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“Shopping Center Construction”

Jun
21
2011

Chicago Casino Construction: How to Deal the House a Winning Hand

In Chicago commercial construction news, everyone knows the big buzz right now is on the pending Chicago casino. Although many sites have been mentioned, the Chicago casino location is still undetermined, and for the purpose of this blog post, that’s okay. Because regardless of where the downtown casino is located, there is a commercial construction [...]

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Apr
19
2011

Are you a Do or a Don’t? The Shopping Center Construction Checklist of Interacting with Tenants

In this dog-eat-dog retail world of shopping center operators and mall developers working every angle and concession to bring in new retail tenants, the last thing mall landlords need is a commercial construction general contractor who doesn’t know the rules causing headaches for everybody. And by causing headaches, I mean a GC that annoys your [...]

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Mar
28
2011

Chicago Retail Construction News and Trends – 2011 Updates

Now that spring is officially here, I wanted to reflect on the Chicago retail construction trends and news we’ve seen so far in 2011. From the new commercial construction projects we know are in the pipeline, to what I heard at the recent Bisnow Chicago Retail Summit, I am cautiously optimistic. Good News/Bad News. The [...]

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