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Press Releases
Time Warner Telecom Delivers Local Telecom Services to Nine Non-Profit North Carolina Agencies
Memphis Seismic Modernization
Veterans Proud to Work on Price•Davis / VA Project
Price•Davis is bucking the recession and adding staff
Price•Davis expands technology group
Price•Davis Technology Management coordinates all technology for City of Lumberton
Fortune 500 companies select Price•Davis Technology Management
Price•Davis selected to work on Nashville's Pickle Building
Price•Davis' sophisticated solution chosen for VA hospital renovation
NASA Radiology selects Price•Davis to build its latest state of the art facility in Atlanta
Price•Davis selected to perform work at South Georgia College, of the UGA System
In the News
The Tennesean "One of Nashville’s most storied buildings is getting a bit of a makeover"
The Charlotte Observer"Cooperation Builds Nonprofits a Home"
The Charlotte Observer "Moving? New firm helps with technology needs"
The Charlotte Observer "Price•Davis rides area's economic boom into new projects, new offices in 3 cities"
The Monticello News "Ground is broken for courthouse addition"
The Telegraph "Historic Jasper County courthouse gets facelift"
The Charlotte Observer SouthPark law firm getting bigger office
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Veterans Proud to Work on Price•Davis / VA Project
How does our construction team feel working for veterans? Just ask the three (3) Vietnam Era veterans and the Korean War veteran in the
Resident Engineer’s office assigned to this Medical Center to oversee the construction of the new bed tower and the demolition of the
old bed tower. The vice-president and project manager in charge of this project for the general contractor, Price•Davis Construction,
Inc., is a veteran along with several employees. The mechanical subcontractor, Morgan & Turner, is a veteran owned business and has
veterans working on this project including one Vietnam vet wounded five times in one raid who is now 40% disabled. Or ask the Korean
War veteran, who came out of retirement to supervise the day-to-day demolition of the tower. His employer, Asset Recovery Contracting, is
also a veteran owned company. They will answer with a resounding "PROUD!".
Our construction team is dedicated and committed to ensuring the continued safety of our veterans, their families and the employees of this Medical
Center. Safety is the number one goal of the project team. Using a tower crane; installing scaffolding and safety netting around the entire
building and lowering it floor by floor as the tower comes down; using remote control “munchers” to chew the large amounts of concrete in the
tower into small pieces to be hauled off; using spotters on the lower roofs; and blocking off occupied areas while lifting is going on. All
these features plus many more are being utilized for the safe removal of the tower. Our team is also concerned about the environment. 90%
of all demolition debris is being recycled.
This project is a first for the VA. Never before has part of an existing VA building been taken down while the lower floors are still occupied.
If you were wondering why it is taking so long for the actual tower demolition to start, here is a short explanation. Before any of the
floors in the old tower could be removed, the general contractor had to build offices for both Medical and Pharmacy Services, so they
could move out of the old tower. Next came the moving of all the mechanical and electrical services that were located on the roof.
Then the contractor had to take all the service and passenger elevators for the tower out of service and remove them from their
shafts. The crane was then erected along with the scaffolding so that the tower could be removed down to the 5th floor, the new roof.
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Price•Davis is bucking the recession and adding staff
Despite the recession and industry woes, Price.Davis is off to its best start in recent memory and
has added staff in all its three cities. Charlotte has added a division manager, Sean McDonnell, to
oversee all Charlotte operations including project managers and superintendents. Sean already has
plans to add an additional project manager by the summer. The Atlanta division has added Division
Accountant, Kathy Emery. The Nashville division has hired Lynn Carter as a Division Accountant.
Additionally, two superintendents were hired to keep up with demand.
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Price•Davis expands technology group
Price•Davis Technology Management is adding staff to the successful consulting and project management
group.
Elaine Horack been added to the Office Technology Consulting group.
Elaine Horack has over 25 years experience in telecommunications with expertise in landline, wireless and
long distance services. Her knowledge is supported by extensive training and hands on experience during her
employment with BellSouth and AT&T. She has been a Certified Business Continuity Planner since 1995 and has
provided guidance to numerous clients in building disaster resistance communications programs. Elaine's
experience includes Project Management and Telecommunications Facility Design and Consulting.
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Price•Davis Technology Management coordinates all technology for City of Lumberton
Price•Davis Technology has been selected by Overcash•Demmitt Architects and the City of
Lumberton, NC to design, bid and coordinate implementation of all technology for a new 50,000 square foot
city hall. The project will include telephones, local area network, computers, security/CCTV, structured wiring
and all multi-media and A/V.
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Fortune 500 companies select Price•Davis Technology Management
The upstart Price•Davis Technology Management group, a division of Price•Davis
Tenant Services, has been selected by numerous Fortune 500 companies in recent months to coordinate technology
implementation on a local level. The Price•Davis staff is able to offer pre-screened vendors for nearly all
office technology that meets the rigid specifications of medium and larger company IT departments. A partial
list includes Bloomberg, AON, Larson-Allen, Royal & Sun Alliance, Royal Indemnity, Hewitt, The BB&T
Center, High Associates, Welch-Allen and Hearst.
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Price•Davis selected to work on Nashville's Pickle Building
Price•Davis has been selected to renovate the Pickle Building at
Volunteer State College in Galeton, TN. This $1.5 million project will involve
offices, gymnasium and other facilities.
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Price•Davis' sophisticated solution chosen for VA hospital renovation
Price•Davis has been awarded a $9.5 million contract for demolition and renovation of portions of the
VA hospital in Memphis, TN. The project was a unique competition that involved creativity, competence and
strategy. The project was awarded to Price•Davis because of the unusual solution proposed that
emphasized safety, environmental sensitivity and the continuous operation of the hospital.
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NASA Radiology selects Price•Davis to build its latest state of the art facility in Atlanta
NASA Radiology selects Price•Davis to build its latest state of the art facility in Atlanta. The new location will
operate under the name North Atlanta Diagnostics and will have the most up to date MRI and CT Scan capabilities.
This office will be a "Class A" quality space with the patient's comfort and experience in mind. Price•Davis
will receive and coordinate the special equipment as well as the basic office technology. This is the third
diagnostic center that Price•Davis has done for NASA Radiology.
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Price•Davis selected to perform work at South Georgia College, for UGA System.
Price•Davis has been selected to perform work at South Georgia College, of the University of Georgia System.
The construction will encompass an Olympic size indoor pool with adjoining classrooms as an addition to the
existing Gym and locker rooms that will also be updated as a part of the project. Total area is approx. 30K sq ft.
The building will also feature a large new outdoor patio with brick screen walls and new landscaping.
The projects will take approx. 1 year to complete.
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One of Nashville’s most storied buildings is getting a bit of a makeover.
Workers have been restoring the steeple on Fisk University’s Jubilee Hall since the fall, Peter Woolfolk said. The roughly $500,000 project, visible from Interstate 40 near Jefferson Street, should be finished next month.
Moody-Nolan Inc. is the architect on the project, and Price-Davis Construction is the contractor. Maxwell Roofing & Sheet Metal also is heavily involved.
Jubilee Hall, built with money raised by the Fisk Jubilee Singers’ international tour in 1871 to keep the historically black university afloat financially, was the South’s first permanent structure built for the education of black students. Last year Fisk replaced all but a handful of the building’s 240 windows and restored two first-floor parlors with money from the US Department of Interior and an anonymous donor.
Copyright The Tennesean Newspaper, Nashville, TN. All rights reserved.
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Moving? New firm helps with technology needs.
When companies relocate, they're thinking mainly of bricks and mortar, hammers and nails, not
necessarily telephones, fax machines, wiring and computers.
A Charlotte construction firm sees that as an opportunity.
Price•Davis Construction, Inc., listening to advice from its clients, has just formed PD Technology
Management, a separate company to consult with customers on technology needs and
help manage their moves.
"We've seen our construction clients struggle through this," said company principal Skeeter
Davis, who is heading the new operation. "Sometimes you can look at their
drawings and see, for example, that their (computer) server room is too small,
but no one told them."
PD Technology Management is
operating as an independent third party, helping clients find the best price on
all technological services and equipment and managing the installation as
well.
Davis, a partner in the
construction company with Thom Price, sees the technology operation as a meshing
of the new and the old, something that over time has the potential to reshape
their primary business of building commercial interiors. Price•Davis
Construction, a 70-employee company, is one of the city's larger interior
specialists. It projects annual revenue of $60 million this year. Davis believes
technology management - three people now - eventually will generate as much
money as the construction business.
Industry experts say what
Price•Davis is doing doesn't appear to be unique, but is unusual for a
construction contractor.
Numerous consulting
services offer advice on relocation, phone service and computer needs, but, they
say, each tends to concentrate within its niche, rather than on the entire
package as PD Technology Management is doing.
"Typically, a company has
to put someone in charge of the move and that person has to meet with the voice
mail provider, the Internet service, the long distance carrier, the local phone
service, etc.," Davis said. "With our service, you don't have to go to multiple
vendors."
Price said company
officials started seeing a need for a technology consulting service about five
years ago and spent the past year talking to its clients and researching the
concept.
The service also will
operate in Atlanta and Nashville, Tenn., where Price•Davis has
offices.
The company has been quick
to capitalize on trends and convert them into growth opportunities.
Price•Davis started 14
years ago with just two employees, but expanded rapidly in the mid-1990's as
general contractors, eager to speed delivery of offices to tenants, started
bringing interior subcontractors in earlier and relying more on their
services.
Annual revenue jumped, for
example, from $17 million in 1997 to $28 million in 1998. Last year, it reported
about $45 million.
Price•Davis has
participated in major projects throughout Charlotte. At the Charlotte Convention
Center, for example, it did $14.5 million worth of finish work inside the
850,000-square-foot building.
You also can see its
handiwork in offices at the 24-story Carillon, the 32-story Interstate Tower and
Gateway Village. And it's one of the interior specialists for the 46-story
Hearst Tower, due to be completed late next year on North Tryon Street.
-Doug Smith, Copyright Charlotte Observer. All rights reserved.
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Price•Davis rides area's economic boom into new projects, new offices in 3 cities
Drive south on South
Boulevard and just before you get to the Tremont Avenue intersection you see a
sign with metal trusses welcoming you to SouthEnd Steelyard.
That's where you'll find
Price•Davis Construction, Inc., located atop Sullivan's Steakhouse, on the
second floor of the renovated Mitchell & Becker Co. metal-fabricating
building.
Skeeter Davis and Thom
Price, the company's principals, handled construction of the $3 million project,
which includes a two-story building and a parking structure.
Although a testimonial to
their work, SouthEnd Steelyard is really not what they typically do. Their bread
and butter is not exteriors but interiors, which are commanding more attention
thanks to the region's booming economy and tight construction
schedules.
Price•Davis is a prime
example of how being in the right place at the right time in one of the longest
economic expansions in history can put a startup company on the path to
success.
Business has been so good
since they launched 12 years ago that the company has grown from two employees
to 55 and expanded to three other cities: Atlanta, Nashville and
Memphis.
Annual revenue jumped from
$17 million in 1997 to $28 million again this year. As the new offices increase
their business, Price•Davis sees the potential to double that amount in
2000.
On the big projects, the
general contractors' names are the ones people remember.
But interior specialists
like Price•Davis are key contributors. At the Charlotte Convention Center, for
example, Price•Davis did $14.5 million worth of finish work inside the
850,000-square-foot building.
You also can see its
handiwork in offices at the 24-story Carillon and the 32-story Interstate Tower.
And it will be one of the interior specialists involved in five-block Gateway
Village on West Trade Street and the 46-story Hearst Tower on North Tryon
Street, both under construction.
What's helping create the
opportunity, Price said, is the demand for more personal attention and tighter
deadlines by tenants seeking to get into new offices quickly.
Before the construction
boom picked up steam in Charlotte and subcontractors got swamped about five
years ago, a general contractor could expect to start on the interior work as
the exterior of the building neared completion.
That still happens to some
extent, but these days general contractors are much more likely to work hand in
hand with an interior contractor like Price•Davis to speed up the
process.
To move even faster,
Price•Davis recently formed an operation to do its own drywall and millwork to
supplement subcontractors. The idea, the company owners say, is to have a team
ready to jump in if work falls behind schedule.
"Sometimes you can
overwhelm a subcontractor with the amount of work you're generating," Price
said. The company used the same approach to install drywall when convention
center construction fell behind schedule.
The key to success, Price
and Davis believe, is relationships. They've been subcontractors, so they try to
see issues from that perspective, too. And over the years, they've enjoyed
repeat business from such developers as The Bissell Cos., Crescent Resources,
Childress Klein Properties and Highwoods Properties.
To help it grow, the
company recently added Connor Leahy as project manager and Robby Lowe as
director of business development.
-Doug Smith, Copyright Charlotte Observer. All rights reserved.
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Ground is Broken for Courthouse Addition
Some 50 spectators, and
nearly as many participants, turned out Tuesday for the symbolic groundbreaking
for the new Courthouse expansion and renovation.
Linda Jordan, chairwoman
of the building committee, wielded the ceremonial shovel as photographers
clicked away. She was flanked by other members of the committee, county
commissioners, other elected and appointed officials, architect Ben Carter, and
representatives of Price•Davis Construction Co., the contractor.
The
ceremony took place on the site of the addition at the back of the courthouse
building. This will be the first phase of the project, with the existing
structure to be renovated after the addition is complete and available for
temporary offices while the other work is under way.
Dan Jordan, clerk of
Superior Court was emcee for the brief event and led the group in the Pledge of
Allegiance. Sheriff Charles Roper offered the benediction. The audience included
past county commissioners Sam Goolsby and Tom Mclean who were in office when the
special purpose local option sales tax to finance the project was passed last
year, along with many Courthouse staffers, interested citizens and other
officials.
Copyright The Monticello News. All Rights Reserved.
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Historic Jasper County courthouse gets face-lift
In an age when expansion in
many counties has meant construction of a modern justice administration building
on the outskirts of town, Jasper County is bucking the trend. The courthouse in
Monticello is in for a major facelift and expansion.
The building, which
replaced the old one about 95 years ago and just 10 years ago served as the set
for the movie, “My Cousin Vinny,” is a community landmark, and Jasper officials
want to keep court on the town square.
Construction began in November on
a three-story addition to be attached to the courthouse from behind, where a
tiny jail once stood. Architect Ben Carter said the 15,000-square-foot addition
will seamlessly match the neo-classical exterior of the existing
courthouse.
After the addition is complete, the project will move to
phase 2: A complete renovation of the existing courthouse. In the overhaul, an
elevator will be installed, and the courthouse will have more than one public
restroom.
“That (didn’t) work when you have 100 jurors in here on a
15-minute break,” said Dan Jordan, Jasper County Clerk of Superior
Court.
Jordan said the county’s legal proceedings have experienced
tremendous growth since he was elected in 1988. For example, he said juvenile
cases have gone from 10 in 1986 to 160 last year. Property deed filings, which
are done in his office, rose from 1,800 in 1986 to about 4,500 in
2000.
With that growth has come the need for more space, and improvements
to the aging building.
Jordan, who also serves as clerk of magistrate and
juvenile courts, said courtroom window air-conditioning units, which had to be
turned off so participants and the gallery could hear court proceedings, and
un-vented gas heaters will be replaced by a modern heating and air-conditioning
system.
He said the county just rewired the building about three years
ago, and that work will not be duplicated. However, he said that the project, so
as not to tear up the walls, did not include light switches. Motion sensors
control when a room is illuminated. Now that a complete renovation is being
done, Jordan said light switches will most likely be added.
Carter said
the courthouse - with its domed rotunda, stained oak trim and tin ceilings
throughout - is unique in its resemblance to the state Capitol. He said other
features include a fireplace in nearly every room, a working clock tower and a
revolving- door entrance to the courtroom. There’s also a picture of hometown
heroine and country singer Trisha Yearwood on the wall.
Jordan said part
of the reason filmmakers chose the Monticello courthouse to film “My Cousin
Vinny” - Joe Pesci and Marisa Tomei - was the historic, Southern, small town
look of the building, which had been preserved over the years.
Jordan
said most of the historical elements of the courthouse will be preserved. He
said that some concessions have been made to the fire marshal, such as erecting
a protective plexiglass barrier to augment the brass railing around the second
floor overlook of the rotunda. But he said they held firm on keeping the
revolving door.
The courthouse project is part of a sales-tax initiative
passed by voters in 2000 by a margin of about 2-1. Jordan, who serves on the
courthouse building committee, said that the referendum had failed twice before.
This time around, the committee was better prepared to present the $3.1 million
courthouse project to the voters, he said.
Project manager, David Poss of
Price•Davis Construction said the addition is scheduled to be finished by early
summer, and the courthouse renovations should be done by the end of
2002.
Gray Beverley. Copyright The Telepgraph. All Rights Reserved.
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Cooperation Builds Nonprofits a home
Thanks to donations, 9 agencies will share quarters in First Ward
The new five-story Children & Family Services Center in First Ward is more than a building.
It's an uptown monument to philanthropy and cooperation among Charlotte businesses.
"What we've seen here is people who generally compete against each other come together for a common cause," said Peggy Eagan, building director.
Commercial real estate brokers, architects, lawyers, contractors and others joined forces to build a permanent home for nine nonprofit agencies that provide services to troubled families.
Setting the tone for cooperation, retired bank chairmen Hugh McColl Jr. of Bank of America and Ed Crutchfield of First Union (now Wachovia) led a campaign two years ago that raised more than $10 million in cash and in-kind donations for construction.
That gave the agencies, accustomed to moving often to take advantage of make-do space provided by generous landlords, a chance to create their new home.
"We were nonprofits trained in helping people," Eagan said. "We had no idea how to do space planning for a new building."
Little Diversified Architectural Consulting stepped in to help.
The agencies learned that by sharing a building, they could reduce expenses if they included one conference room and one board room to serve all nine.
Participating agencies are A Child's Place, Children's Law Center, Communities in Schools, Community Link, Council for Children, Smart Start, United Family Services, Youth Homes and YouthNetwork (formerly The Relatives).
A volunteer real estate advisory committee subjected everyone's wish list to a reality check.
"Sometimes we had to be the bad guy," said committee member Rob Cochran of Colliers Pinkard. "We had to remind them they were paying for it."
The agencies set up a separate nonprofit corporation to own the building, which is leasing its nearly two-acre site from the city for half the market rate.
Attorney Bob Simmons of Robinson Bradshaw & Hinson donated the time he spent on legal work for the project.
As part of the business plan, the Children & Family Services Center will lease unoccupied space to other tenants and use proceeds to subsidize rent for the agencies.
Real estate committee member Bart Hopper of New South Properties of the Carolinas said about 32,000 square feet of the 106,000-square-foot building is available -- including the entire 20,000-square-foot top floor.
He's quoting an annual rate of $18 a square foot, below the average of $21 a square foot for uptown's finest (Class A) space.
Hopper and Cochran are in charge of project leasing. Other members of their committee include chairman Pete Lash of Beacon Partners and Tricia Noble of Childress Klein Properties.
Nancy Crown of Bank of America's community development arm also was involved.
The building, managed by The Keith Corp., includes 90 parking spaces. The city will make about 250 nearby spaces available for tenants, Hopper said.
Features include floor-to-ceiling windows, a kitchen, a library, a training room, a children's play area and break rooms.
"This building was built to the same standards as the uptown towers and has all of the features you would expect to find in them," said Steve Onxley of Onxley Architecture.
He did the construction administration and designed the interior core. Holly Grosvenor of Stanfield Studios did exterior design.
ColeJenest & Stone provided landscape architecture.
Shelco Inc. was the general contractor, and Price Davis Construction built out the interior.
But once all those new offices were completed in the spacious building, the agencies needed furniture and office equipment.
Most of that was donated by Bank of America, Eagan said.
About 230 people work in the building, which opened in April.
Now that we have a blueprint for corporate cooperation on a building project, we should be able to do it again. Right, guys?
-Doug Smith. Copyright Charlotte Observer All Rights Reserved.
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SouthPark law firm getting bigger office
Clients, employees strongly favor space in SouthPark, official says
DOUG SMITH
SouthPark's largest law firm will occupy two floors of office space vacated by J.A. Jones Inc. in 14-story SouthPark Towers.
Hedrick, Eatman, Gardner & Kincheloe has signed a lease for 43,150 square feet in SouthPark's tallest office building.
In a countywide office market struggling to overcome high vacancies and fill almost 5.7 million square feet, that's a substantial transaction.
The law firm, which has 40 lawyers in Charlotte and 57 statewide, looked at a dozen potential locations -- including uptown and midtown -- to find larger quarters.
"We came to the conclusion that our clients and employees have a strong preference for us to remain in SouthPark," said Mel Garofalo, managing partner.
The new office at 6000 Fairview Road across from SouthPark mall will be only a few steps from its current location in the seven-story former DuPont Building at 6302 Fairview Road, where it occupies about 32,000 square feet.
J.A. Jones Inc., which filed for Chapter 11 reorganization last month, will continue to occupy space in SouthPark Towers, which it owns in partnership with Cigna Insurance.
Rick Porter of Queens Properties, Jones' real estate services company, said headquarters employees moved from the ninth and 10th floors to the second. The company also occupies space on four other floors.
J.A. Jones Inc., a holding company, and its construction, engineering and services subsidiaries once occupied 119,000 square feet in the 289,000-square-foot building, completed in 1998.
With the signing of the law firm lease and another deal pending approval in bankruptcy court, Jones' occupancy will shrink to about 60,000 square feet.
Jones officials say Fluor Corp. -- with the bankruptcy court's consent -- plans to acquire the international division of J.A. Jones Construction Co., keep most of its employees and assume the lease on 21,000 square feet in SouthPark Towers.
Porter said the building is about 92 percent occupied.
Garofalo said the law firm, which has been in SouthPark since 1995, expects to start an estimated $1.5 million remodeling of its two floors on Nov. 1 and occupy the space by late February.
Charlotte's LS3P Associates Ltd. designed the makeover. Price Davis Construction Inc. is the general contractor.
Jim Thorp and Chase Monroe of Keystone Partners represented the law firm in its office selection and lease negotiations. In addition to Porter, Jim Gragnolati and Bob Bell of Queens Properties represented the building owners.
Hedrick, Eatman, Gardner & Kincheloe, one of the largest firms representing business and industry in civil and commercial litigation in the state, was founded in Charlotte in 1956. It also has offices in Raleigh and Wilmington.
Doug Smith's Notebook
· D.H. Griffin Wrecking Co. is reducing Sears' 33-year-old SouthPark mall store to a pile of rubble.
The parking lot has been fenced off around the two-story, 169,467-square-foot building to keep out spectators.
Griffin, which started demolition about two weeks ago, expects to clear enough debris over the next few weeks to allow mall owner Simon Property Group to begin preparing for new construction in November.
Gaylan's, an upscale sports and outdoors store, plans to open in late 2004 as an anchor in a pedestrian-friendly complex that will replace the department store.
SouthPark officials describe the new section as a lifestyle center that will include other shops, restaurants and the mall's food court.
Simon cleared the way for the expansion last summer when it bought Sears' department store, 28,510-square-foot auto service center and 15 acres for $11 million.
-Doug Smith. Copyright Charlotte Observer All Rights Reserved.
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