| Contact: Lisa Porter For Immediate Release (714) 979-1798 August 5, 2002 |
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R.D. Olson Construction Wins Contract to Renovate Chapman University Dance Center |
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The Irvine-based construction company, a specialist in hotels, restaurants and retail complexes, is gutting an existing warehouse and undertaking major renovations to create the dance center. Inside, it is constructing three dance activity rooms - including one that is large enough to stage performances. Office space, restrooms and locker rooms also are being built at the new 10,000 square foot dance center, located at 190 N. Cypress in Orange, Calif. The renovations to the warehouse space were designed by the architectural firm Peterson Graeber Associates of San Juan Capistrano, and include the addition of canopies and modem lighting fixtures to the building, which is bedecked in ivy. Olson's work on the $800,000 project began in June and will be completed on Aug. 23. The university will reopen for classes three days later R. D. Olson Construction was founded in 1979 by Robert Olson. The company has since built such well-known establishments as the Marriott Residence Inn, Irvine; Benihana, Minneapolis and Dave & Buster's, Hawaii. Current projects in California include Blue Sea Lodge, San Diego and Lake Arrowhead Country Club, Lake Arrowhead. R. D. Olson Construction is the twelfth- largest company of its kind in Orange County with its corporate office in Irvine, Calif. |