Each week, the Construx editorial staff posts key articles regarding current or upcoming commercial, civil, industrial and institutional construction projects in the Mid-Atlantic region.
Legal issues subsiding, Allentown racing to complete hockey arena construction
Source: The Morning Call
Carlyle Group purchase of Philly refinery expected to create 1,000 construction jobs
Source: Washington Post
Delaware looking at feasibility of constructing a bridge-tunnel to New Jersey
Source: DelmarvaNow.com
Maryland approves $6.7 million MARC station project
Source: Progressive Railroading
This week in construction history:
Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of the Hoover Dam (known as the time as the Boulder Dam). Construction of the dam occurred during the Great Depression and completed in 1936.
Photo by Kuczora on Wikimedia Commons
