On March 8, Edith I. Starke Elementary broke ground on its new campus, continuing the legacy of education and community engagement in DeLand. See photos. Established in 1956 on land that was once a pecan grove, Parsons Street School, later named to honor the school’s first principal, Edith I. Starke, has continued to expand its infrastructure [...]
On February 23, representatives from Bay District Schools, former and current students at A. Crawford Mosley High School, Wharton-Smith, DAG Architects, and more celebrated the ribbon cutting of the Coach Winston Chester Outdoor Education Center, a 3,500 SF classroom facility for high school seniors. See photos and video. Coach Winston Chester, a teacher and coach at Mosley High [...]
On February 26, representatives from the Cities of Fort Myers and Cape Coral joined Wharton-Smith, CDM Smith, and more to celebrate the South Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant Water Reclamation Facility Expansion ribbon cutting. See photos. Wharton-Smith provided Construction Management at Risk services for the project, including the installation of a new electrical building with standby generator [...]
Congratulations to Wharton-Smith's Tampa Commercial – North Port Team on completing the repairs to the Charlotte Sports Park. There was significant damage sustained throughout the facility and practice fields when Hurricane Ian struck in September 2022. The category four hurricane caused wind and flood damage that tallied into the millions. Wharton Smith was initially hired [...]
On January 19, representatives from Wharton-Smith, Volusia County, Schenkel Shultz, MWL Architects, and the public joined in celebrating the ribbon cutting of the new Volusia County Medical Examiner’s Office. See photos and video. The state-of-the-art 20,000-square-foot facility features a drive-thru, temperature-controlled sally port, ergonomic autopsy stations, and an isolated autopsy room for cases with contagious diseases. It will allow [...]
On January 17, representatives from Wharton-Smith, Zyscovich Architects, Jacobs Engineering, Ahfachkee school staff, and the Seminole Tribe of Florida joined to cut the ribbon and officially open the Ahfachkee Lower School and Gymnasium. See photos. This completed Wharton-Smith’s first commercial construction project for the Seminole Tribe after years of collaboration on water and wastewater projects. Thanks [...]
On December 13, representatives from Wharton-Smith, Bay Laurel Center CDD, and Kimley Horn joined to celebrate the topping out of the Bay Laurel North Water Reclamation Facility in Ocala, Florida. See pictures and video from the event. The ceremony, signifying the highest structural point in the project being reached, featured custom project t-shirts, dozens of donated raffle prizes, [...]
On December 12, officials from Lake County Schools, the City of Minneola, Wharton-Smith, GSB Construction, Zyscovich, BBM, Matern, Kilma Weeks, and members of the public celebrated the groundbreaking of a new K-8 relief school. See photos and video from the event. The yet-to-be-named school will be built to serve around 1,200 students, helping to alleviate overcrowding at nearby [...]
On December 1, Space Coast Commercial team members, subcontractors, vendors, and dignitaries from Brevard Public Schools celebrated the Topping Out of the recently named Viera Middle School. See event pictures. Attendees received small gifts like tape measures, lunch boxes, and hard hats and entered to win raffle prizes of two TVs, combo drill and driver sets, [...]
Congratulations to the Wharton-Smith team members in the Pensacola office for their recent win at the ABC North Florida Excellence in Construction Awards! The team was honored with the prestigious Eagle Award for the Escambia County Schools Pleasant Grove Elementary School Project. Each year, the North Florida Chapter of ABC recognizes and celebrates outstanding projects [...]
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