Raymond Bernard Thrash was back in the balcony at Mount Vernon Baptist Church Sunday, once again doing something proper churchgoers would typically frown upon.

Fifty-odd years ago, when he was a boy, he sat there chewing bubble gum and eating candy _ being a kid - he recalled smiling broadly. Now, with worship services finished, he was taking snapshots of the place, and taking himself back in time.

Lots of church members joined Thrash in grabbing their final photos and thoughts of the Mount Vernon church building, which will soon fall to make way for a new football stadium for the Atlanta Falcons.

After 53 years at the corner of Martin Luther King Jr. and Northside drives, the church held its final service there Sunday morning. It was a three-plus hour event marked by a choir that threatened to take the walls down itself, and by a sweet, sad exit processional in which the 200 or so who attended followed the Rev. R.K. Turner down the center aisle and out of the sanctuary, never to return.

Mount Vernons congregation last September voted to approve a $14.5 million agreement to vacate, clearing the way for the Falcons to build on the land, which is located just south of the Georgia Dome where they now play.

A second, older, historic black church, Friendship Baptist, which sits just across the street from Mount Vernon, sold for $19.5 million, and also will move.

The church will have to be cleared out by Friday, said Turner, who is entering his 11th year as pastor. Preparations, necessarily, are well underway. Even as he preached his sermon, construction crews outside were working in the neighborhood. The stadium is slated to open in 2017.

Beginning next Sunday, the Mount Vernon congregation will hold services in its new temporary home at Carver College on Cascade Road in Atlanta. Turner said he has no idea for how long _ probably in the next few weeks well have some conclusion. But the goal, he said, is still to get back to its current neighborhood.

Thats been our goal from the beginning. This is where our legacy is, and this is where we would like to continue, he said. But well just have to see where it goes.

For the time being, he hopes congregants follow him to Carver.

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SINGAPORE: From the second half of this year, the government will make productive technologies like the Prefabricated, Pre-finished Volumetric Construction and Cross Laminated Timber part of tender conditions for certain government land sales sites.

It will also be further raising the minimum buildable design and constructability scores in September this year and then again in September 2015.

These measures to boost construction sector productivity were announced in Parliament on Monday.

Nanyang Technological University (NTU) is building Singapore's first multi-storey development using Prefabricated, Pre-finished Volumetric Construction or PPVC.

Successfully used in the US, UK and Australia, PPVC allows whole apartment-sized units, complete with internal fixtures, to be installed on-site.

The new hostel North Hill, which can house 1,800 students, is expected to be completed in end-2015.

Mr Paul Chain, Chief Executive Officer, NTU Development & Facilities Management, said: "We are expecting 40% of labour savings. We are using a bit more materials, so material cost will be higher, but I think if we control properly, the increase in cost ought to be marginal, should not be more than 5%-10%."

NTU is also adopting another new technology - Cross Laminated Timber - in the construction of its new sports hall.

The engineered timber can be used as structural and non-structural components in a building project.

Responding to Channel NewsAsia's query, the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said it supports initiatives aimed at raising construction productivity by leveraging new technologies, such as Cross Laminated Timber (CLT).

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How much is too much?

That's what some real estate insiders and lenders are saying about the surge in new luxury apartment units in downtown Madison.

The Cap Times cover story last week that took a look at the issue was the most-read story on captimes.com.

City figures show that in the "core downtown" area between Park and Blair streets, Madison added 396 apartment units in 2013, with an additional 1,440 either approved or under construction.

But the apartment building boom hasn't negatively impacted the downtown vacancy rate. In the fourth quarter of 2013, there were just 153 vacant units out of 11,400 available in the 53703 ZIP code (1.34 percent).

The most-viewed item last week was our gallery of archive and current-day photos of Carroll Street on the Capitol Square.

Here are the 10 most-viewed items on captimes.com from March 2 to March 8:

1. Photos: Capitol Square through the years: Carroll Street

2. Photos: The Ideal Apartments

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INDIANAPOLIS - Flowers, patios and racecars. Here's the scoop on some events this Monday in Indianapolis with #INDYTODAY.

Every day, we'll keep you in the loop on happenings in Indy. Today, there are a couple items on the to-do list that might tickle your fancy.

Indiana Flower and Patio Show

With more than 400 exhibitors and dozens of showcase gardens, this show is great both for those getting a jump-start on their spring and summer gardening, and for those just looking for a lovely time! All day long through Saturday, head to the Indiana State Fairgrounds West Pavilion and Expo Hall for the show.

Get a $3-off-general-admission coupon here. More information about the show here.

Racing academy hosts grand opening

The Rev Racing Motorsports Academy is hosting its grand opening from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday at its new location at 5294 E. 65th St. Attendees will get the chance to get behind the wheel of racecar simulators, get hands-on with motorsports and pit-crew equipment and interact with actual racecars.

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The tilt in the economic policy to facilitate urban sectors under the Nawaz Sharif government got a positive response from industry and services, which were somewhat unnerved by the PPPs policy to reverse the process of transfer of resources from the rural to urban sector.

Headline GDP for the first quarter of this fiscal was pleasantly surprising. The reported 5pc growth was better than most optimistic economic forecasts so far. The SBP, in its first quarterly report for 2013-14, released late last month, did raise questions about the sustainability of the trend and hinged the growth prospects on the implementation of structural reforms in the fiscal and energy sectors.

With fertiliser and paint industry leading, the large-scale manufacturing (LSM) sector posted an impressive growth, and with the help of the services sector, enabled GDP to grow by 5pc in the period under review. They also more than made up for the lag in growth of the agricultural sector.

Construction, retail and communication sectors are believed to have contributed to growth in services sector. According to the SBP report, nothing significant can be inferred about services till detailed information is available.

Experts attribute the better-than-expected performance of urban sectors primarily to two factors: better energy supply (gas/electricity) to industry, and the confidence of the business community in the Nawaz Sharif government. Their mistrust of the PPP manifested in the slow business expansion during the partys tenure of office.

During the PPPs rule (2008-13), the performance of the agricultural sector was way better than its mean annual growth over the preceding decade from 1998-2008.

The fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) sector is said to have immensely benefited from the rural growth, as the purchasing power of the neglected population increased on the back of higher support prices of wheat and sugarcane. The demand for basic consumer items like soaps, toothpaste, washing powders, etc. is said to have risen dramatically.

The rural prosperity was also shared by businesses dealing with farm inputs like fertiliser, seeds etc., as a result of price hikes. Mechanisation of farming got a boost from increased subsidised tractor sales.

The freeze in the support price of wheat, besides other factors, experts believe, contributed to the underperformance of agriculture in the first quarter of the current fiscal.

Meanwhile, the State Banks first quarterly report for FY14 says, industry and services were the major drivers of growth as agriculture underperformed.

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