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.
Target will open about 12 small-format urban stores this week in high-profile cities, including Chicago, New York City, Philadelphia and Los Angeles. A store slated to open in the Uptown neighborhood of Minneapolis will offer goods and amenities aimed at young professionals, including organic groceries,
Closing stores in large numbers won’t be a winning long-term strategy for retailers, and improving stores while building e-commerce efforts makes more sense. Read the Fortune story here
Next Level Burger aims to build the plant-based burger chain to 1,000 units in the first decade. The concept, which launched in 2014 in Oregon, will build standalone stores and also add more units inside Whole Foods Market stores. Read the QSR online story here
Denny’s will open its first UK restaurant in the Welsh city of Swansea some time after Christmas. Denny’s, which operates about 1,700 eateries around the world, is promoting the UK debut with a social media campaign on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Read the Nation’s Restaurant
A 104-year-old downtown landmark office building will soon be the city’s newest hotel. The Midland building, located on 6th Avenue and Mulberry Street next to the Polk County Courthouse, will receive a $37.7 million transformation. Read the KCCI-TV story here
Chick-fil-A will open a 12,000-square-foot, five-story restaurant in New York City’s Financial District, with three dining rooms, a meeting space and a rooftop deck, the company said. The chain’s third Manhattan location will be its largest to date. Read the amNewYork story here
New York’s London NYC will reflag as the Conrad New York Midtown in 2019 after a renovation by Hilton. The 516-room property will be the city’s second Conrad, joining all-suite Conrad New York near Battery Park. Read the Travel Weekly story here
Luke Chamblee’s company built the Graduate Hotel in Oxford, which was designed to reflect the unique culture of the town. Now LRC2 Properties has partnered with Loeb Properties to build a 100-room hotel to serve a burgeoning theater district in Memphis. Read the Mississippi Business
Pod Hotels, the New York-based mini-room specialist, is slated to expand to Los Angeles in 2019 with the redevelopment of downtown Los Angeles’ old Hotel Cecil site. Read the Travel Weekly story here
Hawaii’s Pacific Beach Hotel is planning a December relaunch as the Alohilani Resort Waikiki Beach following a $115 million renovation. The former Hawaii Prince Hotel Waikiki has reopened as Prince Waikiki after an eight-month, $55 million revamp. Read the Los Angeles Times story here
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