The Hotel Parq Central in downtown Albuquerque will be open in time for this year�s balloon festival. Photo: Marble Street Studio Originally built in 1926, the Albuquerque Memorial Hospital at Central Avenue and Interstate-25 is being rejuvenated into a 73-room boutique hotel developed by Memorial Ventures LLC. Photo: Marble Street Studio Featuring 1-ft-thick concrete walls, the building’s structural integrity is still in good shape, as is the external stucco. Since the building is on the National Register of Historic Places, the exterior appearance has to remain authentic while the interior is turned into a modern hotel. Photo: Marble Street Studio
While modest in budget, the Tempe Library and Historical Museum renovations bring new life to old buildings. The Tempe Historical Museum�s former entryway (below) was demolished and replaced by an aluminum and glass storefront (above) with 72 LED lights that are programmed to wash the facade in four different colors. A 10-ft by 40-ft graphic scrim invites visitors to enter. Photo: Brignall Construction Related Links: No Walk in the Parq Complex Renovation Turns 1920�s Hospital into Boutique Hotel Wiseguys Return to Las Vegas Tight budgets didn�t restrain creativity during the concurrent renovations of the $8-million Tempe Public Library and the
A $50-million museum in downtown Las Vegas will examine America�s cultural fascination with organized crime and it�s impact on the city. Photo: Luetta Callaway The 1933 neoclassical structure is being refurbished to its original condition with help of the original 80-year-old conceptual drawings. Photo: Luetta Callaway As a vital part of the city�s downtown redevelopment efforts, the Las Vegas Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement�s exterior is being restored with terra-cotta brick cladding and limestone base, an original loggia entrance and granite paneling. The windows are being replaced and upgraded as well. Related Links: No Walk in the Parq
Banner Health injects vigor into the valley�s health care construction market. Photo: Cornerstone Photography Banner Health has 11 hospitals in Arizona, including one of its newest, Ironwood Medical Center, which will serve Queen Creek, the San Tan Valley and northern Pinal County. Photo: Cornerstone Photography The $82-million Banner Ironwood Medical Center includes a five-story nursing tower and a two-story diagnostic and treatment block. The structure and exterior were completed last September, but the hospital won’t open for patients until November 2010. Related Links: Vegas on a Health Kick: VA Builds New Medical Complex in Southern Nevada Despite the recession, health
Photo: Las Vegas Monorail Co. Las Vegas� Monorail a Bust, Just Five Years After Opening Las Vegas Monorail Co., private owner of a $650-million, 4.2-mile automated rail line connecting eight Las Vegas Strip resorts and the convention center, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on January 13, one month after an announced $500-million expansion to McCarran International Airport. The dual-line system began operation on July 15, 2004. Granite Construction Co. Inc., Watsonville, Calif., and Bombardier built the monorail under a $354-million, fixed-price contract. Estimated to carry 40,000 passengers a day, the monorail ran into trouble when, on Sept. 1, a
A funding delay, a cableway collapse and a death: Construction of the Hoover Dam Bypass is a challenge-filled saga that rivals the building of the historic dam itself. But the light at the end of the canyon is beckoning. North America’s longest single-arch concrete crossing, at 1,960 ft, now soars 870 ft over the Colorado River and is scheduled to open to traffic in November 2010. It will carry vehicles 1,500 ft downstream from Hoover Dam, spanning the Black Canyon at the borders of Nevada and Arizona and answering a need that dates back to the 1960s. Photo: Federal Highway
According to analysts at McGraw-Hill Construction, the parent company of this publication, residential construction will be higher in 2010 in all three states, with Arizona at nearly $4 billion and Nevada rising to $1.4 billion. Both multi-family housing and single family home construction will see increases over the previous year, but will be nowhere near the levels seen in 2006 and 2007. Related Links: Forecast 2010: Residential Rebounds While Other Sectors Struggle New Mexico will also see an increase in non-residential buildings to $1.6 billion, but engineering/highway projects will dip significantly to $935 million in 2010. Nevada, on the other
McGraw-Hill Construction is forecasting that total construction starts will climb 11% to $466.2 billion in 2010, following an estimated 25% decline in 2009. Bob Murray is vice president of economic affairs with McGraw-Hill Construction. Related Links: McGraw-Hill Construction is forecasting mixed numbers for the Southwest. After a 39% drop in construction between 2006 and 2009, an improving residential market and signs of strength in select public-sector markets such as transportation and infrastructure could spark an overall turnaround in 2010, says Bob Murray, vice president of economic affairs for McGraw-Hill Construction. "This is not a booming market; it is just inching
Texas Construction presents its thirteenth annual Best Of awards issue, which honors projects completed in our region between Sept. 1, 2008, and Sept. 1, 2009.
Submitted by McCarthy Building Cos. Photo: Opulence Studios Related Links: Cashman Equipment Company Corporate Headquarters Centennial Hills Library City of Fernley Water Treatment Facility Craig Road over I-15, NDOT #3339 Dema Guinn Concourse at the Nevada State Museum Golden Eagle Park Hangar 7 M Resort Spa and Casino McCarran International Airport Terminal 3 Early Site Civil Package Mirage Volcano Nevada Cancer Institute � Support Services Building Ogden House Renovation/El Cortez Cabana Suites Opportunity Village Engelstad Campus Thomas & Mack Employment Resource Center Reconstruct Runway 7R/25L, Associated Taxiways & Install Perimeter Duct Bank Segment 4 Red Rock Canyon Visitor Center Salvation
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