As six different brands were undergoing realignment over the past several years, Edward Szwarc, this region's new general manager, tells GlobeSt.com, "we had a big turnover of personnel and a couple of tough years in this office." Since December, the office staff here has grown from 100 to 119, "and there will be more," he says. "We are revving up. We see significant additional potential in the Philadelphia area, and we have the right people in place to handle large, complex jobs and to diversify."

This office covers New Jersey from Princeton south and all of Delaware and Pennsylvania. As GlobeSt.com previously reported, it broke ground this April on a $181-million R&D facility at Johnson & Johnson's Spring House, PA campus. Szwarc says the company is also adding 100,000 sf to the Phoenixville (PA) Hospital, constructing a 62,000-sf School of Health Sciences at Reading (PA) Hospital & Medical Center, and a new 35,000-sf Crate & Barrel store in Cherry Hill, NJ.

The Crate & Barrel project represents this Skanska USA office's diversification efforts, say Szwarc. The office is most known for high-tech installations in healthcare, life sciences, educational institutions, transportation and sports and entertainment. "We are now also going into retail and office markets," he says, adding that the Lehigh Valley and Downtown Philadelphia are "target areas."