McCarthy, one of the nation’s leading parking structure builders, has begun construction for the new 402,503-square-foot, three-level Grossmont College parking structure and adjacent 3,200-square-foot facility for the District’s Public Safety Office located at 8800 Grossmont College Drive in El Cajon, Calif.
The $14.6 million construction contract was awarded to McCarthy by Grossmont-Cuyamaca Community College District. Ken Emmons of Gafcon is serving as project manager and IPD Architects as the project architect.
The parking structure, which will accommodate 1,431 vehicles, will feature sections of metal trellises with stucco and brick veneer attached to the external façade. Two pedestrian bridges will connect Grossmont College’s main campus to the parking structure. The project is slated for completion by end of July 2009.
McCarthy is the nation’s 10th largest domestic general contractor (Engineering News-Record, May 2008) and has been one of the nation’s leading parking structure builders since the advent of the modern parking structure in the 1960s. The company has delivered nearly 400 parking facilities throughout the United States, with parking spaces for more than 70,000 cars in California alone. The firm offers general contracting, construction management, program management and design/build services for parking structures; healthcare, educational, mixed-use, laboratory, biotechnical, retail, entertainment, industrial, multifamily and microelectronics facilities; office buildings; tenant interiors; and bridges and highways. In addition to San Diego, McCarthy has offices in Newport Beach, Sacramento and San Francisco, Calif.; Phoenix; Las Vegas; St. Louis; Dallas and Atlanta. McCarthy is 100 percent employee owned. More information about the company is available online at www.mccarthy.com.
