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July 19, 2017 • Vol. XXX • No. 15 • 470 Maryland Drive • Ft. Washington, PA 19034 • 215-885-2900 • Toll Free 800-523-2200 • Fax 215-885-2910
Nashville Sees $750M Capitol View Project By Cindy Riley
Construction teams in Nashville, Tenn., are working on the latest phase of a roughly $750 million, 32acre mixed-use project that will feature offices, retail shops, restaurants, upscale multi-family residential units, hotels and a 2.5 acre urban activity park when complete. Capitol View, a walkable urban district, will offer immediate access to downtown Nashville, The Gulch, Vanderbilt University, Sulphur Dell Baseball Stadium, Germantown, New Salem and East Nashville. “The biggest challenge with this, or any project of this magnitude, is coordination,” said Austin Webb, project manager of Hoar Construction, which is currently building Capitol View’s Block D and also will construct Block E. “We will contract with over 60 separate subcontractors and vendors before this building is complete, and each one is interacting with the others. Each of our trade partners relies on Hoar to ensure their work can be installed correctly and in a timely manner. We have worked with selected subcontractors for over two years to ensure the project is well organized and scope gaps are minimized.” Hoar began its pursuit of the project in 2013. “After running through several different design iterations, the current general schematic was developed. Hoar worked closely with all of the ownership partners to help influence a project that captured the design, but was also feasible within the time and budget constraints required,” said Webb.
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Construction teams in Nashville, Tenn., are working on the latest phase of a roughly $750 million, 32-acre mixed-use project that will feature offices, retail shops, restaurants, upscale multi-family residential units, hotels and a 2.5 acre urban activity park when complete.
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$77M Stripped From State Construction Budget By Melinda Deslatte
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) Gov. John Bel Edwards stripped $77 million in proposed projects from Louisiana’s state construction budget, saying the state can’t afford all the items lawmakers packed into the bill. Edwards used his line-item veto authority to remove 36 projects around the state from the $3.8 billion, multiyear construction budget passed in the final hours of a special legislative session that ended in June. The veto message was posted on the Legislature’s website June 30. The state is limited in how much money it can borrow through bond sales annually, and the construction budget is stuffed with more projects than Louisiana can afford, meaning the projects will be in the pipeline for years and ASSOCIATED PRESS
some may never get financing. Edwards said lawmakers added $115 million in additional items in line for construction borrowing above what his administration proposed, worsening the gap between the dollars available and the road projects, building repairs and other items jockeying to receive financing. “In an effort to establish realistic expectations given the state’s limited bond capacity, I have vetoed items from this bill totaling [$77M],’’ Edwards wrote in his veto letter. However, even with the governor’s vetoes, the state still won’t be able to advance all the remaining projects in the budget bill. The Edwards’ administration will choose which ones are advanced to the State Bond Commission for financing in the budget year that began July 1. Projects struck from the bill include millions
of dollars in roadwork and drainage improvements proposed for Ascension, Caldwell, Jefferson, Iberia, Lafayette, Livingston, Ouachita, Vermilion, Vernon and Winn parishes. More than $12 million proposed for a neighborhood clinic and urgent care center in Baton Rouge was removed. A levee upgrade in St. Tammany Parish, sewer system improvements in Acadia Parish and a police and fire building in Livingston Parish were stripped, along with dollars for a boat launch in St. Landry Parish and a municipal complex in St. Martin Parish. A golf course development in Calcasieu Parish won’t be getting $2.1 million from the state, and a Rapides Parish industrial park will no longer be in line for $10.8 million in state financing. (This story also can be found on Construction Equipment Guide’s website at www.constructionequipmentguide.com.)