Just as the Broadway hit “Hamilton” packs the epic biography of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton into a three-hour rap opera, the $120-million Museum of the American Revolution under construction in Philadelphia ambitiously jams the eight-year war into a tight urban site.

The total value of the 25 contracts that make up this year’s ENR MidAtlantic Top Starts list—which includes projects that got underway in 2015—is down sharply, to $5.7 billion from $10.7 billion in last year’s ranking.

Faced with a looming 2017 deadline to reduce nutrients released into the Chesapeake Bay watershed, the City of Baltimore’s Dept. of Public Works is pushing to complete more than $500 million of improvements at its Back River Wastewater Treatment Plant.

Located on the largest industrial brownfield site in the U.S., the Hoover Mason Trestle elevated walkway offers visitors unique views and access to one of the last remaining open-hearth blast furnaces in the country.

The Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s Brock Environmental Center is the first building in the U.S. to get a permit to make potable water from rainwater. That is no small accomplishment. T

With the 2013 purchase of 1785 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, in Washington, D.C., the American Enterprise Institute landed an iconic location for its headquarters.