Shawmut Design and Construction has joined Draper and Wexford Science & Technology to break ground on the 111,000-square-foot Integrated Microelectronics Production & Advanced Chip Technology (IMPACT) Center in Lowell, Massachusetts.
Lowe’s will build a 357,000-square-foot tech hub in Charlotte, N.C., where it expects to create up to 2,000 new jobs, the home-improvement retailer said. Last month, the company said it had narrowed the search to Charlotte and Dallas for the facility, where employees will develop
High-end retailers and department stores are opening restaurants aimed at the tastes of their clientele. Barneys, Neimen Marcus, Restoration Hardware, Ralph Lauren and Tiffany’s have all opened restaurants or coffee shops in order to attract more traffic. Read the CNBC story here
Walk into the newly-opened The Guild Hotel, a Tribute Portfolio Hotel, and there’s a sense of having stepped back in time, but not. The 162-room hotel was carved out of the former Army-Navy YMCA building in downtown San Diego. Read the KNSD-TV/San Diego Business Journal
A plan calls for construction of a 12-story hospital, designed to meet the needs of women and children, in the South Texas Medical Center in San Antonio. The $500 million project could be finished by 2022. Read the KSAT-TV story here
A buyer plans to acquire 68 acres in Orlando, Florida, that could eventually be the site of a resort. I Drive Investors, which is selling the land, intends to build a commercial development on an adjacent 8 acres. Read The Business Journals story here
Business and leisure travelers are spurring more hotel development in Keller, Roanoke and northeast Fort Worth, bringing thousands of new rooms to the region. Read the Community Impact Newspaper story here
Singapore’s iconic Raffles Hotel is spreading its wings, planning on opening a luxury resort on Sentosa island, according the Bloomberg News. Accor SA, which owns the brand, is aiming to open the 100,000 square meter hotel in early 2022. Raffles Sentosa Resort & Spa will
ALDI will open its second Local store in the UK this week and convert six other locations to the small format. The moves are part of an expanded test by the retailer to determine whether it will make the concept permanent. Read the RetailGazette.co.uk story
Prepared meal seller Snap Kitchen will expand beyond its 33 brick-and-mortar stores in the Austin, Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston markets in Texas, as well as in Philadelphia, with the launch of e-commerce . The Texas-based company says it will now be able to offer two-day
Back-to-school spending hit a record $55.3 billion last year, according to NRF, and retailers are more frequently eyeing college campuses as a place to win more of students’ year-round spending and build customer loyalty. About one-quarter of Target‘s 100 small-format stores are on campuses, and
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