Work is scheduled to begin this fall on the $1.4 million phase VI extension of the busy Legion
Drive Roadway in Las Vegas. The last phase work lasted for a year, ending in early 2010.
“This is a roadway that goes by our main hospital here,” says Darlene Arguello, administrative
assistant with the City of Las Vegas. “It also runs by our fire department and the Memorial
Middle School, and is a busy route for the city.”
Project engineer for the job is Miller Engineering Consultants of Albuquerque.
By Gary Boulard
- PROJECT SIZE: Approximately 2 miles
- PROJECT COST: $1.4 million
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CANstruction is using one can of food as a catalyst for change. One can to represent the building blocks of massive sculptures. One can to prove that every act of kindness makes a difference. Since 1992, CANstruction has contributed over 15 million pounds of food to community food banks demonstrating that we can win the fight against hunger. CANstruction, Inc. is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that holds annual design and build competitions to construct fantastic, giant sized, structures made entirely out of canned food. In each city after the structures are built and the winners declared the creations go on view to the general public as giant art exhibits. At the close of the competitions all of the food used in the structures is donated to the local food banks for distribution to community emergency feeding programs.
CANstruction is supported by the Society for Design Administration SDA, the American Institute of Architects AIA, the American Council of Engineering Companies ACEC, National Society of Professional Estimators NSPE, The American Society of Professional Estimators ASPE, Association of General Contractors AGC, American Builders and Contractors ABC, NUCA,ASA, ASID, NAWIC,SMPS, and other industry organizations.
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The City of Phoenix will soon be following other large urban areas with the creation of its first official skate park.
The park will be located inside the larger Margaret T. Hance Park near North Central Avenue and West Culver Street. The city’s Parks and Recreation Board Subcommittee chose the Hance Park location because it is close to both a city library as well as a light rail connection.
The blueprint for the new skate park is part of a comprehensive master plan designed to address Phoenix recreational space needs and has the backing of the Rob Dyrdek Foundation, organized by professional skateboarder Rob Dyrdek. The foundation has also donated $50,000 to the city for the creation of a plaza measuring at least 7,000 square feet.
Chris Ewell, a landscape architect who works in the Parks Development Division of the Parks and Recreation Department, recently disclosed that the Hance Park may have some drainage issues that could require work well into 2012. Ewell added that once those issues are addressed, the building of the skate park would begin in earnest.
By Gary Boulard
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Housing the minor league El Paso Diablos, the Cohen Stadium is one of the largest such facilities of its kind in the country, and according to some, greatly in need of renovation.
For years, interested parties have talked to El Paso city officials about plans to improve the building, which was opened in 1990 and also hosts soccer, boxing and musical events.
In 2004, Brett Sports and Entertainment—minority owner of the team—said it might take as much as $5 million to bring the stadium up to date.
Now Diablos General Manager Matt LaBranche has said that repairs to the building, after the team is sold by its current owners, Ventura Sports, Incorporated of Wisconsin, is a top priority.
LaBranche would like to see the stadium’s much-used bathrooms renovated and its field redone. Other ideas: a zone for kids and an operating restaurant.
The stadium contains more than 9,000 seats. Various proposals for renovating the building have included getting the money directly from the city, upon guarantee that the Diablos would stay in El Paso, and asking voters to pass a bond referendum funding the work.
By Gary Boulard
- PROJECT COST: Estimated $5 million
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The increasing popularity of hockey and skating is prompting the 23 year-old Ice Den of Scottsdale to build a third rink.
The additional rink will not only accommodate customer demand, but will allow the facility—which is used for practice by the Phoenix Coyotes—to host national USA Hockey tournaments.
The 30,000 square foot addition to the 120,000 square foot building will include a concrete subfloor which can be used in the summer for such sports as lacrosse and soccer.
The Ice Den is one of six ice skating facilities in Scottsdale. Upon the completion of the work, it will be the only such facility with three rinks. Last year, the Ice Den attracted upwards of 700,000 visitors.
By Gary Boulard
- PROJECT SIZE: 30,000 square feet
- PROJECT COST: $5 million
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Roughly 19,000 square feet of sewer lines will be installed in Santa Fe later this year, with much of the work taking place in the city’s historic downtown district.
“The pipes range in diameter from six inches up to 18 inches,” reports Stan Holland, an engineer with the City of Santa Fe’s waste water management department.
“Our sewer lines here are in varying conditions throughout the city,” continues Holland, noting that lines in the worst shape will be replaced first.
“There is one long continuous line that is about 5,000 feet, and that is an 18-inch line,” explains Holland. “The other portions are mainly in and around the downtown area, where you’ve got six-inch lines and three or four hundred feet on a particular street.”
“It is all very much in a shotgun pattern,” adds Holland.
By Gary Boulard
- PROJECT SIZE: 19,000 square feet
- PROJECT COST: $2 million
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For the first time in its history, El Paso County will have up and running a toll road specifically geared for easing heavy city highway traffic.
Estimated cost for the two new toll lanes, one going in each direction on the Cesar Chavez Border Highway, is $80.2 million. The project will also include reconstructing four existing lanes from Zaragoza Road to U.S. 54.
Money for the project will come from a combined $6.2 in federal earmarks and some $74 million in Texas Proposition 14 bond funds.
The length of the project is 8.7 miles. The new roadway will serve as an alternative for East Side commuters currently using the busy Interstate 10 in and around downtown El Paso.
Texas highway officials say they expect work on the toll roads to begin later this summer and end in early 2013.
By Gary Boulard
- PROJECT SIZE: 8.7 miles
- PROJECT COST: $80.2 million
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More than two years after vandals set fire to the Penny Park’s ornate wooden playground structures, work is set to begin on reconstructing the Silver City recreational facility.
“We are looking at about 2,000 square feet of constructed area,” says Gary Berg, engineer-in-charge with Engineers, Incorporated.
“That space would essentially cover everything we are going to do with this reconstruction,” adds Berg.
The overall Penny Park playground space measures 15,000 square feet. For more than a decade that space has included a wide variety of slides, swings, bridges and various climbing structures.
But vandals in 2009 burned many of the structures down, including a unique kid-sized wooden castle.
“We have since then worked through the insurance issues and are now about to put it out to bid for reconstruction of the burned part,” says Berg of the $65,000 project.
By Gary Boulard
- PROJECT SIZE: 2,000 square feet
- PROJECT COST: $65,000
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