Symdon Motors gets a facelift

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Symdon Chevrolet in Mt. Horeb asked Engineered Construction to bring their showroom, entrance and service area up to General Motors’ newest corporate style.  The new look is more modern and enticing for prospective customers.

Changes to the exterior include an architectural metal face lift, a new entrance and new windows.  The showroom, customer lobby and offices were carefully scheduled by project manager Jim Ladika to make the facility available for business as much as possible during construction.

Engineered Construction is also adding 5,000 SF to the service department and replacing the mechanicals as well as adding four new service bays for improved repair capacity.  The first phase was finished July 30th and the second is scheduled to be completed in September. For more information, visit www.symdonchevy.com.

New Italian Restaurant

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Engineered Construction recently completed renovating a former seafood market into a sit-in/carry-out restaurant.  Novanta’s menu features 10-inch Neapolitan pizzas, a fresh mozzarella bar, paninis and salads.  Project Manager Jim Ladika and Aro Eberle Architects worked with owners Vincenzo Pugliese and Nick Mattioli to make their dream a reality.

The wood-burning pizza oven, which cooks pizzas in 90 (“novanta” in Italian) seconds, is the heart of the restaurant.  The construction schedule and restaurant layout revolved around the arrival of the oven, which came from Italy in part by boat.

The entire interior, except the floor, was demolished and prepped for the oven’s arrival.  Project Superintendent Steven Hubert relates, “The oven is so large that a window had to be removed to get it into the building. It was a monster!”  Upon arrival it was fixed in place, hand-mosaicked, and the restaurant was rebuilt around it in warm browns, reds and yellows.

Novanta is open for lunch and dinner seven days a week and has seating for 38 inside and several on the sunny sidewalk.  It is located in the retail center at 8452 Old Sauk Road.  For more information visit www.facebook.com/novantamadison.