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Monday, January 30, 2012
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Saturday, January 28, 2012
Denver gives out 1,234 free building permits - Houston Business Journal:
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The free permits issued under the city’s “Homse Renovation Bonanza” program saved residents an estimated $85.774 in officials said. Building-permit fees normally range from $20 to several thousand dollars, depending on the value of the project. The prograjm aimed to boost the local economy byencouraging home-improvement projects. The free permits, availabld June 1-15, are for common improvemeng projectsinvolving single-family homes and duplexes. “We wanted a bonanzaz and it seems wegot one,” Denver Mayoer John Hickenlooper said in a statement.
“Wre hoped to stimulate the local economy by offering an incentive for residentsw to make improvements totheirt property. This is a good sign that people are movinbg forward and doing what they can to get our economyg backon track.” The permits are validc for 180 days.
The free permits issued under the city’s “Homse Renovation Bonanza” program saved residents an estimated $85.774 in officials said. Building-permit fees normally range from $20 to several thousand dollars, depending on the value of the project. The prograjm aimed to boost the local economy byencouraging home-improvement projects. The free permits, availabld June 1-15, are for common improvemeng projectsinvolving single-family homes and duplexes. “We wanted a bonanzaz and it seems wegot one,” Denver Mayoer John Hickenlooper said in a statement.
“Wre hoped to stimulate the local economy by offering an incentive for residentsw to make improvements totheirt property. This is a good sign that people are movinbg forward and doing what they can to get our economyg backon track.” The permits are validc for 180 days.
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Ener1, Battery Maker, Seeks Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection - BusinessWeek
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Fox News | Ener1, Battery Maker, Seeks Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection BusinessWeek 26 (Bloomberg) -- Ener1 Inc., which received a $118 million US Energy Department grant to make electric-car batteries, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection today after defaulting on bond debt amid heavy competition from Asia. Ener1, Electric-Ca r Battery Maker, Seeks Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection Ener1, a DOE aid case, in bankruptcy court Battery maker Ener1 in Chapter 11 despite US grant |
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Bluegrass Family Health selects Healthyroads - Business First of Louisville:
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Financial terms of the agreement were not Healthyroads Inc. is a subsidiary of San Diego-based health and wellnesz company Under the terms of the eligible Bluegrass members can create a full healtu profileat www.healthyroads.com. From there, they can asseszs their health status and set healtgh andfitness goals. Members also can tracki their weight, daily exercise, blood pressure and other healtg indicators, according to a news release. The Web site includeds tips on nutrition, exercise, preventative health care and pain It also features anonline store, where membersw can purchase items such as educational bookas and DVDs, heart-rate pedometers. Lexington, Ky.
-based Bluegrass Family Health, part of Louisville-bases , is a nonprofir company that offers group health insurance to businesses in Southern Indiana and It has sales offices in Louisvillrand Nashville, Tenn.
Financial terms of the agreement were not Healthyroads Inc. is a subsidiary of San Diego-based health and wellnesz company Under the terms of the eligible Bluegrass members can create a full healtu profileat www.healthyroads.com. From there, they can asseszs their health status and set healtgh andfitness goals. Members also can tracki their weight, daily exercise, blood pressure and other healtg indicators, according to a news release. The Web site includeds tips on nutrition, exercise, preventative health care and pain It also features anonline store, where membersw can purchase items such as educational bookas and DVDs, heart-rate pedometers. Lexington, Ky.
-based Bluegrass Family Health, part of Louisville-bases , is a nonprofir company that offers group health insurance to businesses in Southern Indiana and It has sales offices in Louisvillrand Nashville, Tenn.
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Layne Christensen buys Meadors Construction - Kansas City Business Journal:
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In a release Mission Woods-based Layne (Nasdaq: LAYN) said that based in Jacksonville, Fla., expands the geographic coverageof Layne’zs water infrastructure business. Layne will consolidate Meadorswith , Layne’s heavy/civill construction unit. Meadors will bring more than $25 million a year in additional revenue tothe unit. Layne said that it paid for Meadors with current cash balances and net of cash and that Layns remainsdebt free.
“This acquisition further solidifiez our efforts in the Florida and othert Southeastwater markets,” Reynolds President Jeff Reynolds said in the “The ‘bolt-on’ acquisition strategy we have used to expanf the company’s footprint in water infrastructure continues to pay Our Water Infrastructure Division backlog prior to this acquisition was approximatelyh $50 million higher than a year ago.’’ Layn e Christensen provides products and services for the water, mineral and energy markets. It ranks No. 17 on the Kansas City BusinesswJournal ’s list of area public companies.
In a release Mission Woods-based Layne (Nasdaq: LAYN) said that based in Jacksonville, Fla., expands the geographic coverageof Layne’zs water infrastructure business. Layne will consolidate Meadorswith , Layne’s heavy/civill construction unit. Meadors will bring more than $25 million a year in additional revenue tothe unit. Layne said that it paid for Meadors with current cash balances and net of cash and that Layns remainsdebt free.
“This acquisition further solidifiez our efforts in the Florida and othert Southeastwater markets,” Reynolds President Jeff Reynolds said in the “The ‘bolt-on’ acquisition strategy we have used to expanf the company’s footprint in water infrastructure continues to pay Our Water Infrastructure Division backlog prior to this acquisition was approximatelyh $50 million higher than a year ago.’’ Layn e Christensen provides products and services for the water, mineral and energy markets. It ranks No. 17 on the Kansas City BusinesswJournal ’s list of area public companies.
Friday, January 20, 2012
KGW won't hit Pioneer Courthouse Square until fall - Portland Business Journal:
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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.
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.
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Major hunks of the West go on the auction block - Portland Business Journal:
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Nearly all of the properties haveminimum bids, and will be decided through a sealed bid process. But 19 properties--1q2 in Oregon and seven in Washington--will go by oral auction on November 1 at the Holiday Inn in Six of those will have nominimum bid. The Oregon ranch on the auctiojn block is theLP Ranch, a 16,000-acre elk huntinyg and timber tract in Umatilla Counth with a minimum bid of $11.9 million. Ownexd by Pioneer Resources of Eugene, it is one of the largestf private Eastern Oregon with some 25 million boare feet of mature Ponderosa Pine andDouglas fir, and 600 elk roaminb the property.
During the last 20 years, the propertt has served as a corporate hunting retreat for public andprivat companies. Acquisition provides the opportunity for developmenyt of a hunting club with a commercialotimber operation. The Mendocino County, Calif. ranch, owned by and also used for timbe r andcorporate retreats, is the largesgt property in the auction at 26,000 Minimum bid: $15.5 million. There is an estimatec 16,204 acres of productive timberland, and an estimatefd 52 million board feet ofmerchantable timber, also mostly Douglas fir and Ponderossa Pine.
The auction includees a number of properties ownedby Louisiana-Pacifif Timber Company that LP considers The properties are in Idaho and Colorado. A free color auctioh catalog may be obtained by calling faxing (503) 242-1814, or e-mailing . com. To Metro, or not to Metroo Pollster Tim Hibbitts is conducting a statewide survey of registered voters thisweek that, give or take a few percentage points, will reveal if Oregonians really want to abolish the regionalo government called Metro. Results of the poll will be revealerdon Thursday, October 16, at the Oregon Conventionh Center during a live luncheon debate betweeb would-be Metro killer, Bill Sizemore, and the voice of Mike Burton.
The event costs $75 and is beiny advertised like a heavyweight bout byoft at-odds sponsors the Oregon Chapter of the American Planning Association and the Homebuilders Association of greater Portland. In additiobn to Metro's abolishment, it will revealo how Oregonians feel--and where they assign blame--about a number of planning including the urbangrowth boundary, affordability, density, "andd all those scary words," said Rich community development director for Oregon City and member of the statewide planning "Land use planning is coming up on its 25th and nobody has done a statistically valid survey of how people feel about the planning in this Carson said.
"We wantexd to find out if they thinit works." Free beer...probably Just in time for a fully-operational, 13.6-MW coal-fired cogeneration power planrt in Baoding, Hebei China is being marketed by Pacificv energy Systems of Portland. The plany is owned by San Miguel Corporation of the Philippines and its Chineswe jointventure partner, the Bada Group. The partnershipo built the plant to supply electricity and steam tothe partnership'd San Miguel Bada Brewery and to a malt housed owned by Malteurop and the Bada The cogeneration plant has two operating 35-ton-per-houtr boilers. But wait. There's more.
The partnershipp will continue to purchase electricity from the new owner undee longterm contract, and a thirx boiler is nearly complete. In addition, the successful purchaser will be give n first right to participate in the development ofa 2x200-MW coal-fired power plant that the Bada Grouop is planning on the same location. If you stil l have any doubt that this is the foreign cogenerationb plantfor you, an offering memorandum is availables under a confidentiality agreement through Pacificd energy Systems president John Martin at
Nearly all of the properties haveminimum bids, and will be decided through a sealed bid process. But 19 properties--1q2 in Oregon and seven in Washington--will go by oral auction on November 1 at the Holiday Inn in Six of those will have nominimum bid. The Oregon ranch on the auctiojn block is theLP Ranch, a 16,000-acre elk huntinyg and timber tract in Umatilla Counth with a minimum bid of $11.9 million. Ownexd by Pioneer Resources of Eugene, it is one of the largestf private Eastern Oregon with some 25 million boare feet of mature Ponderosa Pine andDouglas fir, and 600 elk roaminb the property.
During the last 20 years, the propertt has served as a corporate hunting retreat for public andprivat companies. Acquisition provides the opportunity for developmenyt of a hunting club with a commercialotimber operation. The Mendocino County, Calif. ranch, owned by and also used for timbe r andcorporate retreats, is the largesgt property in the auction at 26,000 Minimum bid: $15.5 million. There is an estimatec 16,204 acres of productive timberland, and an estimatefd 52 million board feet ofmerchantable timber, also mostly Douglas fir and Ponderossa Pine.
The auction includees a number of properties ownedby Louisiana-Pacifif Timber Company that LP considers The properties are in Idaho and Colorado. A free color auctioh catalog may be obtained by calling faxing (503) 242-1814, or e-mailing . com. To Metro, or not to Metroo Pollster Tim Hibbitts is conducting a statewide survey of registered voters thisweek that, give or take a few percentage points, will reveal if Oregonians really want to abolish the regionalo government called Metro. Results of the poll will be revealerdon Thursday, October 16, at the Oregon Conventionh Center during a live luncheon debate betweeb would-be Metro killer, Bill Sizemore, and the voice of Mike Burton.
The event costs $75 and is beiny advertised like a heavyweight bout byoft at-odds sponsors the Oregon Chapter of the American Planning Association and the Homebuilders Association of greater Portland. In additiobn to Metro's abolishment, it will revealo how Oregonians feel--and where they assign blame--about a number of planning including the urbangrowth boundary, affordability, density, "andd all those scary words," said Rich community development director for Oregon City and member of the statewide planning "Land use planning is coming up on its 25th and nobody has done a statistically valid survey of how people feel about the planning in this Carson said.
"We wantexd to find out if they thinit works." Free beer...probably Just in time for a fully-operational, 13.6-MW coal-fired cogeneration power planrt in Baoding, Hebei China is being marketed by Pacificv energy Systems of Portland. The plany is owned by San Miguel Corporation of the Philippines and its Chineswe jointventure partner, the Bada Group. The partnershipo built the plant to supply electricity and steam tothe partnership'd San Miguel Bada Brewery and to a malt housed owned by Malteurop and the Bada The cogeneration plant has two operating 35-ton-per-houtr boilers. But wait. There's more.
The partnershipp will continue to purchase electricity from the new owner undee longterm contract, and a thirx boiler is nearly complete. In addition, the successful purchaser will be give n first right to participate in the development ofa 2x200-MW coal-fired power plant that the Bada Grouop is planning on the same location. If you stil l have any doubt that this is the foreign cogenerationb plantfor you, an offering memorandum is availables under a confidentiality agreement through Pacificd energy Systems president John Martin at
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