| Decker Building Suffers In Controversy | | Posted Thursday, February 01, 2007 2:59:03 PM by Blog57 Team | | ROGERS -- Tenants and management remain frustrated with each other in a downtown apartment building.Owners of the Decker Building, 310 S. Second St., repaired the building's boiler in December, spending $7,000, because tenants complained they were without heat. Building owners have invested about $10,000 into the building in recent months, said Ronnie Rook, building manager.A man who said he wasn't the owner and wouldn't confirm his name met with Rook and Mike Rouse, a Rogers building official, Monday morning to discuss the heat and other safety concerns. Rouse said he was contacted last week by one of the remaining two tenants in the building about the continued lack of proper heat. The building has 11 apartments, most of which are one-bedroom units.Rouse said he tried to get into the apartment to check out the complaint, but was turned away by the tenant because she is being sued by the building owners.... | |
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| | | Karunanidhi to lay stone for new building for Police ... | | Posted Monday, January 01, 2007 1:00:59 PM by Blog57 Team | | ON THE DRILL: Women police conducting a rehearsal for the forthcoming 150th year celebrations of the Chennai City Police scheduled for January 4, 2007 at Rajarathinam Stadium. ? Photo : M. Vedhan CHENNAI : The Chief Minister will lay the foundation stone for the proposed new building of the office of Commissioner of Police at the inaugural function (January 4) of the 150th year celebrations of the Chennai City Police, said Commissioner Letika Saran here on Sunday. Speaking to reporters, she said the CM would inaugurate a new building for the Kilpauk police station and also open four residential quarters for police personnel in the city. The CoP's office would come up at Vepery, where the office of the Joint Commissioner of Police (Traffic) functioned. On January 5, the President would participate in the concluding ceremony to be held at the Rajarathinam Stadium.... | |
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| | | Dallas nonprofit buys building for homeless | | Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 11:01:02 PM by Blog57 Team | | The Central Dallas Community Development Corp. on Tuesday completed the purchase of a downtown Dallas building that will be converted into apartments for the homeless and low-income residents. Construction on the project, CityWalk@Akard, will begin next year, Central Dallas CDC said. The 15-story, 167,000-square-foot building at 511 N. Akard St. will be redeveloped into 209 apartments, ground-floor retail and two floors of office space. .... | |
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| | | 2 arrested after crashing into Sheboygan building | | Posted Saturday, November 11, 2006 11:14:23 PM by Blog57 Team | | SHEBOYGAN, Wis. Sheboygan police say they plan to seek charges of operating a vehicle while intoxicated against a woman who allegedly crashed into a building after taking a sleeping pill Deputy Chief Robert Wojs says the 18-year-old driver told them she had taken a prescription sleep aid before the crash at Plastics Engineering Company on Thursday. That crash caused about 20-thousand dollars in damages. That woman and her 19-year-old passenger have been arrested. Police say they plan to ask the Sheboygan County District Attorney's Office to charge the driver with operating a vehicle while intoxicated on drugs and operating a vehicle with a detectible amount of a restricted controlled substance. Police say they'll also ask that the passenger be charged with delivery of prescription drugs.... | |
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| | | Suspected gas leak spurs evacuation of Legg Mason building | | Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 3:02:04 PM by Blog57 Team | | Legg Mason Inc. reopened its 100 Light Street offices in downtown Baltimore shortly after rush hour Tuesday morning following a suspected gas leak tied to contracting work going on in the building, officials said. Legg Mason spokeswoman Terri Bolling said a contracting company was installing a feed line into the building sometime Monday evening and workers at the building smelled the odor of gas in connection with that work. Bolling said there was not an actual gas leak but the company opted to evacuate the building as a precautionary measure. "We believe it was not a risk, but the safety of our employees was our first priority," she said. Fire department and Baltimore Gas and Electric workers responded and cleared the building at about 9:30 a.m., Bolling said. Linda Foy, a spokeswoman for the utility, confirmed the incident.... | |
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| | | Causeway building-size hearing postponed | | Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 1:11:00 PM by Blog57 Team | | The Spanish Fort City Council on Monday postponed a public hearing on sweeping changes to its zoning laws that could more than double the size of buildings allowed on the Causeway. The hearing was pushed back to Nov. 20 because council members Tom Sawyer and Mike McMillan were not present Monday, according to Mayor Joe Bonner. "We think it's very important that they're here to hear their constituents, both pros and cons," Bonner said. After months of discussions, the Planning Commission recently recommended increasing the residential building height limit from 40 feet to 70 feet, which would be measured from the top of a 16-foot base flood elevation, required for structures along the Causeway, according to City Attorney David Conner. On the low-lying thoroughfare that connects Baldwin and Mobile counties, that means buildings could rise to between 85 and 100 feet tall, officials said.... | |
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| | | Sunset curfew possible for municipal building, park | | Posted Sunday, November 05, 2006 2:59:42 PM by Blog57 Team | | Beer cans in the parking lot and destroyed fences around the basketball court: These are two of the reasons driving township officials to consider instituting a sunset curfew for its municipal building and adjacent park. "We've seen more vandalism, more alcoholic beverages, kids squealing with their cars at night," Deputy Mayor James Pine said. "The park is a beautiful thing and used by a lot of people. Taxpayers shouldn't be paying for continuous repairs." Curfew would be set for sunset because township officials want the park to be used during daytime hours, which vary between seasons. Pine said the committee had a lot of discussion on the best way to handle the curfew. State Police also weighed in on the decision, saying the sunset curfew would be easy to enforce, he said.... | |
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| | | FMHA sells old building | | Posted Thursday, November 02, 2006 6:58:04 PM by Blog57 Team | | LANCASTER - The one-story building on Amhurst Place that used to house the Fairfield Metropolitan Housing Authority is now owned by a Lancaster dentist Kerri Benjamin-Brandt who bought the property Tuesday from FMHA. The purchase price was $305,000, according to Fairfield County Auditor's records. .... | |
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| | | Families can stay in condemned building | | Posted Monday, October 30, 2006 3:08:40 PM by Blog57 Team | | A Miami-Dade judge last week allowed residents to remain in a condemned apartment building in Opa-locka but rejected their plea to force the building's owner to make repairs or help them move elsewhere. Judge Gerald Hubbart's ruling was viewed as a victory for the tenants and their supporters, who had fought for months to have the 48-unit Emerald Gardens Apartments fixed by its owner. ''We went to court to see what can be done to compensate these tenants, the ones who are still there. We are really grasping for straws,'' said Beverly Lee, a community activist who helped organize the residents. All but four families have moved out, she said. The building went into foreclosure in February. It was condemned Aug. 1 by Opa-locka housing officials after they found smashed windows, exposed electrical wires and raw sewage oozing out of a broken pipe.... | |
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| | | Mining, building stocks drag down market | | Posted Friday, October 27, 2006 7:02:28 AM by Blog57 Team | | THE stock market remained lower at noon today, pulled back by weakness among the major miners and building materials stocks. Aequs Securities institutional dealer Ric Klusman said a profit downgrade from building materials firm Boral Ltd triggered slides in shares for its rivals such as Rinker Group Ltd. "That dragged down Rinker and everything else with it," Mr Klusman said. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 22.3 points to 5367.4, while the all ordinaries fell 23.0 points to 5337.6. On the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December share price index contract was off 13 points lower at 5366, on a volume of 5,102. Boral fell 36 cents to $7.10 after it downgraded its 2006/07 profit guidance, saying it expects earnings in the full year to be about 15 per cent below last financial year.... | |
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