Case Studies

You’d think you just walked into a hip Chicago loft space. From the geometric carpet laid atop hardwood flooring to the exposed duct work and brick walls, the office of Vortex Commercial Flooring isn’t your typical showroom. Even the shop’s location, in the heart of the Chicago Loop, is meant to buck the flooring industry’s […]

Renovating an old structure can be more challenging than simply building from the ground up, but a construction company has got to be poised to handle anything, and often that entails the updating of a beloved old structure for a new use. Such was the case last year when Vanas Construction Co. Inc. was awarded […]

That Great Recession of a decade ago may have been a blessing in disguise for some farsighted companies, one of which has proven to be the architectural and design firm of Rottet Studio. Founded in 2008 by Lauren Rottet, whose professional designations include induction as an Inaugural Member of the Women in Design Hall of […]

Take a stroll down Albany’s historic Broadway; you’ll encounter a veritable palette of architectural styles, from Romanesque revival to industrial brick to all manner of modern offshoots. So when the city’s planning board approved the first phase of a $98 million renovation of Quackenbush Square this past January, the team at QPK Design, a Syracuse-based […]

Turnover being a constant in the world of commercial property, there’s almost always ample office space to lease in the tallest building in Dallas: the 72-story, 1.8 million-square-foot Bank of America Plaza. It’s on the 42nd floor where you’ll find Peloton, the company responsible for upgrading the iconic skyscraper to LEED Gold status, as well […]

Along with getting married and finding a new job, buying a home is said to be one of the three most stressful events in a person’s life. This refers to both the searching for and eventual purchase of a home, but the stress can be compounded when the house is being built from the ground […]

Northern Virginia steams along in full growth mode nowadays, its regions just outside the Washington Beltway seeing the spillover effect that anyone with a big belly experiences each morning when pulling on a pair of pants. Well, that growth has to be enabled by electricity and communications networks and, for decades, family-owned LEO Construction Company […]

In search of a modern industrial building, the Canadian-based packaging company Cascades Inc., knew who to call after its Queens, New York, facility had become antiquated. Fifty miles to the west, in Piscataway, New Jersey, ever-visionary Greek Development had built on spec a sprawling facility where a former chemical plant had stood. The new digs […]

It’s not just because the company he co-founded built the development where Jeff Ayres resides that makes his home so appealing. The Vrain Street duplexes in the Mile High City’s Berkeley neighborhood bring out all the amenities of urban living with a healthy mix of privacy. Residents may forget they’re within walking distance of where […]

In the early 1980s, long before ROADBOND EN 1 became an industry standard, Ervin Merritt was just trying to keep his family’s cotton farm afloat. As a side business, the elder Merritt had started developing liquid foliar fertilizers. One day, after applying a new blend to the soil, Merritt noticed something peculiar: not only had […]