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The demand for roofing workers created by hailstorms this year has increased the possibility of scam artists taking advantage of homeowners, according to local contractors.

"The guy who knocks on the door and has a ladder in the back of his pickup, and it doesn't say Colorado or Colorado Springs, that's what you have to watch out for," said Jack Caton, a roofing manager.

"Passing a test doesn't make you a roofer. I've heard stories about some awful things. We've actually seen people who offer to get up on a roof, take a look at the roof and show (homeowners) pictures of somebody else's roof that has hail damage."

Jeff Spinato, another roofing manager, said he finished a job that was done improperly by a roofer but the roofer charged the elderly homeowners a 25 percent fee for breaking his contract with them.

"They had no legal obligation to pay that fee but they did anyway -- unknown by me," Spinato said. "On top of what they paid me. They were out $3,000."

Contractors said such scam artists traditionally appear immediately after a hailstorm, but the number of storms this year has created more opportunities for them.

Becky Lewton lives just north of downtown in Colorado Springs, an area that was hard-hit by hail in May. She said she was approached by many people interested in repairing her damaged roof.

"We had a lot of people stop by, knock at the door and just had a clipboard -- not even a truck with a ladder," Lewton said. "And then we had a gentleman who said he was local. But when it came time for him to give an actual price and quote what his warranty was, never heard from him again."

Lewton said she also had a roofer do repair work without her permission, failed to do the work properly, then billed her for it. However, she said she didn't have to pay.

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A LONG map spans the wall in the former offices of Fairfield's on Govan Road pinpointing the more than 40 shipyards which once dotted the Upper Clyde.

This was the heyday of shipbuilding on the river in the early years of the 20th Century, when Glasgow was the 'second city of the Empire', the powerhouse of the nation, and entire communities depended on the industry to earn a living.

Fast forward to today and there are only three yards left.

"Not just the number of yards but fact that they were all driven by engineering is a surprise to most people," explains Pat Cassidy, managing director of Govan Workspace, as we walk around the recently refurbished offices.

"People think of this area as all about shipbuilding but these were the greatest engineers in the world."

The elegant, A-listed red sandstone building is a local landmark, with the imposing doorway managers and dignitaries walked through still flanked by carvings of Neptune and mermaids.

When it was built, it was arguably the most prestigious shipbuilding concern in the world.

This was where first class Cunard liners The Campania and the Luciana were built, where 10,000 men worked in its heyday and where Jimmy Reid led the legendary Upper Clyde Shipbuilders Work-In, when the Conservative Government of the time tried to pull the plug on the yard.

It has taken five years and nearly 6 million to restore the offices to their former glory, revealing trompe l'oeil, paintwork, teak and mahogany panelling, mosaic flooring and marble work.

Now, some of the space is available to rent to businesses, while the ground floor houses a heritage centre, celebrating 150 years of shipbuilding in Govan.

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Fourteen vinyl replacement windows installed at the Stratford Professional Center, 1045 Main St., more than two years ago continue to be a contentious issue between owner Richard Holbrook and the citys Commission of Architectural Review, which wants Holbrook to remove the replacement windows and install wood-framed windows.

The building is in the citys Old West End historic district and structural changes must be approved by the CAR; at the time he replaced the windows, Holbrook said two years ago, he was unaware that his building fell under the CARs review since the building itself is not historic and is considered to be non-contributing to the district.

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The ATO is going through with plans for a new multi-million dollar office building in Gosford. Photo: Jeffrey Chan

The Australian Taxation Office will spend millions of dollars on a new office building in regional NSW, despite more than 6200 desks sitting empty in ATO in its buildings around Australia.

The Taxation Office has confirmed the project will go ahead, calling for expressions of interest from developers to build the building in Gosford, on the state's central coast, but ATO bosses still cannot say what it will be used for.

The federal opposition says the ATO is being forced to spend money it does not have on offices it does not need.

The agency plans to move 300 of its public servants into the building when it is completed in 2017. It is unclear who will occupy the rest of the floors.

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But ATO staff were told last week the construction of the 6500-square-metre building would go ahead and that property consultants DTZ had been hired to find a builder for the project.

But assistant commissioner Stewart Smillie, the ATO's property boss, could not tell his colleagues which of them would be moved to the central coast, or even which of the Taxation Office's business units would be stationed there.

An ATO spokeswoman would not say if a business case or a cost benefit analysis had been prepared for the new building and that "budget support" for the project was still being discussed.

"It will take a number of years to complete the building project and we will consider the impact for our business and staffing closer to the new office opening."

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The City of Brotherly Love is finally getting some affection from commercial real estate investors.

Philadelphia, where office properties last year attracted about half the investment of Washington and less than a 10th of Manhattans total, is seeing a boom in demand that has sent the average price per square foot to a record. Office sales in the first half of this year more than doubled to $1.4 billion, the highest since close to the markets peak in 2006, according to New York-based research firm Real Capital Analytics Inc.

Real estate values approaching or surpassing peak levels in New York, Boston and Washington have buyers turning to Philadelphia for its higher yields, rising rents and falling vacancies. Thats bolstering office deals in the fifth-largest U.S. city at a time when Manhattan-like towers have opened with luxury condominiums and cable operator Comcast Corp. is developing a skyscraper that will be the areas tallest.

We view Philadelphia as really on the upswing, said Gerard Sweeney, chief executive officer of Brandywine Realty Trust (BDN), which owns 13 properties in the citys main business district, including one under development. Theres certainly an expectation that rents will continue to move up.

The average capitalization rate -- a measure of yield that moves inversely to price -- for a Philadelphia office building was 7.5 percent in the second quarter, according to data compiled by Real Capital. While thats down from a high of 8.9 percent two years earlier, its more than the averages of 4.6 percent in Manhattan, 6.1 percent in Washington and 6.5 percent in Boston, the data show.

The average price per square foot of a Philadelphia office building reached $283 in the first quarter, the highest in Real Capital records dating to 2001.

Philadelphia has long been overshadowed by its big-city East Coast neighbors to the north and south. Institutional investors such as sovereign-wealth funds gravitate to the perceived safety of New York or Washington, where rents frequently climb faster and values rebounded first in the recovery.

Unlike New York, with its heavy concentration of financial, media and technology tenants, and Washington, with its work force tied to the federal government, Philadelphia doesnt have a single large office-tenant base. Government, universities and hospitals are among the biggest employers in Philadelphia County, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry.

The largest public companies by market value with headquarters in the city are Comcast; oil pipeline operator Sunoco Logistics Partners LP; and FMC Corp., a research company in the chemical industry, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

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A job fair will be held on Monday, Oct. 20, to provide information to workers about construction job opportunities available for the $450 million, 32-story, Northwestern Mutual Tower and Commons office building project.

Northwestern Mutual has committed to have at least 40 percent of the workers on the project be city residents and is supporting worker training efforts for construction workers for this and other future construction projects in the area. The project will employ about 1,000 construction workers.

A team of Gilbane Building Co. and Milwaukee-based C.G. Schmidt Inc. is the general contractor for the project, which is expected to be complete in 2017.

WRTP/BIG STP will provide training and access to trade apprenticeship opportunities available through the Northwestern Mutual project.

The job fair will be held from 4:30 p.m. to 8 p.m., Monday, Oct. 20, at the Washington Park Senior Center, 4420 W. Vliet St. The job fair will also address barriers to employment, such as a lack of a drivers license, GED, or other assistance needs. More information is available by calling (414) 342-9787.

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