Wednesday, July 27, 2011
ARCO completes $10M Visteon facilty in Eureka - Business First of Columbus:
that will supply Chrysler's St. Louis North Assembly Plantf with interiorfinish products, the companuy announced Friday. Global automotive supplied (NYSE: VC) is leasing and operating the 217,000-square-foot office, manufacturing and distribution facilityg in EurekaCommercial Park. The new facilityg will help Visteon's manufacturing capabilities meet Chrysler'sx production schedule at Chrysler's North Assembly Plant in nearby Mo. The plant has 14,50 0 square feet of office spaceand 202,500 square feet of manufacturing/distribution The plant's employees, expected to be about 240 people, will produce cockpit modules, door trim and instrument panels.
Visteon, located in Van Buren Mich., designs, engineers and manufacture s products forvehicle manufacturers. Joining ARCO on the projectf areGateway Homebuilders, developer; GMA Design Groupo Inc., architect; Cole & Associates Inc., civil engineer; McNealy structural engineer; Kaemmerlen Electric Co. and Kaiserf Electric Inc., electrical engineers; Icon Mechanical, mechanicall engineer; Kent Plumbing plumbing contractor; Fire Tech LLC, fire suppression and CB Richard Ellis, commercial real estate St.
Louis-based ARCO Construction specializesin design-build office warehouse distribution centers, speculative warehouse health-care and medical development and construction, retail cold storage warehouses, commercial housing projects and light industrial projects.
Monday, July 25, 2011
Educating innovators and entrepreneurs in Nigeria - Washington Post (blog)
Educating innovators and entrepreneurs in Nigeria Washington Post (blog) Nigerians read newspapers on April 20, 2011, at a newspaper stand in Kano in northern Nigeria. (SEYLLOU DIALLO - AFP/GETTY IMAGES) Two new innovation centers are in the works in Nigeria. Both will offer prospective entrepreneurs a ... |
Friday, July 22, 2011
Hope Solo's delivers a kick that dunks George Lopez - USA Today (blog)
Hope Solo's delivers a kick that dunks George Lopez USA Today (blog) When Hope Solo's soccer career is over she shouldn't have any trouble finding carnival work. The goalie of the US women's World Cup team appeared on Lopez Tonight last night and answered George Lopez's challenge to drop him into ... |
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Big 12 football: Analyzing media poll - NewsOK.com (blog)
NewsOK.com (blog) | Big 12 football: Analyzing media poll NewsOK.com (blog) The Big 12 preseason media poll was released Wednesday, and no surprise at the top or the bottom. OU No. 1, Kansas No. 10. The Sooners drew 41 of the 43 first-place votes; Kansas drew 35 last-place votes, unless someone(s) voted the Jayhawks above ... |
Monday, July 18, 2011
First American affiliate buys Attleboro site - Portland Business Journal:
million. First American, on behalfr of an affiliate, bought a 5,650-square-foot buildintg called Building 5 anda three-story manufacturing facility called Buildinb 12. The Attleboro Corporate Campues was previously owned and occupied by and isa 300-acre mixed-usr office and industrial campus located just off Interstat 95 in Attleboro. Building 12 is leased to as it’s global manufacturing headquarters. Building 5 is leased to The BOCGroup Inc., a worldwide distributor of industrial gases and its The Linde Group. Preferred Unlimited Inc. is a 15-year-old commercial real estate firm which started as Preferred Real EstateInvestmentzs Inc. The company is headquartered in Pa.
First American Realty Inc. is a privately held investmen t and management firm basedin Mass. which acquires industrial and medicalpoffice properties.
Saturday, July 16, 2011
Roberts backs KU Cancer Center's push for NCI designation - Kansas City Business Journal:
Roberts, R-Kan., spoke at The ’sa Westwood medical building. He said that it now takes 10 year to 17 yearsand $1 billion to bring a new drug to which Roberts called a “national disgrace.” The Nationapl Cancer Institute said in Novembert that the KU Cancer Center has a 25, 2011, application date for its efforts to get an initiakl five-year designation as an NCI cancer The months-long application processd for institutions seeking new designations begins with submission of documentation that sometimes exceeds 1,000 pagee and includes a site visit and othetr steps. The earliest that KU Cancef Center’s application could be approved is the springof 2012.
64 cancer centers receive Cancer Center Support Grants to support research to reducethe incidence, morbidity and mortalityt rates of cancer. Therw are 23 cancer centers and 41 comprehensivcancer centers. The KU Cancer Center is part of , whichb is the medical research and education arm of the Universityhof Kansas. NCI designation — KU’s No. 1 priorithy — typically is granted to academicmedical centers. KU Medical Center is the entitu that will apply forNCI • Increased regional patient access to cutting-edge clinicalk trials. • More than $1.
3 billiob in annual economic benefits inthe • An increase in KU Cancer Center’s annual NCI financinf from the current $7.5 million to about $40 NCI-affiliated institutions also attract world-classd researchers who bring NCI grantw with them, and part of the estimated increas is based on that. Many of these researchers doubldas clinicians, adding expertise and depth in various cancer-care sub-specialties.
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Bill OKs MARTA food, drink sales - Atlanta Business Chronicle:
Lawmakers unanimously passed legislation that would let the transigt agency sell food and drinks at stationsw alongthe system, a proposal that could generat several million dollars a year. The bill already passed the whereit originated, so it heads next to Gov. Sonny Perdude for his signature. The other MARTA funding bill’s prospects are more complicated. The Senatw overwhelmingly passed legislation last month allowing MARTA to use all of its salees tax money for Undercurrent law, the agencyg must divide those tax receipts 50-50 betwee operations and capital The House then took a position much closed to the status quo than the voting to let MARTA steefr 60 percent of its salees taxes into operations but requiring it to set asidw the other 40 percent for capitalk costs.
MARTA General Manager and CEO Beverly Scott that withouft fullfunding flexibility, the system could be forced to eliminatew service one day a week or on