What happens when the federal government decides to spend more than $50 million in stimulus funds to fix up an office building, doesn't do a cost-benefit analysis until after construction contracts are signed, violates procurement laws, and takes more than two years to begin work on the "shovel-ready" project? A government official gets grilled during a congressional hearing.
Roanokers expecting to see familiar faces when the renovated City Market Building reopens this summer may be in for a shock. Only three of the businesses that were in the building before it closed last fall have applied for spaces in the revamped version: Hong Kong Restaurant, Nuts & Sweet Things, and Tavern on the Market.
The 15-story Yeon Building was the tallest in Portland when it was constructed on Southwest Fifth Avenue, near Alder Street, in 1911. But after purchasing the building in March, the Jonathan Rose Cos. sought an update to attract tenants, so the group brought on SERA Architects to design a renovation of part of the facade and the lobby, systems and corridors. It's a very tired building, but it has fabulous bones to it," said SERA senior interior designer Lisa Zangerle, who is also the project manager for the renovation.
West Virginia University plans to give the Evansdale campus a roughly $150 million overahul. The WVU Board of Governors approved issuing up to $200 million in bonds to build and renovate facilities, mostly at the Evansdale campus. The board met Friday.
A St. Albans company appears to have won a $13.45 million contract to renovate the City Center West office building for use as the state Lottery headquarters. In an emergency meeting Monday, the state Lottery Commission unanimously voted to recommend awarding the contract to renovate the 13-story office tower, purchased by the Lottery last May for $21.5 million, to Paramount Builders LLC.
In the coming weeks, Training, Education and Manpower Inc. will begin a renovation of its Elizabeth Street building, which will allow two local community organizations to expand their services. According to Diane Stroman, vice president of development for TEAM Inc., the renovation of the now-empty 5,000-square-foot second floor at 30 Elizabeth St. is expected to be completed in the spring. At that time, the Derby Dental Clinic, which is managed by the Hill Health Center, will move in, and the Lower Naugatuck Valley Parent Child Resource Center, which is currently located on the building's third floor, will expand to the second.
FORT KENT - The University of Maine at Fort Kent announced Thursday that a $1.4 million renovation project has been completed at Powell Hall, a former dormitory now converted into office space. UMFK President Richard Cost said the project incorporated numerous energy-savings components that are expected to help achieve Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, or LEED, certification for the 45-year-old building.
There's a building in downtown Redlands with a swastika on it, though it's covered now. The uncovered swastika and the word "Deming" below it in last week's photo were enough to jog the memories of people who were in Redlands in the late 1980s.
By Alessandro M. Powell Special to the Register HAMDEN -- A public hearing will be held on the proposed new site of Quinnipiac University's collection of materials from Ireland's famine of the 19th century.
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