Gibbs Construction – New Orleans, LA

Superdome Re-Skin Wins ENR Magazine’s Best of the Best National Award

NEW ORLEANS, LA – February 21, 2011 – Gibbs Construction’s Louisiana Superdome, Phase Three—Re-Skin Project was awarded Engineering News-Record’s Best of the Best 2010 National Award for Best Specialty Contracting. The national award recognizes outstanding projects for the year based on criteria such as safety, innovation, project management and community contribution. The Gibbs Superdome Re-Skin [...]

Gibbs Breaks Ground on Rouses Grocery in New Orleans Central Business District

NEW ORLEANS, LA (1/13/11) – The Central Business District took another big leap towards urban renewal this week when Gibbs Construction crews broke ground on a new Rouses grocery store at the site of the former Sewell Cadillac Chevrolet building. The new store, slated to become a flagship store for the Thibodaux-based, family-owned company, will [...]

Gibbs Awarded with American Concrete Institute Award of Excellence

NEW ORLEANS, LA – January 10, 2011 – Gibbs Construction, LLC has been selected to receive the American Concrete Institute’s Award of Excellence for its 930 Poydras Street multi-family project. The award will be presented at the ACI Louisiana Chapter Best Concrete Projects Banquet on January 21, 2011, at the Metairie Country Club in Metairie, [...]

Gibbs Construction Wins Four South Central Construction Top Awards

NEW ORLEANS, LA – December 21, 2010 – Gibbs Construction, LLC was awarded the 2010 Judges Award for Construction and three Best in Category awards by South Central Construction magazine at the publication’s annual Louisiana’s Best of 2010 awards ceremony, held on December 2, in Baton Rouge. The program recognizes construction and design excellence in [...]

Gibbs Construction Wins ABC Regional Awards

NEW ORLEANS, LA – December 21, 2010 – Gibbs Construction, LLC was presented with three 2010 Excellence in Construction (EIC) Awards and the Platinum Safety Training & Evaluation Process (STEP) Award by Associated Builders & Contractors, Inc. (ABC) New Orleans/Bayou Chapter at its annual ceremony, held November 17, at Chateau Golf and Country Club in [...]

New Orleans, LA

DESCRIPTION: The project consisted of the renovation of 120,000 sq. ft. of two existing downtown warehouse buildings and the addition of approximately 12,000 sq. ft. of new rooftop construction into 72 loft-style apartments. The project includes interior parking on the first floor of the buildings with approximately 1,000 sq. ft. of retail space and fitness facility fronting Baronne St.

The project involved total renovation of the building interiors, significant structural repairs and restoration to exterior masonry structural walls. The existing windows and property signage on the front façade were salvaged and rehabilitated. Interior wood floors were repaired and refinished and all new interior residential construction was included in the renovation. The project was financed with a HUD 221(d)4 loan and federal historic tax credits.

OWNER: Brian Gibbs Companies, LLC

ARCHITECT: Lyons & Hudson Architects, Ltd.

CONTRACT AMOUNT: $13,500,000

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