Taiwan-based electronics manufacturer Foxconn announced that it plans to build a flat panel LCD monitor production facility as large as 20 million sq ft at an undisclosed southeast Wisconsin location.
After massive fires in Waltham, Mass. and Boston destroyed large residential complex employing wood-frame construction this summer, officials from both municipalities are questioning the safety of wood-frame construction for large apartment complexes and urging the state for stricter regulations on the size of such building.
Crews working on the rehabilitation of the Commonwealth Avenue Bridge that runs over the Massachusetts Turnpike in Boston opened the toll road back up to its preconstruction traffic pattern on Aug. 7, nearly three weeks earlier than originally planned.