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Thompson Hotel - Denver

Dubbed the Mile High City and situated just an hour east of the famous Rocky Mountains, Denver is Colorado’s capital and most populous city. Given its dual characteristics as a major metropolitan area and its proximity to the ski slopes and hiking trails of the mountains, Denver is a go-to tourist destination for millions of people every year. To meet the high demand of visitors wanting to experience all the city has to offer, Denver cultivated a robust tourism and hospitality industry that will soon welcome the luxury hotel chain Thompson Hotels into its fold.

Beginning construction in 2019, the Thompson Hotel project is an exciting collaboration of T2 Development, architects DLR Group, Layton Construction, and Denver commercial concrete contractors, The Conco Companies. The hotel will be on the 16th Street Mall, a booming commercial district in the heart of the city with restaurants, bars, retail shops, businesses, and arts and entertainment complexes. The upscale hotel will take the place of a surface parking lot and will loft to a height of 13 stories with over 200 rooms. Its high-end amenities will include an outdoor sky patio and fireplace, a full-service restaurant and bar on the street level, a rooftop bar with private event rooms, and meeting and event spaces situated throughout the hotel.

While the hotel itself will fit right into the dynamic 16th Street Mall, its location will pose some challenges for its construction. Primarily, the close proximity to the many other businesses and ongoing activities of the area will constrain access to the construction site and require strategic use of large equipment. For this reason, the Conco Companies is an ideal partner in the project, as they have decades of experience in tackling logistically challenging projects. After lending their expertise in the preconstruction and planning stages of development, Conco is slated to commence construction in August 2019. For their part of the Thompson Hotel project, Conco will be providing Denver concrete pumping and placing, formwork, concrete reinforcement, concrete finishing, and shotcrete services as well as construction trucking. The scope of work includes drilled pier foundations, pier caps and grade beams, mat foundations, slab on grade, shotcrete foundation walls, elevator core walls in two locations, and elevated post-tensioned structural slabs. Once completed, the Thompson Denver promises to be one of the premier hotels in the city.

Conco’s mission is to be the best supplier of concrete services in the Western United States and to bring expertise and unsurpassed quality to each project. We continue to upgrade and expand facilities to better serve the growing market for public works projects, commercial, educational, parking structures, and other construction development. Allow us to show you how we can assist your next project with our extensive experience and first-rate Denver concrete services.

By 2020-21, Los Angelinos will have access to a large portion of its newest multi-use development project in the Inglewood neighborhood of the city: Hollywood Park. Since its conception, the expansive 300-acre campus has brought together the city’s best designers, developers, and commercial concrete contractors in Los Angeles. Now, Hollywood Park continues to add world-class amenities to its site and boasts an impressive array of attractions. Once completed, the development will have a total of 2,500 homes, 500,000 square feet of retail space, a 6,000 seat concert venue, over 900,000 square feet of office space, 300 hotel rooms, 25 acres of parks, 12 miles of walkable paths, and the new LA Stadium for the Rams and Chargers with 70,000 seats.

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Stylish, Class A Office Space

The most recent project to begin construction in the ambitious development is the NFL Media Building. This eight-story high rise tower commenced construction in summer of 2019 and will include a connected two-story studio support facility and an adjacent studio structure to become the headquarters of the West Coast NFL Operations and Media. Slated to welcome tenants in summer of 2021, the project will provide 434,000 square feet of office space, 220,000 square feet of which will be available to lease for companies outside of NFL Operations and Media. Given the large scale and fast timeline of the project, the general contractors Pankow Builders selected the Conco Companies to provide commercial concrete contractor services.

Reliable, Quality Concrete Services

Conco was chosen for their ability to meet the project’s unique requirements, particularly the large amount of quality concrete finishing on a very accelerated schedule. Conco began work on the project in July 2019 and is expected to finish in September 2020. Within this fast turnaround, Conco will provide concrete pumping, placement, and finishing on all slab on grade and structural decks, including a studio level with stringently high tolerances for floor flatness and floor levelness.

Meeting Strict Standards

Floor flatness and floor levelness are indicated by an F-number, which is a quantitative way to indicate the flatness and levelness of a concrete floor. The F-number is an important metric for floors with random traffic patterns, as with the studio level of the NFL Media Building. For both measures, a high F-number is desired, and in particular, a high F-number for floor flatness is a result of a skilled concrete finisher working the surface of the concrete to achieve a flat floor. Conco’s reputation for quality concrete work ensures that the strict standards for the NFL Media Building will be met, while still keeping the project on time and on budget.

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A significant part of this project is the local hire requirements. On June 26, 2019, The Conco Companies partnered with Pankow Builders, America’s Job Center and the Southern California Unions-Carpenters and Laborers among other entities at a Jobs Information & Resource Fair in Inglewood. Together we introduced local residents to the construction industry and the upcoming job opportunities.

Local residents were informed of the various projects. They were also informed of the different trades we work with at Conco as well as the process of becoming employed.

Superintendent Carlos Ambriz, Project Manager Nestor Miranda, Dispatcher Michael Calderon, and office Manager Dora Veronica were in attendance.

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The Conco Companies’ mission is to be the best supplier of concrete services in the Western U.S. and to bring expertise and incomparable quality to each project. We continue to upgrade and expand our facilities to better serve the growing market for commercial, educational, parking structures, public works projects, and other development. Contact us to learn more about the services from one of the most trusted concrete contractors in Los Angeles.

The Conco Companies is proud to share that we have completed and placed the 31st-floor concrete deck pour of the Carmel Cumulus Tower project. Conco provided the concrete structure, concrete pumping, formwork, shotcrete, and finishing services for this job. The mat slab pour of 7,985 cubic yard of concrete was placed on July 13, 2018. The roof level was placed roughly one year later on July 17, 2019. Within this 369 day timeframe Conco pumped and placed 34,000 cubic yards of concrete and finished 550,000 square feet of flatwork, all while maintaining an impressive five-day deck cycle.

We simply could not have done it without an amazing team of dedicated and talented craft men and women. Our skilled concrete specialists provide the expertise and commitment that is the foundation for Conco’s reputation for delivering exceptional quality construction on schedule and on budget. The Cumulus Tower project, like Conco’s other large scale and challenging projects showcases Conco’s hard work. We are grateful to have our talented concrete specialists on the Conco team.

The Cumulus project is in the West Adams neighborhood of Los Angeles and seeks to promote public transit by offering residential and retail spaces next to new metro rail stations. This mixed-use development by Carmel Partners consists of one seven-story podium building and a 30-story high rise with 100,000 square feet of retail, on an 11-acre site that was once occupied by Cumulus Media’s radio broadcast facility. The residential portion of the project will feature 1,210 apartments and, combined with 100,000 square feet of commercial space, will be divided between two separate buildings. The Cumulus Tower is the first tower in this section of Los Angeles and is the cornerstone of the larger complex.

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The Conco Companies’ mission is to be the best supplier of concrete services in the Western U.S. and to bring expertise and incomparable quality to each project. We continue to upgrade and expand our facilities to better serve the growing market for commercial, educational, parking structures, public works projects, and other development. Contact us to learn more about the services from one of the most trusted concrete contractors in Los Angeles.

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The Grand is an immense, much anticipated mixed-use development project in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Bunker Hill that commenced construction in May 2019. To kick off the project, Los Angeles commercial concrete contractors, The Conco Companies delivered an impressive demonstration of its skills and expertise. For the first of the two towers to be erected for the project, Conco provided the second-largest continuous casting of a foundation in Los Angeles in a mere 15 hours. The project with the top honors in this category and the recipient of Guinness World Record recognition in 2014 was the Wilshire Grand Center, also completed by Conco.

The metrics for the foundation mat pour of this 39-story residential tower designed by Frank Gehry are staggering: 140 skilled Conco employees placed 13,275 cubic yards of concrete at an approximate rate of 1,000 cubic yards per hour. The 39,303 square foot concrete mat varies in thickness from 6 feet to 12 feet and weighs roughly 27,000 tons. Throughout the 15-hour mat pour, eight state-of-the-art concrete pumps worked to pump and place the concrete while 1,348 truck trips to six batch plants were completed.

In addition to the speed of its service delivery and the seamless coordination with multiple stakeholders such as developer Related Companies, the Los Angeles City Council, and the Department of Transportation, Conco also achieved the feat of zero injuries during this first phase of the project. Conco prides itself on prioritizing job site safety, and true to Conco’s focus, despite the dizzying speed of the mat pour, there were no injuries. The experience and expertise behind Conco’s reputation as the top supplier of commercial concrete services – no matter the scale or difficulty of the project – was certainly on full display during this massive mat pour.

The Conco Companies’ mission is to be the best supplier of concrete services in the Western U.S. and to bring expertise and incomparable quality to each project. We continue to upgrade and expand our facilities to better serve the growing market for commercial, educational, parking structures, public works projects, and other development. Contact us to learn more about the services from one of the most trusted concrete contractors in Los Angeles.

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While the Healthcare District of Denver is home to a constellation of hospitals and healthcare facilities, it is also a bustling area featuring restaurants, retail stores, businesses, and soon, two new high-end multi-family residential buildings. The Broadstone Uptown project will make use of a currently empty lot at the corner of 18th and Marion Street and will bring much needed residential units to the growing city. The project brings together local architects, engineers, and commercial concrete contractors in Denver and promises to introduce over two hundred studio, one bedroom, and two bedroom apartments to the neighborhood, as well as below grade parking for each of the two buildings.

Denver has experienced a huge boom in its population over the past several years, and city officials and local developers have worked diligently to answer the call for more housing. In 2018, reports concluded that Denver needed 32,000 new units to keep pace with the city’s rapid growth, and as a result construction cranes and newly erected high-rise multi-family residential buildings have become ubiquitous features of the cityscape. The Broadstone Uptown project will be a welcome addition to Denver’s housing stock and is slated to begin construction in July 2019.

The development team for The Broadstone Uptown project includes PR III Broadstone Uptown Developers, Enayat Schneider Smith Engineering, and Shear Adkins Rockmore Architects who designed the nearly identical, adjacent nine-story residential buildings. Conco worked closely with these teams for over a year in the planning phase and won the contract for concrete services due to the strong working relationships built in that process and Conco’s competitive pricing. Conco is known for keeping large scale projects on time and budget, two necessary characteristics in the race to build more residential units in Denver. The scope of work for Conco’s turnkey structural concrete services include mat slab foundations, slab on grade, shotcrete foundation walls, cast-in-place columns, elevator and stair core walls in two locations in each building, elevated post-tensioned structural slabs and Epicore topping slabs for the cast-in-place rooftop slabs. Conco will be partnering with a local subcontractor to provide Denver concrete pumping and placing, reinforcing, formwork, and finishing as well as construction trucking.

Conco’s mission is to be the best supplier of concrete services in the Western United States and to bring expertise and unsurpassed quality to each project. We continue to upgrade and expand facilities to better serve the growing market for public works projects, commercial, educational, parking structures, and other construction development. Allow us to show you how we can assist your next project with our extensive experience and first-rate Denver concrete services.