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California high-speed rail leader pushes state to support private investment

Daily Commercial News — Mon, 05 May 2025 08:12:51 +0000

SACRAMENTO, CALIF. — A long-delayed project promising nonstop rail service between San Francisco and Los Angeles in under three hours may be able to secure the private funding it desperately needs if California agrees to pay the investors back, its chief executive told The Associated Press. Ian Choudri, who was appointed CEO of the California […]

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Los Angeles homeowners begin to rebuild after devastating wildfires

Daily Commercial News — Fri, 02 May 2025 12:45:40 +0000

LOS ANGELES — Nearly four months after wildfires reduced thousands of Los Angeles-area homes to rubble and ash, some residents are starting to rebuild. In the Pacific Palisades neighborhood, construction workers recently began placing wooden beams to frame a house on a lot where only a charred fireplace remains standing. In the seaside city of […]

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What’s next in the Commanders’ process of building a new stadium in Washington?

Daily Commercial News — Fri, 02 May 2025 10:00:28 +0000

WASHINGTON — Roger Goodell acknowledged that a new, state-of-the-art Commanders stadium in Washington would drastically increase the chances of the U.S. capital hosting the Super Bowl for the first time. “We’ve got to get it built first,” the NFL Commissioner said. Before shovels are even in the ground at the site of the old RFK […]

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Starbucks’ new drive-thru in Texas is the coffee giant’s first 3D printed store in the U.S.

Daily Commercial News — Thu, 01 May 2025 10:00:08 +0000

BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS — There’s a new pour from Starbucks: Its first 3D printed store in the U.S. The Seattle-based coffee giant with more than 17,000 locations nationwide has never had a store quite like the one opening this week in the Texas city of Brownsville, along the U.S.-Mexico border, where a computer-controlled robotic arm did […]

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3 workers killed and 2 injured when scaffolding gives way at Texas construction site

Daily Commercial News — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 13:34:09 +0000

PORT ARTHUR, TEXAS — Three workers were killed and two others injured after a scaffolding gave way at a Texas construction site, authorities said. First responders were called to the Port Arthur LNG site early Tuesday for an industrial accident involving Bechtel workers, according to a Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office statement posted on social media. […]

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Vertua low-carbon concrete plays a big role in Houston Methodist expansion

Daily Commercial News — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 10:05:03 +0000

Centennial Tower at the Houston Methodist Hospital is projected to open in 2027, maintaining the facility’s status as one of the most respected medical complexes in the United States. In 2024, the hospital was named to U.S. News & World Report’s Honor Roll of best hospitals in the country for the eighth time and is […]

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Promises made, promises kept? Trump’s agenda remains a work in progress after 100 days

Daily Commercial News — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 07:55:57 +0000

WASHINGTON — Since President Donald Trump returned to office, every week has been a whirlwind of activity to show Americans that his administration is relentlessly pursuing his promises. With a compliant Republican-controlled Congress, Trump has had a free hand to begin overhauling the federal government and upending foreign policy. As Trump hits his 100th day […]

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Duracell charged up for big move to Atlanta’s Science Square Labs tower

Daily Commercial News — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 08:10:54 +0000

Battery-maker Duracell is moving its massive global research and development facility in Bethel, Conn., to a new, 13-storey headquarters building in the sprawling, 18-acre Science Square innovation district in Atlanta, Ga., adjacent to the midtown campus at Georgia Tech University. Duracell will lease 59,000 square feet on two full floors of the newly constructed Science […]

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Days before ��ӰԺ’s election, Trump insists that ��ӰԺ needs the US more than the US needs it

Daily Commercial News — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 12:35:46 +0000

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that ��ӰԺ would “cease to exist” if it weren’t for the United States — comments that came just days before Canadians are set to vote in an election dominated by Trump’s remarks on the country’s economy and sovereignty. Trump reinserted himself into ��ӰԺ’s election during a signing ceremony […]

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Texas CRE and construction industries wrestle with tariffs and DOGE

Daily Commercial News — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 08:00:30 +0000

President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” on April 2, announcing widespread tariffs on imported products, reverberated across the United States and around the globe. Impacts of the numerous on-and-off tariff announcements made since then have not escaped the Texas real estate and construction sectors. Even weeks before the tariff announcements, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) […]

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A walk in the tunnel: Repairing New York City’s Canarsie Tunnel

Daily Commercial News — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 08:10:56 +0000

Superstorm Sandy was a wakeup call for New Yorkers to the flood risks their city faces from climate change and it was a catalyst for municipal agencies, engineers and builders to focus on resilience in new and existing infrastructure. Isabel Lopes is among the corps of engineers rethinking infrastructure on floodplains. A structural engineer at […]

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U.S. apprenticeship programs falling short of filling chronic worker shortage, states ABC

Daily Commercial News — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 08:15:15 +0000

Despite substantial investments in the apprenticeship training system by companies and federal and state governments, there is still a chronic shortage of construction workers in the U.S. That’s the bottom line in an analysis of U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) data done recently by the Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC), a national construction industry association […]

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