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Features - September 2004

High-Rises Heading South

With the ever-increasing cost of available land in San Francisco, Myers Development has found a strong market for vertical condominiums on the peninsula. Its $33.5 million, Peninsula Mandalay project in South San Francisco will be completed this month.
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Cutting-Edge Campus for Caltrans

The new District 7 headquarters complex in Los Angeles is scheduled to open next month -- with lots of sustainable and sensational features.
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The Metropolitan Maximizes the Views

Much of San Francisco is in sight from floor-to-ceiling windows of the city's newest high-rise condominium towers.
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Some Style for South Park

CIM Group opens Gas Company Lofts in Los Angeles. The loft-style apartment building in the city’s downtown includes 251 units and street-level retail.
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Greater Sacramento Market Report

The migration of Bay Area transplants seeking employment opportunities and a less-expensive cost of living fuel growth in the Sacramento construction industry. A trip around the capital uncovers compelling projects under way or recently completed in downtown Sacramento, Natomas and Elk Grove. Meanwhile, the Railyards project reaches another milestone.

Lesson in Saving Energy
Inderkum High School in Natomas has a geothermal system that is one of the largest in the nation, and is expected to last about 50 years.
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Pre-Cast Plaza
A seven-story, loft-style apartment building under construction downtown is the first structure in the city to be built with a pre-cast concrete, hybrid moment-frame system. 
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Second Coming
The Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament is getting the largest makeover in its 118-year history –– a $25 million renovation and seismic upgrade.
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Second Life for Sludge
The Biosolids Recycling Facility in Elk Grove will convert the wastewater component into 7,500 tons of fertilizer a year. 
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A Union with Millenia
An agreement has been reached to develop the 240-acre downtown Railyards into a mixed-use, transit village. 
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Gladstones Institute Breaks New Ground

The $72 million building is the first in San Francisco to have an un-bonded race-frame system.
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