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Former Clune and Reed Construction Executive Joins Leopardo

Tuesday, January 10th, 2012

CHICAGO, Illinois (January 10, 2011) – Leopardo announced that Michael A. Tenuta, LEED AP, joined the company as Senior Project Manager. Tenuta brings to Leopardo nearly 30 years of experience in construction and architecture with a focus on multi-floor tenant interior construction management.

Prior to joining Leopardo, Tenuta was Vice President and Project Executive at Reed Construction. Previously, he spent 16 years at Clune Construction where he was Senior Vice President and managed several of the firm’s most prestigious projects. Earlier in his career, Tenuta worked at Pepper Construction. Some of Tenuta’s high profile, multi-floor interior projects include:

The Quaker Oats Company (415,000-SF, 16 floors)
A.C. Nielsen (205,000-SF, 9 floors)
Transamerica Distribution Finance (190,000-SF, 3 floors)
DDB Needham Worldwide (187,000-SF, 7 floors)
Amoco Business Center (168,000-SF, 8 floors)
WorldCom (164,000-SF, 8 floors)
Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company (147,000-SF, 1 floor)
National Louis University – Chicago Campus (135,000-SF, 4 floors)

“Mike’s impressive multi-floor background and client-oriented approach sets him apart in our industry,” said Rick DuPraw, Senior Vice President of Leopardo. “He adds great depth and resources to our already strong Tenant Interiors market.”

Tenuta is a LEED Accredited Professional and serves as membership chair of the Rotary Club of Naperville Sunrise. He graduated from the Illinois Institute of Technology with a degree in Architecture.

Leopardo successfully completes more than 200 interior projects a year from smaller service work to multi-floor corporate headquarters relocations. Clients include American Hospital Association, CNA Insurance, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Intuit, Jones Day, Leo Burnett, Motorola, RR Donnelley, Thermos, Walgreens, Wells Fargo, Whirlpool, etc.

Leopardo is the frequent finalist and winner of the coveted Interior Contractor of the Year Award and successfully manages several of Chicago’s largest building repositioning projects with intricate infrastructure and building systems upgrades. For more information, visit leopardo.com.

Tags: Clune, construction, leopardo, Michael Tenuta, Reed, tenant interiors
Posted in General Corporate, Personnel

Leopardo Renovating 88 Patient Rooms at Provena Mercy Medical Center

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011

AURORA, Illinois (November 22, 2011) — Leopardo has reached the half-way point of a major room modernization and privatization project at Provena Mercy Medical Center. Of the 88 rooms being renovated, 42 are complete. Designed to maximize space, each room boasts 218 square feet, more than any hospital in the surrounding area. To make stays more comfortable and conducive to healing, each single-patient room is equipped with flat-screen televisions, newly replaced windows and new guest chairs.

Provena Mercy recently gave a VIP sneak peak of the new rooms to Aurora Mayor Tom Weisner, State rep. Linda Chapa Lavia, members of the Provena Mercy Medical Center Foundation and a reporter from the Aurora Beacon News. “It’s a lot brighter. More cheerful now,” Mayor Weisner told the Beacon News. “It’s a lot nicer than my bathroom,” he added with a laugh.

According to the November 15, 2011, article in the Aurora Beacon News, “Not only are the rooms aesthetically pleasing, but they are practical as well. Patients have access to regulate their room’s temperature, lighting and noise level. Single-occupancy rooms also decrease their risk of infection and regulate the number of interruptions by caregivers normally treating two patients.”

As part of the multi-phased room privatization project, which will wrap up in late 2012, Leopardo is replacing the HVAC and plumbing infrastructure as well as all exterior windows. The new, more efficient HVAC system serves more than 500,000 square feet of space. Jensen & Halstead is the architect on the project.

In 2006, Leopardo completed a 16,000-square-foot intensive care unit (ICU) at Provena Mercy and, in 2005, Leopardo built a 98,000-square-foot surgery center, one of the largest capital initiatives of the Provena Health System.

For more information about the patient room modernization, check out these recent media stories:

Aurora’s Provena Mercy shows off renovation project (Chicago Daily Herald, November 15, 2011)
Provena Mercy shows off major hospital room upgrade (Aurora Beacon News, November 15, 2011)

Tags: Aurora, construction, Healthcare, hospital, Illinois, leopardo, Provena Mercy
Posted in Healthcare

Leopardo Building Three-Story, 95,000-SF Medical Office Building for DuPage Medical Group

Wednesday, November 9th, 2011

LISLE, Illinois (November 9, 2011) – Leopardo is building a three-story, 95,000-square-foot medical office building for DuPage Medical Group in Lisle. Located at 430 Warrenville Road, at the intersection of I-88 and I-355, the facility will house a state-of-the-art cancer center for DuPage Medical Group and Rush University Medical Center, part of a recently announced partnership to bring university-level cancer care to the Western suburbs.

The medical office is designed with two wings – one for the outpatient diagnosis and treatment of cancer; the other serving as a medical office building for primary care, specialty care and advanced diagnostic services.

According to a November 1, 2011, Daily Herald article, “the first floor of the cancer center wing will house a cancer resource center and radiation therapy services. The second floor will house a chemotherapy infusion center. The third floor of the cancer wing will be used for comprehensive cancer clinics staffed by both [DuPage Medical] group and Rush physicians. Rush will provide specialty services in the areas of hematology, lung cancer, melanoma, thoracic surgery, gynecologic oncology and brain tumors.”

Ranked by Modern Healthcare magazine as one of the nation’s top 20 healthcare contractors, Leopardo is the trusted healthcare builder for 40 hospitals and multiple physicians groups. Since 2002, Leopardo has managed nearly 100 unique construction projects for DuPage Medical Group, including its 92,000-square-foot medical office in Glen Ellyn, completed in early 2009. Leopardo is serving as general contractor on the Lisle cancer center/medical office building with Eckenhoff Saunders as architect. The expected completion date is December 2012.

For more information, please visit:

DuPage Medical Group press release (10/13/11)
Daily Herald article (11/1/11):
Chicago Tribune article (10/13/11)

Tags: construction, DuPage Medical Group, Healthcare, leopardo, medical, Rush University Medical Center
Posted in Healthcare, Office + Industrial

Sullivan Center, Renovated by Leopardo, Wins Restoration Project of the Year

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

CHICAGO, Illinois (November 8, 2011) – The Sullivan Center, formerly the Carson Pirie Scott building, recently received Landmark Illinois’ 2011 Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Preservation Award for Restoration Project of the Year.

The juried award honors excellence in historic preservation. “The level of detail of this project sets the bar for future restoration projects of this scale,” stated the awards jury.

In 2007, Leopardo began gutting eight floors and 600,000 square feet of old retail space as the Sullivan Center began its interior repositioning by Joseph Freed & Associates into a modernized space for retail, commercial and educational tenants.

In 2010, Leopardo completed the interior build-out of 20,000-square-foot at the Sullivan Center for Walgreen Co’s first-ever downtown offices, which housed 65 marketing and technology employees.

In 2011, Leopardo managed nearly 150,000 square feet of white-box build-outs at the Sullivan Center for the retail spaces that would eventually house Target and DSW Designer Shoe Warehouse.

In addition to the Restoration Project of the Year, the Sullivan Center has earned 10 industry awards, including the Friends of Downtown 2010 Best Restoration Award and Landmark Illinois’ 2009 Outstanding Preservation Award.

Tags: Historic Renovation, leopardo, Renovation, Restoration, Sullivan Center
Posted in Awards + Recognition, Interiors, Retail

Leopardo Hosts VIP Police Chief Event

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

CHICAGO (November 8, 2011) — On October 25, 2011, Leopardo and McClaren, Wilson & Lawrie hosted a VIP Police Chief Event at Tavern at the Park restaurant in conjunction with the 118th annual International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) conference. Click here to browse a few photos captured throughout the evening.

Tags: construction, IACP, leopardo, Police
Posted in Events

Leopardo’s Private CoreNet Event Attracts 250 Corporate Real Estate Professionals

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011

Leopardo and Catalyst Group, leaders in construction and commercial real estate strategic planning, hosted a private VIP event May 2, 2011, at Chicago’s famous Vertigo Sky Lounge on the 26th floor of the dana hotel. The special event attracted 250 corporate real estate professionals who were in town for the CoreNet Global Summit Chicago.

During the evening, guests enjoyed a special acoustic performance by Jim Peterik, legendary musician, member of the bands Survivor (Eye of the Tiger) and The Ides of March (Vehicle), and songwriter for .38 Special, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Cheap Trick, Sammy Hagar, REO Speedwagon, etc.; Alex Ligertwood, best known as the lead singer of Santana; and singer/songwriter Lisa McClowry, who has performed on more than 25 albums.

Click here to see photos from the evening.

Tags: construction, leopardo, Leopardo Companies
Posted in General Corporate

Leopardo Completes Medical Office HQ for Barrington Orthopedic Specialists

Monday, March 21st, 2011

SCHAUMBURG, Illinois (March 21, 2011) – Leopardo recently completed the new 53,000-square-foot medical office headquarters for Barrington Orthopedic Specialists and Sports Medicine.

Located in Schaumburg at 929 W. Higgins Rd., just west of the Higgins Rd. (Rt. 72) and Golf Rd. (Rt. 58) intersection, the medical office building will house Barrington Orthopedics’ full-service practice with physical therapy, work hardening, work conditioning, MRI and physician offices.

To help manage construction costs, the building envelope was built of precast concrete wall panels featuring brick liner. A full basement, spanning nearly the entire footprint of the building, houses the mechanical systems and emergency generator.

The second floor includes a procedure room with recovery bays as well as a 1,400-square-foot conference center with commercial kitchen that will be used for training and large group functions.

The project, including parking lot and landscaping, was completed in less than 11 months. Leopardo was the general contractor with Tinley Park-based Arete-Knight, a division of Knight E/A, as the architect.