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Gary Graziano, AIA Vice President, Marketing High Concrete Group LLC 717.336.9434 ggraziano@high.net |
Tom McEvoy President High Concrete Group LLC 717.336.9300 tmcevoy@high.net |
Denver, Pa. (December 20, 2007) — High Concrete Group LLC has been selected to build the parking garage for the new Revel Entertainment Group, LLC beachfront casino entertainment resort in Atlantic City, N.J., estimated at $2 billion. With more than 7,500 parking spaces, the 12-story project will be among the largest precast parking garages on the East Coast of the United States.
Based in Denver, Pa., High Concrete Group was awarded the $81 million contract, its largest contract to date, by Tishman Construction Corporation. The project, slated to open in 2010, is the largest ever for the architectural and structural precast concrete subcontractor, and it is two and a half times the size of its next largest project, the Caesar's Transportation Center, which opened in 2003.
High Concrete Group is recognized as the leading producer of a wide variety of structural components, including columns and double-tees for parking garages. The company currently is producing parking garages for the Meadowlands Xanadu Entertainment Complex in East Rutherford, N.J., Cooper University Hospital in Camden, N.J., and Bergen Town Center in Bergen, N.J. Between 1972 and 2007, High Concrete Group completed 545 parking garage projects.
High Concrete Group's products include architectural facades, insulated and structural enclosure systems, parking garages, stadiums, other precast structures, and hollowcore planks for commercial, institutional and multi-unit residential applications. Employing nearly 800 co-workers, the group has provided precast components for more than 5,000 projects since 1957, and ranks in the top 100 on Engineering News Record's list of the Top 600 Specialty Contractors. High Concrete Group operates plants in Denver and Williamsport, Pa., Buena, N.J., Springboro, Ohio, and Paxton, Ill; and High Concrete Accessories, a Denver, Pa.-based national precasting embedment supplier. For more information on High Concrete Group, including employment opportunities, visit www.highconcrete.com or e-mail to concrete.answers@high.net.
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