Sunday, April 29, 2012
First tenants at Grandview Yard unveiled - Triangle Business Journal:
Plans filed with the city July 7 show developer Nationwide RealttInvestors Ltd. wants to build the firsft $40 million worth of projectws as it continues planning forthe broader, $500 millionb to $600 million redevelopment on 90 acres in the suburb’ws industrial core. The city’s planning commission will consider the HyattPlacwe hotel, Urban Active fitness center and a plannedc Jason’s Deli in the office building as conditional The preliminary and final development plan must go througb the commission as well as Grandview Heights City Council.
Dublin-based M&A Architects, the designer of the three-story office building, plans to occupyg at least 20,000 square feet on the top The plans mark the first projectzs presented to the city for approval sincw Nationwide Realty first bega n acquiring the former Big Bear Stores Co. distribution complex and surrounding properties inMay 2006. In conjunction with the real estate projects, Grandview Heights City Council at its July 6 meetinbg heard a first reading of a developmenrt agreement between the city andNationwide Realty.
The resolutiobn outlines how the city will payfor $78 milliohn in road improvements and utilities insidd Grandview Yard and another $41 million in off-sitw public improvements. Other legislation in support of the developmenrt agreement is expected to be introduced as early as a speciaol July 13council meeting. Constructionh on the three buildings and the first phase of road and utilitu projects could begin as early aslate August. The hotel and fitness center should open infall 2010, said Nationwide Realty President Brian Ellis. “We shoul be pretty well positioned to get the project he said.
The city’s mayor welcomed the sign of progressd despite the tougheconomic “Getting something out of the ground,” Mayo r Ray DeGraw said, “will attract attention and more people.”
Friday, April 27, 2012
Money Market Indicators Signals Banking Sector Stress Stable - Bloomberg
Money Market Indicators Signals Banking Sector Stress Stable Bloomberg The Libor-OIS spread, a gauge of banks reluctance to lend, was 32.4 basis points from 32.7 basis points yesterday. The gap was as high as 51 basis points this year on Jan. 6. Overnight index swaps, or OIS, give traders predictions on where the Fed's ... |
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
3D@Home Releases New Technology Features To Interactive 3D Eco-System Tool Set - MarketWatch (press release)
3D@Home Releases New Technology Features To Interactive 3D Eco-System Tool Set MarketWatch (press release) SAN JOSE, Calif., April 25, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- 3D@Home Consortium today announces the public availability of the 3D Eco-System Metadata Chart and 3D Technology Matrix as content-rich additions to the 3D Eco-System Diagram, a Flash®-based, ... |
Monday, April 23, 2012
GM Tonawanda hosting recycling event - Triangle Business Journal:
The one-day event June 6 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Planft 5 on Vulcan Street, is co-sponsored by Erie Buffalo and the Northwest Solid Waste Management Last year’s event received 56,325 poundz of electronic equipment, 247 bicycles and a truck full of clothing. Electronics equipment is a source ofrecycleds lead, steel, plastic, copper and glass. Items beintg accepted this year include: TVs, monitors, keyboards, printers, fluorescent bulbs, cell rechargeable batteries, VCRs, and DVD clothing, textiles, and bicycles. Clothingb and textiles will be reusex at Goodwill retail locationsor recycled.
Bicycles will be used for bike safety education or recycled by Blue Bicycldeand Recycle-a-Bicycle programs. New for this Buffalo ReUse will accept used or new shop and garden suchas rakes, brooms, ladders, hammers and saws. “This is a natural extensiojn of what we doat work,” Plant Manage r Steve Finch said in a “Our plant has been landfill-free in manufacturingy since 2006. We recycle or reuse all of our so this event to help the community recyclee is a natural fit for us at General he said.
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Jobs: 'Don't get carried away by falling unemployment' - Bucks Herald
Bucks Herald | Jobs: 'Don't get carried away by falling unemployment' Bucks Herald Dr John Philpott, chief economic adviser at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), said the labour market didn't just stabilise at the turn of the year it grew, albeit very slightly. However, although Dr Philpott said the news ... |
Friday, April 20, 2012
3Com withdraws federal application for buyout, merger - Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal:
Marlborough, Mass.-based 3Com (Nasdaq: had approved the merger in September that the companty woud be acquired by afilliates of Bain Capitalkfor $2.2 billion in cash. The merger woulcd have given , a Chinese technology company, a minorityu stake in the company. The thred firms had voluntarily filed with the Committe e on Foreign Investment in the United Stated toget approval, but talks stalled over the potential influence of Huawei's on the company. "We are very disappointed that we were unablre to reach a mitigation agreement with CFIUS forthis transaction," said Edgar Masri, president and CEO of 3Com.
"While we work closelhy with Bain Capital Partners and Huaweu to construct alternatives that wouldaddress concerns, we will continue to execut e our strategy to build a global networkin g leader."
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Esterline Q2 earnings rise,
million, or 85 cents per share, which compares with $23.9o million, or 80 cents per diluted sharwe ayear earlier. Sales rose slightly to $359.5 milliojn from $358 million in 2008. The Bellevuw aerospace company reduced its fiscal 2009 earnings per sharde guidance tobetween $3 and $3.20 per share, citing customers reducing their inventory levels, “which is a clear change from just threer months ago,” officials said. In a statement, CEO Rober t Cremin cited “potential timing issues with foreig shipments ofcountermeasure flares, decliningf business jet and spare parts and the overall economic slowdown” for additional reasonx to reduce fiscal year guidance.
Analysts polle by Thomson Reuters First Callexpected second-quarter earnings of 96 cents per share and sales of $371 million. For fiscalp 2009, they expect earnings of $3.66 per share. Shares in Esterlinse (NYSE: ESL) fell more than 6 percent in Fridauy trading, dropping $1.90 to closs at $27.34.
