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Published: 04:59 EST, 15 January 2015 | Updated: 08:04 EST, 15 January 2015

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The oil price crash has sparked fears of widespread job cuts as industry giant BP shed 200 staff and 100 contractors.

Joining Shell, Tullow and Premier in announcing a shake-up of operations, BP said the job cuts apply to onshore roles not offshore operations.

Politicians in Westminster and Scotland are being pressed to take urgent action as BP announced the job reductions at a briefing today at the firm's North Sea headquarters in Aberdeen.

Oil price crash: Dramatic fall has caused upheaval on world markets but lower petrol costs are expected to drive a consumer boom that ultimately helps the economy

Other firms under the cosh include Tullow Oil, which today wrote off 2billion of exploration work and cut investment amid expectations of job cuts, Royal Dutch Shell which has axed a 4.3billion project in Qatar, and Premier Oil which slashed spending by 40 per cent and wrote off nearly 200million yesterday.

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POLSON A new $11.4 million Red Lion hotel is under construction in Polson, and will have an attached conference center and a MacKenzie River Pizza Co. grill and pub.

The development was financed with help from new market tax credits provided by the Montana Community Development Corp., headquartered in Missoula.

This project will create 42 new full-time jobs in Polson, said Melanie Calahan, director of marketing for the MTCDC. In addition to jobs, the conference space and rooms give Polson more resources for attracting regional events, which will bring more economic activity into the community.

The three-story, 80-room hotel is the fourth such project that the nonprofit organization has helped finance in western Montana, along with the Mission Valley Aquatics Center, which is just down the street from the new Red Lion, and both the Poverello Center and the Garlington, Lohn & Robinson office building in Missoula.

The total amount of new market tax credits provided for those four projects is $37.2 million, which is a sizable portion of the $185 million that the community development corporation has provided for projects in Montana since 2009.

All of these projects make an impact on low-income people and/or places, whether thats providing jobs or emergency homeless shelter, Calahan said. The NMTC program also redirects mainstream financial support to Montana (and Idaho) that wouldnt have made it here otherwise, and it leads to significant change that wouldnt have happened otherwise.

Dave Glaser, president of the MTCDC, said the developers of the new hotel/restaurant in Polson approached him about a year ago.

New market tax credits provide a subsidy to projects that are in low-income areas to provide jobs and economic vitality, he said. Sitting down with the developers, we learned that Polson in particular is trying to build up their year-round tourist visitation. A stand-alone hotel by itself isnt enough to make that attractive, and by putting in a restaurant and conference center it achieves those goals.

Polson now has received more new markets tax credit from MTCDC than any other small town in Montana and Idaho.

Rick Orizotti, who is developing the hotel along with Herb Leuprecht, said that the new hotel is expected to be completed in June.

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Photo by Eddie Maloney. [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia CommonsThe Proud Bird restaurant, the once-endangered aviation-themed eatery east of Los Angeles International Airport, secured a new 20-year lease with the airport Thursday that calls for $5 million in building improvements that will require two years of construction at the site.

The city Airport Commission approved the lease for the restaurant. The eatery has a collection of historic aircraft outside, and hundreds of aerospace photos inside the building at 11022 Aviation Blvd.

Under the terms of the lease, restaurant owner Runway Two-Five Corp. is required to make at least $5 million in building improvements, including replacing the roof and bringing the structure up to code. The owners will also add displays on the Tuskegee Airmen and other historical exhibits.

According to Los Angeles World Airports, the owners plan to invest nearly $5.9 million in the property, including the roof replacement, with the work being done during the first two years of the lease which is effective Feb. 1. The restaurant is expected to be closed during the construction, according to LAWA.

During that first two years, the company will pay $10,000 a month in rent, with the cost rising to $20,145 per month in year three, plus a $5,000 monthly building fee beginning in the fourth year.

Restaurant owner John Tallichet said in 2013 the restaurant was in danger of closing because he was unable to reach terms on a long-term lease with LAWA. He said initial proposals called for the rent to be increased from $200,000 a year to $500,000.

The company was given a temporary lease extension in December 2013, but that extension was set to expire at the end of January.

The original lease for the property was given to Runway Two-Five Corp. in 1965.

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CAMBRIDGE -- Growth in home-improvement spending is expected to soften as the year progresses, according to a report released Thursday by the Remodeling Futures Program at the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University.

The so-called Leading Indicator of Remodeling Activity projects annual growth in home improvement spending to decelerate from 6.3 percent in the first quarter of 2015 (from $134 billion to $142.4 billion), to 1.6 percent by the third quarter (from $137.9 billion to $140.1 billion).

"Due in part to weakening home sales last year, growth in remodeling spending is expected to deflate somewhat in 2015," said Chris Herbert, managing director of the Joint Center, in a statement. "Homeownership rates continue to slide as lending remains tight and first-time homebuyers are not yet returning to the market."

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