Chicago, IL (PRWEB) March 12, 2014

Construct-A-Lead, the Construction Industrys most efficient construction lead service, reported today that the following New York construction projects will have the necessary approvals and will go forward. Businesses will have ample opportunities to provide construction bids and other services relative to these projects. Those interested parties are encouraged to visit construct-a-lead.com and reference the Project ID listed below to obtain direct contact information for each construction lead:

Queens, NY Flushing Commons - Plans call for the new construction of a 1.8 million SF redevelopment to include 600 condominiums, retail, commercial space, medical office space, 62,000 square-foot YMCA, and a parking garage for 1,600 vehicles. Construction start: Spring, 2014, estimated. $850,000,000 Project ID: 1324401

New York, NY 610 Lexington Ave - Plans call for the new construction of a 711-foot-tall, 91-unit luxury condominium tower to include commercial and office space. Construction start: Q4, 2014, Q1, 2015, $500,000,000. Project ID: 1323903

Clifton Park, NY - Clifton Park Hotel Plans call for the new construction of a 90 to 100 room hotel. Construction start: Q3, 2014. $10,000,000 Project ID: 1322436

Schenectady, NY Steinmetz High School Plans call for the renovation of high school classrooms, enhancing science laboratories, roof upgrades, as well as plumbing and other infrastructure work. Construction start: Q1, Q2, 2017. $17,500,000 Project ID: 1323016

New York, NY Barneys New York Plans call for the new construction of a 57,000 SF store on the site of a former Barneys flagship store. Preliminary plans also include a Freds restaurant. Construction start: Q3, Q4, 2014, estimated. $15,000,000 Project ID: 1320711

Amsterdam, NY St. Mary's Healthcare - Plans call for the new construction of an outpatient building to house its cancer medicine program, as well as imaging, labs and an urgent care. Construction start: Spring, 2014. $18,000,000 Project ID: 1318991

Syracuse, NY Skyler Commons - Plans call for the new construction of a five-story, 100-unit apartment building, with one-bedroom units. Project will have 55 parking spaces, including 30 in a basement garage. Construction start: July, 2014, $20,000,000. Project ID: 1323008

Albany, NY Broadway Arcade Plans call for the renovation and conversion of the five-story, vacant building into 68 apartments, and 12,600-square-feet of retail space. Construction start: Q2, Q3, 2014, estimated. $10,000,000 Project ID: 1322847

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After he and his friends cleared snow from the ground on Feb. 27, Wilber Medina, 18, did tricks in the skateboard park that is part of Woodside Park in Silver Spring.

Silver Spring wants more green space, but county officials say challenges traffic, location, cost and design could stand in the way.

We dont have enough green space, said John Marcolin, urban designer at the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission. You cant just throw grass and trees and call it green space.

According to the Green Space Guideline for the Silver Spring Central Business District, 57 open spaces cover 32.61 acres in Silver Spring. The average open area is 0.57 acres.

The guideline says urban parks can bring economic benefits to surrounding neighborhoods and increase property values.

The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission acquired the largest consolidated area of public space Jesup Blair Park, which has 24 acres in 1943, according to the guide. Jesup Blair Park has a playground, a softball field, a baseball field, and two lighted tennis courts. There also is a picnic area, and the Hillandale Recreation Building is available for rent.

The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission has recognized three possible areas for a park. The commission considered how often the community will use the spaces and possible access points.

Among them are Parking Lot 3 between Thayer and Silver Spring avenues; the Giant parking lot on East-West Highway; and land surrounding Progress Place, a facility owned by Montgomery County that houses Shepherds Table.

The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission analyzed each space for potential users, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and challenges.

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Toronto, Canada (PRWEB) March 12, 2014

Clean-Slate Janitorial Services (http://www.clean-slate.ca), a Greater Toronto Area-based professional cleaning company that specializes in commercial office cleaning, retail maintenance, floor restoration, carpet cleaning, and construction site cleanup, is pleased to announce it has added the NaceCare TTQ3035 floor scrubber to its list of advanced janitorial products to better serve its clients in the GTA.

Because businesses use different types of carpet, flooring, and tiles, its important to be as up-to-date as possible with the most advanced cleaning products and techniques, says Sam Panousis, owner and operator of Clean-Slate Janitorial Services. When it comes to having office floors cleaned, regardless of their size, nothing is as quick and efficient as the NaceCare TTQ3035 scrubber.

With spring just around the corner, Panousis notes that many businesses in the GTA will be looking for convenient, affordable ways to get their offices professionally cleaned. Thats why Clean-Slate has incorporated the NaceCare TTQ3035 scrubber, which is designed to be compact, easy to operate, and exceptionally manoeuvrable. Its deep scrubbing action ensures optimal deep cleaning performance and is ideal for all types of floors, including grouted tile, which is often found on office floors and walkways in stores, shops, and restaurants.

Panousis explains that advanced industrial, commercial, and retail floor cleaning equipment such as the NaceCare TTQ3035 is designed to maximize productivity and minimize total operating costs.

At Clean-Slate Janitorial Services, we know the importance of maintaining a clean office or retail space; its the first thing a customer sees when they enter a place of business, Panousis concludes. Our addition of the NaceCare TTQ3035 was done to better serve the needs of our clients, something weve been doing successfully in Vaughan, the GTA, and the surrounding areas for almost 10 years.

Clean-Slate Janitorial Services has been serving commercial customers in the Greater Toronto Area, including downtown Toronto, Vaughan, Mississauga, Brampton, and Markham, for eight years. Services provided by Clean-Slate Janitorial Services include commercial office cleaning, retail management and janitorial services, floor restoration and buffing, carpet cleaning, window and blind cleaning, and construction site cleanup. To learn more about Clean-Slate Janitorial Services and to get a free quote, visit the companys web site at http://www.clean-slate.ca or call 416-509-7454.

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HOA Management (.com) is proud to announce a new advertising partnership with The Falcon Group. The Falcon Group has a team of highly-skilled professionals, offers comprehensive civil, structural & MEP engineering as well as architectural and energy consulting services to multi-family residential, commercial and educational facilities.

The Falcon Group has partnered with HOA Management (.com) to advertise their services to community associations and property management companies regionally that are actively searching for architectural services. As a result of the new partnership, The Falcon Group will appear on the HOA Management (.com) vendor directory. To learn more about The Falcon Group, visitors to the directory can view their profile page on HOA Management (.com). This page allows users to contact The Falcon Group in a number of ways. These include a direct hyperlink to their website, a current phone number, and an email contact form.

The Falcon Groups depth of capability with existing multi-family and single-family developments provides them with a wealth of insight, and foresight, regarding potential construction problems and deficiencies. The Falcon Group is well equipped to support Community Associations at every phase of the transition. They evaluate virtually every facet of this crucial process, including building plan review and analysis, resident surveys, detailed interior and exterior inspections, and more. Each Reserve Funding Analysis The Falcon group performs is a customized study, prepared in coordination with their Reserve Specialist and client.They have many licensed Reserve Specialists on staff through CAI. The CAI's Reserve Specialist designation is awarded to experienced, qualified professionals who help condominium, cooperative and homeowner associations plan for the long-term repair and replacement of major components.

HOA Management (.com) is a leading HOA property management directory that uses targeted marketing strategies to reach out to community associations and offer them free access to its online directory. Association residents and board members are able to connect with professional management companies and service providers in their local area by searching on the HOA Management (.com) directory. To learn more about HOA Management (.com), visit http://www.hoamanagement.com or email sales(at)hoamanagement(dot)com.

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In the 100-plus years since founder Daniel W. Mead started the business, Mead & Hunt has grown substantially, even helping uild the Hoover Dam in 1928. Its now ranked as the largest Wisconsin-based engineering and architectural professional services firm in Wisconsin.

Mead was an internationally recognized hydrology and hydraulic engineering expert when he established his Chicago-based consulting firm in 1900. He moved to Madison in 1904 to an office on State Street. Henry Hunt, an electrical and civil engineer, became a partner in the firm in the early 1930s. Growth through this partnership allowed Mead & Hunt to diversify into other engineering and architecture areas.

The firms services expanded to meet the countrys changing social needs. Civil and highway engineering were added as interstate highway networks were created. Airport planning and design supported the military during the 1940s. After World War II, the firms services grew to include architectural, structural, mechanical and electrical engineering when new housing, commercial and industrial buildings were needed.

Mead & Hunt provides professional services in planning, design, engineering and architecture serving nationwide markets that include aviation, dams and hydropower, energy, food, industrial, military, municipal infrastructure, mines and bridges. The company also provides historic preservation services. The business is employee-owned, with about one-third of employees owning company stock.

Their clients include governments at all levels local, state and federal entities that include military, airports, highways and bridge authorities, power companies, irrigation districts, utilities and mines, food processors and others.

Rajan Sheth, 64, current CEO and chairman of the board, joined Mead & Hunt in 1977 as a structural engineer. Originally from India, Sheth came to Madison in 1970 to attend graduate school at UW-Madison. He was named CEO and chairman of the board in 1994. Under his leadership, Mead & Hunt has grown to more than 30 offices nationwide and from 100 to 500 employees. Last year, Mead & Hunt earned more than $80 million in revenue.

Next time you fly out of Dane County Regional Airport, you may wonder who designed most of the taxiways, runways and the terminal building. It was Mead & Hunt, explained Sheth.

Mead & Hunt also was the lead firm designing the reservoir after the dam collapsed on Lake Delton and flooding washed out the highway near the lake in June 2008.

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SWEET HOME Speaking in Chinuk wawa, the native language of the Grand Ronde tribe, Michael Karnosh said Monday afternoon that his heart was very happy to be standing here today.

Karnosh was one of several dozen stakeholders who formalized their commitment to the South Santiam Community Forest Corridor concept by signing a declaration of cooperation at the Jim Riggs Community Center.

The Grand Ronde, Siletz and Warm Springs tribes have all participated in and support the process.

Other participants have included representatives of state and federal agencies, universities, the city of Sweet Home and private landowners, who have spent the last two years developing a long-term vision for the corridor of mixed ownership lands between Sweet Home and Cascadia.

Thomas Maness, dean of the Oregon State University school of forestry emceed the event and was a co-convener along with Cynthia Solie of the project supported by Gov. Kitzhabers Oregon Solutions program.

This is the culmination of a lot of hard work by a lot of people, Maness said. Im proud to be a part of it.

Maness said he sees three keys to success: effective leadership; courage to push forward; and persistence to overcome inevitable resistance from others.

The working group developed 12 key goals.

Those goals include:

Increasing the physical connection between Sweet Home and the Willamette National Forest via the South Santiam corridor.

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David Cameron is said to be considering making the job of immigration minister a Cabinet-level position and handing it to current party chairman Grant Shapps.

A senior Conservative Party source told The Huffington Post UK that the move could be made at the next reshuffle, expected at the end of May in the wake of the European parliamentary elections.

The change would allow Downing Street to stress the importance the prime minister places on addressing voters' concerns about immigration.

At present the job of immigration minister sits in the Home Office below home secretary Theresa May and is held by James Brokenshire.

The move would also permit Cameron to appoint a new chairman ahead of the 2015 general election and draw a line under what is likely to be a damaging third place finish for the party behind Labour and Ukip in the European elections.

The appointment could be seen as a demotion for Shapps, who was only made party chairman in September 2012 when he replaced Baroness Warsi.

Since then there have been some grumblings about his performance. The Conservatives slipped to third place behind Ukip in the Eastleigh, South Shields and Wythenshawe and Sale East by-elections. One Tory MP told the Daily Mirror in December that Shapps was a "dead man walking" as Cameron's election strategist Lynton Crosby wanted to ditch him.

Some conservative commentators have also been agitating for a new Tory chairman. The Daily Telegraph's Iain Martin recently said that while Shapps was "enthusiastic", the job should be given to education secretary Michael Gove.

The senior Tory source told HuffPost UK that Conservative business minister and former deputy party chairman Michael Fallon is being lined up for Shapps' job at CCHQ.

It was suggested that the new immigration job would not be a full cabinet minister post but it would allow the holder to attend cabinet meetings - as Baroness Warsi, Ken Clarke and Dominic Grieve do at present.

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A woman was inside her home with her nine-month-old baby, when suddenly she hears drilling at the doors.

A woman was inside her home with her nine-month-old baby, when suddenly she hears drilling at the doors.

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It's no secret Americans love meat.

It's no secret Americans love meat.

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Police are searching for the driver of a vehicle that hit a gas line in Pulaski County late Tuesday night.

Police are searching for the driver of a vehicle that hit a gas line in Pulaski County late Tuesday night.

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ELLWOOD CITY Placement of the truck detour for a bridge replacement project to begin this spring has threatened the Soap Box Derby-style tournament planned for later this year.

Earla Marshall of the Kitchen Cabinet, which is organizing the racing event, told the borough council on Monday that the inaugural 2014 tournament will have to be canceled if a venue is not determined and approved by council at next Mondays monthly meeting.

But borough council members said after Mondays council committee meeting that a site will be approved in time for plans to still go off.

Marshall said the delay in determining a location for the tournament has already deprived Kitchen Cabinet members of the opportunity of holding assemblies in Ellwood City Area schools to promote the event. With the PSSA tests coming up next month, district officials will not permit the organizers to hold an assembly.

We cannot formally put out information on the derby until a location is determined, Marshall told council Monday.

The Kitchen Cabinet is calling the event, scheduled for Sept. 27, the Main Drag Derby because it is not an official Soap Box Derby tournament. But Kitchen Cabinet members are consulting with organizers of the regional Soap Box Derby qualifier in Ambridge, Marshall said.

Ellwood City had played host to an official Soap Box Derby qualifier for nearly 40 years until the late 1960s, when the race was discontinued.

In January, Kitchen Cabinet members had proposed two locations along Line Avenue in the boroughs North Side, and Fourth Street near the Lawrence Avenue business district. But its possible that neither site will be acceptable.

Because of the ramps and grandstands necessary to hold the derby, any street used in the tournament would have to be closed for nearly 24 hours, until about 4 p.m. on race day.

That would preclude using the Fourth Street location for a derby this year, with replacement of the Second Street Bridge scheduled to begin this spring. A portion of Fourth Street including the area earmarked for the derby has been designated to serve as truck detour for the Second Street Bridge project, said council President Brad Ovial.

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The Mountrail County Health Center in Stanley will soon have a new emergency room.

The building's expansion and renovation will be a three phase project aimed at handling the town's recent population surge.

Bonnie Campo has more.

Just like other expanding hospitals in the state-- the Stanley health center has seen a dramatic increase in the number of patients in its waiting room, and phase one is almost complete.

(Sue Weston, Hospital Financial Officer) "The first phase has to do with remodeling the emergency room. Our service to the emergency room population has probably grown by fifty to sixty percent, and with that need comes the dramatic need for space. We have enclosed the ambulance bay for the convenience of the patients in the Fall weather conditions. We are adding a C-T scanner currently on site to help diagnose patients."

To help reach those goals--American Bank Center will donate $25-thousand each year over the next decade-- until their total dollar amount reaches of $250-thousand.

(Heath Hetzel, American Bank Center) "You know the hospital has really expanded with the population and the growth in western North Dakota. The things that are going on in the area with the medical needs. With the donation of the $250-thousand dollars we're very excited to partner with the hospital, and I think it's a very worthwhile cause, and look forward to seeing the expansion complete."

The banks donation will go towards the hospitals end goal of $6.25 million. Which will fund the next steps in the project.

(Sue Weston, Hospital Financial Officer) "The phase two expansion if for the clinic. It's to add exam rooms for the physicians, and the final phase has to do with their nursing home portion of the facility, and that last phase we have been waiting on for a number of years and that is just as important as the first two."

The completion of the project has yet to be confirmed until phase two is finished. In Stanley, Bonnie Campo, KX News.

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