After a fire destroyed the historic Westport Presbyterian Church in 2011, the project team was contracted to build a modern place of fellowship while also respecting the history and architecture of the original 1905 Romanesque Revival structure.

In transforming the historic 19th-century Chicago Athletic Association building—designed circa 1893—into a modern boutique hotel, contractors took extraordinary care to preserve the building’s rich Venetian Gothic architectural details while creating a contemporary hospitality environment.

With urban revitalization spurring growth in residential and mixed-use facilities, the Indiana construction market is “stable and reflects national trends with growth in life sciences, health care, entertainment and infrastructure,” Philip Kenney says.

At 32 stories, the Northwestern Mutual Tower and Commons is designed to strike a grand pose on the Milwaukee skyline for generations to come.

Among the theories floated for this year’s lagging response by specialty contractors to ENR’s annual regional surveys is that those contractors have just been too busy working.