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1030 East Northwest Highway Suite 100
Mount Prospect, IL 60056
(847) 577-6505
320 West Central Road
Mount Prospect, IL 60008
(847) 255-7800
320 W Central Rd
Mount Prospect, IL 60056
(847) 255-7800
Mount Prospect IL Obituaries and Death Notices
Monday, December 26, 2016Nick Papanicholas Sr., who died Tuesday at 68 days after suffering cardiac arrest at his Mount Prospect home, was a master builder, piloting a wide range of public building projects -- encompassing everything from schools to golf courses.But it was a private and very personal project, the Mount Prospect Ice Arena, that was dearest to his heart.The project grew out of the need for a local club hockey team whose members included two of his grandchildren to find convenient access to ice. Papanicholas transformed a vacant 71,000-square-foot building at 1501 Feehanville Drive into a showplace for youth hockey, taking the $12 million project from coffee table discussion to completion in under a year.Over the past 10 years, schools became a specialty of his full-service contracting firm, Nicholas & Associates Inc., which handled projects for more than 35 local school districts, all delivered under tight deadlines.His motto was, "The kids will walk through those front doors the first day of school," his son, Nick Jr., said.As deftly as he balanced construction projects, he fou...
Mount Prospect News
Monday, December 26, 2016Nick Papanicholas Sr., who died Tuesday at 68 days after suffering cardiac arrest at his Mount Prospect home, was a master builder, piloting a wide range of public building projects -- encompassing everything from schools to golf courses.But it was a private and very personal project, the Mount Prospect Ice Arena, that was dearest to his heart.The project grew out of the need for a local club hockey team whose members included two of his grandchildren to find convenient access to ice. Papanicholas transformed a vacant 71,000-square-foot building at 1501 Feehanville Drive into a showplace for youth hockey, taking the $12 million project from coffee table discussion to completion in under a year.Over the past 10 years, schools became a specialty of his full-service contracting firm, Nicholas & Associates Inc., which handled projects for more than 35 local school districts, all delivered under tight deadlines.His motto was, "The kids will walk through those front doors the first day of school," his son, Nick Jr., said.As deftly as he balanced construction projects, he fou...