Published Nationally ® January 21 2018 Vol. IX • No. 2
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Colorado Builds $75M U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame By Cindy Riley CEG CORRESPONDENT
ODOT Announces Old SH-11 Bridge Adoption, Relocation...6
Located more than 6,000 ft. above sea level at the foothills of Rocky Mountains’ Pikes Peak, Colorado’s $75 million U.S. Olympic Museum will create a gateway to downtown Colorado Springs when it opens in 2019. The three-story building will be the new home of the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame, and will feature highly interactive exhibit space, a theater, gift shop, café and a simulated broadcast studio. “The U.S. does not currently have an Olympic museum,” said Pam Shockley-Zalabak, interim CEO of the U.S. Olympic Museum. “We have amazing Olympians and Paralympians with incredible stories to tell. We need to celebrate their accomplishments and what the Olympic values and ideals mean for this country. The museum will serve the see OLYMPIC page 10
Caltrans’ $171M Project Improves I-5 Though Santa Clarita...17
R B Holt Makes Way for New Development in Orange County...18
Table of Contents ................4 California Section ........17-22 Parts Section ....................34 Paving Section ............ 39-47 Auction Section ..........50-61 Business Calendar ............55 Advertisers Index ..............62
Acquisitions Lead to New Company Kerry Vickar, chairman, and Mitch Nevins, CEO, announced the formation of a new company — National Equipment Dealers LLC (NED) on Jan. 5, 2018. Simultaneously, NED announced the acquisition of Four Seasons Equipment LLC, May Heavy Equipment LLC and Earthmovers Construction Equipment LLC, as well as some assets of International Iron LLC. “This is a truly exceptional opportunity for NED to expand in what is recognized as the three fastest growing economic areas in the U.S.: Texas (Houston and Dallas), the Carolinas (Raleigh, Lexington, Charlotte, Columbia, Greenville/Spartanburg, Charleston) and Florida (Orlando),” said Mitch Nevins, CEO of NED in a release announcing the acquisition. “Under the newly formed NED [with a corporate office in Charlotte, N.C.], May Heavy Equipment, Four Seasons Equipment and Earthmovers Construction Equipment LLC will continue to operate autonomously with the same company names,” Nevins told Construction Equipment Guide (CEG). “However, they will now report operationally as well as financially to the parent company level — National Equipment Dealers. Employees of each company are expected to continue their respective jobs in the same previous mansee COMPANY page 38
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Located more than 6,000 ft. above sea level at the foothills of Rocky Mountains’ Pikes Peak, Colorado’s $75 million U.S. Olympic Museum will create a gateway to downtown Colorado Springs when it opens in 2019.
$2.6B LA Rams, Chargers Stadium to Open in 2020 By Krysta Fauria ASSOCIATED PRESS
INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) The Los Angeles Rams and Chargers have shown off their future new home rising from a very deep hole in suburban Inglewood. The teams gave news media a hard-hat tour of the stadium construction site about 10 mi. (16 km) southwest of downtown Los Angeles and not far from the eastern approach to Los see STADIUM page 19
The $2.6 billion, 70,000-seat stadium was originally supposed to open for the 2019 NFL season but heavy rains last year delayed excavation and it’s now expected to open in 2020.