News

Today in City Hall: Restaurants to propose tough regulations for food trucks
Buffalo News (blog)
Curtin's proposed ordinance imposes many more rules on the trucks, though the biggest may be prohibiting the trucks from operating within 100 feet from any private property containing "commercial or residential dwellings" without permission from the ...

Paul Davis Provides Spring Storm Safety Tips
Stockhouse
Paul Davis Restoration, Inc., a national franchise company and leading provider of water damage cleanup and fire damage restoration services for residential and commercial properties, offers the following tips for protecting life and property. Have a ...

and more »

Daily Yonder
Buried Alive: Grain Bin Suffocations Persist
Daily Yonder
Yet at worksites, farmers and commercial operators keep making the same mistakes. Workers, some of them young, keep drowning in grain or getting hurt. ... After taking charge — “We purchased it for the storage of our grain rather than building more ...

and more »

Des Moines City Council discusses crosswalk, construction
DesMoinesRegister.com
The Des Moines City Council discussed a range of topics Monday, including land use plans and construction projects. Highlights included: • Riverwalk signal: The council approved a new high-intensity activated crosswalk signal, known as a HAWK signal, ...

Grand jury finds lack of funds at Yuba County Airport
Appeal-Democrat
"The grand jury finds insufficient funds are allocated to the airport to accomplish normal maintenance and beautification of airport property," the letter states. The board is scheduled to consider the letter at its 9:30 ... "The taxiways should be ...

Construction begins on gas-fired Garrison Energy Center
The News Journal
Calpine selected Norwegian heavy construction firm Kvaerner as general contractor for the Garrison Energy Center, a combined-cycle natural gas generating station on part of a 400-acre industrial site off White Oak Road, which it will lease from the city.

Bank branch construction resumes after stop orders
Yale Daily News (blog)
Nearly two weeks after an order from the state's Labor Department halted construction, work has resumed on an Amity branch of Chase Bank, the retail arm of banking giant JPMorgan Chase. The branch — which is located no more than 20 feet from the New ...

Riders out in cold after buses cease
Great Falls Tribune
Billings-based Rimrock Stages, which does business as Rimrock Trailways, received an Imminent Hazard Operations Out-of-Service Order late Friday afternoon that cites failure to ensure the commercial motor vehicles are property inspected, repaired and ...

and more »

Inman.com
NYC broker's search tool surfaces bargains
Inman.com
A new tool from New York City-based discount brokerage RealDirect Inc. gives homebuyers the inside scoop on which homes might be the best deals in The Empire City. Based on a custom algorithm designed to suss out and analyze comparable homes, ...

and more »

New construction planned on pastoral land housing Catholic nuns in Mission ...
San Jose Mercury News
FREMONT -- New construction projects are in the works to provide better housing for Catholic nuns in separate orders residing in the Mission San Jose district. One proposal, from the Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose, would give nuns a bigger ...

and more »

The Malaysian Insider
Analyst calls for March 26
The Malaysian Insider
On the corporate front, stocks that may be in the limelight today include: (a) TRC Synergy, following the announcement that it has teamed up with Syarikat Prasarana Negara Bhd to develop a commercial-residential project with RM688m GDV; and (b) Alam ...

and more »

Construction Boom May Prompt Otis to Build Plant: Southeast Asia
Bloomberg
Demand from Indonesia, Vietnam and Malaysia is increasing while economic growth and construction in India have prompted the United Technologies Corp. (UTX) unit to expand capacity at its Bangalore factory, Baranda said. There are 0.2 elevators per ...

and more »

Inman.com
RentHop fingers 'convenience premium' on NYC rentals
Inman.com
Rental listing service RentHop has released a report that attempts to gauge the premiums renters in Manhattan pay for certain conveniences. One of the main findings of the analysis is that renters tend to pay higher "convenience premiums" for two ...

The Construction Index
San Antonio construction sector adds 1100 jobs in January
San Antonio Business Journal (blog)
The Brownsville/Harlingen metro area, for example, was singled out in the AGC report for adding a high percentage of new construction jobs to company payrolls. The Brownsville area had 3,100 construction jobs last January. A year later, that number had ...
Construction Employment Increasing, AGC SaysRental Equipment Register (registration)
AGC: Nevada among states gaining construction jobsReno Gazette-Journal
Construction Employment Increases in 145 Metro AreasConstruction Equipment
GSA Business
all 6 news articles »

I-94 construction to lower speed limits, create jobs
WGNtv.com
Commuters going to and from the far north suburbs will likely face some backups in the coming months. Interstate 94 from Highway 173 to the Wisconsin state line is undergoing a $29 million facelift. Drivers can expect shoulder closures, reduced lanes ...

List: Construction projects at Palo Alto VA
San Jose Mercury News
Size: 35,000 square feet new construction, 15,000 square-foot renovation. Budget: $80 million. Use: Combines radiology, adds 750-stall parking garage and moves road behind the VA campus. Schedule: Opening in summer, 2015. Spinal Cord Injury Addition ...

and more »

Mediaite
Pointless: Karen Finney And Aurora Survivor Bust Gun Nut Talking Points
Mediaite
Because it's nobody's business what I own. ... You can use a non-registered, non-insured car on your private property anytime, anywhere for any reason and drive it 120 miles an hour with no driver's license and the government can't do squat about it ...

Montgomery-based construction company to pay US $1.5 million to settle ...
al.com (blog)
MONTGOMERY, Alabama -- A Montgomery-based construction company has agreed to pay the United States $1.5 million to settle allegations that it falsely hired and mentored a Native American-owned company to work on construction projects, according to ...
Montgomery construction company to pay $1.15 million to resolve hiring allegationMontgomery Advertiser

all 4 news articles »

Bay State construction employment up in January
Boston Business Journal (blog)
Haverhill, North Andover and Amesbury saw the biggest rise in construction employment with the addition of 600 jobs in January, or 18 percent more than one year ago. Boston, Cambridge and Quincy added 9 percent more jobs in January to 50,800, up from ...

Scottsdale Firm Receives New Appointment
AZFamily
After inspection, Resolute began initial work on issues surrounding the condition of the property. In addition, efforts were focused on ... Resolute Commercial Services was founded in 2008 by Jeremiah Foster and John Mitchell. Joan Brubacher serves as ...