Brasfield & Gorrie Celebrates Construction Milestone at Le Méridien Columbus, The Joseph Hotel

May 30, 2014

Topping out marks end of structural construction for 135-room boutique hotel

Orlando, Fla. (May 29, 2014) – Brasfield & Gorrie recently marked a construction milestone at the 135-room Le Méridien Columbus, The Joseph boutique hotel in Columbus, Ohio.

A topping out ceremony was held on May 9, 2014, marking the end of the project’s structural construction phase.
The 10-story, 110,000 sq ft boutique hotel, located on North High Street in the Short North Arts District, will include deluxe spa suites, meeting rooms, a restaurant and ballrooms.
Brasfield & Gorrie’s Orlando office is teaming with design architect Arquitectonica, architect of record Elness Swenson Graham Architects and interior design architect Gensler on this project for developer The Pizzuti Companies. Construction of the Starwood-brand hotel began in August 2013 and will be completed in late 2014.

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Celebrating 50 years in business, Brasfield & Gorrie is one of the nation’s largest privately held construction firms, providing general contracting, design-build, and construction management services for a wide variety of markets, including healthcare, commercial, institutional, federal, municipal, industrial, infrastructure, and water/wastewater treatment. We serve clients from offices in Atlanta and Columbus, Georgia; Birmingham, Alabama; Dallas, Texas; Jacksonville and Orlando, Florida; Nashville, Tennessee; and Raleigh, North Carolina. Brasfield & Gorrie has approximately 2,600 employees, and its 2013 revenues were $2.3 billion. Engineering News-Record ranks Brasfield & Gorrie 22nd among the nation’s “Top 400 Contractors” for 2014.