JDL Development has filed a zoning application with the city of Chicago for a 76-story tower, a 45-story tower and a nine-story shopping center, all sited on the former Holy Name Cathedral parking lot in the Streeterville neighborhood.
Aimed at improving safety along Chicago's popular Lakefront Trail bordering Lake Michigan, a new flyover structure will miss its scheduled 2018 completion date by at least a year, likely boosting the project's original $60-million cost.
A federal judge has endorsed a consent decree to rehabilitate Baltimore's
century-old sewer system, clearing the way for a $1.6-billion strategy to stop
millions of gallons of wastewater from leaking into the city's Inner Harbor and the Chesapeake Bay within the next 13 years.
This year, seven major new-
construction fires at four- to six-story wood-framed residential sites caused property loss exceeding $400
million, says the National Fire Protection Association.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to roll back the Obama administration’s 2015 Clean Power Plan, meant to cut greenhouse-gas emissions 32% from 2005 levels by 2030.
The demise of TransCanada Corp.’s $12.5-billion Energy East pipeline has put another dent in Canada’s ambitious infrastructure plans, but the void may get filled with other large, albeit controversial, energy projects.