2004 News
Monday, November 15, 2004
Clark Construction Renovates W. Va. Air National Guard Base for C-5 Fleet
— Clark Construction Group, LLC was recently awarded a $16 million contract with the West Virginia National Guard to construct a new 10-story, 130-foot airport control tower at the West Virginia Air National Guard facilities in Martinsburg, W.Va. The project involves demolition of the existing control tower, construction of a new tower, and installation of new infrastructure for the entire base, including all new utilities services, a new main entrance road, a new guard house and security...
Wednesday, October 6, 2004
Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian Opens on the National Mall
— Sited prominently between the National Air & Space Museum and the U.S. Capitol, the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian on the National Mall opened on September 21st to much acclaim. The facility is a centerpiece venue for ceremonies and presentations, as well as a primary exhibition space for Indian arts, histories and cultures. A joint venture of Clark Construction Group, LLC (www.clarkconstruction.com) and Table Mountain Rancheria Enterprises Inc. of Friant, Calif. served as general...
Thursday, September 23, 2004
Terrell Place Earns Award of Excellence from ABC
— Terrell Place, a mixed-use complex across the street from the MCI Center in downtown Washington, recently was selected as a winning project in the 2004 Excellence in Construction Awards competition in the Commercial ($40 million & over) category from the Metro Washington and Virginia Chapters of Associated Builders and Contractors. Clark Construction Group, LLC served as general contractor on the $60 million project. Consisting of 439,000 square feet of office space and 39,000 square feet of retail...
Tuesday, September 14, 2004
Johns Hopkins University Garage Underway
— Clark Construction Group, LLC is currently serving as the general contractor on the $46 million phase one portion of the South of Orleans Expansion project for The Johns Hopkins Hospital at 1795 Orleans Street in East Baltimore. This multi-use facility includes a 2,200-space parking structure and loading dock, as well as the core and shell construction of a kitchen and power plant. Designed by Thornton Tomasetti Cutts of Washington, D.C. and LZA of New York, the structure...
Monday, September 13, 2004
Public/Private Partnership Leads Construction of Falls Church Middle School
— A new $25 million middle school is underway in Falls Church, Va., a suburb of Washington, D.C. The George Mason Middle School is being developed through a public/private partnership between the Falls Church Public School Board, City of Falls Church and Clark Real Estate Advisors. The project is the first awarded under the new Virginia Public Education Facilities and Infrastructure Act of 2002. Due to overcrowding at the current facility, a new middle school is needed....
Monday, August 30, 2004
Clark Construction Completes Trauma and Critical Care Building
— Clark Construction Group - California, LP completed Phase I of a multi-phase, $130 million contract at central California’s Community Regional Medical Centers in Fresno. This project involves an acute care building with burn and trauma facilities, central energy plant, cook-chill kitchen and three-level parking garage. The expansion also includes 10 new operating rooms, 68 intensive-care unit beds and two helicopter pads for airlifting patients. Designed by RTKL of Chicago and Ratcliff of San Francisco, the 340,000-square-foot center...
Tuesday, August 17, 2004
Clark Leads Modernization Effort at Historic Red Cross Building in D.C.
— The renovation of the 55,000-square-foot American Red Cross Headquarters Building at 17th Street in northwest Washington is underway by Clark Interiors, a division of Clark Construction Group, LLC. This $13 million contract includes a three-month demolition and hazardous material abatement phase, which is substantially complete. Originally built in 1915, the 17th Street American Red Cross building is designated as a national historic landmark. The building is constructed of perimeter masonry bearing walls and interior steel columns supporting...
Tuesday, August 17, 2004
Clark/Shea Begins Tunnel Project at Dulles International Airport
— Washington Dulles International Airport was one of the most modern airports in the world when it opened in 1962. During the years, the number of passengers increased and the airport has grown. In 2000, the Metropolitan Washington Airport Authority (MWAA) implemented its most ambitious capital construction campaign to date. Clark/Shea, a joint venture of Clark Construction Group, LLC of Bethesda, Md. (www.clarkconstruction.com) and J.F. Shea Company, Inc. of Walnut, Calif. (www.jfshea.com) has been selected to work...
Tuesday, August 17, 2004
Clark Residential Completes Residence Hall at The George Washington University
— The George Washington University just completed a 10-story, 319,000-square-foot student residence hall with underground parking. Featuring 202 one and two bedroom apartment units, the facility can accommodate over 700 students. Clark Residential, a subsidiary of Clark Construction Group, LLC of Bethesda, Md., served as the construction manager on this $42 million project. The new student residence was built on a vacant site bounded by 23rd Street, G Street and Virginia Avenue and is the first campus building...
Tuesday, August 3, 2004
Clark Residential Completes Addition to Washington, D.C.’s Historic Kennedy-Warren Apartment Building for B.F. Saul Property Company
— Originally designed by Joseph Younger in 1931, the Kennedy-Warren Apartment Building is one of the District’s Art Deco masterpieces, with clean, neo-classical lines and high reliefs of eagles and griffins. Due to the Great Depression in the 1930s, only two-thirds of the building was constructed. To complete the building, Hartman-Cox Architects of Washington, D.C. recently designed the remaining one-third of the project as a new south wing. B.F. Saul Property Company of Bethesda, Md. developed the...
Monday, July 12, 2004
Redevelopment Program at Chicago’s Midway Airport Completed
— After six years of construction, the historic Midway Airport Terminal Development Program is complete. Clark/McHugh/Rausch A Joint Venture served as the general contractor on the $250 million terminal/concourse project at the airport. Work included a new 941,000-square-foot terminal building, expanded ticket counters and baggage claim areas, new concourses and spacious airline gates, new shops and restaurants, a central heating plant, and new airport roadways. Today Chicago Midway serves 18½ million passengers - almost twice as many as...
Thursday, June 10, 2004
Boston Convention and Exhibition Center Opens for Business
— Governor Mitt Romney and Mayor Thomas M. Menino, joined by convention center authority officials, today opened the new Boston Convention & Exhibition Center (BCEC) for business, catapulting Boston into the top tier of convention cities and transforming the convention and meetings industry in the Northeast. At 1.7 million square feet, the BCEC is New England’s largest enclosed man-made space and is big enough to hold 16 NFL games consecutively. The facility fills a critical need in Boston,...
Wednesday, June 9, 2004
Clark/DLR Completes Design/Build Project for Federal Bureau of Prisons
— The Federal Bureau of Prisons added a 555,000-square-foot component to its Coleman, Florida Federal Correctional Complex (FCC, Coleman). Clark/DLR Design Build, Inc., a joint venture between the Clark Construction Group of Tampa and The DLR Group of Tampa, served as design/builder on the project. The facility features facades of concrete with punch windows and includes 260,000 square feet of housing for inmates. The exterior fenestration unifies the facility. Six individual mezzanine level housing units and a...
Wednesday, June 9, 2004
Clark Residential Begins Westin Hotel In Arlington, Va.
— Northern Virginia’s first Westin Hotel is being built in the Ballston section of Arlington. The JBG Companies of Chevy Chase, Md. selected Clark Residential as the general contractor for the $39 million project. The hotel is the last component of Arlington Gateway, a mixed-use development also featuring a 411-unit residential tower and 330,000-square-foot office building. With the Westin contract, Clark is serving as the general contractor on all three structures. With Reagan National Airport, Metro and the...
Wednesday, May 26, 2004
Clark Continues Work at Children’s National Medical Center in D.C.
— In addition to building the original Children’s National Medical Center (CNMC) in northwest Washington, D.C. during the 1970s, The Clark Construction Group, Inc. has been performing ongoing work at the facility for the past 15 years. The facility is currently licensed at 279 inpatient beds, 40 of which are dedicated to the neonatal nursery, and utilizes the most state-of-the-art equipment available. Ranked as one of the best children’s hospitals in the nation, CNMC serves as the...
Monday, May 17, 2004
Clark Residential Builds New Condos for JBG Near Alexandria’s Carlyle Development
— A joint venture of The JBG Companies and their equity partner Rockwood Capital, LLC awarded a $28 million contract to Clark Residential to build The Royalton Condominiums at 1700 Duke Street in Alexandria, Va. The property is situated near the entrance of the expansive Carlyle residential and commercial development outside of Old Town. Adjacent to the King Street Metro, this new condominium offers both historic charm and modern convenience. Cast stone, pre-cast, and EIFS compliment The Royalton’s...
Monday, April 19, 2004
San Diego Ballpark Builders Completes Petco Park
— San Diego Ballpark Builders, a joint venture between Clark Construction Group, LLC, Roel Construction and douglas e. barnhart inc., have completed Petco Park, the new home of the San Diego Padres baseball team. The $294 million (construction cost) project boasts a natural grass playing field and a unique seating bowl design that creates distinctive seating “neighborhoods” for 42,000 fans. The official opening day took place on April 8th and the Padres beat the San Francisco...
Thursday, March 18, 2004
Clark Construction Builds New Terminal at Seattle/Tacoma Airport
— In 2001, the Port of Seattle began an ambitious multi-billion dollar remodeling and expansion program at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (Sea-Tac) to better serve the growing region. Clark Construction Group, LLC recently received a temporary certificate of occupancy on the 900,000-square-foot new Concourse A and arrivals hall at Sea-Tac. Clark released the concourse and baggage levels to the individual airlines and service vendors for their tenant build-out, the office building to the Port of Seattle for...
Monday, March 15, 2004
Clark Construction Begins $85 M Central Los Angeles Area New High School #10
— In an effort to relieve overcrowding at Belmont and Marshall high schools, the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) recently broke ground on Central Los Angeles Area New High School #10. The Clark Construction Group, Inc. of Costa Mesa, Calif. is serving as general contractor on the $85 million project. “This school is a true testimony of what a united community can accomplish,” said LAUSD School Board Member Jose Huizar, who represents the area. “The coordinated...
Monday, March 15, 2004
Clark Construction Earns Three 2004 Build America Awards
— Since 1972, the Associated General Contractors (AGC) has recognized the best of the best in construction around the country with the prestigious Build America awards. Out of 24 awards given this year, Clark Construction earned three AON Build America awards for: General Motors Vehicle Engineering Center (in the Building - New Construction category); Space Launch Complex 6 at Vandenberg Air Force Base (in the Federal & Heavy - Renovation category) and the Washington Convention Center (merit...
Monday, March 15, 2004
Clark Construction Earns 2004 Build America Awards
— Since 1972, the Associated General Contractors (AGC) has recognized the best of the best in construction around the country with the prestigious Build America awards. Out of 24 awards given this year, Clark Construction earned three AON Build America awards for: General Motors Vehicle Engineering Center (in the Building - New Construction category); Space Launch Complex 6 at Vandenberg Air Force Base (in the Federal & Heavy - Renovation category) and the Washington Convention Center (merit...
Monday, March 15, 2004
Clark Construction Earns Three Build America Awards
— Since 1972, the Associated General Contractors (AGC) has recognized the best of the best in construction around the country with the prestigious Build America awards. Out of 24 awards given this year, Clark Construction earned three AON Build America awards for: General Motors Vehicle Engineering Center (in the Building - New Construction category); Space Launch Complex 6 at Vandenberg Air Force Base (in the Federal & Heavy - Renovation category) and the Washington Convention Center (merit...
Monday, March 8, 2004
Army Corps of Engineers Builds New Barracks Complex at Fort Benning
— Improvements at military bases around the nation continue as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced that The Clark Construction Group, Inc. of Tampa has been awarded a design-build contract for a barracks complex at Fort Benning, Ga. Trans Systems/LMJ is serving as the architectural partner on the $30 million project. The design-build firm develops a design and guaranteed maximum price based on design criteria issued by the Corp of Engineers through the RFP process....
Wednesday, February 25, 2004
Clark/Gilford Completes $184 Million Research Facility at NIST
— Clark/Gilford, a joint venture of Clark Construction Group, LLC, of Bethesda, Md., and Gilford Corporation, of Beltsville, Md. recently completed a $184 million laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) - the largest single construction project since the agency moved to its Gaithersburg, Md. headquarters in 1966. The team constructed one of the most technologically advanced buildings in the world, the Advanced Measurement Laboratory (AML), at the Maryland campus. The 536,507-square-foot research facility allows...
Tuesday, February 24, 2004
Martek Biosciences Expands S.C. Manufacturing Plant
— Martek Biosciences Corporation awarded Clark Construction Group, LLC of Tampa a construction management contract to oversee an expansion to a manufacturing plant in Kingstree, S.C. Based in Columbia, Md., Martek Biosciences Corporation is a leader in the development and commercialization of products derived from micro algae. Martek’s current products include nutritional oils used as infant formula ingredients and nutritional supplements, as well as fluorescent algal pigments used in diagnostic and pharmaceutical research. The nutritional oils are comprised...
Thursday, February 5, 2004
Clark Construction Builds Class-A Office Space at 1875 Pennsylvania Avenue
— Despite the scarcity of large tenant space in D.C.’s central business district, the law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering signed a lease for 525,000 square feet at 1875 Pennsylvania Avenue - the largest private sector lease in the District’s history. The Mark Winkler Company of Alexandria, Va. and EastBanc, Inc. of Washington, D.C., awarded Clark Construction Group, LLC a $42 million contract to construct an office building at the site, which will complete the complex. “Wilmer,...
Tuesday, January 13, 2004
Clark Residential Builds Sovereign House Apartments in D.C.’s West End for JBG
— JBG Residential of Washington, D.C. adds to its portfolio with Sovereign House at 1111 25th Street in the District’s west end neighborhood. These new apartments are being constructed above the Columbia Hospital Professional Building and an adjacent parking garage. Clark Residential is serving as general contractor on the $17 million project. The construction adds five stories to the existing office building and seven stories above the parking garage. A section of the second level garage will be...
Friday, January 9, 2004
Clark Construction Completes Kennedy Center Opera House Renovations
— The Opera House at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the nation’s performing arts center, recently underwent an extensive renovation. Handicapped accessibility on all levels of the theater has been improved. Additional modifications include upgrading the sound system, improving the lighting and environmental controls, replacing the orchestra-level floor, and adding an additional house elevator serving all lobby levels. Clark Construction’s Special Construction Group served as general contractor. Designed by Quinn Evans Architects of Washington,...
