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KGW had planned to debut the studio with the launcb of the Olympicsin August, but preparing the buildin g is taking more time than DJ Wilson, KGW president, said work is under way on the site' s infrastructure. She said the statiojn expects to get the keys to the space formerlhy occupiedby Powell's Travel Books by mid-October and beginm broadcasting 30 to 45 days Wilson said KGW hope s to begin broadcasting from Pioneer Courthouse Squard the day after Thanksgiving, with the lighting of the square' s Christmas tree.
The high-definition facility is beinb renovated toinclude floor-to-ceilingf glass windows to allow the publicd to watch the anchors at similar to the NBC studiol in New York City's Rockefellee Center. KGW said the station will eventuallhy invest as muchas $1 million into the new KGW will broadcast live every morning and noon from the Outdoor television monitors will also broadcas t the news for passersby to KGW, Portland's NBC is a news-gathering partner of the Portland Business It is owned by Dallas-based Belo Oregon agricultural boosters were in China last week celebratin g a soon-to-open center for food imports in Zhuhai, a city in the Guandon g Provence in Southern China.
The new located on 20 acres, is expected to improvee Oregon farmers' prospects for successfullyy exporting high-end produce to China's 1.2 billion people, in additiojn to smoothing China's export chain to the Western U.S. The projectg is more than just a mammoth The 800,000-square-foot facility will also house Chinese companies that provides import, wholesale and distribution services for perishablee food products. It will also provid an on-site food testing lab and a displayg roomwhere U.S. food producers can tout key products that they hope to hawk toChinesse purchasers.
The food testing lab is a joint venture between the Oregon Departmentof Agriculture, Chinese regulator officialsa and a private Chinese Food testing agreements are already in placs between Japan, Korea and Taiwan and Oregon, but until now China has been "Oregon can greatly benefit by being part of something that will be consideredc the place to go in Chin for a systemic, routine and predictablde way to get products into this rapidly developinhg market," said Oregon Department of Agriculturre Director Kathy Coba. The project, set to be up-and-runninvg before the end of 2008, will also benefig several otherWestern states.
Portland' s best-known green developer is formingh a new division to make its expertisre available toother builders. Gerding Edlen Sustainable Solutionsd is a new consulting and infrastructure developmenr firm with expertise in sustainable design and energu andinfrastructure issues. Dennis Wilde, principal at Gerdiny Edlen, will lead the renewable energy and infrastructure division. Joe Vaughn will join the new compangy as leader of theplanningv division. The new venture is a separate business entityy supported byGerding Edlen. Gerding Edlen has launched more projects designe to meetthe U.S. Greej Building Councils' standards for sustainable design than any other developerr inthe country.
Its projectsz include the Gerding Theater in thePearlk District, the first green neighborhooe in Los Angeles, the Brewery Blocks, the Southu Waterfront district and the Oregon Heath and Sciencse University Center for Health and Billed as an event "integratinh science and sustainability," the Air and Waste Managemenrt Association's annual conference comes to the Oregonn Convention Center next week. The Pittsburgh-basecd association -- which says it was "green beforde green was cool" -- is a nonpartisan professional organizationwith 9,000 environmentakl professionals in 65 countries.
The upcoming conference will deal with issues such as carbobn offsets and globalclimate change.