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27 Jan 10

Milestone Reached on New Westminster Police Department Headquarters

McCarthy, in partnership with Griffin Structures, recently topped out the structural steel on the new Westminster Police Department Headquarters building. Located at 8200 Westminster Blvd. in Westminster, Calif., the three-level facility was topped out during a ceremony when steel workers from Pro-Steel placed the final structural steel I-beam on the braced-frame steel structure.westminster-police-headquarters

Former Mayor and current council member Frank G. Fry spoke during the ceremony along with McCarthy Project Manager Blaze Bartoli. The event was both a thank you to the contractors and a tribute to the progress made thus far. The Chief of Police Andy Hall, Captain Mitch Waller, Captain Ron Coopman and Sgt. Brian Carpenter were in attendance along with several other dignitaries from the city of Westminster, construction workers and project consultants.

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31 Mar 09

Drywall Installation On $20 Million Allied Health Building At San Diego Mesa College

McCarthy, one of the nation’s leading healthcare and education facility builders, has achieved the two-thirds completion benchmark for the new three-story, 50,000-square-foot Allied Health Building at San Diego Mesa College, located at 7250 Mesa College Dr. in the Clairemont area of San Diego, Calif.
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30 Jan 09

Number of LEED Accredited Professionals Grows in McCarthy’s Nevada Division and Across the Company

McCarthy is closing in on 300 LEED Accredited Professionals on staff company-wide under the United States Green Building Council accreditation program.  The firm’s Nevada Division recently announced 13 more employees achieved their LEED Accreditation, further expanding the builder’s green knowledge base for clients and industry partners in the region.
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25 Nov 08

Dallas City Performance Hall Will be Third Project for McCarthy in the Dallas Arts District

The Dallas City Performance Hall, a 124,000-square-foot multi-phase theatre facility, will be McCarthy’s next construction undertaking in the Dallas Arts District.  During phase one of construction, 45,000 square-feet will be completed.  The City Performance Hall is on track to be the first LEED Silver rated performing arts facility in Texas under the United States Green Building Council and will provide a new state-of-the-art home for small and medium arts groups reflecting the diverse communities of Dallas.

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18 Nov 08

Phoenix Water Treatment Plant Earns National Design-Build Award

The Lake Pleasant Water Treatment Plant in Phoenix, completed by the design/build team McCarthy and of Black & Veatch recently earned the 2008 National Design-Build Award from the Design-Build Institute of America (DBIA) in the “water/wastewater over $15 million” category.

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