12 | The Last Word
Speed to Market
David S. Layton
Summer 2013
Retail
Therapy
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2 | Nuts & Bolts
Layton in the News
10 | Subcontractor Profile
SME Steel
A Quarterly Publication
from Layton Construction Company
www.laytonconstruction.com
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Featured Project
Industry report
cites modest gains
in commercial
construction
ENR reports that the construction market is making progress
toward recovery and the modest
turnaround can be seen in the
growth of ENR’s 2013 Top 400
Contractors list.
Total revenues of the Top 400
from 2012 increased nearly 10 percent over 2011 revenues. However,
that figure is still about 10 percent
below the historical high revenue
mark of 2007 previous to the onset
of the Great Recession.
Layton continues to progress in
the economic recovery, ranked as
No. 94 on the ENR Top 400 list.
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Collaboration brings results and Intermountain’s new Healthcare Transformation Lab
brings clinicians and developers together leading to better results for patients and providers.
Medical Innovation
Healthcare Transformation Lab brings collaboration to the table
Intermountain Healthcare
continues to foster a culture of innovation. Its new
Healthcare Transformation
Lab, built-out by Layton’s
Interior Construction
Specialists, was developed to
encourage close collaboration
between developers and clinicians. Employees work with
the lab’s teams to research
and measure ideas, making
sure they are trying to solve a
problem that affects healthcare quality and costs.
From brainstorming ideas
in the Briefing Center, to designing concepts in the Lab,
to testing ideas in the simulation rooms, the Healthcare
Transformation Lab is developing solutions that result in
better health, better care and
better cost management.
Oil boom draws additional housing
needs to North Dakota
The Fox Hill Apartments will help fill a
residential housing void in North Dakota.
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You can add North Dakota to the tally of states, now totaling
36, where Layton has performed work.
Construction of the Fox Hills Apartments complex is underway in Watford, N.D. The multi-family unit developer saw a
chronic shortage of permanent housing in the state due to the
energy boom in the Bakken and Williston Basin oil and natural
gas fields. Assembling a team of qualified subcontractors has
been challenging to Layton management because of a lack of
labor due to the strong economy in the region.
Phoenix
warehouse
built to the
Maxx
Community Involvement
Utah community benefits from 160,000 square feet of fun and fitness
A $39 million, 160,000-squarefoot recreation center is open for
use in Provo, Utah.
The aquatics area has leisure
pools, water slides, hot tubs and
a competition pool with family
changing rooms.
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The completion of the Provo Recreation Center in Utah adds to Layton’s
impressive resume in the sports and
entertainment arena.
If water isn’t your thing, the
facility boasts a bouldering cave,
a weightlifting and cardio area,
a fitness studio, a running track,
basketball courts, racquetball
courts and a children’s indoor
playground.
Designed to multi-task as a
community center, the facility
includes classrooms and multipurpose rooms with kitchen
facilities — a welcome resource for community citizens
and groups.
Koloa Landing expansion
adds new services at
premier Hawaiian resort
Surgical boost coming to
Northwest Medical Center
in Tucson, Ariz.
The completion of Koloa Landing at Poipu Beach
Wyndham Grand Resort, Phase 2, on the island of
Kauai, Hawaii, adds 13 residential suites and other
amenities to the upscale resort property.
Guests now enjoy a luxurious spa with five
treatment rooms, three that cater to couples. The
spa is enhanced with high-end finishes including
lighting, intricate woodwork, natural stone and
steam showers.
A 1,200-square-foot fitness center offers free
weights and cardio equipment. The main level has
sales offices and a showroom.
New waterscape features include a cascading
waterfall, a reflection pool and a river that meanders through the property. Layton’s crews were
challenged by constructing a facility immediately
adjacent to the resort lobby. All construction activity
was done with a focus on the guest experience.
Ground has been broken at Northwest Medical
Center in Tucson, Ariz., for a $46-million expansion. The project includes a new surgical wing and
renovation of existing space. Layton will add 62,000
square feet of new construction to the existing
surgical wing, also designed to accommodate future
vertical expansion of three additional floors. Surgical
suites incorporate the most up-to-date technology to
enhance minimally invasive, image-guided and endovascular operating techniques including bariatric,
robotic, total joint and total spine surgery. One of
the surgical suites will be a hybrid cardiology/cardiovascular operating room.
Construction is staged to first deliver the 16
operating room suites, a new lobby and a 24-bed
post-anesthesia care unit (PACU). The second phase
of construction will renovate existing pre-op, gastroenterology and central sterilization areas.
The Phoenix commercial construction market is
on the rebound.
Following the Great Recession, some economists
predicted a decade-long
drought of little to no industrial growth in Phoenix.
There is reason for optimism, though, as community leaders watch Layton
build the 1.5 millionsquare-foot, build-to-suit
Marshalls Warehouse.
One of
the largest
warehouse
Phoenix
facilities
ever constructed
in the Phoenix market, it
includes over 300 tilt-up
concrete panels (ranging
from 44 to 65 feet high)
to create clear-height
storage bays ranging from
32 feet to 52 feet.
Coordinating movement
of 250,000 cubic yards
of earth, and placement
of 75,000 cubic yards of
concrete, 1,750 tons of
structural steel, 1,300
columns and beams, over
8,000 joists and girders,
nearly 1.5 million deck
pins and 1.5 million linear
feet of wire has made this
project as complicated as
it is big.
The building will be the
distribution center for
TJX’s stores, including TJ
Maxx and Marshalls.
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Outlets at Traverse Mountain
Lehi, Utah
Retail
Therapy
The Outlets at Traverse
Mountain gives shoppers
an easy place to getaway
STORY BY GREG BENNETT
PHOTOS BY Paige Pryor
A
t the meeting spot of two populated valleys, locally referred to
as the “Point of the Mountain,” there are gorgeous lake, river
and mountain views in almost every direction.
There is also a new point of interest — the Outlets at Traverse Moun-
tain — that brings top-notch shopping to this growing area.
“Clearly the design and execution of the design came out very
strong,” says Steve Craig, president and CEO of Craig Realty Group
and owner of the project. “Every person who sees it is pretty amazed
at the quality of the finish.”
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The Outlets at Traverse Mountain is already becoming
a regional shopping draw in and around Salt Lake City.
The average customer comes from 60 miles away.
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The Details
Start Date
October 2011
Construction
Completion Date
November 2012
Total Square Footage
225,000
Retail Stores
41
Site Size
50 Acres
Architects
Awbrey Cook McGill Architects
San Diego
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This obvious quality is especially
impressive because it is an outlet
shopping center, which have traditionally worried less about amenities than other types of malls.
Part of this attention to quality
comes from the owner’s perspective as a long-term owner instead
of someone looking to sell in a few
years.
“I’ve worked on some other
malls,” says Mark Reed, superintendent on the project for Layton.
“In those cases, they were built for
an owner who was looking to own
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“This was a team effort. The subcontractors came in and put in the extra time.
Layton took the deadline seriously.”
Bill Kelly
Director of construction, Craig Realty Group
them for a few years and then flip
them. You can tell the difference
in the involvement and attention
to detail that comes from Craig
Realty as a long-term owner. It was
great to work with them.”
Shopper friendly
The design and plan of the center
focused on the shopper’s experience. What would the shopper
feel? What would the shopper see?
What does the shopper want?
If the design could reflect those
needs, the tenants and owners
would all be happy, too.
“We wanted the facility to have a
nice walkability,” Steve says. “You’ll
The fireplace adds aesthetic
value and battles winter chill.
Besides retailers already established in the area —
like Samsonite — the Outlets at Traverse Mountain
brought in the first Utah store for retailers like
Under Armour, Le Creuset and GoLite.
see that when traversing the property.”
For example, from the farthest
corners of each parking lot and
throughout the shopping center,
visitors don’t have to navigate a
single stair.
“Besides people in wheelchairs
and on crutches, we also knew that
mothers pushing strollers would
appreciate this,” Steve says.
Not their first rodeo
When you’ve done a lot of
projects, there’s a confidence
that comes in the process. Craig
Realty’s 25 years of experience in
outlet construction and manage-
ment have helped them developed procedures and shown them
the products that make their
projects have the end result they
are looking for.
“This is not our first rodeo,”
Steve says. “We’ve become so
experienced that we know which
products hold up and which ones
to avoid.”
For example, Craig Realty knows
that the pavers they use will look
brand new even six years later.
They know which roofing material
will hold up to the harsh weather
extremes that come with the Utah
climate.
Key Subcontractors
Concrete. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Geneva Rock Products
EIFS/Stucco. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nicolson Construction
Earthwork. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kilgore Companies
Electrical. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hunt Electric, Inc./Taylor Electric, Inc.
Framing/Drywall. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Muddy Boys, Inc.
Glass/Storefronts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B & D Glass, Inc.
HVAC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Salmon HVAC, LLC
Landscape/Irrigation. . . . . . . . . . . Great Western Landscape, Inc.
Pavers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . KEPCO+
Plumbing. . . . . . . . . . Chaparral Intermountain Pacific Corporation
Skylights/Canopies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Steel Encounters, Inc.
Structural Steel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SME Steel Contractors, Inc.
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The Outlets at Traverse Mountain reflect Craig Realty’s continued efforts to be environmentally responsible and fiscally
prudent. It has high-quality air
conditioning systems and a 50year reflective roof.
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Craig Realty placed a premium on the bathrooms and accompanying lobby. The bathrooms are finished with quality materials and
plenty of privacy. The lobby offers a warm place
to regroup during hectic holiday shopping trips.
The right look
This occupational experience
finds its way into the design and
construction of the facility, too.
“The design team put on paper and
the construction team built Steve’s
vision for this facility,” says Bill Kelly,
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director of construction for Craig
Realty. “He wanted a high-end lodge
feel and the architects and construction team really pulled it together.”
Speed to market
When building a shopping cen-
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ter, “Black Friday” takes on a whole
new meaning.
Besides being the largest retail shopping day of the year for most stores
and malls around the country, it was
also the must-be-open-no-matterwhat date for the construction team.
Throw in some unpredictable
weather and that “no matter what”
can be challenging.
Layton’s ability to embrace these
challenges — and the company’s
solid plan to meet them head-on
— made the difference.
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The Outlets feature 100,000 square feet
of intricate designed paver walkways
with radiant heat underneath.
“The key reason for good communication is that it empowers
the contractor to make decisions. If you’re hard to get in contact
with, they can’t move forward. That’s not how we work.”
Bill Kelly
Director of construction, Craig Realty Group
“We worked hard to understand the needs, challenges and
demands,” says Dave Whimpey,
Layton’s project manager. “The
aggressive schedule required redundancy in our planning to deal with
many dynamics and meet project
milestones.”
The facility benefitted from mild
weather that allowed crews to
continue working at a brisk pace
even during the winter.
“We’d made commitments to
tenants that we would be open by
a certain date,” Steve says. “We had
to get the work done in time to get
them in. We were extraordinarily
fortunate to have the contractor and the weather we needed.
Everyone cooperated in a great way
to complete the work.”
Paving the way
Another unique aspect of
constructing a shopping center is
that you’re preparing the way for
an additional 35 contractors to
complete individual build-outs for
tenants.
“We took great care in making
sure we protected the concrete
floors during construction,” Mark
says. “That’s what the tenant contractors would look closely at when
they came to inspect the site. We
wanted to give them quality that
would please them.”
Mark had tenant contractors say
they were the nicest concrete slabs
they’d worked with.
The end result
The Outlets at Traverse Mountain opened in time for the holiday
shopping season in November
2012 with 41 retail stores and a
tremendous response from the local — and regional — community.
“We had a group of people at
Layton Construction that were
as passionate about what we were
passionate about,” Steve says.
“We were extremely grateful for
their efforts. We enjoyed the
process and would do it again in a
minute.”
Craig Realty’s involvement was
appreciated by Layton as well.
“I could call Bill on a Saturday
and he would talk — on his time
— about anything that needed
to be discussed,” Mark says. “If
there was a problem, we could
discuss it openly and get it taken
care of.”
Now, both groups look forward
to the Phase Two expansion
planned for the mountainside
retreat.
“You can guess who we will have
build that second phase,” Steve
says.
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Traverse
Mountain
Quick Notes
• Feb. 22, 2012: First concrete
slabs placed.
• Nov. 16, 2012: First shoppers visit the Outlets.
• Construction crews moved
600,000 cubic yards of
earth to level the site for the
Outlets.
• The 12,000-square-foot
lobby boasts a 50-foot
fireplace.
• A glass atrium canopy protects shoppers from winter
snow and summer sun.
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SME Steel
CEO Wayne Searle and the team at SME Steel
bring innovation and teamwork to their projects.
Keeping Buildings Up
SME Steel offers combination of strength and flexibility
T
he core of most large
buildings is made from
a steel skeleton that uses
its strength to keep the building standing tall and fulfilling its
purpose.
However, sometimes — like in
an earthquake — that steel core
needs to give enough to keep
things standing up straight.
SME Steel in West Jordan, Utah,
has made a living out of erecting
the finest steel cores you can find
while being a valuable — and
sometimes flexible — member of
the design-build teams the company works with.
“We make things stand up,” says
Wayne Searle, CEO of SME Steel.
“That’s the best way to sum it up.
But we do it in a way that makes
us an important part of the building team.”
In the era computer modeling,
SME has embraced technology.
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“Very rarely do you see a project that
comes completely designed anymore.
We’ve embraced that and add value to the
work done by architects and engineers.”
Wayne Searle
CEO of SME Steel in West Jordan, Utah
Past projects involved drafting the
project, bidding each part and then
starting work. Today, companies
work together to make decisions
as the project is moving. Instead of
2-D drafting plans, 3-D computer
models are made for every project.
“We’re able to do a lot of the
work for the engineers and architects,” Wayne says. “We come in
with solutions.”
SME also has solutions to large
building issues. The company
recently developed a proprietary
system — CoreBrace® — that is
easy to install and offers addi-
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tional strength to buildings during
earthquakes.
“We’ve developed braces in countries all around the world — New
Zealand, Israel, China,” Wayne
says. “It’s exciting.”
Despite exciting international
prospects, SME continues to meet
the needs of builders around the
western United States. Besides
the Outlets at Traverse Mountain,
SME Steel has completed work on
large-scale projects including City
Center in Las Vegas and the new
home of the San Francisco 49ers in
Santa Clara, Calif.
Founded
1992
Type of Work
• Full-service steel suppliers
Employees
• 650
Subsidiaries
• SME Steel Contractors
(West Jordan, Utah)
• CoreBrace, LLC
(West Jordan, Utah)
• Southwest Steel, LLC
(Henderson, Nevada)
• Southwest Architectural Metals
(Henderson, Nevada)
• Southwest Stair
(El Mirage, Ariz.)
High-profile JOBS
WITH LAYTON
• Outlets at Traverse Mountain (Lehi, Utah)
• Boise Airport Expansion
(Boise, Idaho)
• Huntsman Cancer Institute
(Salt Lake City)
Contact information
5801 W. Wells Park Road
West Jordan, UT
(801) 280-0711
www.smesteel.com
Layton strikes a chord with Habitat for Humanity to help single mother
M
arla Edwards beams
about her Habitat
for Humanity home.
The Nashville, Tenn., professional
home health assistant and single
mother of three girls was looking
for stability, safety and security in
the Habitat ownership program.
Marla and her girls lived in an
apartment complex where she
didn’t allow her children to play
outside because safety concerns.
Layton’s team of professionals
in the Nashville office selected the
Habitat for Humanity program
as a way to give back to the local
community.
“We are builders by trade,
but nothing gives you a better
feeling than when you can help
build people,” says Bob Maguire,
Layton vice president. “We wanted
to do something good for the
community as well as do some
team-building with our employees
and Nashville area subcontractors. Building this home for Marla
couldn’t have turned out better for
all of these reasons.”
The team came together in early
April, and spent four successive
weekends lifting walls, pounding nails, placing doors, hanging
drywall and painting.
It was an unseasonably cold and
rainy weekend in Nashville, but
the team endured.
“The miserable weather of the
first weekend was compensated by
the warmth we felt as we worked
together alongside Marla in helping put up the walls of her home.
She is so excited to have a place to
call her own. We are happy to be
a part of it,” says Randy Patterson,
Layton vice president.
Habitat for Humanity of Greater
Nashville is an ecumenical Christian ministry that provides the lifechanging opportunity for people to
purchase and own quality, affordable homes. Established in 1985,
Habitat of Greater Nashville has
built or recycled over 600 homes
in the Nashville area.
Layton reached out to its
outstanding subcontractors and
invited their participation. ABG
Caulking Contractors, Inc.; Adams
Group; Alpha SteelFab, Inc.; Atlas
Drywall, Inc.; Copper Mountain
Electric LLC; Empower Electric
LLC; Enterprise Electric LLC
J&S Mechanical Contractors;
Kemna Tile Inc.; LCR Contractors; Lee Company; Manning
Materials, Inc.; McCarthy Jones &
Woodward, Inc.; Old Dominion
Firestopping, LLC; Power Management Corporation; RJ Wherry
& Associates, Inc.; SteelFab, Inc.;
Structural Detailing, LLC; Western
States Mechanical; Wylie Steel
Fabricators, Inc. made financial
contributions which were matched
by Layton Construction. Many
Layton and partners helped a single
mother in Nashville, Tenn., enjoy the
benefits of home ownership.
of these companies also provided
volunteers to help with the construction.
The weekend construction crews
averaged 25 people each week,
including employees’ family members who also wanted to share in
the goodness of giving.
Steve Lainart, general manager
of Thompson Power was one of the
lead volunteers at the construction
site. After one of the weekends of
work, Steve said, “Hey guys, I hope
you and your team are feeling okay
this Monday morning. I can tell I
did something on Saturday, a little
creaky here and there, but not an
unpleasant feeling considering the
excellent progress and quality work
that you all accomplished. Kurt
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Gary Weston
Gary Weston appreciates Layton’s
commitment to the words on their hard
hats — “Constructing with Integrity.”
“I have a lot of subcontractors
that will tell me that we do things
no other general contractor they
work with does,” Gary says. “I take
pride in that. We do the little things
that make the difference.”
This attention to detail and integrity in construction are two of the
things that have kept him with the
company all these years.
“I appreciate how the Layton family has chosen to run the business,”
he says. “I know that we will do the
job the right way.”
Gary finds satisfaction in his job
from the constant challenges he
faces. For example, he worked on
the Level 5 clean room that was
part of the USTAR building on the
campus of the University of Utah.
“When you see a Level 5 clean
[Habitat supervisor] gave me an
update last evening and couldn’t
say enough of what a pleasure it
was working with your team, and I
certainly agree. It is easy to see why
Layton Construction is a premiere
contractor considering your team’s
focus, initiative and efforts. You
guys flat get it done. You certainly
made a difference … hard to ask
for more.”
Marla and the girls are now
comfortable and secure in a home
of their own. But there are not
many days when Layton’s Nashville
team members don’t reflect upon
the happiness they feel as they were
part of this great project in helping
others in need.
That is The Layton Way.
Employee Focus
room after it’s completed, it doesn’t
look that difficult — it’s just a bunch
of white rooms — but that was a
significant challenge,” he says.
Gary looks forward to forging
more relationships with clients in
the future.
“I like getting to know our clients
and being there for them on several
projects, not just one-and-done,”
Gary says. “Those relationships are
important to me and to the company.”
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Making Music in Nashville
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In just nine months, Layton crews finished the
225,000-square-foot Outlets at Traverse Mountain — an amazing feat.
Layton
Construction
Company
Area Offices
Salt Lake City
9090 S. Sandy Parkway
Sandy, UT 84070
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Phoenix
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Speed to Market
Outlets at Traverse Mountain illustrates importance of speed
F
or years,
the only
reason
I shopped in
Lehi, Utah, was
to visit Cabela’s.
I often traveled
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alone because
Julie wasn’t interested in seeing
decoys, rods and reels, camo and
ammo.
However, her shopping pattern
has changed as Julie is now anxious
to go when I tell her I’m driving
to Lehi. A new world of shopping
has emerged in the Wasatch Front
with the opening of the Outlets at
Traverse Mountain.
Craig Realty Group is a leader in
the development of upscale factory
outlet centers across the country.
They secured the Utah site shortly
before the Great Recession then
patiently waited for retail markets
to rebound. It is all about timing.
The metropolitan area is growing.
The economy is improving. A vibrant tourist market is also drawn
to regional factory outlet centers.
After developing a thorough
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construction plan with Craig
Realty, we had little more than a
year to complete the project. Our
schedule was aggressive. We had
to hit the opening date for the
2012 holiday shopping season. To
exceed customer expectations, we
needed to provide not only quality
workmanship, but to do it with a
focus on “Speed to Market.”
Craig Realty secured tenants for
the outlet center based upon trust
in us that we would have the facility open for the critical “Black Friday” shopping weekend. Retailer’s
annual sales goals are dependent
upon robust holiday traffic. Without question and without excuses,
we had to hit that target date.
The center was a significant
challenge to complete. Our crews
moved 600,000 cubic yards of earth
around and off the mountainside
to create a level site so the center
would have no stairs to climb. We
juggled schedules. We expedited
fabricated steel packages to fit into
construction sequencing. Crews
literally worked day (installing steel
and glass in covered atriums above)
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and night (placing thousands of
hand-set pavers in the walkways
below the atrium) to improve the
pace of the schedule, the flow of the
project, and safety of the work.
In addition to finishing the center’s core and shell, we coordinated
with three dozen different tenant
finish contractors who worked independently for the center’s tenants.
Our concrete crews were also
innovative and particular with the
placement of concrete floors in
the outlet center. A number of the
tenant finish contractors noted
the concrete floors as some of the
highest quality concrete they had
worked with, as they applied final
colors or sealants, before installing
merchandise racking systems.
The Layton team and our great
subcontractors did a phenomenal job
at the Outlets at Traverse Mountain.
We met all schedules and beat some
of them to move the project along,
all while maintaining a safe working
environment. The center opened on
time. Our construction crews moved
on. The shoppers moved in. And
Julie and I go shopping.
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5401 S. Kirkman Road
Suite 310
Orlando, FL 32819
(407) 681-0185
Hawaii
4370 Kukui Grove Street
Suite 202
Lihue, HI 96766
(808) 245-8680
Boise
1444 S. Entertainment Ave.
Suite 300
Boise, ID 83709
(208) 429-6740
Nashville
5409 Maryland Way
Suite 100
Brentwood, TN 37027
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