$1 Billion earmarked for L.A. project - AWCInew Claridge Ltd. project. Sports center includes courts for racquetball Racquetball remains one of the fastest growing of all sports, and

BUILDING REPORT

Hospital expansion has price tag of $35 millionThis artist’s rendering shows St. John’s Episcopal

Hospital in Far Rockaway, NY as the facility will lookafter completion of a $35 million expansion project.

The purpose of the expansion is to consolidate andexpand a number of social services. Hospital and otherinstitutional building was a key to holding up secondquarter building figures.

The general contractor for this project will be CarlinAtlas of New Rochelle. Schunkewitz, Taranto &DiPaoloa is the architect for the project. The Office ofIrwin G. Cantor, P.G. will serve as the structuralengineer.

$1 Billion earmarkedfor L.A. project

After a nearly five month scrutiny of five proposalsfrom some of the largest developers in North America,Bunker Hill Associates of Los Angeles, Calif. has beengiven the nod to move ahead on the $1 billion BunkerHill Redevelopment Project for L.A.‘s downtown com-munity.

Bunker Hill received the exclusive right to negotiatewith the Community Redevelopment Agency for thecompletion of the project. The firm and its parent com-panies comprise a development team with assets over $3billion at cost. Their 1979 revenues were close to $1billion.

The project architects wi l l be Arthur EriksonAssociates and two L.A. firms: Kamnitzer CottonVreeland and Gruen Associates. Highlights of the planinclude a new museum of modern art, a home for theBella Lewitsky Dance company, parkland, a perfor-mance center, a cinemaplex, a 400-room Four SeasonsHotel and three office skyscrapers.

McEntee heads $140million casino project

F r a n k M c E n t e e h a s b e e nelected as a’ vice president andp r o j e c t m a n a g e r f o r F r a n kBriscoe’s national constructioncompany, headquartered in NewJersey.

McEntee heads the company’soperations in the construction ofa new $140 million casino andhotel complex in Atlanta City.The hotel complex is to be builtfor Claridge Ltd. He previouslydirected the construction of thecasino for Resorts Internationaland the subsequent expansion ofthat facility, the first of the newcasino facilities in Atlantic City.

The Briscoe firm is providinggeneral construction work andconstruction management for thenew Claridge Ltd. project.

Sports center includescourts for racquetball

Racquetball remains one of the fastest growing of allsports, and the construction of facilities has proven tobe a boost to the business income of the wall and ceilingindustry. The New Mexico Military Academy’s newgymnasium (photo) will include four courts.

Myron Roderick, president of Sports Unlimited,reports that a W. W. Henry product was used to meetvarious adhesive needs for the work his company is do-ing to complete the racquetball courts.

Henry’s Product No. 217 was used for adhesion ofwall and ceiling panels and was also used successfullyfor bonding of subsurfaces.

Roderick says it has used the Henry product on the in-stallation of 1,300 courts from coast to coast. The ma-jor advantages of the product cited were its toughnessand i ts res is tance to mois ture and changes intemperature. Walls and ceilings in racquetball must beable to withstand impacts of up to 100 mph.

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Toledo, Ohio seestopping out of itstallest building

Back in July, Toledo, Ohiosaw the topping out of its tallestbuilding. The 32-story Owens-Illinois, Inc. headquarters is tak-ing shape on the downtownwaterfront.

A final steel beam carrying atraditional American flag and anevergreen tree, was lifted to thetop of the tower in the midst ofceremonies attended by business,labor and government officials.

Edwin D. Dodd, chairman andCEO of Owens-Illinois, said thetopping out marked a milestonein both the construction of thenew headquarters facility and inthe revitalization of Toledo’sdowntown.

He noted that the city hasm a d e s i g n i f i c a n t p r o g r e s stowards saving i ts downtownsince ground was broken for the411-foot O-I tower in May, 1979.D o w n t o w n p r o j e c t s a l r e a d yunderway or scheduled for startsinc lude a new headquar tersbuilding for the Toledo TrustCompany, a 15-acre park alongthe downtown riverfront, a newtransit loop system, two newpublic parking garages and a22-story office building to houseagencies of the city, county andstate governments.

Dodd said public support and acooperative effort by businessand government are the key fac-t o r s i n t h e r e v i t a l i z a t i o n .Underscoring those remarks werethe thousands of Toledoans whosigned their names on the beamwhile it sat on display for the twoweeks prior to the topping outceremony.

The new building will containgross space of about 900,000 sq.ft. -- primarily for offices. Costof the project, which is part of ano v e r a l l d e v e l o p m e n t c a l l e dSeaGate, is $100 million.

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