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Sandwiched between the end of the 2012-2013 Seattle Seahawks season and the start of the Seattle Sounders soccer season, the project team had four months to demolish an existing 3,100-sq-ft team store and build a new 14,130-sq-ft retail space. In addition to expanding the ground-floor retail footprint, a second-floor mezzanine was added for storage and office space.

Although the Seahawks and Sounders were not in season, other sporting events and trade shows had to carry on without interruption throughout construction. A design-build approach was used to expedite several aspects of the project, including installation of the HVAC, fire projection, sprinklers and electrical systems as well as modifications to the structural curtain-wall system.

Structural steel was completed in less than a month. This included conducting a site survey, creating a 3D model of the entire structure to identify dimensional conflicts, developing and reviewing shop drawings and fabricating and installing the steel.

The project was completed under budget and on schedule.

The new pro shop features a pine facade stained in blue. The concourse wall system includes two clear butt-glazed walls that showcase merchandise on either side of a folding wall system. The wall opens on game days to expose a central flex space.

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Construction work is set to start on citys long-awaited 260m retail development

5:13pm Friday 3rd January 2014 in News By Julie Tickner, T&A Reporter

Bradford Urban Garden will close on Monday so construction work can start on the citys long-awaited 260 million shopping centre.

Signs were placed at entrances to the temporary landscaped space, on the site of the new Broadway retail development, yesterday.

The 11,000sq ft park, with grassed areas, wild flower meadows and pathways across the city, was created in August 2010 after initial work on the project stopped.

Shorlty before Christmas, Australian developer Westfield announced that construction would start early in January after all legal documents meaning the scheme would definitely go ahead were signed.

Last night, a Westfield spokesman said: The commencement of the construction works marks a major milestone in the delivery of the shopping centre and the future of Bradfords retail landscape.

The shopping centre will provide a significant economic boost to the city creating thousands of jobs in both the construction phase and on completion. From Monday, we will be able to see the development begin to take shape.

The start of major construction works follows a two-month period of essential preparatory works for the centre which is estimated to create 1,500 construction jobs and 2,500 new retail jobs for Bradford.

Bradford Council leader David Green said: This will be the first major sign of the main construction work starting and its what we said would happen.

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Kensington Commons, designed in a Santa Barbara style, will include 34 apartments and 10,000 square feet of retail space when completed in August. - Allard Jansen Architects

Kensington Commons, designed in a Santa Barbara style, will include 34 apartments and 10,000 square feet of retail space when completed in August. / - Allard Jansen Architects

Developers and residents have reached common ground in the historic Kensington neighborhood.

It's a seven-year odyssey of how not to do infill development in the San Diego.

Kensington Commons, a $6.2 million, 47,442-square-foot apartment and retail project, is rising at Marlborough Drive and Adams Avenue with nary a squeak of protest from the neighborhood south of Mission Valley and east of I-15. When finished in August, it will sport 34 apartments, 10,000 square feet of retail space -- with one suite leased to Pacific Dental and negotiations nearing completion on a food service and a postal/stationery outlet.

There will be wider sidewalks, leafier landscaping and a Santa Barbara-style architecture by architect-developer Allard Jansen.

Renters, who will pay up to $2,760 per month, won't have a pool or workout space or other top-drawer amenities to large downtown condo tower complexes. But they will have a movie theater and public library across the street, a collection of popular restaurants up and down Adams, quick access to the freeway two blocks away and a bus stop out front.

Allard Jansen, the architect-developer of Kensington Commons, lives and works in the neighboring Kensington Park Plaza that he built in 1999. Nelvin C. Cepeda

"It's a lifestyle being embraced more and more and the wonderful idea that you potentially will run into a neighbor by coincidence and start a conversation," said Jansen, 60, who lives with his wife at Kensington Park Plaza, which he built in 1999 immediately west. "More connecting neighbors with other neighbors will be great!"

But this idyll of urbanity came after a seven-year battle that pitted neighbor against neighbor, city, developer and the economy. No wonder such mixed-use projects happen so rarely, given the hassles faced by competing parties.

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GREEN BAY - Dozens of dogs at a Green Bay animal shelter won't be in danger from the cold, thanks to community donations.

A heat exchanger at the Bay Area Humane Society broke Thursday and will take weeks to replace. As a result, the temperature in the main kennel started dropping.

But residents and businesses stepped in.

Friday, Robinson Heating and Cooling installed a temporary fix to keep the animals warm for now. And the owner of Sidelines Sports Bar this afternoon donated $3,000 toward the cost of replacing the exchanger.

"We were blessed with another Packer game, so might as well give little bit back," Sidelines Sports Bar owner Kevin Burkel said.

Shelter officials say they can't thank the community enough for donations that included hundreds of blankets.

"It's been awesome, Lori Nachtwey of the shelter said. We are overflowing with blankets."

Among the blanket donations were 200 Friday morning from St. Vincent Hospital.

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