article thumbnail

How to Win the Olympics of International Retail Construction

HardHatChat

Building Michigan Avenue flagship stores for international brands like Zara is a sweet spot for Englewood Construction. While most of us will accept delayed Olympic news due to the time zone difference, the same isn’t true when working with international brands and new retail construction. So at 7 p.m.

Retail 207
article thumbnail

Flagship Store Retail Construction: 3 Reasons Brands Still Build in a Flagship Location

HardHatChat

Apple’s first flagship store was in Chicago on Michigan Avenue, where tourists and locals alike quickly became familiar with – and grew to love – the unique environment it offered to interact with the brand’s latest products. Our very first project with the brand was to relocate its original Chicago flagship store to Michigan Avenue in 2008.

Retail 280
professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Gerber Products Investing $36M In Michigan Expansion

Business Facilities

Read: Gerber Products Investing $36M In Michigan Expansion at BusinessFacilities.com. The baby food maker will expand its Fremont, MI manufacturing facility, creating 50 new jobs in the process. .

Michigan 106
article thumbnail

Five Retail Construction Tips from Zara’s New Magnificent Mile Store

HardHatChat

Michigan Ave. Case in point, we’ve worked on Michigan Avenue for years, so we know you need to keep neighborhood associations like the Greater North Michigan Avenue Association in the loop. As a national retail contractor , we’re used to having multiple projects in different time zones. in Chicago. Sleep is for sissies.

Retail 176
article thumbnail

California Is Land Of Opportunity, Michigan Is Motor King

Business Facilities

California has crushed the competition as the top-ranked state for Opportunity Zones and Michigan is still the undisputed heavyweight champ in Automotive Manufacturing Strength in Business Facilities’ 1 5th Annual Rankings Report , released this week.

article thumbnail

Court decision changes rules on issuing violations

FDR Safety

Circuit Court of Appeals said it was sufficient that an employee could have been exposed had he or she been in the zone of danger. Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky, and Tennessee), if the reasoning is adopted by other Circuits, employers could be opened up to liability for a parade of imagined horribles, as opposed to real world exposures.”.

OSHA 149
article thumbnail

Five Predictions for Commercial Construction Trends in 2012

HardHatChat

Growing retail brands likes Advance Auto and Auto Zone that help consumers save money by keeping their cars longer should also continue to do well in 2012. Watch brands like Ross Dress for Less and Savers continue to gain momentum.