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Tom Frost speaks on Wednesday in front of an image of the new Frost Tower.

Local tech magnate Graham Weston speaks on Wednesday. He co-founded Weston Urban, which is building the new Frost Tower.

City manager Sheryl Sculley speaks during the new Frost Tower groundbreaking. The new tower will be the first high rise office building to be built in downtown San Antonio since 1989.

The new Frost Tower will include roughly 440,000 square feet of upscale office space.

Construction of the new tower is expected to take about two years.

Click ahead to see if you can name the fundamental buildings of San Antonio's skyline.

1. Southwestern Bell Building

The Southwestern Bell building is a 14-story, brick-clad Chicago school skyscraper designed by Irving R. Timlin in 1929-30.

2. Central Library

The Central Library, which opened in 1995, features the bold colors and "Mexican Modernist" design characteristic of its architect Ricardo Legorreta of Mexico City.

3. The Bank of America Plaza

At 28 stories high, the Bank of America Plaza is the city's sixth tallest building.

4. Grand Hyatt

The Grand Hyatt is the city's second tallest hotel. It's 34 stories high with 1,000 rooms.

5. Tower of Americas

6. Nix Medical Center

A fixture in downtown San Antonio since the 1930s, the 23-story hospital was the largest and tallest hospital in the country when it was completed.

7. Weston Centre

San Antonios tallest office building, the Weston Centre is the third tallest skyscraper in the city.

8. Crowne Plaza

Today, the 21-story hotel is the Wyndham San Antonio Riverwalk, the ninth tallest building in San Antonio.

9. Milam Building

10. Drury Plaza Hotel Riverwalk

The Art Deco skyscraper was built in 1929 as the Alamo National Bank building.

11. Tower Life Building

Originally called the Smith-Young Tower after its builders, the building was downtowns crown jewel when it opened in 1929.

12. Frost Bank Tower

At 300 feet and 22 stories, Frost Bank Tower is the citys 11th tallest building.

13. San Antonio Marriott Rivercenter

Hidden behind the Bank of America Plaza in this view, the Marriott Rivercenter, S.A.'s tallest hotel, rises 546 feet. Next to the Tower of the Americas, it's the tallest building in the city.

$142M Frost Tower breaks ground, raising expectations downtown

City and county officials gathered downtown Wednesday to celebrate the official kick off of construction for the new Frost Tower, a $142 million state-of-the-art office building described as a pivotal project in the long effort to revitalize downtown.

The 460,000 square-foot office building, which will serve as a new headquarters for Frost Bank, is the first new office tower to go up downtown since the Weston Centre in 1989. Its being built by local developer Weston Urban as part of an intricate deal with the city and Frost Bank thats designed to rejuvenate west downtown, an area burdened with too many run-down buildings and parking lots. Construction is expected to take about two years, said Weston Urban President Randy Smith.

Mayor Ivy Taylor said the 23-story tower is a significant step forward for downtown. It was designed by renowned international architecture firm Pelli Clarke Pelli and local firm Alamo Architects, and it will boost downtowns supply of upscale office space by 31 percent, from its current level of 1.4 million square feet, according to data from Transwestern, a commercial real estate firm.

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You all have heard me talk about my vision of San Antonio being a globally competitive city with opportunity for everyone, Taylor said. That means we have to support growing businesses, expand job opportunities and make our urban core a strong and attractive destination. This project does all of that.

Construction crews are already laying the groundwork for the tower, which is at the southwest corner of Travis and Flores streets, in downtowns growing tech district. It was approved by the citys Historic and Design Review Commission earlier this month. Frost Bank will occupy 280,000 square feet of the tower, with the rest open to other businesses.

The tower has been in the works since 2013, when former Mayor Julin Castro who attended Wednesdays ceremony was encouraging downtown development with his Decade of Downtown initiative. In 2015, City Council cleared the way for the towers construction when it approved a complicated public-private partnership with Weston Urban and Frost Bank.

As part of the deal, Frost Bank has sold its current headquarters at 100 W. Houston St. to the city, which plans to consolidate its administrative offices there. The city and Frost are selling the site of the tower and another 6.3 acres in west downtown to Weston Urban, giving the developer a broad canvas to remake the area. The properties include the Municipal Plaza Building, where City Council meetings are held.

At Wednesdays ceremony, City Manager Sheryl Sculley said the partnership was a win-win for the city, Frost Bank and Weston Urban, which was co-founded by Graham Weston, who also co-created Geekdom and Rackspace.

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There are no new net costs to the city, and in fact we anticipate savings over time, Sculley said. The transaction will allow the city to reengineer our office needs and create more efficiency within the city government.

The city and county have both provided incentives for the towers construction. Weston Urban is expected to get about $1 million from the city, documents show. The county is contributing about $3.5 million worth of incentives, County Judge Nelson Wolff said on Wednesday.

The county is also leading a $175 million project to revitalize San Pedro Creek, which runs alongside the Frost Tower site, turning it into a decorated walking path similar to the River Walk.

In his remarks on Wednesday, Graham Weston said he was surprised that he has invested so much in downtown real estate. He said he had no interest in buying more land downtown when Castro was encouraging development in the area around 2010.

But Weston said he soon realized that investing in downtown was a good way to achieve his dream of creating a tech community in San Antonio.

How do we do to San Antonio what Dell did to Austin? he said, referring to the computer company that helped jump-start Austins tech scene. How do we put out an invitation to other developers to do the same, other tech companies to do the same? With that idea I really changed my perspective 180 degrees and said, Lets go all-in on downtown.

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By Zachary Comeau, Milford Daily News

MILFORD One of the town's oldest companies unveiled their newest investment Monday: a 16,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art, energy-efficient office building.

Consigli Construction, a Milford-based construction and contracting firm with a large portfolio of projects and several locations in New England and the mid-Atlantic, unveiled the new building adjacent to its Sumner Street headquarters. The two-story building was constructed in nine months.

The estimated $5.5 million project, dubbed Granite Building 2, houses the company's pre-construction, project services, and purchasing and estimating divisions.

According to President Matthew Consigli, the structure was built next to the company's granite headquarters to complement it, rather than compete with it.

The company, named one of the "Top Places to Work" by The Boston Globe for the eighth year in a row, constructed the building to continue to strengthen its employee happiness. Work spaces, although divided by cubicles, are open to foster collaboration and feature powered lift-top desks that can easily be converted from a traditional desk to a standing desk.

Rooftop solar panels on both buildings can provide electricity for both buildings.

After a quick tour of the facility on Monday, Consigli commented on the partnership between the company and town, including a large tax break for the first few years that the building is online.

"We wanted to continue to invest in the community where it all started for us four generations ago," Consigli said of the 112-year-old company. "This is a people business, and we're able to draw from some of the best people in the industry being here in Milford."

According to a 15-year tax increment financing agreement signed by the town and company in 2015, Consigli Construction is awarded a 95 percent exemption in the first year that the building is operational. The exemption decreases by 5 percent the following year until reaching 30 percent in year 15.

Outgoing Selectman Brian Murray, a newly-elected state representative, spoke at a brief ceremony about the partnership between the town and company, calling it "immeasurable."

The other building was a former school that was vacant and nearly demolished until Consigli Construction stepped in and converted it into their headquarters, Murray said.

"That building, now with this addition, really I think gives Milford a showpiece a gateway into a mini industrial park on Sumner Street," he said. "It wasn't like this 10 or 20 years ago. I'm very, very proud and fortunate to have Consigli Construction as part of Milford."

Also featured in the building is one of the company's virtual reality rooms. The technology, used on dozens of projects already, allows employees to take a tour using virtual reality goggles of completed or conceptual projects for a better perspective of building layout.

In addition to retaining 329 full-time employees, the company created 50 new permanent, full-time jobs as part of the agreement.

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Developer Brookfield Property Partners has commissioned four architecture firms Gensleralong with Houston-based Inventure Design, Ziegler Cooper and Rottet Studio to design a total of four "next-generation"office suites in a Houston tower that it plans to lease under its DesignHive brand, according to Building Design and Construction.

Given a budget but no client, the architects were tasked with designing a workspace that considered contemporary work styles and technology with the building's core and shell last updated in 1984.

Technology is driving 21st-century office design, both in the modes of communication workers rely on and the capabilities of contemporary building systems to track elements such as occupancy, thermal comfort and daylighting.

Office construction nationwide is on the rise, with Dodge Data & Analytics forecasting that starts would end 2016 up 9% from a year earlier, according to its 2017 Construction Outlook. In some areas, the trend is being driven by the return of employers to downtown areas where housing and transit are more accessible to employees.

Meanwhile, tenant fit-outs are likely to turn cubicle bays into collaborative workspaces reminiscent of the communal library, caf and classroom setups that incoming millennials are used to from college and university settings, according to a Ted Moudis Associates report last year. Designs that promoted mobility such as needing to travel across the office to access the coffee machine were valued, as were ones that offered daylighting, quiet rooms and active-noise reduction.

A recent white paper from design and planning firm Perkins Eastman makes the case for a mix of task-oriented workstations and collaborative spaces to accommodate the needs of different jobs and worker personalities. Those include: bar-style counters, modular wall systems to segment spaces and enclosed offices.

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The architectural firm Hord Caplan Macht (HCM) recently completed the documentation to verify that its Denver office can meet the standards necessary to be certified under Fitwel, a health and wellness program that the Center for Active Design launched in May 2016 and began rolling out to developers and the AEC community last fall.

Working with experts in public health and design, the Center for Active Design spent five years developing and testing its Fitwel scorecard. The General Services Administration piloted that program in 89 of its buildings in New York.

HCM, which has also provided verification documents for its offices in Alexandria, Va., and Baltimore, is one of five Fitwel Champions that have committed to certifying more than 50 buildings in aggregate. The other Champions include the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which is also Fitwels research and evaluation lead; EYP, Integral Group, and Menkes Development.

Perkins + Will was the first company to adopt Fitwels standards for all 11 of the firms North American offices, which P+W expects will be certified by 2018.

HCM has been in its 13,000-sf Denver office, a former fire station built in the 1920s, since 2010. The office currently has 300 employees. Ara Massey, that offices Sustainability Design Manager, tells BD+C that the firm measured its three offices against 80 Fitwel criteria in seven categories to establish health and wellness baselines from which it could work toward certification. The evaluation and documentation took about 40 man-hours, she estimates.

The Center for Active Design promotes Fitwel as more business friendly than other certification programs. And Massey confirmed that Fitwel gives companies the flexibility to prioritize which standards to align its operations with without a lot of cost.

HCM has already successfully integrated many health-promoting features within its offices, including providing staff with fresh fruit and vegetables and locating in areas with high WalkScores.

Hord Caplan Macht's Denver office includes meeting spaces with lots of daylight. Image: Courtesy HCM

However, one thing that surprised Massey was the emphasis that Fitwels scorecard places on lactation rooms for new Moms returning to the workforce after giving birth. That was a real eye opener for us, says Massey.

The next step toward Fitwel certification is the review process, and Massey expects a lot of give and take between her firm and the Center for Active Design to determine how to meet the criteria levels that HCM is willing to adopt.

Now bitten by the wellness bug, HCM also plans to incorporate Fitwels wellness standards into its designs for other clients projects as much as possible, says Massey. Particularly active design.

Arup, Structure Tone embrace wellness

While its still too early to say definitively, it appears that the wellness movement is slowly catching on with developers and AEC firms. For example, in late December, Arup opened a 16,333-sf office at 60 State Street in Boston, designed by Dyer Brown Architects, which is targeting the Silver level of the International WELL Building Institutes WELL Building Standard, as well as the Platinum level of LEED v.4.

Structure Tones 82,000-sf corporate headquarters in New York City recently became the first project in that metro to receive Well Building Standard certification. It earned a Silver-level designation by installing more efficient mechanicals and lighting that maintains harmony with employees circadian rhythms. The office also offers point-of-access water filters, access to healthy foods, and discounts on bike-share and fitness center memberships.

Last year, Structure Tone formed a partnership with Delos, the real estate and tech firm that established the WELL Building Standard, in which Structure Tone agreed to accredit 150 employees through the WELL Accredited Professional program.

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Zachary Comeau Daily News Staff @zcomeau_MDN

MILFORD - One of the towns oldest companies unveiled their newest investment to the town Monday: a 16,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art, energy-efficient office building.

Consigli Construction, a Milford-based construction and contracting firm with a large portfolio of projects and several locations in New England and the mid-Atlantic, unveiled the new building adjacent to their Sumner Street headquarters. The two-story building was construction in just nine months.

The estimated $5.5 million project, dubbed Granite Building 2, houses the companys pre-construction, project services, and purchasing and estimating divisions.

According to President Matthew Consigli, the structure was built next to the companys granite headquarters to complement it, rather than compete with it.

The company, named one of the "Top Places to Work" by the Boston Globe for the eighth year in a row, constructed the building to continue to strengthen its employee happiness. Work spaces, although divided by cubicles, are open to foster collaboration and feature powered lift-top desks that can easily be converted from a traditional desk to a standing desk.

Rooftop solar panels on both buildings can now power electricity costs for both buildings.

After a quick tour of the facility on Monday, Consigli commented on the partnership between the company and town, including a large tax break for the first few years that the building is online.

We wanted to continue to invest in the community where it all started four us four generations ago, said Consigli of the 112-year-old company. This is a people business and were able to draw from some of the best people in the industry being here in Milford.

According to a 15-year tax increment financing agreement signed by the town and company in 2015, Consigli Construction is awarded a 95 percent exemption in the first year that the building is operational. The exemption decreases by 5 percent the following year until reaching 30 percent in year 15.

Outgoing Selectman Brian Murray, also a newly-elected state representative, spoke at a brief ceremony about the partnership between the town and company, calling it immeasurable.

The other building was a former school that was vacant and nearly demolished until Consigli Construction stepped in and converted it into their headquarters, Murray said.

That building, now with this addition, really I think gives Milford a showpiece a gateway into a mini industrial park on Sumner Street, he said. It wasnt like this 10 or 20 years ago. Im very, very proud and fortunate to have Consigli Construction as part of Milford.

Also featured in the building is one of the company's virtual reality rooms. The technology, used on dozens of projects already, allows employees to take a tour using virtual reality goggles of completed or conceptual projects for a better perspective of building layout.

In addition to retaining 329 full-time employees, the company created 50 new permanent, full-time jobs as part of the agreement.

Zachary Comeau can be reached at 508-634-7556 and zcomeau@wickedlocal.com. Follow him on Twitter @ZComeau_MDN.

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Spec office buildings slated for big 250-acre Gilbert development
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Nationwide Realty Investors has started construction on two new speculative office building at its 250-acre Rivulon development in Gilbert. The two buildings are 60,000-square-feet and four stories each and are at Nationwide's Rivulon's project at ...

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Amanda Renko , arenko@stargazette.com | @SGAmandaR Published 2:08 p.m. ET March 28, 2017 | Updated 5 hours ago

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Plans to expand Steuben County government offices will move forward after Monday's approval of construction bids by county legislators.

The legislature approved $5.62 million in bids for a project that will result in a new office building on East Morris Street in Bath, as well as a records storage building on Mount Washington Road.

Costs came in below an $8.9 million budget set for the office space project, according to a news release from Steuben County.

Low bids listed in a resolution approved by legislators Mondayincluded $4,020,250 for general construction from Edger Enterprises, $574,800 for electrical construction from Schuler-Haas Electric Corp., $636,000 for mechanical construction from Louis N. Picciano and Son Inc., and $492,400 for plumbing from Nairy Mechanical LLC.

Legislators also approved a change order that would allow for the construction of a third-floor shell on the East Morris Street building as long as costs remain under budget, allowing for future expansion if necessary.

The new buildings will allow for breathing room in the existingoffice building and expanded space for departments, several of which are growing because of state-mandated programs, according to the release.

Once complete, the East Morris Street building will house the county board of elections and Cornell Cooperative Extension of Steuben County, freeing up existing space for other departments. The new building alsowill include conference space that can hold up to 150 people and can be split into smaller rooms, as well as a place to store electronic voting machines.

Two county-owned homes on East Morris Street, across from the county courthouse, were recently demolished to clear the way for the new building.

The Mount Washington Road building will house records that are not in usebut are required to be retained. Those files are currently kept at a space the county leases.

Bonding and reserve funds will cover the project's costs without raising property taxes, officials said.

We believe that this project will allow the county to address the immediate shortage of space, while also planning for future needs, said County Manager Jack Wheeler. Its a fiscally responsible plan that will create efficiencies in county services.

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U of L realigns $48 million loan for big downtown office building
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A rendering of how the Gateway development will look.

By Holly Cook

Final development plans for the Mission Gateway site passed through the citys Planning Commission Monday with a vote of 8-1. The $162 million project outlined during this weeks meeting was virtually the same as what was put before the Mission City Council in December 2016 by developer Tom Valenti of Cameron Group LLC.

Plans include construction of a hotel, apartment building, restaurant and retail space and potentially an office building. The site will also include a partially free-standing parking structure and courtyard with seating and a performance area. Construction will roll out in three phases. The first phase will develop the apartment building with retail and restaurant space. The second phase will develop a 200-room Aloft and Element hotel and restaurant.

The final phase will develop three buildings in the area previously slated for the Walmart Superstore at the corner of Johnson Drive and Roe Avenue. Walmart backed out as a potential tenant in October 2016. According to Valenti these three buildings will serve as placeholders until tenants are secured.

Valenti said they would like to start the first phase of construction as soon as possible but did not provide details on a timeline. Previously Valenti had planned to initiate construction at the end of this month. The commission did not delve into a construction start date or how tax-increment financing (TIF) or community improvement district (CID) funds may be leveraged to finance the plans.

Instead Mondays discussion centered on a presentation of the modern-style design planned for the development. Buildings will be wrapped in corrugated metal, stained cedar, aluminum composite panels and precast concrete. The proposed color scheme used mostly blues and greys with a pop of canary yellow.

City Planner Danielle Murray said the plans complied with Johnson Drive design guidelines. Planning Commissioner Robin Dukelow said she liked the usage of yellow as an accent color. I think its kind of fun, but thats just my opinion, she said.

Planning Commissioner Jim Brown said he did not care for the heavy usage of metal and voted against approving the plans for that reason. It just seems like a lot of corrugated metal, he said.

City staff determined the sign criteria outlined in the plan was not sufficient and recommended the commission revisit that piece at a later time. Planning Commissioner Stuart Braden made the motion to accept the proposal, minus the sign component.

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Portland, Ore.-based Hoffman Construction is a national contractor that prides itself on using digital tools to complete its projects.

So, in mid 2015, when it was planning to renovate a 10,000-sf office space in Seattle, Hoffman challenged its interior designer, Gensler, to take a similar approach that would highlight Hoffmans digital integration and technical delivery techniques.

With the help of a host of digital productsincluding SketchUp, Revit, Faro, Navisworks, Cyclone, AutoCAD and CNCthe Building Team designed the space in just four weeks and helped the client build it in seven.

Hoffman is always looking to do the impossible in a possible amount of time. Gensler saw us as innovators showcasing our talents with this project, says Kevin Ryan, operations manager and GM for Hoffman Construction in Seattle.

The focal point was the Think Tank, a 2,000-sf space that would serve as the offices central hub. That space, according to Jeroen Teeuw, Senior Associate at Gensler who was Lead Designer on this design-build project, is clad in over 100 unique panels that were fabricated from shop drawings produced by digital scans. Fuller Cabinets in Eugene, Ore., supplied the panels, which were fabricated by Straight-Up Carpentry in Oregon.

Photo courtesy of Heywood Chan Photography.

Teeuw says that, before this job, Gensler had only rarely employed digital scanning for interior projects. The scans, he says, were accurate to the point where no tweaks to the design were necessary. Hoffman had a lot of trust in us, he says.

Demolition started on Sept. 1, 2015, and included four weeks of asbestos mitigation. Building started the first week October. Hoffman wanted to occupy the building by Christmas,so we had to identified what absolutely needed to be done in order to satisfy the fire marshals and inspectors, recalls Ryan. The Building Team stripped the floors, knocked down walls, and installed new T-bar ceilings.

For the renovation, the Building Team broke up the shop drawings into several packages, which Ryan says all but eliminated material waste.

Hoffman achieved its goal, even though the office wasnt fully completed until April 2016. The space includes conference rooms and private offices, a central teaming area, pantry/lounge/kitchen, open workspace, facilities space, and a reception area.

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