Masonry Magazine March 1965 Page. 11
World's Largest Shopping Center Nearing Completion
Dallas, Texas North Park Regional Shopping Center with over 98% of its masonry work completed by Feb. 28th will be ready for occupancy by July 1st. Authorities report that this is the largest shopping center in the world, and it most certainly will be by the time the theater, filling station and two ten story medical buildings are added to this complex. The Center is owned and operated by Raymond D. Nasher. The general Contractor is Henry C. Beck Co., Dallas and Atlanto, with the Mason Contractor being MCAA member. Dee Brown Masonry, Inc., Dallas. The architects on the center, except the Neiman-Marcus Building, are Harrell & Hamilton, Dallas. Architects for the Neiman Marcus structure, the two story portion in the upper right of the photo, are Eero Saarinen & Associates, Hamden, Conn. The center, including the building on the right side of the photograph, has a sum total of 93 acres of ground under roof and air conditioned. There is one million three hundred thousand square feet of floor area in the complex. Nearly 5,000,000 brick are being used with approximately 50,000 concrete masonry units. In addition there is in excess of 25,000 lineal feet of stone coping. Dee Brown Masonry, Inc. has been on the project a total aggregate of 35 weeks which means that an average of 150,000 brick and 21,500 concrete masonry units had to be layed by the firm each week.
New Omark Director
G. J. Ticoulat, recently retired as corporation senior vice president of the Crown Zellerbach Corporation and president of Crown Zellerbach International, was named a director of OMARK Industries, Inc. at the February meeting of the OMARK board, according to an announcement by John D. Gray, OMARK president.
Concrete In The Sixties
The 1964 edition of the Portland Cement Association's popular newsreel series, "Concrete in the Sixties," is now available to engineering and architectural societies, civic and service clubs and colleges on a free loan basis.
Opening with a report on unusual sections of the Interstate Highway System, this 20-minute, 16mm sound and color film contains interesting views of concrete and stucco buildings at the New York World's Fair and other modern and novel uses of concrete throughout the United States and Canada.
The motion picture is available on request to district and regional offices of the Portland Cement Association in 46 key cities of the United States and Canada, or from the Association's Central Film Library at 33 W. Grand Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60610.
Hertz Acquires Boehck
The Hertz Corporation, the world's largest renting and leasing organization, has acquired Boehck Engineering Company, Inc., of Houston, Texas.
Boehck is one of the nation's foremost construction-equipment sales and rental concerns and a distributor for leading equipment manufacturers. It provides short-term and long-term rentals, on a full-maintenance basis, of a wide range of heavy and light equipment used by contractors and by companies who handle their own plant improvements. The company maintains branch offices in New Orleans and Baton Rouge, La., and in Beaumont, Texas.
Increasing numbers of contractors have been turning to the renting of construction equipment, a Hertz official commented. He noted that construction-industry operations seem particularly well adapted to the Hertz concept of improved utilization of capital and equipment through rental.
Bearing Wall Conference
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by the Structural Clay Products Institute to study design and construction of contemporary brick bearing wall structures and to greatly extend interest in and knowledge of this highly significant structural innovation.
A highlight of the Conference will be a tour of one of the outstanding brick bearing wall projects in the United States the Pennley Park Apartments in Pittsburgh.
Leading the slate of speakers for the Conference are Gyo Obata, AIA, St. Louis, one of the country's outstanding architects; William J. LeMessurier, Boston, a widely-known structural engineer, and Tasso G. Katselas and Richard M. Gensert, the architect and structural engineer, respectively, for the Pennley Park project.
Also on the program will be executives of Vernon C. Neal, Inc., the owner and builder of Pennley Park, and engineers and officials of SCPI.
CHICAGO, ILL. The March 23rd meeting of the Chicago Chapter, CSI, heard the report of the CSI committee on Wire Tie Systems for Masonry Construction.