5 Trends Shaping Commercial Construction Projects in 2026
The following five trends are already influencing how projects are scoped, awarded, and built—and they will continue to shape commercial construction in the year ahead.
Big Box Retail Construction
Commercial Construction Strategies: Adaptive Reuse for Big Box Retail
This adaptive reuse trend is now extending to abandoned big-box buildings. With a number of traditional retailers closing locations or going out of business, they are leaving millions of square feet behind for redevelopment. Our first experience with this was turning an old Kmart into a mixed-use retail development. But from experiential retail, restaurants, and […]
The Keys to Making Big Box Retail Construction Projects Successfully Fit Smaller, Urban Footprints like CityTarget on State Street
With the recent Chicago commercial construction news of Target moving to State Street and Wal-Mart opening its Neighborhood Market store at Presidential Towers, it begs the question of what other big box retailers might take advantage of current commercial construction costs and available space to introduce a smaller concept store to downtown Chicago. Is this a new retail construction trend? Probably so.
hhGregg is certainly creating buzz in Chicago retail construction with a number of retail retrofit construction projects in Chicago’s suburbs, so perhaps they are a likely candidate to penetrate the city’s urban retail market.