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    Dream Jobs: 5 Fascinating Construction Projects Underway or On the Drawing Boards

    Oct. 29, 2014
    Electrical Wholesaling’s editors have picked out a few construction projects that really stand out because of their potential to transform a city with their to attract new businesses, residents and visitors, how their beauty will redraw a city’s skyline, or how the overall vision of the project somehow makes it much more than your average construction project.

    Of the hundreds if not thousands of construction projects in the pipeline, relatively few really capture your imagination as something memorable. As Electrical Wholesaling’s editors sorted through many of them, we picked out a few that really stand out because of their potential to transform a city with their to attract new businesses, residents and visitors, their beauty will redraw a city’s skyline, or the overall vision of the project somehow makes it much more than your average construction project.

    About the Author

    Jim Lucy | Editor-in-Chief

    Over the past 40-plus years, hundreds of Jim’s articles have been published in Electrical Wholesaling and Electrical Marketing newsletter on topics such as the impact of amazonsupply.com and other new competitors on the electrical market’s channels of distribution, energy-efficient lighting and renewables, and local market economics. In addition to his published work, Jim regularly gives presentations on these topics to C-suite executives, industry groups and investment analysts.

    He recently launched a new subscription-based data product for Electrical Marketing that offers electrical sales potential estimates and related market data for more than 300 metropolitan areas, and in 1999 he published his first book, “The Electrical Marketer’s Survival Guide” for electrical industry executives looking for an overview of key market trends.

    While managing Electrical Wholesaling’s editorial operations, Jim and the publication’s staff won several Jesse H. Neal awards for editorial excellence, the highest honor in the business press, and numerous national and regional awards from the American Society of Business Press Editors. He has a master’s degree in Communications and a bachelor’s degree in Journalism from Glassboro State College, Glassboro, N.J. (now Rowan University).

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