Burns & McDonnell is jumping into the commercial construction field with a contract to renovate 50 Midwestern Hy-Vee supermarkets with a new restaurant concept that includes cocktail service.

The venture into upgrading the Hy-Vees with a casual dining concept called Market Cafe and Market Grille is a marked departure from an engineering firm thats better known for engineering huge power plants and other large-scale public works endeavors.

Burns & Mac is the 20th largest engineering company in the U.S., according to Engineering News-Record, a respected trade publication.

The move into commercial construction is being led by Greg Carlson, who joined Burns & McDonnell in June after working for 20 years with Weitz construction.

The $20 million contract with Des Moines, Iowa-based Hy-Vee calls for the renovation of about one-fourth of the companys stores in Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, Illinois, Minnesota and South Dakota. Construction is scheduled to begin next month.

Store operations will not be disrupted during the construction of the approximately 40 Market Cafe concepts and 10 Market Grilles. The new dining concept will include a full-service menu and cocktails.

Carlson said the new commercial construction venture is a continuation of Burns & Macs capability of providing full-serve to its clients from design work through construction.

The all in-house approve Burns & McDonnell has done has been a model for other areas and product types for decades in power and energy, Carlson said, but bringing it into the commercial world is a new venture. Were excited about Hy-Vee.

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Construction on a long-awaited Chick-fil-A store on Raeford Road near Haymount could begin early next year, the developer of the site says.

Last week, Fayetteville developer Joe Riddle cleared one last important hurdle when the N.C. Department of Transportation approved a driveway permit allowing the store's parking lot to have limited access to Raeford Road.

The 1.25-acre site is along the intersection of Raeford Road and Purdue Drive, across from the Highland Centre shopping center anchored by Harris-Teeter.

Riddle, who bought the land and cleared it of older buildings, said an official with the Chick-fil-A corporate office in Atlanta has told him construction is scheduled to start after the holidays.

"Now, they are talking about January," said Riddle, who will retain ownership of the land after the store is built and opened.

The new restaurant will give Chick-fil-A four locations in Fayetteville. The others are on Skibo Road, Ramsey Street and in Cross Creek Mall.

Tommy Arnold, the chain's local franchisee, said earlier this year that he expected construction to begin after the start of the new year. He could not be reached for comment this morning. He owns the Chick-fil-As on Skibo Road and in the mall.

At a Fayetteville City Council meeting last week, Mayor Nat Robertson asked Scott Shuford, the city's development services director, if the city was holding up construction of the new Chick-fil-A. Shuford said no, adding that Riddle and company officials were waiting on permission from the state Department of Transportation to have access to a busy Raeford Road.

Robertson, who was elected in November, had campaigned on wanting to ease some of the city's development rules and speed up the permitting and planning process for developers.

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Robert Irvine to the rescue.

The British chef and restaurateur will be in the Duke City on Wednesday and Thursday to film an episode of his TV show, Restaurant: Impossible, at Pasin Latin Fusion, 722 Lomas NW.

The series airs Wednesdays on the Food Network.

In each episode, Irvine is given the mission of making the impossible possible by renovating a failing restaurant in two days on a $10,000 budget. After assessing the problems with the restaurant, Irvine typically creates a plan for the new decor, oversees the cleaning of the restaurant, reduces the size of the menu and improves the food, develops a promotional activity, educates the restaurants owners, or trains the staff as needed by each restaurant.

According to Nicholas Smalarz, an associate producer, there will be a re-opening at 7 p.m. Thursday. The general public can call to make reservations for the night by calling the restaurant at 503-7880.

The episode will air in winter 2014.

Smalarz says the crew will need volunteers to help with the renovation of the restaurant over the two days.

Design volunteers will be painting, crafting, doing construction, remodeling, cleaning and decorating depending on their skill set and the show is always looking for skilled contractors to help out, such as electricians, plumbers and painters. There will be three shifts on the following days and times: 1-8 p.m. and 8 p.m.-2 a.m. on Wednesday and 10 a.m.-6 p.m. on Thursday.

Smalarz says these are volunteer positions, but meals will be provided. He says volunteers should be OK with being on camera and wear comfortable clothing and sneakers/boots with no logos. Assistants are not limited to one shift.

People interested are asked to email Smalarz at nick@shootersinc.com by today with your preferred shift or shifts, full name, email address and cellphone number. Make sure to use the subject line: FN Albuquerque Volunteers.

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City Beach will get an $18 million facelift, with a new surf club and restaurant strip planned at the popular beachfront.

The Town of Cambridge has authorised calling tenders to build the $6.6 million ultramodern City of Perth Surf Life Saving Club and three restaurants at the site.

The existing surf club building will be demolished about March, with the new one to be ready for the 2015-16 summer.

Cambridge mayor Simon Withers said the building would become a Perth landmark.

"The design of the new building is iconic," he said. "I imagine it will feature on postcards and be widely photographed."

Mr Withers said the redevelopment would transform City Beach from a great beach dominated by an "ugly" building to the best beach in Perth.

Leases for two of the three restaurants have been awarded, with a well-known Perth hospitality family to open an upmarket eatery on the beachfront.

Marcel and Fiona Slobe will run the biggest of the three restaurants - a 1000sqm, "resort style" venue to open daily for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Ms Slobe is the youngest daughter of Sonja Gastevich, a Perth hospitality veteran who has opened five Perth pubs, including the Royal in East Perth and Ess Bar in Subiaco.

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If you blink, you might miss a new restaurant opening along the Poplar Avenue corridor in East Memphis.

Broadway Pizza on Mendenhall Road is nearing completion. Its just one of several new restaurants being added to the already busy Poplar Avenue corridor in East Memphis.

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Over the last few months, several new restaurants have opened or are on the way around the heavily traveled Poplar corridor between Perkins Road and Kirby Parkway.

People are spending more and more eating out, said Danny Buring, managing partner with the Shopping Center Group LLC. The higher-end and fast-casual segments are picking up. Along that area, youre talking about a little of everything.

The restaurants are being lured to the area by the high traffic counts, population density, above-average incomes and extraordinarily high daytime population fueled by the thriving office market sector in East Memphis, according to local experts.

Soul Fish Cafe has opened its latest restaurant in the old Wolf Camera space, 4720 Poplar. The 3,100-square-foot location is Soul Fishs third restaurant in Memphis, behind its original spot in Cooper-Young and its Germantown store, near Forest Hill-Irene Road.

The Whimsy Cookie Co., a Memphis-based boutique that specializes in designing custom, hand-decorated cookies, is opening a location next door to Soul Fish. Laurie Suriff founded Whimsy Cookie Co. and is co-owner with Collins Tuohy, whose family was featured in the best-selling book and hit movie The Blind Side.

We had been eyeing it since Gifts and Art closed a year ago, and we love that cottage-style, gingerbread house, which is perfect for our company, Tuohy said. We think its going to be a great little addition to Poplar Avenue.

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Robert Irvine to the rescue.

The British chef and restaurateur will be in the Duke City on Wednesday, Dec. 18 and Thursday, Dec. 19 to film an episode of his TV show, Restaurant: Impossible at Pasion Latin Fusion, 722 Lomas NW.

The series airs Wednesdays on the Food Network.

British chef and host of Restaurant: Impossible Robert Irvine will film a show in Albuquerque.

In each episode, Irvine is given the mission of making the impossible possible by renovating a failing restaurant in two days on a $10,000 budget. After assessing the problems with the restaurant, Irvine typically creates a plan for the new decor, oversees the cleaning of the restaurant, reduces the size of the menu and improves the food, develops a promotional activity, educates the restaurants owners, or trains the staff as needed by each restaurant.

According to Nicholas Smalarz, an associate producer, there will be a re-opening at 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 19. The general public can call to make reservations for the night by calling Pasion Latin Fusion at 503-7880.

The episode will air in winter 2014.

Smalarz says the crew will need volunteers to help with the renovation of the restaurant over the two days.

Design volunteers will be painting, crafting, construction, remodeling, cleaning, decorating etc. (depending on your skill set). Always looking for skilled contractors as well in their fields to help out (electricians, plumbers, painters, etc.)

The days and times are as follows in three shifts:

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Short Pump Town Center is getting another restaurant.

With more than a third of the malls food court blocked off to make room, Rock Bottom Restaurant & Brewery is under construction and expected to open in mid-May, according to Kemel Kem Blue Jr., the malls general manager.

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SAN ANTONIO - It's a business buzz kill, at least that's what some restaurant owners and retailers in Southtown are saying. They blame a long-running road construction project for their financial misfortune.

Public works started the project last October on South Alamo from Probandt to Pereida Street. It won't be complete for another year and business owners are worried about their futures.

At the Blue Star complex in Southtown; you can grab a cup of coffee, a pizza or shop at a wide variety of stores. However, there's something business owners said is chipping away their clientele.

"It's the growing pains of construction," said Lacey Aleman, GM of Halcyon & Stella Public House.

Aleman said her restaurants opened this year to great success but the financial feast changed in August.

"Bam the street closes and bam there goes all of our sales," she continued. "It's muddy, it's gross, it's loud."

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But the restaurant's revival could be short-lived: If owner Tom LeFevre does not pay county utility services by the end of the month, the restaurant could lose its temporary certificate of occupancy and be shut down.

Bob's owes $77,063.44 in utility fees, which date back to late October.

Several letters have been sent to the restaurant, Sarasota County spokesman Curt Prussier said. If some issues are not addressed and updated by the end of the month, the license will not be extended past its Dec. 30 expiration date.

LeFevre could not be reached Tuesday for comment.

A handful of contractors including Tim Mitten, whose company, Full Moon Promotions, was hired to promote events at the restaurant and other former employees also claim that they have not been paid for their work on or at the restaurant, 5515 S. Tamiami Trail.

LeFevre and his company also face a half-dozen liens placed on the Bob's property and others from his past.

Since the restaurant and bar opened, Sarasota County Sheriff's Office deputies have responded to dozens of noise complaints made by neighbors who live in the Phillippi Creek area.

The Sarasota County Commission, which collected emails and phone call complaints from residents and withdrawal letters from construction contractors, brought the issues to light at a commission meeting in Venice on Tuesday.

Donald Murphy, owner of Sarasota-based D.E. Murphy Constructors Inc., submitted a withdrawal letter to the commission last week, asking that his information be removed from the planning services file as the general contractor on the property.

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