Dorchester Square Shopping Center

Cambridge, Maryland

RAUCH inc. provided project and construction management for façade and parking lot improvements at the Dorchester Square Shopping Center. Our team managements the construction process from the planning and design phase to construction and grant opening, including individual retail tenant openings.

Our team reviewed critical information on behalf of the project owner including soil reports, surveys, contract documents, and submittals. We developed cost estimates and provided third party proposal negotiations. We worked with leasing staff and the tenant coordinator to review and comment on pending LOI’s, leases and tenant allowances. Our CM team coordinated with the general contractor assisting with contract negotiations, RFIs, change orders, payment application processing, meetings, scheduling and budgeting, including preparation of monthly construction draws. Site improvements included milling and resurfacing/repaving of specified parking bays and drainage improvements, both rehabilitation of failing parking lot sections and remediating existing site drainage throughout the shopping center, surrounding ponding issues in parking bays, striping and signage, landscaping and irrigation improvements, curb removal and replacement, and hardscape removal and replacement.

The project also included improving the shopping center profile to modernize and enhance the elevation. Roofing work included improving the green metal mansard roofs with paint and repair and replacing or repairing the T1-11 soffit on the interior of the roofs. The Cinema entrance was enhanced to give patrons a more defined entrance. The entrance sign to the shopping center was also modernized to incorporate LED lighting technology.