Builder's Bash

The Builder's Association celebrated a year where many of its members got back to work, over lunch at Trump Tower on Thursday. SmithAmundson's Bob Lessman, W.E. O'Neill's Lou Reiner, and Latimer, LeVay & Fyock's Barb Anderson greeted guests at the party. W.E. O'Neill's big project for the last two and next two years is the $600M  hospital campus at the University of Chicago, a JV with Gilbane. And for those of you wondering what the basement of Block 37 looks like now that the exterior of the mall is completed, Lou says it would make a great Batcave  if a third Batman movie is shot in Chicago.
 
Pepper Construction's David Pepper and Ryan Cos Lynn Treat and Jeff Smith were chatting about Lynn's last days as Builders Association president. Ryan Cos just moved into a new office in Naperville, which they originally built for Delta Dental. Jeff says they're still figuring out where all the boxes go (but, hey, free toothpaste).

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