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Oct
21
2010

HardHatChat Commercial Construction Blog: Trends, Tips and Costs

About a year ago, our team at Englewood Construction thought it would be a great idea to share our commercial construction news and experience through a blog. At first, I wasn’t sure. I’m an old-school guy so I like to talk to people face to face, or at least over the phone.

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Sep
10
2010

Commercial Construction Best Practices: How Not to be the Class Dunce

As I recently watched my kids head back in school, it got me thinking that if I could do it all over again, I would have applied myself a little bit more in school—as I think most of would. Luckily, there are all kinds of opportunities for us in the industry to go back to “school” and beef up our commercial construction education, enhance our construction services and learn about the latest commercial construction trends and design build best practices.

Commercial real estate developers, shopping center landlords and restaurant owners should also take advantage of this slow time in the market to attend the various commercial real estate networking events and shopping center conferences to gain insights on the industry or better yet, to sit on a panel to showcase their expertise and highlight their projects.

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Aug
11
2010

Retail Construction Trends 2010 Update: Outside the Big Box

It’s time to revisit another prediction I made last year in my blog post Commercial Constructions Trends to Watch in 2010 — Outside the Big Box. According to my blog, I said in 2010 we should “Expect to see new innovation in store concepts, especially when it comes to capitalizing on vacated commercial space in [...]

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