get the project started.

An architects rendering for a new facade of the former AT&T building at 440 Hamilton Ave. in White Plains, which is being converted into luxury rental apartments.(Photo: Submitted by Papp Architects, P.C.)

136-158Westmoreland Ave.:A 58,000-square-foot mixed use projectthat will include a microbrewery, neighborhood market and 62 loft style rental apartments is to be built on a vacant lot by Westmoreland Lofts LLC. The site is in an industrial neighborhood that was rezoned to attract residential development in 2015. The city iswaiting for architectural drawings and construction permit applications, but expects work to begin later this year.

A rendering of apartment building, market and microbrewery on Westmoreland Avenue.(Photo: Submitted)

121 Westmoreland Ave.: Work is expected to be finished early next year on the conversion of a six-story industrial building into 65 rental apartments by Norden Lofts, LLC. The facade has been sandblasted to reveal the original red brick and work on the interior is underway.

A previously vacant six-story building is being turned into loft apartments at 121 Westmoreland Ave. in White Plains.(Photo: Seth Harrison/The Journal News)

55 Bank St.:Developer LCOR has almost finished the exterior of its 16-story 288-unit market rate rental apartment building and has begun interior work on the apartments. The building is expected to begin renting units in January; rateshave not yet been announced. Work on a second 16-story apartment tower at the same sitehas not yet begun.

The first of two residential towers at 55 Bank St. is expected to begin renting apartments in January.(Photo: Submitted)

60 S.Broadway:Demolition of the former Westchester Pavilion mall is almost finished. The city expects construction to begin later this year on a new $275 million mixed-use development that includes two 24-story residential towers, an underground parking garage, retail, dining and commercial space. The project is being developed byMaple and Broadway LLC.

The former Westchester Pavilion shopping mall in White Plains has been knocked down and will be replaced with a mixed-use development consisting of residential and retail space.(Photo: Seth Harrison/The Journal News)

One Lyon Place:Formerly known as the Esplanade, what used to be a senior citizen residence is being converted into luxury rental apartments. With construction set to begin later this year, the $50 million re-purposing project project will include replacement of the facade and a reconfiguration to create 146 apartments in the 15-story main building and 66 units in the annex building on the opposite side of Lyon Place. The development is being designed by Sullivan Architecture of White Plains.

The former Esplanade senior residence is being re-purposed into luxury rental apartments. The building is located at 95 S. Broadway and Lyon Place.(Photo: Seth Harrison/The Journal News)

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A new office building in San Diegos East Village is expected to be a catalyst for an impressive six-block development.

A new office building in San Diegos East Village is expected to be a catalyst for an impressive six-block development. Tuesday, ground was broken for the first multi-tenant office building to be built in the downtown area in years.

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A new office building in San Diegos East Village is expected to be a catalyst for an impressive six-block development. Tuesday, ground was broken for the first multi-tenant office building to be built in the downtown area in years.

Pictures courtesy of: Makers Quarter

A new office building in San Diegos East Village is expected to be a catalyst for an impressive six-block development. Tuesday, ground was broken for the first multi-tenant office building to be built in the downtown area in years.

Pictures courtesy of: Makers Quarter

A new office building in San Diegos East Village is expected to be a catalyst for an impressive six-block development. Tuesday, ground was broken for the first multi-tenant office building to be built in the downtown area in years.

Pictures courtesy of: Makers Quarter

A new office building in San Diegos East Village is expected to be a catalyst for an impressive six-block development. Tuesday, ground was broken for the first multi-tenant office building to be built in the downtown area in years.

Pictures courtesy of: Makers Quarter

A new office building in San Diegos East Village is expected to be a catalyst for an impressive six-block development. Tuesday, ground was broken for the first multi-tenant office building to be built in the downtown area in years.

Pictures courtesy of: Makers Quarter

A new office building in San Diegos East Village is expected to be a catalyst for an impressive six-block development. Tuesday, ground was broken for the first multi-tenant office building to be built in the downtown area in years.

Pictures courtesy of: Makers Quarter

A new office building in San Diegos East Village is expected to be a catalyst for an impressive six-block development. Tuesday, ground was broken for the first multi-tenant office building to be built in the downtown area in years.

Pictures courtesy of: Makers Quarter

A new office building in San Diegos East Village is expected to be a catalyst for an impressive six-block development. Tuesday, ground was broken for the first multi-tenant office building to be built in the downtown area in years.

Pictures courtesy of: Makers Quarter

A new office building in San Diegos East Village is expected to be a catalyst for an impressive six-block development. Tuesday, ground was broken for the first multi-tenant office building to be built in the downtown area in years.

Pictures courtesy of: Makers Quarter

A new office building in San Diegos East Village is expected to be a catalyst for an impressive six-block development. Tuesday, ground was broken for the first multi-tenant office building to be built in the downtown area in years.

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What role will union construction play in the NYC of tomorrow?

Execs from SL Green, Tishman and Brookfield contemplate union labor's decreasing market share

From left: Michael De Chiara, Ed Piccinich, Jay Badame, Sabrina Kanner, Gary LaBarbera, Steve McInnis, Joseph Mizzi and Charles Murphy

A panel of owners, construction managers and labor leaders assembled Wednesday at the Union League on Park Avenue to discuss the future of union construction labor in a city thats increasingly open shop.

At the panel hosted by law firm Zetlin & De Chiara and moderated by founding partner Michael De Chiara former New York Building Congress president Richard Anderson said there was good news: building permits are finally up, 145,000 people are working on job sites throughout the boroughs and the office market is strong with big-ticket projects in the pipeline. What could threaten this kind of a robust portrait? he asked. The answer, panelists said, was sky-high costs.

New York is the most expensive city in the world to build, largely due to high construction wages and rising material costs, a recent study by consultancy firm Turner & Townsend found. The average cost of construction hit $354 per square footin New York City last year, the study claimed.

Sabrina Kanner, of Brookfield Property Partners , which has a portfolio-wide project labor agreement, said that Brookfields labor decisions come straight from the project budget. We wouldnt be having this discussion today if in fact construction costs hadnt gone up 25 percent in the last five years, she said, something has to give.

Edward Piccinich, SL Greens director of property management and construction, said that doing 100 percent union was the way to go on the 1,300-foot skyscraper development One Vanderbilt near Grand Central Terminal, because of the speed and quality the unions offer over many open-shop groups. But thats not to say we dont bid our jobs open shop, he said. When that word open shop is thrown out to me, thats just another way of saying competition and I think competitions good

So called-open shop construction sites, or those that do not use entirely union labor, are now a basic market reality in the residential sector, but its creeping into other construction types, too, a trend that panelists seemed to regard as inevitable.

Commercial is switching over, said Charles Murphy, of Turner Construction, one of several New York City construction firms to last year refuse to sign agreements to exclusively use organized union labor, according to Wall Street Journal. Murphy cited the Brooklyn Navy Yard office project (where a dozen nonunionized ironworkers recently walked off the job at Rudin Management and Boston Properties Dock 72) as a prominent open-shop office building example.

Jay Badame, president and COO of construction manager AECOM Tishman (the largest general contractor in the city), downplayed the role of construction companies in making big labor deals. Were all brought here by our clients and the developers, and the developers are really driving the ship and a lot of them are members of the organization called REBNY, he said, so we are really just at their beck and call as it relates to open-shop and nonunion.

But unions are adapting to land big contracts. Panelists noted that theyre picking up on a tactic familiar to most landlords: offering significant concessions.

Unions are making concessions like never before, De Chiara said. But one problem construction managers and unions encounter, he said, is that subcontractors often dont keep up their end of the bargain in contract negotiations, and dont adhere to cost saving concessions, such as relaxing certain labor rules or agreeing not to strike. People in our industry are not looking to take money out of peoples pocket said Joseph Mizzi of Sciame Construction firm, adding that making sure subcontractors arent siphoning off money is a key part of making project labor agreements work.

Steve McInnis, president of the NYC District Council of Carpenters, said one of the worst ways that nonunion shops are trying to skimp, however, is by being willing to overpay the management and under pay the workers. Some builders think they are getting a deal by bringing on top supervisors, McInnis said, but in the end they get straddled with an ill-suited labor force that no experienced manager can fix. Mizzi later added that wage concessions were in his experience the least effective form of concessions and had a tendency to produce less than stellar workers.

Gary LaBarbera, president of the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York who was recently nominated by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to the board of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, cautioned the panel and the audience to remember that many open-shop projects are still majority union.

LaBarbera frequently said there were perils in using nonunion labor, such as inferior safety and poor quality of work, and madean example of the meager wages many non-organized workers are receiving. You have workers that working 50 or 60 hours a week but are being paid at 40 hours a week, 15 dollars an hour, cash, no benefits, many of them undocumented workers, he said. Most fatal accidents in the recent years have happened nonunion jobs as well, he added. Theres a real cost to this and the cost is the worker. The worker is being exploited.

In the end, LaBarbera said trade unions have been making strides to compensate for lost market share, reworking contracts to be more competitive and finding ways to reduce the hourly aggregate cost of labor. We know what contractors are doing, we know what theyre paying, he said. Building trades is open for business. Theres a lot of changes that have been made.

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Sinkhole warning signs to look for ABC27 HUMMELSTOWN, Pa. (WHTM) The construction of the Hummelstown Borough Office Building started six weeks ago and workers have already stumbled across seven sinkholes at the site. Although local construction workers, geologist experts and ...

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Construction has begun on the Etkin-developed 150 W. 2nd St. office center in downtown Royal Oak, Michigan.

The 73,920-square-foot luxury office development has already attracted three tenants who will occupy more than 85 percent of the building. Etkin is in the final stages of negotiations with another high-profile tenant, which will bring the building to 100 percent preleased a rarity in the development of any multi-tenant office property nationwide.

150 W. 2nd St.s tenant roster will include Stout, a global advisory firm that specializes in investment banking, valuation and financial opinions, as well as dispute advisory and forensic services. Stout will occupy the entire fourth floor of the building. Gongos, a decision intelligence enterprise that supports Global 1000 companies, will move its headquarters from Auburn Hills, Michigan, to the second floor of 150 W. 2nd St. Etkin will relocate its corporate offices to the second floor of 150 W. 2nd St. The balance of the second floor is expected to be occupied by an Oakland County law firm.

The site of Etkins new office center was formerly a city-owned parking lot at the corner of 11 Mile Road and Center Street just west of Main Street. Royal Oaks Downtown Development Authority sold the parcel to Etkin to develop offices to attract workers who, in turn, will help keep the downtown vibrant in the daytime and after work.

The office center will include 54 on-site, grade-level, covered parking spaces for tenants. Those spaces will be available for public parking in the evenings and weekends. Royal Oak is currently constructing an adjacent 550-space, seven-story parking deck that will be completed later this year.

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Verizon is moving closer to breaking ground on a Gensler-designed, $1 billion mixed-use development across the street from its Irving, TX, offices, according to the Dallas Morning News.

The 2-million-square-foot complex, developed by the telecommunications giant and partner KDC, will include retail, apartments, hotel rooms, a Dallas Area Rapid Transit station connecting to Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport and downtown Dallas, as well as a 750,000-square-foot office building.

Pioneer Natural Resources will anchor the office building, a project for which the City of Irving is providing nearly $6 million in economic benefits.

In April 2016, Irving officials expressed concernover Verizon's proposal to construct 1,800 multifamily residential units in the Las Colinas area of the city before first building out the office components.This caused city officials to delay approval for the project. At the time, Verizon argued that housing was necessary to bring in corporate tenants and said it planned to build a seven-story high-rise with a restricted number of rental units.

The Dallas area has seen more than a few massive mixed-use developments in the last year or so. Earlier this month, developer Hines said it would build a 3.5-million-square-foot mixed-use complex in the Dallas suburb of Allen, TX.

When the 135-acre project is complete, it will include about 1.7 million square feet of office space, 380,000 square feet of retail and 300,000 square feet of residential development. Hines said Allen has lacked the walkable, reasource-heavy focal point that The Strand will provide.

The $1 billion Bayside project in the Dallas suburb of Rowlett, TX, which features an 8-acre, lagoon-style water feature, is already underway. The 262-acre development, on the shores of Lake Ray Hubbard, will also include artificial beaches, a marina, a mix of 3,000 condos and apartments, 1.5 million square feet of commercial space and 700 hotel rooms.

The largest mixed-used project in North Texas, however,isn't one development but rather a group of mixed-use projects. Located in Frisco, TX,the area has become known as the "$5 billion mile," although city officials have said that there is another $2 billion of development going on elsewhere in the city.

The Dallas Cowboys recently received the city of Frisco's approval to build a 17-story, luxury residential tower in the team's $1.5 billion Star in Frisco mixed-use development. The project, which will feature 150 to 160, 1,200-square-foot units, is the first residential high-rise approved on the $5 billion mile.

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SOFIA (Bulgaria), May 29 (SeeNews) Bulgarian state-owned Sofia Tech Park has said that three companies have placed bids in a tender for a contract to build and operate an office building on its territory.

Blue-chip real estate investment trust (REIT) Bulgarian Real Estate Fund [BUL:5BU] has offered to pay 9.6 million levs ($5.5 million/4.9 million euro) for the contract, the highest price among the three offers, Sofia Tech Park said in a statement on Friday.

The other two offers have been submitted by Sofia-based Delta Capital Real Estate and Armada Realty Invest, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Armada Capital. The two companies have offered to pay 9 million levs and 8.3 million levs, respectively.

The minimum price for acquiring the right to build was set at 7.5 million levs.

The building will have a total area of 35,000 sq m and a two-level underground parking space. Construction works will have to be completed within five years.

At least 30% of the future occupants of the building should be high-tech and medium-high-tech companies, operating in the fields of renewable energy, IT and life sciences, according to the statement.

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$78M downtown medical office reaches construction milestone (PHOTOS) Louisville Business First A major downtown construction project for the University of Louisville hit an important benchmark Friday. The final beam was placed atop U of L's eight-story, $78 million Pediatrics Medical Office Building, a 171,000-square-foot facility which will ... New UofL Pediatrics building celebrates construction milestoneWAVE 3 all 3 news articles »

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