Wild Oats HQ Tenant Finish Complete

W.E. O’Neil Construction Co. of Colorado completed the Wild Oats corporate headquarters tenant improvement project in Boulder.

Highlights of the two-level, 84,000-sq-ft project – designed by Petersen Staggs Architects – include high-end finishes, two water features, a test kitchen, food lab and network room, as well as open-office layout with private perimeter offices. Together, both the shell and interior projects totaled $6.5 million and were completed on an eight-and-a-half month schedule.

Flatiron-Tidewater Skanska Celebrates Opening of I-10 Bridge

After weeks of working 24 hours a day, the design-build team of Flatiron Constructors and Tidewater Skanska celebrated in December the opening of the new eastbound Interstate 10 Bridge over Escambia Bay in Florida—11 days before the deadline.

Hurricane Ivan severely damaged the I-10 bridges on Sept. 16, 2004. The Florida Department of Transportation made the bridge replacement a top priority and awarded the design-build contract to the joint venture team of Flatiron Constructors and Tidewater Skanska. The final bridges will have three lanes of traffic in each direction and two 10-ft-wide shoulders. The new westbound bridge is scheduled to open this November.

Denver Firms Design New DC Landmark

Phase I of Semper Fidelis Memorial Park opened late last year at the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Washington, D.C.

Two Denver firms – Fentress Bradburn Architects and studioINSITE – were responsible for the site design, landscape and master planning for the park, part of the 135-acre Marine Corps Heritage Center. The campus includes a demonstration area with parade grounds, hiking trails and other outdoor recreational offerings, conference center and hotel and an archive facility dedicated to the restoration and preservation of Marine artifacts. The initial phase of the memorial park includes part of the trail network and the first of several overlooks.

Hyder Construction Working on Western Union Offices

Hyder Construction is renovating the executive offices at the Englewood branch of Western Union.

The interior remodeling project includes numerous high-end improvements to the CEO’s office and other executive offices. This is the third tenant improvement project Hyder has built for Western Union at its Meridian 2 Office Building. The project is scheduled for completion this month.

White Construction Group Completes Peachtree Academy

White Construction Group finished the $1.9 million Peachtree Academy in Commerce City, an 11,800-sq-ft school serving the Fronterra Village and Reunion communities.

SlaterPaull Architects was the designer.

White Construction’s team included Karen Poole, project manager; Jesse Prater, project superintendent; and Michelle Anderson, project coordinator.

Krische Building New Summit Bank in Thornton

Krische Construction began construction in December on a new Summit Bank and Trust at 16501 Washington St. in Thornton. It’s the second facility Krische has built for Summit.

Completion of the $1.2 million, 4,014-sq-ft project is expected in April.

Quality Electric Working with CFC on Timberline Cove

Quality Electric Inc. is working with general contractor CFC Construction to provide electrical contracting services for the four-story building and parking structure at Timberline Cove, a condominium project at Lake Dillon in Frisco.

Construction Begins on MCA Expansion

Work is under way on the expansion of Medical Center of Aurora, a $41.7 million project also designed to update the hospital’s image.

The project – designed by Perkins + Will – includes a five-story, 112,000-sq-ft private patient tower addition, 20,000 sq ft of remodel and a 205,000-sq-ft, four-level parking structure to accommodate 548 spaces. The central plant will also be updated and new boilers, chillers, switch gear and cooling towers installed. Completion is set for early 2009.

Revamped Centennial Elementary Opens for Class

Alliance Construction Solutions hosted a ribbon cutting in early January to celebrate completion of a $6.8 million remodel and expansion of Thompson School District’s Centennial Elementary School.

The project, which began last April, remodeled existing classroom space and built a 20,000-sq-ft addition to the Loveland school. Upgrades were also made to system and building controls, and a new playground was installed. The project—designed by Kruger Architects—was completed three weeks ahead of schedule.

Drahota Completes $2.6M Market Centre

Drahota completed a 63,000-sq-ft tenant finish for Columbine Health Systems in Fort Collins, transforming an old grocery store into the new Columbine Market Centre.

Located in the former Steele’s supermarket, the facility completes Columbine Health Systems’ campus in Fort Collins. The $2.6 million project began last May and included the creation of a training facility, restaurant, lifestyle center, office spaces and a distribution warehouse.

The training facility provides mock patient rooms that include details such as overhead lifts for Columbine’s certified nurse training program. The restaurant was designed to offer a convenient eatery for residents and staff. It’s also open to the public.

The facility includes a small auditorium and banquet facilities, available to the public for rent. Vaught Frye Architects of Fort Collins designed the project. Drahota’s team included Sarah Bucholt, project manager; Tyler Texeira, superintendent; and Patty Williams, project coordinator.

JE Dunn Construction Delivers Stapleton MOB, Health Center

JE Dunn Construction completed work on the Stapleton Medical Office Building and tenant build-out for the University of Colorado Hospital’s Centers for Healthy Living at Stapleton.

Located at the intersection of Quebec and Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., the $4.5 million medical office building is home to the Centers of Healthy Living, a $1.4 million tenant-improvement project that occupies most of the first floor of the 47,715-sq-ft, two-story facility. LEED-silver certification will be sought for the core-and-shell of the Forest City Stapleton project.

EMJ, Riviera Finish Lowe’s in Littleton

Riviera Electric started the new year by finishing work on the new, 166,000-sq-ft Lowe’s home improvement store at South Zuni Street and Belleview Avenue in Littleton.

The project included installation of all lighting; an energy management system; point-of-sale, security and phone/data conduit systems; generator; and a buss duct for future power to the sales floor. A new traffic light was also installed at the intersection of Belleview Avenue and South Zuni Street. EMJ Corp. was the contractor for the project. Riviera’s team included Lynn Martin, project manager; Brietta Stulken, project coordinator; and T-Bo Thornock, project estimator.

GTC Breaks Ground on Three Projects

Golden Triangle Construction broke ground on several projects in the last few months, including Hemphill Middle School, Aurora Fire Station No. 1, the Shops at Stapleton and a King Soopers at Briargate in Colorado Springs.

Designed by Denver’s Bennett Wagner & Grody Architects, Hemphill Middle School is a 40,320-sq-ft facility constructed with a combination of pre-engineered steel and masonry bearing walls with a steel joist roof structure.

The Shops at Stapleton were designed by MCG Architecture. The 22,000-sq-ft retail facility will be located on the west side of Quebec Street.

Designed by O’Brien and Associates, the King Soopers in Colorado Springs is part of the Marketplace at Briargate, a retail center that encompasses four buildings totaling 95,000 sq ft and 12 acres of site development.

Aurora Fire Station No. 1 was designed by OZ Architecture. Based in Longmont, Golden Triangle Construction is a celebrating its 30th year in business along the Front Range and the one-year anniversary of its Colorado Springs office.

Groundbreaking Held for Sugar3

Construction has begun on Sugar3, a 10-story, mixed-use building that will be built adjacent to Lower Downtown Denver’s Historic Sugar Building.

Nearly 100 people attended the groundbreaking, including representatives from the developer, Urban Villages; Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects of Toronto; and JE Dunn Construction, the contractor.

Located at 16th and Blake streets, the $40 million project will include retail on the street level, three levels of office space, 37 residential units on six levels and a three-level, below-grade parking structure with 136 spaces.  The project is scheduled for completion in spring 2008.

$17.8M Estes Park Medical Center Tops Out

GE Johnson Construction Co. has topped out the first phase of Estes Park Medical Center’s expansion, designed by Prochaska & Associates Inc.

The $17.8 million project, which broke ground last April, includes the addition of new space for patient rooms, a surgical suite, physical medicine and rehabilitation department, a family medical clinic and the admissions and business office operations, which will be combined for greater operational efficiency.

In addition to the new facility, hospital layout will be updated to improve patient privacy and security. Work is scheduled to be complete this fall.


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