2000 News
Monday, November 20, 2000
Clark Construction Begins Work On $128 Million Complex At Georgetown University
— Clark Construction Group, LLC recently began construction of the $128 million Southwest Quadrangle Project at Georgetown University. Totaling over 860,000-square-feet, the project consists of four components: three new residence halls, dining facility, underground parking garage and Jesuit Community Residence. The Southwest Quadrangle will further enhance the quality of on-campus life for Georgetown University students. Clark Construction has developed a schedule to minimize interference with the activities of the university’s students, faculty, staff, and visitors. Designed as three connected...
Monday, November 20, 2000
Clark Construction Completes Sixth U.S. Federal Courthouse for GSA
— The U.S. General Services Administration and Clark Construction Group, LLC, recently completed the U.S. Federal Courthouse in Montgomery, Ala., the pair’s sixth project together. Constructed behind an existing historic courthouse, the 297,000-square-foot, $46 million facility was Clark’s first project in the state of Alabama. A total of 14 courtrooms for the U.S. Middle District, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, and U.S. Magistrate Court are included in the new courthouse, as well as offices for the U.S. District Court Clerk,...
Monday, November 20, 2000
Clark Construction Completes R.M. Clayton Water Reclamation Center for City of Atlanta
— Clark Construction Group, LLC recently completed a $100 million expansion project at the R. M. Clayton Water Reclamation Center, a wastewater treatment facility that serves most of Atlanta and portions of two counties. Designed by Camp Dresser & McKee/Harrington, George and Dunn Joint Venture of Atlanta and owned by the City of Atlanta, the Center has achieved compliance with effluent and water quality standards and can now expand to meet future needs. This expansion not only provides...
Monday, October 30, 2000
Clark Construction Team Wins National Design Build Award for San Francisco Civic Center
— For the third time in the last four years, a design build team led by Clark Construction has earned a National Design Build Award from the Design Build Institute of America (DBIA). The award was presented to HSH Design/Build Inc., comprised of Clark, Skidmore Owings and Merrill, LLP (SOM) and Hines. This year’s award was presented in the Public Sector ($15 million +) category for the San Francisco Civic Center, a project for the State...
Thursday, October 26, 2000
Clark Construction JV Begins Work on $250 Million Vehicle Engineering Center for General Motors
— Over 8000 vehicle engineering employees will move to a new $250 million, two-million-square-foot complex now underway by Clark-Roncelli, A Joint Venture for General Motors. In order to centralize the auto maker’s vehicle engineering groups, GM plans to consolidate into the Vehicle Engineering Complex (VEC) compromised of two connected buildings. Designed by Kaplan McLaughlin Diaz of San Francisco, the first of the two linked buildings consists of the renovation of a one-million-square-foot, rectangular, two-story building recently labeled the...
Sunday, May 14, 2000
Clark/Epstein JV Completes Pennsylvania Warehouse Project
— A joint venture of Clark Construction Group, LLC and A. Epstein & Sons International, Inc. of Chicago recently completed a 1.36-million-square-foot food distribution center near Lancaster, Penn. Located on a 165-acre site, the project was completed for Albertson’s, Inc. of Boise, Id. The facility serves as the major East Coast distribution center for the large supermarket chain and includes four buildings, the largest of which is the warehouse facility. Albertson’s Food and Drug Stores include the chains...
Thursday, April 13, 2000
Clark Construction Completes Park Connecticut Apartments
— Park Connecticut Apartments, one of the few new market-rate rental communities in Washington, D.C. in over 10 years, was just completed by Clark Construction Group, LLC for Arlington, Va.-based Charles E. Smith Residential Realty, one of the country’s leading real estate investment trusts (REITs). The $21 million, 11-story apartment building is conveniently located near Metro on Connecticut Avenue, NW. Occupying a formerly vacant, tree-lined site, the 240,000-square-foot building offers 142 one-and two-bedroom apartment units, ranging in size...
Thursday, April 13, 2000
Orange County (Fla.) Awards Clark JV Team $520 Million Convention Center Project
— With over $1 billion in convention center construction underway, Clark Construction with its joint venture partners have been awarded the $520 million construction management contract for Phase V of the Orange County Convention Center expansion, one of the largest public projects ever awarded in the State of Florida. The project joins a distinguished list of current convention center projects that include the new Washington (D.C.) Convention Center, a $500 million, 2.3-million-square-foot facility; the $350 million,...
Wednesday, March 1, 2000
Championship Event Opens IMG’s $75 Million Tennis Complex Completed by Clark Construction
— Many of the world’s best professional tennis players including Pete Sampras, Andre Agassi, Patrick Rafter, Venus Williams and Monica Seles are competing this week in the prestigious Newsweek Champions Cup, the inaugural event at the new 100-acre, $75 million Indian Wells Tennis Garden. Clark Construction Group, LLC recently completed this premier tournament tennis center in Indian Wells, Calif., for IMG (one of the world’s leading sports management firms with clients including Tiger Woods and Pete...
Wednesday, March 1, 2000
Clark Construction Completes Hilton Hotel in Historic Alexandria, Va.
— The $21.5 million Hilton Hotel, Clark Construction’s third project completed in the King Street Metroplace complex in Alexandria, Va., recently was opened by LNR Alexandria Limited Partnership, the owner. In addition to the hotel, Clark has previously completed the King Street Metroplace office complex, a $12 million, 149,000-square-foot building with retail space and parking, and the $14 million King Street Metroplace Timeshare project, which includes 88 residential units as well as retail space and parking. The new...
Tuesday, February 1, 2000
Clark Construction Completes D.C. Mixed-Use Project for Gould Property Company, Boston Properties
— The revitalization of downtown Washington, D.C.’s East End continues with the completion of the 490,000-square-foot Market Square North apartment and office buildings. This mixed-use development was built by Clark Construction Group, LLC for the owner Square 407 Limited Partnership, comprised of developers Gould Property Company and Boston Properties. Once home to learned statesmen, wealthy merchants and grand hotels, the Market Square along Pennsylvania Avenue between the White House and the capitol was the hub of Washington’s business...
Sunday, January 30, 2000
Clark Contractors Completes Dallas’ First Subway Station
— Citing rapid transit’s crucial role in economic development, Texas Construction magazine named Dallas Area Rapid Transit’s (DART) Cityplace Station “Project of the Year.” In response to a 37% increase in light rail ridership in the last few years, DART built its first subway station in the Cityplace Tower, north of downtown Dallas. Clark Contractors recently completed construction of the $20 million project. Located ten stories below an expressway and existing office, the station shell had already been...
Tuesday, January 18, 2000
Clark/Gruen Design Build Inc. Selected for $225 Million Sacramento Office Complex
— The State of California Department of General Services has selected Clark Construction Group, LLC and its design/build partner, Gruen Associates of Los Angeles, as the design/build team for a $225.6 million office complex in Sacramento. The selection of the team follows an extensive seven-month process involving proposals from seven teams of construction and architectural firms. An ambitious mixed-use office development, this four building portion of the Capitol Area East End Complex will consolidate the headquarters operations of...