Global design and engineering firm Stantec celebrates the completion of the five-story 17 West, a mixed-use development that includes Miami Beach’s highly anticipated Trader Joe’s grocery store.

17 West features 23 apartments, a lush rooftop pool deck with gym, ground-level commercial space, and a public garage with 193 parking spaces. The building’s façade includes multi-colored vertical elements that surround the second and third-floor parking levels to separate the retail below and apartments above. The interlocking glass volumes on the fourth and fifth floor, where the residential units are located, create a geometrical play on the façade and provide each unit with a private, spacious terrace.

To learn more about the development, visit citybizlist South Florida.

FRONTIER Building is an approved 7-Eleven general contractor supporting the brand’s U.S. expansion. The experience-focused national General Construction, Construction Management and Design-Build contractor is currently working on the construction of 19 different 7-Eleven locations across the country.

FRONTIER Building’s team of highly skilled and experience convenience store superintendents and project managers recently completed three 7-Eleven projects within the last four months in Charlotte and Gastonia, North Carolina; and Richmond, Virginia. Today, the team is working on additional locations in Florida, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia.

At a time when the national gas and convenience brand continues to ramp up its U.S. expansion, FRONTIER Building has cemented itself as a trusted and preferred contractor for the industry.

Stantec Miami’s Senior Principal Andrew Burnett was recently interviewed by Invest Miami where he shared how the global design and engineering firm likes to think beyond traditional traits to focus on building communities.

Burnett also shared opportunities and innovations post COVID-19, and what’s in store for Stantec for the rest of the year.

What recent Stantec landmarks in the Miami-Dade region would you like to share? 

Recent landmark projects in full swing include Wynwood Square, a 12-story mixed-use facility that includes apartments and retail space; the 30-story YotelPAD Miami condo and hotel project under construction; and a 43-story Luma tower in Miami’s Worldcenter. And there are a lot of new projects to be announced soon and currently coming on board. Each asset within our portfolio contributes to our growth in the creative services space, beyond architecture and interior design, but also engineering and resilience. We think beyond traditional physical traits and focus on how our vast team builds our communities and what we create so there is continuity in our lives and the spaces we inhabit and to ensure that we protect diversity and creative thinking. We call it cultural resilience.

How has your emphasis on cultural resilience unlocked your success? 

From a business perspective, a model that focuses on a single person is inherently limited to that individual. Whereas a business with tremendous expertise and resources in multiple channels, like Stantec, focuses on collaboration and the bandwidth to achieve more. When we empower people and foster collaboration, we are able to affect more positive change, get more involved in opportunities and better affect our clients’ bottom line.

To read the full interview, visit Invest Miami.

Oberhausen Marketing & Public Relations President and Miami Hospitality Design Awards co-founder Josh Oberhausen, recently moderated a webinar on “How Hotels are Anticipating to Modify Design Now.”

Hosted by the Greater Miami & The Beaches Hotel Association, the panelists included hospitality and hotel design experts Patrick Lee, Founder and President of Shorecrest Construction, Jason Hagopian, Principal, of TSAO Design Group, Clay Markham, Senior Vice President, Global Hospitality Leader, CallisonRTKL and Gipsy Alonso, Account Development Manager, SE Region, Geiger Furniture.

Panelists discussed the changing hospitality landscape as a result of COVID-19 including design and programming changes to hotel bars, restaurants and meeting spaces, implementing social distancing and sanitizing stations at check-in and FF&E product selections.

To learn more about this panel, please click on this link:
https://youtu.be/462_7MPzFMc

Measures to contain the spread of coronavirus are still shifting by the day — and so are responses by investors, developers, general contractors, architects, builders, banks, and buyers. To track the impact in real-time, The Miami Herald sat down with our client, Patrick Lee, founder, and president of Wynwood-based Shorecrest Construction, as part of its RE|on-the-ground source Miami interview series.

Miami Herald: How is the coronavirus crisis impacting your business? Have you had layoffs? Slowdowns on existing jobs?

Patrick: At this time, the state and most municipalities are considering construction an essential business, so most of our projects are continuing to progress. We haven’t had layoffs and are hopeful that won’t be necessary. Production is absolutely affected due to new coordination challenges and the uncertainty in the world, but we are grateful to keep people employed and busy. That said, we are trying to balance this with keeping everyone safe, which is challenging.

Miami Herald: Several local cities just shut down construction sites. What impact do you think that will have on your business and on real estate as a whole?

Patrick: So far it hasn’t negatively affected us, but if it becomes more comprehensive it will. Our business and the real estate market as a whole are tied to the economy. Any additional large-scale negative impacts to the economy will affect real estate and the construction industry.

I’m hopeful that the US can contain the virus, get a comprehensive testing program, and eventually a vaccine. Once that is done, we would hope to get back to work at full capacity.

Miami Herald: You have a residential portfolio as well as commercial one. How are the safety challenges different on the two types of job sites?

Patrick: We implemented job-site policies to try our best to prevent the spread of the coronavirus including required hand-washing, masks, social distancing, and checking people’s temperatures. We have to maintain a healthy environment. Our residential, single-family home projects are easier to manage because the tradesman can separate and maneuver more independently, whereas the commercial projects have areas where the workers funnel, like access points, elevators, etc.

To read the full interview, visit miamiherald.com.