Culverhouse Nature Park Restroom

Location:
Sarasota, FL

Services Provided:
Construction Management

A² provided construction management services for the Culverhouse Nature Park in North Port, Florida. The scope included construction of new restroom building and ADA improvements. Work also included site improvements, underground utilities, lift stations, site electric, and associated site furnishings.


Osprey Junction Trailhead

Location:
Osprey, FL

Services Provided:
Construction Management

A² provided construction management services for the Osprey Junction Trailhead in Osprey, Florida. The Osprey Junction Trailhead is a 10-acre park located adjacent to the Legacy Trail at the east end of Bay Street. Park improvements included new paved parking, picnic tables and shelters, infrastructure for new restrooms, new restroom, a drinking fountain, park signage, enhanced native landscaping including perimeter landscape buffers, and concrete walkways to explore nature and wildlife.


Deer Prairie Creek Preserve

Location:
North Port, FL

Services Provided:
Construction Management

A² provided construction management services for the Deer Prairie Creek Preserve in North Port, Florida. Construction of Deer Prairie Creek park included shell and concrete improvements for two new parking lots. Additional scope items included concrete sidewalks, 2-pole shelters, ADA Kayak Launch, fishing pier, wood fencing, and associated site furnishings. Work also included site improvements, underground utilities, lift stations, site electric, and associated site furnishings.


Bay Street Dog Park

Location:
Osprey, FL

Services Provided:
Construction Management

A² provided construction management services for the Bay Street Dog Park. The scope of this project included a fenced dog park with separate areas for large and small dogs, play apparatus for dogs, shaded seating, and drinking fountains for pets and their owners. Additional sidewalks, parking, and stormwater management areas were also built.


Phillippi Gazebo Replacement

Location:
Sarasota, FL

Services Provided:
General Contracting

The Phillippi Estate Park is a 60-acre park open year round. A² Group, Inc provided construction services for the Philippi Gazebo Replacement project for Sarasota County. The gazebo is comprised of three interconnected pavilions. It is located on the southwest side of the park and is often rented for small weddings.

Carmalita Park and South County Regional Park

Location:
Punta Gorda, FL

Services Provided:
General Contracting

A² provided construction services for the Carmalita Park and South County Regional Park in Punta Gorda, Florida. The Carmalita Park project included restroom facilities, utilities connectivity, flatwork and site work. The South County Regional Park project included restroom facility, pavilion, utilities connectivity, flatwork, baseball parking area, basketball parking area, landscaping, and site work.

Parade Circle Pathway Extension

Location:
Charlotte County, FL

Services Provided:
General Contracting

A² Group, Inc provided construction services for Charlotte County’s Parade Circle Pathway Extension and Inner Circle Connection project. The project was for the construction of an eight-foot wide asphalt multi-use path that is approximately 2,933 lineal feet (0.55 miles) in length at the south end of Parade Circle in Rotonda West. The path connected to an existing asphalt path at both ends and is the Inner Circle Connection (ICC) for the missing pathway section of Parade Circle.

Lake Eola

Location:
Orlando, FL

Services Provided:
Development and Construction

Lake Eola Park is a 43 acre park located in downtown Orlando. The park offers 0.9 mile loop around the lake, a café, interaction with animals, playgrounds, swan boats, and beautiful scenery. They also have an amphitheater. The project included drainage, site regrading, hardscape, landscaping and irrigation. The landscape portion of the project included procurement of trees, shrubs and ground covers. These were gathered through collection from the private residence, relocation from within the park, nurseries, tree farms and contract growing. The irrigation system was a multi-zoned system of rotor, pop-up and shrub heads managed by controllers.

Legacy Park

Location:
Venice, FL

Services Provided:
Development and Construction

A² Group, Inc. provided site development and construction of a 9.75 acre site in Venice that is named Legacy Park. The scope of work included site grading, restroom facilities, three (3in) 24' x 24' square picnic pavilions, five (5) 2-Pole shelters, a kayak/canoe launch with washing station, parking areas with driveway and access isles including portions with pervious pavement, multi-use trail, walkways/sidewalks, storm water facilities, wetland enhancement/restoration, landscaping, lighting and park recreational features.

Harborwalk West at Gilchrist Park

Location:
Punta Gorda, FL

Services Provided:
General Construction

A² Group, Inc. was the General Contractor for Harborwalk West Project at the Gilchrist Park for the City of Punta Gorda. The scope of services included seawall construction, underground utilities, restroom, pavilions, Maintenance of Traffic (MOT), paving and concrete, along with various other specialty items.

Puerto Rico National Cemetery

Location:
Bayamon, Puerto Rico

Services Provided:
Design and Construction

A² Group, Inc. had a contract with the Department of Veteran Affairs for the Design/Build and Development of the Burial Area-Crypt Installation at Section NN of the Puerto Rico National Cemetery. The cemetery is situated on 108.2 acres of which 77.31 were being developed, the cemetery accommodates casketed and cremated remains. We were responsible for providing all labor, materials, tools, equipment, and design-build services necessary for the design and construction of approximately one thousand, five hundred and ninety-eight (1,598) double depth pre-placed crypts, and installation of gravesite control monuments. An engineered drainage field was installed under the pre-placed crypts. Gravesite control monuments were placed after the crypts were installed. In addition, we were responsible for the manufacture, delivery, off-loading at site, and all additional material costs associated with the production of a one thousand, five hundred and ninety-eight 1,598 double depth polymer crypt system for general construction. The crypt system consists of concrete slab/footing,  CMU walls, and double depth polymer crypts with concrete lids. 

South Florida National Cemetery

Location:
West Palm Beach, Florida

Services Provided:
Construction

A² Group, Inc. had two contracts with the Department of Veteran Affairs for the development of the South Florida National Cemetery in West Palm Beach, Florida.  The first contract was for the Fast Track Area. The work included the development of 57 acres on a 313-acre unimproved site, a committal shelter, entrance drive, administration and maintenance complex and trailers, burial areas containing 5,535 traditional grave sites and 5,204 sites for the in-ground interment of cremated remains, flag-assembly area, site signage and furnishings, grading, drainage, well installation, irrigation system, exotic plant treatment, tree relocations, general utilities, landscape and hardscape features, enhancement and preservation of existing wetland and uplands habitat. As part of the USACE and SFWMD permit requirements, we restored an existing wetland to its preexisting conditions. This entailed removing of exotic plant and providing proper mitigation procedures to restore the wetland area.  Permit conditions required the protection of certain fish and wildlife resources such as gopher tortoise, eastern indigo snake (drymarchon corais couperi), and a nesting bald eagle. The first contract was completed three months early (April 2007). The second was completed two months early (April 2008).