Boston Properties is in talks with two potential tenants to take the top floors of its $275 million, 17-story, 888 Boylston St. building under way in the Back Bay.

Were well into discussions and negotiations, confirmed Bryan Koop, senior vice president and regional manager of the real estate investment trusts Hub office.

Koop confirmed the company is targeting boutique financial, private equity, hedge fund and investment management firms.

Boston Properties and signed anchor tenant Natixis Global Asset Management will formally mark construction of the building with a groundbreaking today. Its the Back Bays first speculative office building since Boston Properties finished 111 Huntington Ave. in 2001 in the same Prudential Center complex.

In addition to 365,000 square feet of office space, 60,000 to 80,000 square feet of retail space could accommodate three to four retailers. Weve got really, really exciting retailers in discussion and close to agreement, Koop said.

Boston Properties goal with 888 Boylston city-approved in 2008, but delayed by the economic downturn is to build Bostons most sustainable office building. It is designed to consume 45 percent less energy and 37 percent less potable water than a typical office building of its size. It will produce energy on site through an 85 kW solar array and 14 wind turbines.

Everything about the building is designed first and foremost for the lives inside of the building, Koop said, noting the natural light will allow tenants to turn off their lights 60 percent of the time.

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The Office of the Ombudsman (OMB) was asked yesterday to dismiss from office Makati Mayor Jejomar Erwin Jun-Jun Binay and 20 councilors charged earlier with plunder and graft in connection with the alleged overpriced construction of the Makati Parking Building.

A group mostly young Makati residents belonging to the United Makati Against Corruption (UMAC) trooped to the OMB headquarters in Quezon City City to file the 15-page consolidated reply-complaint.

It said the evidence submitted earlier against the respondents was strong that warrant their immediate ouster from the service.

UMAC spokesman Jhasper Cuayzon said lawyer Renato Bondal and Nicolas Enciso, convenors of the group, were supposed to file the reply affidavit but could make it for security reasons.

The consolidated affidavit also asked the OMB to include in the plunder and graft charges 10 key officials of the Hillmarcs Construction Corporation which put up the controversial 11-storey office-parking building.

They were identified as Efren Canlas, Damian Ramos, Trinitas Canlas, Susan Ramos, Shiela Dayrit, Edoyuard Canlas, Juan Canlas, Christima Elisse Canlas, Hak Jin Kim and Roberto Henson. (Jun Ramirez)

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Raleigh, N.C. Crews demolishing an office building in Raleigh's Glenwood South district Tuesday morning damaged a neighboring jazz bar.

It happened shortly after 10 a.m. when a wall crashed through C. Grace Cocktail Bar, at 407 Glenwood Ave.

"I didn't know what had happened. It was really scary. Our whole building shook," said Lynn Snow, who was working at a nearby coffee shop at the time.

She went outside, she said, and found bricks and steel beams falling on top of the bar.

No one was injured, but C. Grace owner, Katrina Godwin, said the fall left a gaping hole over one of the bathrooms and a food prep area. A damaged water line caused flooding throughout the business.

The bar, Godwin said, will be closed for at least several days but that it could reopen by the weekend.

William Robertson, superintendent for Choate Construction Co., said he is still trying to find out what went wrong.

Crews began demolition last week on the office building to make way for a 6-story luxury apartment building at the corner of Glenwood and West North Street.

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The Coega Development Corporation is seeing a construction ascend with seven companies busy with constructions well underway within the Coega Development Corporations Industrial Development Zone (CDC.)

Construction taking place at the IDZ provides job opportunities for residents living in the Nelson Mandela Bay, about 1800 people are benefitting from the construction-related jobs.

Construction expansion of existing businesses is sign of current investors business growth and an improving economic climate, said CDC head of marketing and communication, Dr Ayanda Vilakazi.

Companies currently under construction include leading gas suppliers Air Product (R300m investment) and Afrox (R300m;) electricity generator Dedisa Peaking Power Plant (R2.2bn;) while cold chain logistics facilitators Vector Logistics investment is valued at (R140m); Digistics expansion (R30m;) ID Logistics (R30m) and UTi Distribution (R30m.)

The slab for the Afrox office building is presently being casted and it aims to have construction completed during the fourth quarter of this year (2014.) Twelve people will be employed once operational.

More than a third of the work is completed on Dedisa Peaking Power Plant. On completion the plant will consist of two open-cycle gas turbines able to produce 335MW of electricity, which is roughly half of Nelson Mandela Bays power requirement. The establishment of the plant will provide value added assistance to a number of growing industries established in the IDZ, estimated to be over 1,000 permanent employment opportunities to be created as a result of the supply of electricity to those industries.

Air Products is firmly on schedule to commission the plant and have gas flowing to customers in the final quarter of 2014. Nine operational jobs and 42 constructions jobs are being created. Vector Logistics started construction in May this year and have created 120 construction jobs and 90 people employed once operational.

Digistics Digital Logistics has outgrown its current 2,285m facility in Zone 1 of the Coega IDZ a space it has occupied for six years in favour of a larger 4,510m facility. Construction of the new Digistics warehouse facility started at the end of May this year. There are 120 construction workers benefitting from the project and once completed 30 people will benefit from permanent jobs.

ID Logistic will create work for 50 people once operational and during the construction phase 200 people would have benefitted from jobs created.

UTi Distribution currently operates from a 2700m building but will be moving to a 2800m building which is currently under construction thus increasing their capacity with a 100m2. The new site is expected to be completed closer to the end of this year.

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Steve Rix, 57, runs Bourton Vale Window Cleaning Services in Cotswolds He says his staff spent four hours polishing Bibury home of Nigel Page, 48 Former property maintenance man Mr Page won EuroMillions jackpot in 2010 Said they polished mirrors, wiped glass staircases, and cleaned windows But Mr Rix says he was later told by estate manager they wouldn't pay bill Said CCTV showed one of Mr Rix's team taking photo of McLaren sports car Mr Rix says Mr Page refused to pay because of the 'breach of privacy' Says: 'The money is nothing to him but it's half a month's wage for my lad' Mr Page and wife, Justine, are out of the country and haven't commented

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Published: 11:21 EST, 6 October 2014 | Updated: 13:25 EST, 6 October 2014

A window cleaner is suing one of Britain's biggest ever lottery winners over an alleged unpaid bill of 375.

Steve Rix claims 56million jackpot winner Nigel Page withheld payment because a member of the cleaning team took a picture of one of his sports cars.

Mr Rix, 57, says his staff spent four hours polishing mirrors, wiping down glass staircases, and cleaning swimming pool windows in Page's 5million rural eco-mansion.

Window cleaner Steve Rix, 57, is suing EuroMillions winner Nigel Page, right with wife Justine, over a 375 bill

But an hour after he left he got a call from the estate manager, Danny Baker, who told him that CCTV footage captured one of the workers photographing a McLaren sports car.

Mr Rix, who earns 13,000 a year, says he apologised and ensured the image was deleted - but claims Page refused to pay due to the 'breach of privacy'.

He said yesterday: 'That money is nothing to him but to me it's half a month's wages.

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It was just an hour after Countryside Fire Protection District officials had finished serving pancakes at a safety event Sunday when the department received a 911 call from a home with five family members feeling ill.

According to fire officials, it is the season for carbon monoxide incidents, in which the odorless and tasteless gas can sneak up on residents when they crank up the gas furnace for the first time in months. The gas can also leak into a home if a furnace or gas-fired hot water heater is in need of repairs.

Were getting into that time of year, Fire Marshall Michael McNally said. A lot of people dont realize it is the law.

Sundays call came in at 1 p.m. from a home in the 300 block of Sutcliffe Circle in Vernon Hills. The caller told emergency dispatch that everyone woke up feeling sick.

They exited the building to call 911. They did the right thing rather than remaining in the building to make the call, McNally said.

When the first ambulance arrived, found everyone was safe outside. A second ambulance was called to take the family to Advocate Condell Medical Center in Libertyville for treatment of non-life threatening injuries.

High levels of the gas were found inside, and the gas company responded to cut off the gas to the homes furnace and hot water heater. They indicated the gas source was in the area of the furnace and hot water heater, McNally said.

Illinois residents and property owners have been required to have carbon monoxide detectors within 15 feet of all rooms used for sleeping since January 2007.

McNally didnt say whether the Vernon Hills family had detectors. He did say they are essential.

You never know when its going to happen and you wont know unless you have a detector, he said, reiterating that carbon monoxide has no odor or taste and cannot be seen.

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