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The Maple Street Garage project presented the challenge of replacing two outdated parking facilities with a single modern structure that could support the City of Allentown’s growing parking needs while incorporating sustainable infrastructure. Our team provided civil engineering services to ensure a functional, environmentally responsible design. RETTEW’s services included the design of a stormwater management…
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Susquehanna Ford needed to move their operations to a new site to meet corporate standards and expand their operations. RETTEW helped redevelop a former automobile service center and vacant lot along Route 272 into a new Ford dealership and service center. Working closely with a design-build firm on the site design, RETTEW provided land development…
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Since 2015, RETTEW has provided Lehigh-Northampton Airport Authority (LNAA) and Lehigh Valley International Airport (ABE) with industrial National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) consulting, compliance, and permitting support. The initial project — to make the ABE stormwater program compliant with federal and state regulations with an approved NPDES PAG-03 General Permit for industrial stormwater discharge…
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Logistics Property Company, LLC, is redeveloping a former industrial site containing arsenic-contaminated soil. Before work could begin, the contaminated soil was removed and clean fill was added, as specified in the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection’s (PA DEP) Management of Fill policy. Additionally, RETTEW managed the imported materials and put engineering controls in place, including…
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High Real Estate Group wanted to introduce a new type of market-rate housing in this region of Lancaster County that offered high-end amenities and proximity to goods and services. The selected site was close to shopping, dining, and local attractions, but was constrained by a floodplain, which presented challenges in designing a stormwater system that…
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Triple Crown Corporation, a leading provider of real estate services in the Harrisburg region, had an agreement with a telecommunications company to house cellular antennas on the roof of one of their buildings. When Triple Crown sold this building, they still had to fulfill their obligation and sought to move the antennas to a newly…
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The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) identified the existing three-span Pequea #5 Bridge as structurally deficient, so Lancaster County set out to replace it and concurrently address other important public concerns. Specific project goals included eliminating the piers to reduce maintenance costs, accommodating the Amish community, preserving the rural historic district, to which the bridge…
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RETTEW completed an industrial site decommissioning assessment of the 30-acre Federal Mogul/NTN-BCA former ball bearing manufacturing facility, including a 277,000-SF industrial building. When fully operational, manufacturing processes at the site included heat treating, hardening, honing and grinding, and product assembly. These operations used a number of materials, most notably quenching oils (mineral oil used in…
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A confidential oil and gas exploration and production client planned to acquire a large asset in the Rocky Mountain region including oil and gas wells, tank batteries, associated gathering lines, and a 200-acre storage yard throughout an area spanning three counties, the Navajo Nation, and Bureau of Land Management property. As part of the due…
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A commercial client planned to rehabilitate and redevelop a former gas station. To secure financing for the project, the client needed to satisfy both the environmental due diligence and regulatory closure requirements of the lender. The site had a long history of storage tank releases, corrective actions, as well as a recent release of hydraulic oil from underground hydraulic lifts….
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