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Construction Today
The Magazine for the People Who Build America
Construction Today examines best practices in the general building, heavy construction and associated specialty trade sectors. Its readers are leaders at major contracting, engineering and design firms, equipment manufacturers and suppliers of construction materials and building products, as well as public and private project owners and regulators.
Construction Today helps firms navigate the world of business through insightful, cross-industry articles on trends, opinions and legal issues, as well as intriguing interviews with the industry's most interesting and influential men and women.
Construction Today
The Magazine for the People Who Build America
Construction Today examines best practices in the general building, heavy construction and associated specialty trade sectors. Its readers are leaders at major contracting, engineering and design firms, equipment manufacturers and suppliers of construction materials and building products, as well as public and private project owners and regulators.
Construction Today helps firms navigate the world of business through insightful, cross-industry articles on trends, opinions and legal issues, as well as intriguing interviews with the industry's most interesting and influential men and women.
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Construction Today
The Magazine for the People Who Build America
Construction Today examines best practices in the general building, heavy construction and associated specialty trade sectors. Its readers are leaders at major contracting, engineering and design firms, equipment manufacturers and suppliers of construction materials and building products, as well as public and private project owners and regulators.
Construction Today helps firms navigate the world of business through insightful, cross-industry articles on trends, opinions and legal issues, as well as intriguing interviews with the industry's most interesting and influential men and women.
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SERVICESTAR Development says it tries to ‘create a sense of place that’s vibrant, convenient, and a place where people want to shop, be entertained and enjoy themselves.’
By Fernie Grace Tiflis 20-acre sites that other developers didn’t want, he notes.
F ormed through a partnership in 1996 between Shell
and Firestone, SERVICESTAR Development Co. ini- tially was created to develop 50 automotive service centers in Denver, Phoenix, Dallas, Chicago, Boston and northern Virginia, as well as Florida and Atlanta. Its transi- “These sites are too big for individual pad buyers, and too small for larger development, such as lifestyle centers,” Poremba says. “We would develop these [automotive centers with] a neighborhood center that have 20,000 to 40,000 square feet of unanchored retail and pad ready out lots. So, tion into a mixed-use developer was by accident, recalls as the time went on, we eventually took on larger projects Andy Poremba, director of construction. as we were completing our program of automotive-related As an automotive center developer, the company created development.” a Shell Oil Co. motor fuel, convenience store and car wash One of the company’s last automotive center projects with Firestone’s tire sales, fast lube and automotive servic- was the 18-acre Heritage Meadows in Plainfield, Ill. es. The challenge in this market, Poremba notes, is finding Completed in July 2007 after a year of construction, the real estate. “The initial need included a facility consists of a 43,000-square-foot retail space, two out- SERVICESTAR Development three-acre, pad-ready site that is on a busy lots, a Shell center with Dunkin Donuts and a Firestone. “It’s Co. corner,” he states. “This type of real estate doing really well,” Poremba says. “It’s already one of the HQ: Greenwood Village, Colo. is [in] very high demand because pharma- busiest Shell stations in the area.” The project’s budget was Employees: 18 Services: Real estate developer cies and banks are competing for the approximately $12 million. Andy Poremba, director of same sites.” Concurrently, SERVICESTAR also built the Butterfield construction: “To be known as To adapt to the challenge, SERVICES- Village Center in Aurora, Ill. It is similar to Heritage a leader in mixed-use develop- ments would be an achieve- TAR would create pad sites for its build- Meadows; the only difference is a McDonalds is attached to ment.” to-suite automotive clients by buying 15- to the Shell station. The company worked with Chicago-based