Super 70 Project

Concrete, Cars and ‘Mountain’
Moved for Hoosier Highway
Sometimes it’s easier to build a mountain than move a railroad. That was the lesson learned during the Super 70 highway reconstruction project under way in Indianapolis. The $175 million project is roughly halfway through the removal and reconstruction of 6 mi of Interstate 70 just east of downtown Indianapolis. The original highway was built in 1971, and though it has emerged as the busiest stretch of interstate in Indiana, it has never been replaced.
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A Midwest Construction Profile

$2 Billion in Bonds Pave Way For Road Projects in Missouri
Walkable, mixed-use neighborhoods have been attracting yuppies as well
as empty nesters to downtown Chicago for more than a decade. Now, with peak gasoline prices and global warming concerns, the urban planning
concept called an "urban village" is even more appealing.
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Top 2007 Special Contractors

Contractors Fend off Blows,Fight On in Volatile Market
Contractors in the Midwest are trying to fend off the one-two punch of declining starts and rising costs but are fighting for success.“The first quarter of 2007 was slow, but it’s picking up,” says Kay Anagnos, president of Justice, Ill.-based Anagnos Door Co. Inc., a commercial and industrial door contractor. Data from McGraw-Hill Construction, publisher of Midwest Construction, confirm a diminishing market in first-quarter 2007. Each major metropolitan area where the magazine circulates had a decline in construction starts.
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Indy’s $3 Billion Plan

Clean Streams Program Aims to Enhance Waterways
Like many Northern industrial cities, Indianapolis has a combined sewer overflow system that keeps combined stormwater and sewage off of city streets during major rainstorms but pollutes the city’s river system at unacceptably levels in the process.
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Under-Harbor Project

Digging Deep to Protect Milwaukee’s Waterways
Kane County, about 40 mi west of Chicago, is experiencing one of the fastest growth spurts in the country. In 2000, the population numbered 404,199, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Six years later that number had grown to an estimated 494,000, an increase of more than 22% and one that surpassed projections for 2010.
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