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The owner of the State Farm office in Omaha’s Benson neighborhood selected Boyd Jones to renovate and fit out its office in a Maple Street storefront built in 1929. The project scope included exposing the ceiling over the lobby, shoring up structural framing, and tying in new plumbing to the structure’s existing system. Outcomes included…

Boyd Jones was selected to construct Baxter’s new Lexus of Lincoln dealership simultaneously with a new Toyota of Lincoln facility after completing the successful Lexus of Omaha dealership. The two new facilities each feature their own custom showroom and customer lounge, service garage, detail bay/car wash, offices, and employee lounge. Combined, both dealerships utilize 111,000…

Boyd Jones completed a 19,000 SF renovation at the former Kaplan University facility for Community Action Partnership (CAP). (The project was completed prior to Purdue University’s acquisition of Kaplan.) The renovation transformed a previously vacant wing into a full-service Head Start facility that enabled the CAP to offer all-day, year-round early childhood education services to…

1415 @ The Yard is a mixed-use building near downtown Omaha and Creighton University. The five-story, 137,000 SF building features 101 apartment units with a 68-stall parking garage and 6,300 SF of retail space. The building also features an outdoor common area with a fire pit and BBQ grills, indoor club room, fitness center, game…

After about 20 years of brainstorming how best to replace a rapidly aging high school building, voters in Minden, NE approved an approximately $23 million bond issue that cleared the way for Boyd Jones to replace the structure that had stood in place since 1936. The project solved several safety and security issues that existed…

The Burlington Mail Terminal, a 90-year-old former mail-by-rail depot, spent nearly half its life crumbling under the stresses of neglect and disuse until one of the largest historic tax credit projects in Nebraska in the last decade launched it into the 21st century. Today, as a home to companies that predate the original structure — Boyd…

Warren Distribution is a family-owned company with deep roots in its Omaha-based community that span more than 100 years. After spending decades in an undersized office, the company made the decision to transition their headquarters to a newly-revitalized historical building in the heart of downtown Omaha. Warren Distribution wanted to celebrate the company’s culture and…

After decades of neglect, the Burlington Mail Terminal was revitalized to become the Rail & Commerce Building. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the building was renovated to provide glimpses of the original 1926 design. The 30-foot ceiling height provided optimal space to insert an additional floor level, creating what is now Commerce…

For more than 100 years, University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) students of Catholic faith had to improvise host locations for campus ministry programs. That changed in 2016, when Boyd Jones completed the Archdiocese of Omaha’s St. John Paul II Newman Center, an 88,000 SF facility adjacent to UNO’s Pacific Campus. The four-story building provides housing…

Boyd Jones was involved in a public-private partnership with Bluestem Energy Solutions, Central Community College in Hastings, NE, and a local electric utility to construct a 1.7-megawatt General Electric wind turbine with a tower height of 80 meters near the school’s campus. The project serves a dual role as part of the campus’s new wind…