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November 23, 2016 • Vol. XXIX • No. 24 • 470 Maryland Drive • Ft. Washington, PA 19034 • 215-885-2900 • Toll Free 800-523-2200 • Fax 215-885-2910
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Burger Shaping Hits a Hole-In-One…8
Congressman Visit s ASC Volvo in Buford, Ga. …32
Mart in & Marti n Hosts One- Owner Auct ion…96
Table of Contents ........4 Paving Section ......37-50 Trailers Section ....55-70 Auction Section ..94-101 Business Calendar ......99 Advertisers Index ....102
Voters Approve Local Taxes for Construction Voters approved several long-term measures to increase local sales taxes for public construction and operations on nov. 8. Los Angeles and san diego voters each approved measures to raise the sales tax rate ½cent in 2017 to generate $120 billion and $18 billion, respectively, over 40 years. new Jersey voters approved a ballot that would require the recent 23-cent gas tax increase to be dedicated completely to transportation funding. In Los Angeles, construction would begin on $2.5 billion each in 2018 and 2019 on projects including local street improvements. spending in san diego would include transit and road projects. Atlanta-area voters approved varying amounts of sales tax increases for expanding and improving mass transit and other transportation. numerous local bond issues authorizing $500 million or more passed.
M.T. Mustian Center to Be Transformative Building Designed to serve the community for decades to come, the $250 million M.T. Mustian Center is under construction in Tallahassee, Fla.
California • $3.5 billion for the san Francisco Bay Area rapid transit Authority; • $3.3 billion for the Los Angeles Community College district (CCd); • a $1.2 billion city homeless bond plan in Los Angeles;
designed to serve the community for decades to come, the $250 million M.t. Mustian Center is under construction in tallahassee, Fla. the five-story, 340,000 sq. ft. (31,587 sq m) addition will be located at the southeast corner of the tallahassee Memorial HealthCare (tMH) campus, near the corner of Miccosukee road and Medical drive. From start of construction, the project is estimated to take 30 months to complete. Crews are still early in the process. over the next six months, workers will complete excavation, deep foundations, structural steel and the placement of floor slabs. “the M. t. Mustian Center is a transformative building for us and our community,” said Mark
see CONSTRUCTION page 80
see MUSTIAN page 84
By Cindy Riley
CEG CorrEspondEnt
Va. Gov. Names $2.5B ‘Outside the Beltway’ Team Gov. terry McAuliffe announced that the Commonwealth has selected Express Mobility partners to build express lanes on I66 outside the Beltway, following a 16month procurement process. Express Mobility partners, a consortium of Cintra, Meridiam, Ferrovial Agroman U.s. and Allan Myers VA Inc., will finance, design, build, maintain and operate the project under the
public-private transportation Act. “this project will transform travel in the I66 corridor and pave the way for additional multimodal options that will reduce congestion and commute times,” said McAuliffe. “Both teams that submitted bids for this project met the criteria the Commonwealth set for it, but Express Mobility partners’ proposal was the best for Virginia from both a techni-
cal and financial standpoint.” the selection is the culmination of the first major procurement process to follow Virginia’s reformed public-private partnership (p3) process, which was designed by the McAuliffe administration and the General Assembly to increase competition, accountability and transparency in p3 projects after several high profile see EXPRESS page 73