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C. Erickson & Sons was presented the award for Best Commercial project $5-15 million for the completion of renovations to the ballrooms, conference/meeting rooms, and common corridor spaces of the main hotel tower and Reading Terminal Headhouse.  Project completed ahead of the 9-week schedule.  Also receiving the award were TVS Designs as the architect and BH Axis as project manager.

C. Erickson and Sons was recently named construction manager to build an addition onto the existing school located in North Philadelphia.  Construction began in July on the Maguire Student-Community Learning Center which  features an Internet café, two state-of-the-art science labs, a full teaching kitchen, seating space for each student age group to eat together, and additional performing arts and meeting space for special activities at PSD.  The project is expected to be complete by March, 2012.

Esperanza Health Center celebrated the Groundbreaking for its new Hunting Park Health and Wellness Center, now under construction at 4417 N. 6th Street in the city’s Hunting Park community.

Among those who participated in the ceremony were Mayor Michael A. Nutter, Health Commissioner Donald F. Schwarz, MD, MPH, and Councilwoman Maria D. Quiñones-Sánchez, as well as over two dozen representatives from community organizations, churches, businesses and community groups located in Hunting Park and neighboring North Philadelphia communities.

Erickson was recently awarded Honorable Mention in the category of “Adaptive Re-Use” at the 2010 GBCA Construction Awards for Wakisha Charter School. The building was purchased and converted from an abandoned dry cleaning warehouse. The school moved to a new home to continue their mission of teaching 450 at-risk inner city middle school students. The school has newly designed electrical and HVAC systems to provide service to the main office and administration space, recreation and public meeting spaces, gymnasium, lunch room, and classrooms including specialties for science, music and physical education.