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August 17, 2013 • Vol. IXX • No. 17 • 470 Maryland Drive • Ft. Washington, PA 19034 • 215-885-2900 • Toll Free 800-523-2200 • Fax 215-885-2910
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$60M Speed Art Museum Expansion Under Way
Towmaster Hosts 4th Annual Expo…12
Previously completed phases include the enabling project, which involved installation of an underground detention system, and the central utility building and decommissioning of existing systems project, which involved a new utility building constructed to upgrade to cost-saving energy efficient systems for the existing and new buildings.
By Brenda Ruggiero CEG CORRESPONDENT
Cat Mac hines Br eak Grou nd at Dayt ona…14
An art museum in Louisville, Ky., is currently at the beginning stages of a three-year, $60 million expansion project, with funding coming from private donations.
The construction manager is F.A. Wilhelm Construction Company, and the project manager is John Grosvenor. Construction began in July 2013 and is expected to be complete in the fall of 2015. According to its Facebook
page, the Speed Art Museum, originally known as the J. B. Speed Memorial Museum, is Kentucky’s oldest and largest art museum. It was founded in 1925 by Hattie Bishop Speed as a memorial to her husband, James see MUSEUM page 72
An art museum in Louisville, Ky., is currently at the beginning stages of a three-year, $60 million expansion project, with funding coming from private donations.
Independence Excavating Foreclosure Decline Demos Cleveland House Spells Good News Stu dents Beg in Deer e Tech Pr ogram. .. 50
Table of Contents ............4 Attachment Section .......... ..................................41-45 Trucks & Trailers Section ..................................55-65 Recycling Section ....73-87 Business Calendar ........88 Auction Section ....92-101 Advertisers Index ........102
By Lori Tobias
By Christine Reckner CEG ASSOCIATE EDITOR
CEG CORRESPONDENT
When Independence Excavating, a Cleveland-based full service site development and demolition company, heard about the three freed woman who were held captive for a decade, it decided to raise donations in its office for the victims. The company, which was founded in 1956 by the DiGeronimo family, has close ties to the Cleveland community and felt compelled to help in any way they could. Yet Vic DiGeronimo, president, felt they could do more. He reached out to the city and offered Independence Excavating’s time and equipment, at no cost, to demolish Ariel Castro’s house, the
A new report putting the so-called shadow inventory of houses at a three-year low, and showing a decrease in foreclosures spells good news for the construction industry, economists said. According to a report by CoreLogic, a provider of business data and analytics, “The overall shadow inventory is down 34 percent from its peak in 2010, when it reached 3 million homes, and down 18 percent from a year ago, when it was at 2.4 million.”
see INDEPENDENCE page 54
see HOUSING page 98
The goal was to tear the house down and get the property filled in, graded and seeded in a single day, according to Gus Frangos, president of Cuyahoga Land Bank, which supervised the demolition.
ConExpo Retro
See page 20 for the first of an ongoing series of highlights from past ConExpos as they were reported in the pages of CEG.