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by Lauri Johnson
ST. LOUIS DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION FIRMS
NAMED AMONG INDUSTRY GIANTS
A number of design and construction firms with a presence in
St. Louis have been named on Building, Design & Construction
magazine’s annual Giants 300 list of the largest firms in
the construction industry.
The magazine’s editors surveyed the country’s largest firms
and ranked the top 300 across six categories: architects, architect/engineers,
engineers, engineer/architects, contractors and construction
managers. Published as a special supplement to the magazine’s
July issue, the rankings are based on revenue for 2005. The
following local firms made the list:
Contractors
McCarthy Building Companies Inc., No. 11, $1.7 billion
Walton Construction, No. 34, $673 million
HBE Corp., No. 60, $410 million
Alberici Corp., No. 51, $487 million
Clayco, No. 54, $471 million
Architect/engineers
HOK, No. 1, $261 million
HNTB Architecture, No. 11, $97 million
The Durrant Group, No. 35, $29 million
Engineer/architects
Lockwood Greene (a CH2M Hill company), No. 3, $348 million
Ross & Baruzzini, No. 36, $17 million
Building, Design & Construction’s annual Giants 300 list
consists of U.S. firms that designed or constructed the largest
volume of commercial, institutional, industrial and multifamily
residential buildings in 2005.
THF RANKED AMONG FASTEST GROWING RETAIL
DEVELOPERS NATIONALLY
For the fourth straight year, THF Realty has ranked among the
fastest growing private retail developers in the nation, according
to an annual survey by Retail Traffic magazine, a retail
development trade journal. The firm claimed the No. 4 spot in
the survey, which appeared in the magazine’s April issue. From
2004 to 2005, THF Realty increased its retail assets by 3.8
million square feet, an increase of 18.5 percent. THF Realty’s
holdings grew from nearly 11 million square feet to 24.3 million
square feet over the past six years, according to Retail
Traffic.
In the May issue of Chain Store Age, a monthly publication
for retail executives, THF Realty ranked No. 3 on its list of
the fastest growing developers by adding more than 2.4 million
square feet of retail to its portfolio.
FORTUNE NAMES TALX CORP. AMONG TOP 20
HR PROVIDERS
TALX Corporation has been recognized as a top human resources
provider for 2006 by The International Association of Outsourcing
Professionals. The association’s Top 20 HR Providers list, which
includes TALX, is a sublist of The Global Outsourcing 100 list
and recognizes the world’s top human resource service providers
for the first time. The complete list appeared in a special
advertising feature in the Aug. 7 issue of FORTUNE magazine.
The International Association of Outsourcing Professionals is
the global standard-setting organization and advocate for the
outsourcing profession.
MCKENDREE COLLEGE JOINS U.S. NEWS
& WORLD REPORT'S BEST COLLEGES
The America’s Best Colleges 2007 edition of U.S. News & World
Report ranks McKendree College No. 23 on its Comprehensive
Colleges—Bachelor’s (Midwest) list. McKendree College also earned
a spot on the magazine’s Great Schools, Great Prices ranking.
The Comprehensive Colleges—Bachelor’s category includes 320
colleges from across the nation that are ranked within four
regions: North, South, Midwest and West. These institutions
focus primarily on undergraduate education but grant fewer than
50 percent of their degrees in liberal arts disciplines.
Among the top national universities, Washington University ranked
No. 12 and Saint Louis University ranked No. 77.
Institutions are scored and ranked based on graduation rate,
student to faculty ratio, acceptance rate, class size, first-year
students’ high school class rankings, SAT/ACT scores, freshman
retention rate, full-time faculty percentage, peer assessment
scores and alumni giving rates.
ENTERPRISE'S TAYLOR FEATURED ON AUTOMOTIVEDIGEST.COM'S
"LOOKING FOR LEGENDS"
AutomotiveDigest.com
has featured Jack Taylor, founder of Enterprise Rent-A-Car,
in the “Looking for Legends” section of its Aug. 17 edition.
The piece profiles Taylor’s early days as a former Naval combat
aviator and a sales manager at a Cadillac distributorship, where
he launched an automobile leasing business named Executive Leasing
with a fleet of 17 vehicles. He later renamed the business Enterprise
Rent-A-Car after the ship he served on in the Navy. In 2006,
the company posted $9 billion in revenues as the No. 1 rental
agency in the United States.
“If you take care of your customers and employees, the bottom
line will take care of itself,” says Taylor in the article.
“Looking for Legends” can be found online at www.automotivedigest.com/include/3106.html.
AutomotiveDigest.com is an online magazine that provides an
electronic digest of significant automotive industry news.
METRO EAST ATTRACTS NATIONAL ATTENTION
AS WAREHOUSING HUB
The Illinois side of the Mississippi River is drawing attention
as a player in the warehousing and logistics industry, according
to an article in the Aug. 21 issue of Logistics Management
magazine. Senior editor Jeff Berman writes that the area near
Edwardsville and Pontoon Beach, Ill., is quickly expanding its
number of warehouse and distribution facilities.
One location in particular that has grown steadily, notes Berman,
is the Gateway Commerce Center, a 2,300-acre facility in Madison
County near the crossroads of Interstates 255 and 270. The center
is home to Dial, Proctor & Gamble, Hershey, Unilever and Lanter,
among others. O-H Logistics, a third-party logistics service
provider, also has four buildings (a total of 2.3 million square
feet) at the site, and Schneider National has announced that
it will open a 25,000-square-foot repair and service center
there, according to the article. USF Holland opened a terminal
at the center earlier this summer.
Berman points out that the allure of this area to the warehousing
industry is the large availability of space in Illinois that
can be purchased for one-third of the price seen in areas on
the Missouri side of St. Louis. Other distribution centers are
planned for Edwardsville and Dupo, Ill.
For additional information on the transportation and distribution
cluster, please visit the St. Louis Regional Chamber &
Growth Association (RCGA) website. http://www.gotostlouis.org/x478.xml
