By Matthew Bruce Correspondent February 7, 2012 1:32PM

Updated: February 7, 2012 11:08PM

Orland Park officials have given the go-ahead for construction of an 80-unit senior apartment building on Harlem Avenue.

Thomas Place of Orland Park would provide affordable housing for area seniors, according to the project’s developers, Ryan Cos. U.S. and Jim Bergman. Tinley Park-based Providence Life Services also will be part of the development team.

Construction of the four-story building, at the northeast corner of Harlem Avenue and Wheeler Drive, is expected to begin in the spring.

Orland trustees on Monday approved a pair of motions which finalized development agreements for Thomas Place.

Age-restriction guidelines require that at least one resident in each unit at Thomas Place be 55 or older, and income restrictions will apply, according to the developers. There will be 25 one-bedroom units and 55 two-bedroom units.

The monthly rents for the one-bedroom units will range from $355 to $895, and range from $422 to $1,095 for the two-bedroom units, the developers said.

Ryan officials have said the yearly earnings cutoff for eligible seniors will be 60 percent of the average median income. For single-family occupants, that amounts to an annual income of about $32,000, and roughly $36,000 for couples residing in the facility.

The complex will not accommodate assisted-living seniors.

The building is expected to be completed about a year from now, and pre-leasing will begin three months prior to occupancy, according to the developers.

The Orland Park development is the latest senior housing project in the Chicago area for Ryan Cos. and Bergman. They built Thomas Place apartment buildings in Fox Lake and Glenview, and are under way with a building in Gurnee.

The project was initially approved by Orland’s planning commission last March, but did not go before the village board until October, as Ryan awaited a state tax credit to help fund the development.

“The village has been great to work with,” said Richard J. Skrodzki, an attorney representing the developers. “They found us a good site, and have been nothing but helpful in bringing what I think is going to be a great project to the village. So we’re very pleased.”

Ryan Cos., which built the Brookside Marketplace shopping center in Tinley Park, previously had proposed a similar apartment building for that village, but plans fell through due to funding issues.

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Posted: Tuesday, February 7, 2012 12:00 am | Updated: 6:41 am, Tue Feb 7, 2012.

While walking through Downtown Lodi on Monday afternoon, business owner John Graffigna and Downtown Lodi Business Partnership Executive Director Jaime Watts occasionally stopped to point out where paint had almost completely chipped off lamp posts and dirt had discolored the sidewalks.

Graffigna, who owns Graffigna Fruit Company, and Watts are both in support of the formation of an improvement district to take care of a variety of maintenance issues in Downtown, including new coats of paint and power-washing the sidewalks.

"When you walk down the street or drive by it looks charming, but if you really look, it needs a lot of (tender loving care). ... It's the little details. If you power-washed everything, got the lights working and put plants in the pots, it would make a world of difference," Watts said.

A group of Downtown property owners are considering forming a Property and Business Improvement District, or a PBID. The district would consist of a group of property owners that vote to assess themselves an annual fee and then use the money to make improvements in Downtown.

The money is managed through a non-profit board made up of the property owners who have full control over how the money is spent, Watts said. It can go for regular maintenance, improved security, capital improvement projects or marketing the district.

The city, which owns property throughout Downtown, will also be required to pay an assessment, Watts said.

Property owners plan to hold a meeting on Thursday to share what type of projects they would want the PBID to do in Downtown. They are working with Civitas, a Sacramento-based consulting firm, to learn about the process to create the district.

The owners will likely decide at this meeting whether there is enough support to hire Civitas and move forward with the process, Watts said. She estimates it will cost about $100,000 to establish the district.

"The whole process is flexible," she said. "We are custom designing a plan that will work for everybody in Downtown."

John Della Monica, who owns DellaMonica Snyder Architects on Pine Street, said he knows many of the property owners would like to see uniform signage directing tourists from the highways to Downtown.

Della Monica also would like to see some of the improvements, like the sidewalks on School Street, expanded to other streets like Pine and Sacramento. He said it will make all of Downtown feel more integrated.

"It will just make it more viable in terms of the downtown core. Great downtowns have solid cores, but they also have the ancillary places tied to them, which makes walking around really nice," Della Monica said.

Della Monica said the appeal of the PBID is that the property owners will have full control over the money.

All of the property owners that assessed themselves to conduct the original Downtown improvements about 15 years ago finished paying their assessment in September, city spokesman Jeff Hood said.

The idea for a PBID originally started in 2006 with former City Manager Blair King, who suggested it as a way of keeping up with maintenance, Watts said. She often hears that the city of Lodi or the DLBP should pay for maintenance in Downtown, but the reality is that they do not have the money, Watts said.

Hood said it is up to the property owners if they want to create the district, and that it would pay for more services than the city can afford.

"The level of service in Downtown would be significantly higher than in other parts of the city where those amenities don't exist," he said.

One option on the table is that the property owners could decide to take on some of the tasks of the DLBP and the two could gradually merge into one organization, Watts said. The two organizations could also co-exist, she said, depending on what plan emerges.

The PBID would provide a more stable source of funding than the DLBP, Watts said. One of the main reasons is because business owners often will not pay their assessment if they are going out of business, while property owners are forced to pay regardless of whether they have tenants in the building.

The city also is required to pay a set amount for its properties, as opposed to now, where the Lodi City Council decides every year how much to give the DLBP. Since the DLBP was founded in 1998, the city's funding for the organization has been slashed in half, Watts said. Donations and sponsorships have also drastically shrunk with the economy.

"It needs to be done. There was a huge investment in Downtown, and for us to let it go is reckless and irresponsible," Watts said.

PBIDs have been used in a variety of districts, including small towns or large cities with hundreds of businesses, Civitas project manager Verna Sulpizio said. The goal of the districts is to go above and beyond what city services can provide, Sulpizio said.

"City budgets can fluctuate. While they are required to give a certain amount of services to an area, that can change year-to-year. PBIDs give property owners more control over what type of services their area receives," Sulpizio said.

Because property owners create the district, as opposed to business owners, there is usually uniform vision, she said.

"Property owners can look through a longer lens and think longer-term for the district, as opposed to a merchant who is looking for their next sale," Sulpizio said.

For Graffigna, whose family has owned property in Downtown for 60 years, the main concern is making sure that Downtown remains viable for business owners and customers.

"Keeping Downtown clean promotes business and can help us rent out some of the empty spaces. ... We need to make things a little more inviting for people to come down," he said.

Watts said that improving Downtown's appearance it will also help with local events.

"We spend all this time and energy putting on events, and we need to make sure the backdrop is beautiful," she said.

Contact reporter Maggie Creamer at maggiec@lodinews.com. Read her blog at http://www.lodinews.com/blogs/citybuzz.

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In the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth, including a form of igneous rock called granite, a mass composed mostly of silica and aluminum that makes up a large part of the continental crust, and comes in all the colors of the rainbow and signifies majesty and serenity. On the kajillionth day, or thereabouts, we mined that granite and we made countertops.

We laid those countertops in kitchens all across the land, in condos and co-ops, in Pittsburgh and Portland. Now that the entire United States has been good and covered, from slab to shining slab, we can take a step back and analyze the age of the granite countertop. Think about what it’s all meant.

It’s meant that we wanted something easy to clean.

What else does it mean?

The Kellys, Paul and Joyce, bought the house 30 years ago, from the ex-wife of the guy who built it. He’d designed it in the spirit of a California rambler, then run off to actual California, leaving his ex to live in his dream. The place was a disaster back then — oh, you should have seen it — powder-blue carpet, white grand piano. And the kitchen? Walls, blocking the dining room, blocking the view down to the river. Formica abounded, or maybe it was another kind of laminate. Paul redid those countertops in the 1990s. He used tile, which was popular then. The Kellys lived with the tile for 20 years, but it was the kind of countertop that you could scrub and scrub and never get to sparkle.

“It was starting to rot, and the grout was all yicky,” explains Joyce.

Some women in her book club were getting new kitchens. Several of them on this Silver Spring block — bip bip bip, all in a row, new countertops. It became a thing as they all decided they wanted to age in place, but not if their places had disgusting kitchens. Joyce looked at her friends’ ambitious kitchen plans, and decided it was time. In October, the Kellys went to a granite dealer. They ordered granite countertops.

“This was the most expensive granite they had,” says Joyce, explaining that they splurged on materials and saved by doing the installation themselves. “It has totally fabulous flow.”

“Joyce walked in and immediately bonded with the granite,” says Paul, a retired mathematician.

“It’s very hip. It has green and rust,” Joyce says, which brings out the cherry in the cabinets. It has a name: Crema Bordeaux. Anywhere in the world, granite of this color is called Crema Bordeaux, just like anywhere in the world, an Ikea Poang chair is an Ikea Poang chair. “Just look at it.”

It looks — it looks like granite. It looks like lovely granite, but granite is in the eye of the beholder, and the unique characteristics of one’s own granite are not immediately apparent to a newcomer. One’s own granite sings a special siren song. All around the country, couples leave parties and get in their cars and say to each other, “I’m so glad we went with the Santa Cecilia instead of the Kashmir Gold.”

Joyce pauses. She looks concerned.

“I would be more comfortable,” she says, “if we were talking about something that was important.” Something that mattered. She is not a frivolous person. She knows the difference between what matters and what doesn’t.

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Watch Werner Herzog diss chickens for being stupid--VIDEO: slate.me/x4OjIu

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It delivers what it promises: Werner Herzog lighting in to poultry.

Which cataclysmic disasters are Twitter users worried about? Our Doomsday #Preppers dashboard has answers: on.natgeo.com/y2DWM9

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Online retailer for drapery hardware and decorative curtain rods offers window fashions in time for winter.

Orlando, Florida (PRWEB) February 07, 2012

Continental Window Fashions, the online authority in interior window décor and hardware retail, announces their catalog of curtain rods and drapery hardware. The online collection includes products from designer manufacturers such as Paris Texas Drapery Hardware, ONA, the Finial Company, Graber Curtain Rods, and a premium collection from Kirsch Drapery Hardware.

With six more weeks of winter dialed in, the chillier season means entertaining season. But with the chaos this time of year can bring, few can afford quality interior decorators and products. Affordable and fashionable designs from Continental allow the everyday customer be their own interior decorator.

Continental CEO David Wright brings over 17 years of experience in the industry and drives his business’s online catalog not only to deliver the highest quality window fashions, but educate his customers on the latest products and designs.

Continental Window Fashions’ online catalog offers thousands of decorative drapery rods, finials, curtain rod brackets, curtain rings, curtain holdbacks and specialty window curtain drapery hardware for any application or decor taste.

For warmer, more welcoming interior feels this winter, Continental offers a range of premium and budget wooden window treatments. Also, for the families who do not favor wooden hardware, the Florida-based retailer offers metal curtain rods with steel, brass and wrought iron curtain rod and final solutions to better accommodate the more modern home decors.

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Continental Window Fashions is an on-line retailer offering drapery hardware, window treatments and premium bedding from popular companies like Kirsch, Graber, Robert Allen, Ona, Croscill and Veratex. Located just outside Orlando, FL Continental Window Fashions ships thousands of items throughout the United States and the world every year.

CEO David Wright boasts with over 17 years experience in the industry. David was born and raised in Winter Park, FL where he now resides. Wright’s passion is to assist every customer who visits his web site become just a little more curtain rod savvy, by offering expert advice for free.

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Arlington remodeler Michael Sauri, founder and president of TriVistaUSA, won two "Grand" first place awards for remodeling projects at the Capital CotY (Contractor of the Year) Awards presented on January 23, 2012, by the Metro DC Chapter of the National Association of the Remodeling Industry.

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Arlington remodeler Michael Sauri, founder and president of TriVistaUSA, won two "Grand" first place awards for remodeling projects at the Capital CotY (Contractor of the Year) Awards presented on January 23, 2012, by the Metro DC Chapter of the National Association of the Remodeling Industry. Sauri won the two Grand CotY awards in the categories of Commercial interior and Residential Basement Interior.

Sauri also won a Merit award in the category of Creative Solutions under $15,000 and a Finalist award in the category of Residential Addition $100 to $250,000.

Renovating a Commercial Interior in Georgetown

Sauri's prize-winning commercial interior involved gutting and remodeling the second floor of a 200-year-old historic office building in Georgetown, with active retail below and operational space on two floors above. The space belongs to the Bullitt Agency, an international booking agency for musicians and DJs.

Bullitt's office space didn't suit its image. Sauri and his crew had to follow complicated architectural designs to create a 21st century European look in this early 19th century space. Sauri's team completely gutted the second floor, leaving a clean interior, where they created a 13'x18' private office for the company president and a work area of 30'x55' with a designated lounge/lunch area set off by a counter at the back of the workspace.

Sauri updated the function of the space to "wired" 21st century, with integrated telephone, cable, a/v and security systems, with trendy Italian furnishings, exposed industrial lighting and a Plexiglas wall which allows light but not sound to penetrate from the president's private office to the open work area.

Rebuilding the Basement of a 90-Year-Old Bungalow

Sauri's residential basement renovation included raising a 90-year-old stucco bungalow in Arlington off of the old, crumbling basement wall, using jacks and steel beams at 11 pressure points, building up the height of the basement wall by three feet and then placing the house back down on the new, reinforced basement wall. The renovation included reorganizing the basement into a family room with a piano, bathroom, laundry room, woodworking shop, utility area and storage under the front porch.

The old basement was barely six feet in height, but in some places it was only five feet because of plumbing and ductwork hanging down from a previous addition. The basement was unusable for anything except non-critical storage; ground water leaked almost continually in some places. Working with a structural engineer, Sauri applied for county permits and received permission to raise the house. There were substantial savings: raising the house, rather than digging down, saved the homeowners $30,000 to $50,000 because Sauri did not have to remove dirt and pour concrete.

Sauri is an Award-Winner

After practicing remodeling for five years as a hobby, Michael Sauri incorporated his remodeling company, TriVistaUSA in 2005. He is licensed in Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia. In 2006, Sauri hit the big time, when he was featured on the HGTV renovation series, “Curb Appeal.” He completed three projects that were featured on Curb Appeal in 2006 through 2008 and are still featured in reruns.

In May 2011, Sauri was chosen one of the "Big 50" Remodelers in the U.S. by Remodeling Magazine. In the 25 years of the program, only 1,800 remodelers have been chosen for this elite group - out of 62,000 remodeling firms in the U.S.

Sauri received a Green Home Choice Award from Arlington County in May 2009 for his own home. In November 2010, Sauri was recognized as a finalist for an ECO CEO award from Washington Smart CEO Magazine in the category of Small Business Implementer.

Three of Sauri's projects received awards at the 2010 Capital CotY Awards on January 29, 2011, from the Metro DC NARI Chapter. Two of the winning projects are residential exterior renovations and one is a complete renovation/restoration of an historic 19th century farmhouse. One of the exterior renovations - a porch - was featured on the website of remodeling guru Bob Villa.

In 2007, TrivistaUSA won two CotY (Contractor of the Year) awards from NARI (National Association of the Remodeling Industry). In 2008, two more CotYs followed.

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LONDON, February 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --

Gaash Lighting, an innovative manufacturer and developer of high-quality lighting, will present advanced outdoor and indoor lighting solutions for the commercial and industrial sectors at the ARC Show, which will take place in London on 29 February-1 March 2012.

Gaash Lighting will showcase its lighting fixtures at the company's booth G2, at the Business Design Center.

All Gaash products are specifically designed to generate significant energy savings, high light efficiency and offer maximum flexibility.  

Gaash will present, among others, the following solutions:

Decorative outdoor LED street lighting - the Venus, Polaris Top and Uranus LED are functional and stylish LED fixtures for illuminating main roads, streets, open public grounds, parks, public gardens, and more. Interior lighting - the Meteor MS LED line is an innovative luminaire, which provides both direct and indirect lighting. The advanced design concept and soft and restful ambiance makes it ideal for illuminating offices, boardrooms, hospital wards, etc. Interior lighting for industry, halls and sporting venues - the Pentalight Centro is a low profile luminaire for the illumination of high and low bay halls, warehouses, and more.

"The ARC show will provide European lighting distributors, OEM's and importers with an excellent opportunity to get acquainted with Gaash's advanced LED lighting solutions," said Asaf Cikman, general manager of Gaash Lighting. "It will also give us an opportunity to demonstrate our proven abilities to provide tailor-made high-quality lighting solutions at reasonable prices."  

Gaash products are known for their reliability, ease of installation and maintenance. With most products predominantly designed and manufactured in-house.

About Gaash Lighting

Gaash Lighting is an innovative developer and manufacturer of high-quality lighting solutions for the commercial and industrial sectors. All Gaash's products are designed and manufactured in-house at the company's extensive, state-of-the-art facilities, which includes an on-site photometric laboratory.

Founded in 1964, Gaash sells its products worldwide. All of Gaash's products adhere to local standards and regulations in the Americas, the Far East and Europe.

For information about Gaash Lighting, visit http://www.gaash.com. To arrange a meeting with a company representative at the ARC show, email: info@gaash.com.

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I NDIANAPOLIS -- Tom Lewand did his usual drive-by at the Super Bowl this year.

He showed his face at a few league functions, made small talk over a couple of meals, and by the time the Giants and Patriots kicked off Super Bowl XLVI on Sunday night, the Lions' president was back home, far from the spectacle of the game.

"For me, it's always a reminder that we're one of the 30 teams that isn't here, and that's not what we aspire to," Lewand explained of his annual pilgrimage home before kickoff. "I used to come down to Super Bowls with Roger Penske before we hosted because Roger was our chair of the host committee and Roger would always wonder why I left on Saturday night or Sunday morning, 'What are you doing?'

"I said, 'Roger, if your car doesn't qualify for the Indy 500 in the month of May, do you stick around for the race?' And he said, 'Say no more. I'll see you back in Detroit.' That's the feeling that you get here more than anything else."

Lewand's approach is understandable. Plenty of players in the NFL do the same. They want nothing to do with the Super Bowl until they're in one.

But had he chosen to stay Sunday, Lewand would have seen the Giants validate his team's blueprint with a thrilling 21-17 victory at Lucas Oil Stadium.

New York won its second championship in four years with the same plan the Lions hope will pay off for them. Start with a cold-blooded quarterback on offense, mix in a dominant pass rush on defense, let the two marinate with some good personnel moves and harden into a Super Bowl ring.

Designing a brilliant building isn't the same as constructing one. You need the right materials and the best workers, and there are 31 other architects in the NFL eyeing the same piece of real estate.

But to the Lions' credit, they appear to have a foundation in place.

Matthew Stafford isn't in Eli Manning's class as a quarterback yet, but he has the talent to be. He just threw for 5,000 yards, the fourth player in NFL history to accomplish that feat, and he turns 24 today, the same age Manning was when he became a full-time starter in his second season in the league.

Manning, of course, has two titles and two Super Bowl MVPs to his name -- Tom Brady, Joe Montana, Terry Bradshaw and Bart Starr are the only other players with that distinction -- and after 119 straight starts he has a staying power Stafford can't claim yet.

Likewise, the Giants have constructed a defensive line that, through four years and countless changes, has been the fuel for two Super Bowl runs. Justin Tuck, one of the few holdovers from New York's Super Bowl XLII team, had two sacks in both games, but Jason Pierre-Paul replaced Michael Strahan as the Giants' top pass rusher, and New York has new starters at both defensive tackle positions.

The Lions have cornerstone pass rushers in Ndamukong Suh and Cliff Avril, a pending free agent who's likely to return to Detroit, and general manager Martin Mayhew has made no bones about his desire to keep the line well-stocked for years to come.

Mayhew jumped at the chance to draft defensive tackle Nick Fairley 13th overall last year, adding to a position of strength, and it wouldn't surprise anyone if he winds up with another pass rusher in April.

Beyond Avril's contract situation, Corey Williams and Lawrence Jackson are entering the final years of their deals and at 33 there's no telling how much longer Kyle Vanden Bosch will be around.

Coach Jim Schwartz said last week it's impossible to tell how close teams really are to winning a Super Bowl in the NFL. The last two winners needed victories at the end of the regular season to get in the playoffs, got hot and went on miraculous postseason runs.

The NFC will be a grind next season. Manning and the Giants aren't going anywhere, the Packers are still the team to beat in the NFC North, the Saints and 49ers are coming off 13-win seasons, and the Bears were a playoff-caliber team until Matt Forte and Jay Cutler got hurt.

But the Lions at least have a plan in place that has been tried and tested and proven to work.

"I think we're close," Stafford said. "I think we've got some steps to make. Obviously, there's teams year in year out that make it to the playoffs and don't go back to the playoffs for a couple more years. Hopefully we can avoid that, we can be smart enough and tough enough to go out there and make it back to the playoffs, and then anything can happen from there."

Contact Dave Birkett: 313-222-8831 or dbirkett@freepress.com. Follow him on Twitter @freeplions.

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Wal-Mart Canada will spend $750 million to add 4.6 million square feet of retail space and 14,000 jobs in Canada this year, a release said Tuesday.

The world's largest retailer plans to complete 73 expansion or renovation projects across Canada this year, which would make it Wal-Mart's busiest year on record in this country.

The jobs estimate combines in-store positions plus construction jobs during store remodellings.

More than half of the planned projects will be to convert 39 former Zellers stores into Wal-Marts after the company bought leaseholds from the discount chain in June 2011.

Wal-Mart, which first set up shop in Canada in 1994, currently has 333 stores across the country and plans to have 375 by January 2013. The company currently employs 85,000 people.

The move is in part a response to the launch of Target stores in Canada. The U.S. discount chain is in the process of converting dozens of Zellers stores into Target locations to open over the spring and summer.

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