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Construction Begins on $500M Lansing Hospital By Lori Tobias
really excited about keeping it here in the community. We expect that this complex will Crews have begun be a medical destinapouring concrete for the tion for wellness and foundation of the new health care services. Greater McLaren We believe that with Hospital in South the resources we have Lansing, Mich., markand facilities we have ing the single largest it’s a natural for us to investment ever of parbuild a base that will ent company McLaren only grow over time.” Health Care. The project will cre“When it is all said ate an estimated 2,500 and done, we will invest construction jobs, as more than $500 million well as adding 80 new on this site — for the hospital employee replacement hospital, positions to the current wonderful modern workforce of 2,000. medical services buildThe new building ing, cancer center, will replace two older research programs and a hospitals in Lansing, number of other things that will be coming The property on which McLaren Health Care’s new Lansing hospital will stand is adja- which will be redeveloped for other purposhere,” said Phil cent to Michigan State University. es. The new property, Incarnati, president and “We believe we are helping train purchased from Michigan State CEO of McLaren Health Care. area, more importantly to the state “When you look at the type of of Michigan, you can’t help but some of the finest physicians in the University, is adjacent to the uniexpectations that we have for this talk about research and graduate country. This platform is only versity, and the project builds upon going to make that better. We’re project and what it will bring to the medical education. see HOSPITAL page 60
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Table of Contents ..............4 Truck & Trailer Section ........ ....................................31-37 Attachments Section ............ .................................... 49-51
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Millennial Builds Brand Moving 5-Ton Boulders By Ryan Johnson SPECIAL TO CEG
Recycling Section ......63-79 Auction Section ..........84-91 Business Calendar ............88 Advertisers Index ............90
Matt Quinnell is just 29 years old, yet this heavy equipment operator has logged thousands of hours in excavators. The Minnesota native currently works in the family business to build artistic boulder retaining walls in the growing Minneapolis suburbs. For Quinnell, building the walls isn’t
work. It’s a fun challenge. Quinnell’s parents started Advanced Wall Structures in 1992. His mom, Patti, is the president of the company and his dad, Terry, is the vice president. A brother, Chris Theis, works side by side with Matt as the duo uses Doosan excavators to excavate, compact, build and finish sculpting the land for new-home developers. see BOULDERS page 56
Matt Quinnell works for his parents’ company, Advanced Wall Structures of Minnesota. Though he initially studied to be an engineer, he found he is happier spending up to 12 hours a day in an excavator, building stone walls.