As six different brands were undergoing realignment over thepast several years, Edward Szwarc, this region's new generalmanager, tells GlobeSt.com, "we had a big turnover of personnel anda couple of tough years in this office." Since December, the officestaff here has grown from 100 to 119, "and there will be more," hesays. "We are revving up. We see significant additional potentialin the Philadelphia area, and we have the right people in place tohandle large, complex jobs and to diversify."

This office covers New Jersey from Princeton south and all ofDelaware and Pennsylvania. As GlobeSt.com previously reported, itbroke ground this April on a $181-million R&D facility atJohnson & Johnson's Spring House, PA campus. Szwarcsays the company is also adding 100,000 sf to the Phoenixville (PA)Hospital, constructing a 62,000-sf School of Health Sciences atReading (PA) Hospital & Medical Center, and a new 35,000-sfCrate & Barrel store in Cherry Hill, NJ.

The Crate & Barrel project represents this Skanska USAoffice's diversification efforts, say Szwarc. The office is mostknown for high-tech installations in healthcare, life sciences,educational institutions, transportation and sports andentertainment. "We are now also going into retail and officemarkets," he says, adding that the Lehigh Valley and DowntownPhiladelphia are "target areas."