Blakeslee Prestress fabricated and erected the components. The design features double tees, inverted tee beams, columns, shear walls, vertical shear walls, horizontal lite walls, spandrels embedded with thin brick and with a sandblasted finish, stairs, slabs, and wall panels with a formliner to achieve a limestone look. The project, on a 300- by 600-foot footprint, consists of an eight-level structure containing 1.16 million square feet to park 3,400 cars. To meet these needs, they specified a total-precast concrete structural system. They needed an economical approach that met all the functional requirements while blending with the nearby historical buildings and constructing it in the busy downtown area.
The design-build team for the MGM Resort Casino in downtown Springfield, Massachusetts, faced several challenges in constructing the large parking structure that supplements the new adjacent casino.