Meadows Racetrack and Casino Parking Garage
How will Carl Walker Construction, Inc. design/build this casino parking garage for just $10,000 a space?
Cannery Casino Resorts of Las Vegas has awarded Carl Walker Construction, Inc. (CWC) a 408,000-square-foot parking garage project that will add space for 1,362 vehicles at the Meadows Racetrack and Casino in Washington, Pa. The design/build project, valued at more than $14 million, is slated for completion in May, 2012.
Even with 3,000 spaces now available, a sharp rise in attendance has imposed new strains on parking capacity at The Meadows. Accommodating the casino’s 1,200 employees alone routinely imposes heavy parking demand.
The new garage will occupy the site of an open parking lot, adjacent to a five-story, 1,000-car garage that CWC completed for The Meadows in 2009. To harmonize with the design of that garage and the casino itself, CWC will clad the new structure in an economical stucco-like elastomeric finishing system similar in color and texture to Dryvit.
The tight deadline and modest budget are feasible thanks to the CWC design/build approach, says CWC president Len Tsupros. "For a project like this one, design/build is ideal. It reduces engineering costs by eliminating layers of engineering consultants, and it lowers construction costs by compressing the timeline from groundbreaking to completion.”
|
Print This Page