NEW YORK, NEW YORK - Hunt Construction Group, the nation's premier builder of sports facilities and convention centers, today announced the formation of a Strategic Alliance with Bovis Lend Lease, a world renowned construction management and consulting firm, to pursue sports facilities, convention centers and potential Olympic venue construction projects in the New York metropolitan area.

The HuntBovis Strategic Alliance creates a business unit that combines the specialized sports construction expertise of the Hunt Construction Group with the local knowledge afforded by the Bovis Lend Lease construction specialists based in New York. The Strategic Alliance will expand the breadth of construction services the Hunt Construction Group traditionally provides to its sports clients to include the New York metropolitan area where the Bovis Lend Lease current portfolio of work includes such projects as the Time Warner Center project, the Bloomberg Headquarters Building at 731 Lexington Avenue, Trump World Tower and the Ritz Carlton Hotel & Residences.

"We are very pleased with the HuntBovis Strategic Alliance and are extremely confident that the combination of Bovis' local presence in the New York metro area, its financial strength and its commitment to client satisfaction and our portfolio of sports related work provides a comprehensive range of construction experts well suited to pursue these unique projects," said Robert G. Hunt, CEO, Hunt Construction Group, Inc.

"The HuntBovis Strategic Alliance brings together a combination of sports construction specialists from Hunt and the New York area construction specialists from our company to be able to build state of the art sports and multi-purpose venues in the metropolitan area," said Peter A. Marchetto, Chief Operating Officer, Bovis Lend Lease.

Hunt Construction Group, Inc. ranks as one of the top construction firms in the nation. Over the past three decades, Hunt has embarked on a series of firsts in the sports construction industry, setting new standards for excellence along the way and is internationally recognized as the premier builder of sports facilities. Hunt completes approximately $1.8 billion of work annually and averages between $6 billion and $8 billion of work under contract at any given time.

Projects include the University of Phoenix Stadium in Arizona; the Raymond James Stadium in Tampa; Toyota Center in Houston; Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati; and Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. AT&T Park in San Francisco, Ford Field and Comerica Park in Detroit and Miller Park in Milwaukee.

Bovis Lend Lease, Inc. ranks among the world's largest construction specialists with more than 7,500 employees in 38 countries and with a record amount of work in construction. Projects range from Sydney's Olympic Village and program management of the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta to the restoration of the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island and Grand Central Station in New York, the construction of the former NationsBank Corporate Headquarters in Charlotte, the restoration of the San Francisco Court of Appeals in California, Toyota Yaris factory in France, the Scottish Parliament building in Edinburgh, Japan's Sapporo Dome being built for the 2002 World Cup and the new U.S. Grand Prix Circuit in Indianapolis.