Boost for Cork as 50m Albert Quay development gets go-ahead

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Planners have given the green light for a 50m, nine-storey office block which could deliver up to 2,000 jobs for Cork city.

Once complete in late 2015, Number 1 Albert Quay will have the capacity for 2,000 workers, with talks already under way with potential occupiers.

The project is one of the single largest private sector investments in the city in five years, and one of the largest office block developments in the city centre in decades.

The planning decision was heralded last night as a massive boost for the city centre, and for the city councils docklands regeneration plan.

Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney said the investment is a sign that Cork is moving in the right direction and an attractive place for business.

High-end office development and significant demand for it will revitalise Cork city centre and provide an additional economic boost to the area, he said.

Cork Chamber chief executive Conor Healy said as well as the boost from the construction jobs, the project would deliver a lasting benefit in terms of sustainable jobs.

This project will give the whole city a economic lift, he said.

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CARPENTERSVILLE Construction will start in April on a $6.5 million plan that gives new buildings to District 300 administrators and Oak Ridge School students, despite objections from skeptical parents and district employees.

After numerous roll calls on Monday, board members from the Carpentersville-based school district unanimously endorsed building plans and approved two contracts that put Elgin-based Dewberry Architects in charge of designing the projects by the end of March.

Facing a room full of district parents and residents, board members attempted to quell concerns from the audience that the district developed the project in secrecy. The administration publicly unveiled the building project for the first time two weeks ago.

"We aren't taking this (project) lightly," member Susie Kopacz said. "We have done our due diligence, but we need to do a better job of communicating that to the public."

The building changes move the roughly 80 students at the alternative Oak Ridge school to the administration's Central Office in Carpentersville and give the students a permanent home for the first time since the program started in 1998.

Construction crews will start $1.42 million in renovations to the near 15,000-square-foot Central Office by April 15, with a targeted completion by late July, according to the architect contract approved Monday. The converted office building should be open to students by the start of the 2014-15 school year, district officials said.

Dewberry architects will simultaneously design a new 32,000-square-foot, two-story office building for administrators by mid-March. Crews would then start constructing the $5.07 million building on district-owned property near Jacobs High School in Algonquin by April 15.

Administrators will use Hampshire High School as a temporary office until their new building is ready sometime in early 2015.

During the meeting, numerous parents urged members to table the project until the public had more opportunities to review the proposal and assess whether the relocation projects were the best options for the district. Administrators earlier reviewed the options the district exhausted to find a location for Oak Ridge students.

Billita Jacobsen, a support staffer at Lakewood Elementary, questioned the district's priorities and said conditions inside the elementary school are deteriorating.

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Quick links to other pages on this site | Still can't find it? see Site Index AP/The Augusta Chronicle/Sara CaldwellTree damage to a car is considered an automobile insurance claim. This vehicle in Augusta took a beating in the ice storm that socked the Southeast earlier this month.

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If a tree falls in the forest and there's no one there to hear it, then it probably didn't result in an insurance claim.

Different story if a tree falls on your house or car.

The most recent winter storm in South Carolina resulted in thousands of tree-related insurance claims and about $15 million in damage to homes, according to the industry-financed S.C. Insurance News Service. It's not clear how many vehicles were damaged by trees.

So what happens if a tree falls and smashes your home? Or shed? Or car?

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Whether it's your tree, a neighbor's tree, or a tree in the park, if it falls on your vehicle, it's an auto insurance claim. The claim would be covered under the "comprehensive" part of the policy, because you didn't hit the tree, the tree hit your car.

"It's typically treated as an 'act of God,' " said Russ Dubisky, executive director of the Columbia-based Insurance News Service.

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Councillors support leaning sycamore tree in Staindrop

2:00pm Sunday 23rd February 2014 in News By Duncan Leatherdale

COUNCILLORS have refused to allow a sycamore tree to be chopped down after their officer rejected claims that is unhealthy and in danger of falling.

Trevor Hutchinson had asked Durham County Council to overturn a Tree Preservation Order (TPO) the authority put on the sycamore in the grounds of Staindrop Hall on Front Street, Staindrop, in 2012.

But the councils planning committee decided to uphold the TPO after tree officer Rodger Lowe said it was a healthy specimen.

The sycamore is one of the few remaining trees in the grounds after plans for two houses to be built there were previously approved.

Consultant ecologist Stuart Johnson, who surveyed the tree at Mr Hutchinsons request, said the sycamore was infested with aphids and showed signs of tar spots which he claimed would lead to its long term decline.

He also said branch removal work which would have to be done in order to build the houses would leave the tree, which is already leaning, unstable and potentially cause it to fall.

The ecologist also said Mr Hutchinson would replace the sycamore tree, which has a life expectancy of around 30 years, with two young oaks which could last hundreds of years.

But Mr Lowe said the tree was in good health and there is no evidence of it being unstable, adding the lean has not got worse for a number of years.

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