Mon May 22, 2017
Financial Backing Keeps Construction of American Dream Going
The New Jersey mega mall project, American Dream, has recently closed $1.67 billion in financing according to njbiz.com. A 3 million-square-foot development project of Triple Five, the Meadowlands site will be a continuation of the company's shopping and entertainment construction projects which also includes the Mall of America in the U.S....
Edgar A. Browning - Fri May 19, 2017
A Look Back: New Hampshire's Portsmouth Air Force Base
The Portsmouth Air Force Base in Portsmouth, N.H., was built between the years of 1954 to 1956. The Cold War project was described militarily as a retaliation base. The joint venture team of Morrison-Knudsen Company of Boise, Idaho, and Landers & Griffin Inc....
Fri May 19, 2017
JESCO Names William Beckman as New Ditch Witch Territory Manager
JESCO Inc. has named William Beckman its new territory manager for the Ditch Witch brand, covering the company's Mid-Atlantic region. According to JESCO, Beckman will be its “underground construction expert” for the following counties in Maryland: Montgomery, Anne Arundel, Prince George's, Charles, Calvert and Saint Mary's, as well as for the entire Washington, D.C., area....
Fri May 19, 2017
Hunyady Auction Company Conducts Retirement Sale for Barbiche Brothers Construction in Flemington, N.J.
Hunyady Auction Company held a complete liquidation sale May 3 for Barbiche Brothers Construction in Flemington, N.J. After more than 45 years in business, Barbiche Brothers Construction, a commercial and residential site development, excavation and paving company, recently decided to retire and liquidate its equipment assets....
Fri May 19, 2017
Harter Makes Plans for 50th Anniversary Celebration
Good moves … it takes many of these to be successful in business — and even more to be successful for a half-century. When Seth Harter decided in 1967 to stake his career on Deere & Company, which had operated construction equipment dealerships for only 10 years at the time, that was the first of many good moves....
Fri May 19, 2017
Camden's Field of Dreams Withers, But Construction Blooms
A baseball stadium once hailed as a sign of the bright future of the waterfront in the poverty-stricken city of Camden now sits mostly empty, but redevelopment projects worth hundreds of millions are rising up around it....
Brenda Ruggiero - Fri May 19, 2017
P&G Invests $500M to Build New Plant in Tabler Station, W.Va.
Procter & Gamble (P&G) is making a $500 million capital investment to build a new manufacturing plant and warehouse on a tract of land in Tabler Station, W.Va., which is in Berkeley County. This area is near Martinsburg in the rural mountains of the state's western panhandle....
Fri May 19, 2017
UPenn Announces $1.5B Hospital Pavilion Plans
The University of Pennsylvania will build a $1.5 billion new hospital on Penn Medicine's West Philadelphia campus. The Pavilion, which will house inpatient care for the Abramson Cancer Center, heart and vascular medicine and surgery, neurology and neurosurgery, and a new emergency department, is expected to be completed in 2021....
Brenda Ruggiero - Fri May 19, 2017
Maryland SHA Reconstructs Salisbury Bypass
In August, the Maryland Department of Transportation's State Highway Administration (SHA) began a nearly two-year project to rehabilitate 11 bridges on U.S. 13/U.S. 50 (Salisbury Bypass) in Salisbury, which is in Wicomico County....
Thu May 18, 2017
Volvo CE Celebrates Budding Operators at SkillsUSA's Pennsylvania State Heavy Equipment Competition
Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) recently participated in the SkillsUSA Pennsylvania State Heavy Equipment Competition as a sponsor to encourage young Americans to pursue skilled professions in the manufacturing industry....
