Design Firm Selected for Jewish Campus

YWS Architects was selected to design the 60,000-sq.-ft. Greenspun Campus for Jewish Life, Learning and Spiritual Renewal. The southeast Las Vegas campus is expected to open first quarter 2007.

YWS Architects, Inc. was selected to design the 60,000-sq.-ft. Jewish "temple campus" - Greenspun Campus for Jewish Life, Learning and Spiritual Renewal - located on the northwest corner of I-215 and North Valle Verde.

The project is slated for completion in February 2007.

Phase one of the Greenspun Campus includes a 23,000-sq.-ft. synagogue with full-height glass walls opening to landscaped courtyards. Additionally, the project includes worship and meeting rooms, a religious and day school, an early education center, healing gardens, an open amphitheater, outdoor patios and a social hall.

The following phase will incorporate a two-story expansion of the Jewish day school to offer an education facility servicing preschool through eighth grade, an adult education facility and a gymnasium.

Crisci Custom Builders to Build Bank of America

Crisci Custom Builders has been contracted to complete ground-up construction and tenant improvement services for Bank of America at Silverado and Bermuda. Jones Lang Lasalle, representing Bank of America, contracted the Las Vegas-based general contracting and project management firm to build the 4,500-sq.-ft. building.

Crisci Custom Builders will provide general construction services for the project located at 410 E. Silverado Ranch Blvd. The firm commenced construction in August and is scheduled to complete the project this month.
Gensler of Nevada is the architect of record. Crisci Custom Builders Vice President Rick Ramberg is serving as project manager for the $1.5 million development.

PENTA Building Group Awarded Montbleu Site Renovation Project

The PENTA Building Group has received a contract to perform site renovations at Montbleu, formerly known as Caesars, at South Lake Tahoe.

The project will consist of the re-roofing of the entire property with a new membrane roof and the paving of the back-of-house alleyway and employee parking lot.

The project began at the end of July and is scheduled for completion in mid-October. The project manager for PENTA on the project is Jason Stejskal, with Ted Griffin as the project superintendent and Nicole Parker as contract administrator.

PPG Breaks Ground for Architectural Coatings Facility in Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center

PPG Industries broke ground on a 22-acre site in the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center, about 15 miles east of Reno, to build a 95,000-sq.-ft. architectural coatings manufacturing facility.

Expected to begin production near the end of 2007, the facility will manufacture more than 15 million gallons of water-based latex paint per year at full capacity. Products will be sold under the Olympic, Lucite, Pittsburgh and other PPG paint brands.

Terry McGinnis, who currently manages PPG's architectural coatings plant in Dover, Del., is construction manager for the project and will manage the new manufacturing facility. PPG will employ about 35 people in supply-chain management, process operations, material handling and packaging, and the facility will operate on two shifts.

The Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center is expected to be the largest industrial complex in the world, comprising more than half the land in Storey County.

Brickwater to Be Built near Las Vegas South Strip

Last fall, national developer Jim Noteware of Houston-based NOTEWARE Development partnered with K&S Mesa Verde, LLC, an entity controlled by Edward Kalikow of the Kalikow Group and Eugene Shalik of Shalik Realty Ventures, both New York-based private equity firms specializing in real estate development, to purchase 10 acres of prime real estate one block east of the Las Vegas South Strip.

Now, after securing development and marketing partners to successfully mount the project, NOTEWARE Development has announced its Las Vegas development: Brickwater Condominiums.

The urban-designed, four-story, 178-unit mid-rise condominium community is situated on five acres on the southeast corner of Giles Street and Mesa Verde Lane, just south of the Las Vegas Outlet Center.

The design includes four levels of condominiums with same-level resident covered parking and interior amenities including an 18-seat stadium theater, lounge, game room with billiard tables, exercise room, conference room, catering kitchen, private rooms for parties and gatherings, and a resort-style pool with community terraces overlooking the pool.

The project's sales center, in The Bootlegger office complex, will open later this month. Tribble & Stephens will serve as general contractor with The Clerkley-Watkins Group performing architecture, planning, and interior design.

JVC Architects to Design Chapel for Salvation Army

JVC Architects, a Las Vegas-based architecture firm specializing in religious design, has been contracted by the Salvation Army to design a chapel on its Las Vegas campus, located at 37 Owens St. The 5,000-sq.-ft. chapel will feature a simple contemporary design consisting of a bell wall, sanctuary, small prayer room and support facilities.

The project will include the demolition of an existing chapel. The main challenge JVC Architects faces in designing the chapel is in creating harmony between the chapel and its surrounding environment. To achieve this, the firm plans to incorporate exterior courtyards in the design. Total project cost is $1.4 million and is scheduled for completion in Summer 2007.

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