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Read MoreELEVATOR WORLD’s March issue will offer a Special Regional Section on Chicago. Look for industry profiles, project spotlights, market trends, and more from the Windy City. There will be bonus distribution of the issue to the top 500 Chicago design/architectural firms, building owners, managers, and developers. In addition, the issue will feature a Special Advertising…
Read MoreAmerican Elevator Group (AEG) has completed investments in two companies, one being DC Elevator Co., the largest independent elevator company in Kentucky, and Eastern Elevator Service & Sales Co., which serves customers throughout Pennsylvania, Maryland, eastern Ohio, and northern West Virginia. DC Elevator was founded in 1977 and has offices in Lexington, Louisville and Hazard,…
Read MoreTower Redesigned as a Shorter Structure Developer Brandywine Realty Trust has unveiled a new design for 21M, a 350-ft-tall mixed-use tower planned for 2100 Market Street in Philadelphia’s Center City West, the source reported in December 2020. Originally planned as a 500-ft-tall skyscraper, with a design from NBBJ described as “Jenga-like” because of its stacked-block…
Read MoreMTA Commits to Install 17 Elevators The Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) is proceeding with plans to add elevators at several train stations, THE CITY reported in December 2020. While COVID-19 has been blamed for the stalling of planned accessibility upgrades at more than 50 other stops, the agency tapped federal grant money that had to…
Read MoreMixed-Use Tower With Otis Elevators Nearly Complete The third, 41-story mixed-use tower in Onni Group’s Old Town Park development on the Near North Side (ELEVATOR WORLD, September 2019 and October 2019) was nearing completion in late 2020, with the glass curtain wall reaching the final floors. Located at 228 West Hill Street, the tower includes…
Read MoreTexas-Based Company Merges With Mid-Atlantic Counterparts Fort Worth, Texas-based Southwest Elevator Co. has merged with Action Elevator Co. and Avery Elevator Corp., both based in the Mid-Atlantic region, Southwest Elevator parent company Align Capital Partners (ACP) announced in December 2020. The deal was facilitated by Maven Group, LLC, of Naples, Florida. Family-owned and operated since…
Read MoreResidential Tower Served by Otis System Tops Out Construction on 180 Morgan Street, a 41-story, 482-unit residential tower (ELEVATOR WORLD, September 2019), topped out in November 2020, New York YIMBY reported. Designed by New Jersey firm Marchetto Higgins Stieve (MHS Architects), the structure features a multistory podium topped by an L-shaped tower. The Albanese Group…
Read MoreOtis VT System for Renamed Tower Otis tells ELEVATOR WORLD it installed 22 vertical-transportation (VT) units at the recently opened — and recently renamed — St. Regis Chicago, which, at 101 stories and 1,191 ft, is Chicago’s third-tallest building (EW, November 2020, June 2015 and June 2016). The system includes six SkyRise high-rise elevators (six…
Read MoreA development partnership of Hoque Global and Lanoha Real Estate Co. plans to begin construction in 2021 on One Newpark, a 38-story tower that will be the tallest building on the southern end of Downtown Dallas, D Magazine reported in October 2020. The tower represents the first phase of Newpark Dallas, a “smart district” adjacent…
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