Developers planning to construct a $2.5 million retail and office building at the long-dormant lot at the northwest corner of Division Street and Third Avenue hope to break ground in July and complete the project by year-end.

The project, now tentatively named Peppertree Plaza, will include a two-story structure with 9,500 square feet of retail space on the ground floor, and 5,500 square feet of office space on the second floor, says Rita Santillanes, who with her husband John, owns the property.

Baker Construction & Development Inc., of Spokane, is the contractor on the project.

This is going to be an expedited development, says Brooke Baker, of Baker Construction. We will have it ready to go by the end of the year.

Baker Construction and Mercier Architecture & Planning, of Post Falls, have teamed up to design the project, Baker says.

The Santillaneses own four hotels through Liberty Lake-based Peppertrees of Washington LLC. They plan to consolidate administrative offices for the hotels into a headquarters that would take up 3,000 square feet of space on the second floor of the Peppertree Plaza, leaving 2,500 square feet of space for a second office tenant, Baker says.

The first floor would include up to six retail bays.

Santillanes says the current design is preliminary and could be modified to accommodate a couple of potential tenants that have been looking at the project.

Brooke Baker, a business-development specialist with Baker Construction, says several quick-service restaurants are looking at the development plans, although none have committed to leases yet.

We have lots of interest, but no letters of intent, she says.

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Work on the construction of the Manapparai panchayat union office has been in full swing and will be completed by the end of this month, three months ahead of schedule.

The new building has been built as the old building had become inadequate. The availability of sprawling space near the old building enabled construction of a new building at an estimate of Rs. 2 crore under the Scheme Component of Pooled Assigned Revenue of the Rural Development Department.

The new building, with a plinth area of 726 square metres, houses separate chambers for the chairman and block development officers, besides the council hall. A separate unit for conducting training programmes under the rural development programme would be a new facility, according to official sources.

A new toilet block and vehicle shed are other new facilities.

District Collector K.S. Palanisamy recently visited Manapparai and inspected the progress of the work.

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Construction will start within a week for a single-story office building on four acres of farmland in the American Center business park on Madisons Far East Side.

The 35,440-square-foot building will be the final piece of St. John Properties four-building Madison East Business Center at South Biltmore Lane and Eastpark Boulevard a sort-of mini-office park within the 447-acre business park being developed by American Family Insurance.

We cater to small tenants, said Greg Fax, a regional manager in charge of Wisconsin holdings for St. John Properties, a commercial developer based in Baltimore, Maryland. Thats kind of a niche, small tenants. I can subdivide to as small as about 1,100 square feet, so I could potentially have up to 16 tenants there.

Already home to insurance offices and other white-collar companies or non-profit agencies in the other three buildings of the Madison East Business Center, there so far is no anchor tenant lined up for the fourth building, which will have an address of 4618 S. Biltmore Lane .

Its a speculative building, but were talking to people, Fax said. And the markets strong.

Fax said construction would take about six months, with tenants moving in by years end.

With a portfolio of more than 17 mil lion square feet, St. John Properties has real estate investments valued at more than $2.5 bil lion in eight states including Wisconsin, according to the companys website. In Madison, it also owns Nelson Road Business Center, a nearby office/warehouse development on Felland Road.

Charles Redjinski, a sellers agent with NAI MLG Commercial who represents American Family in all land transactions at the American Center, said the decision by St. John Properties to put up the new building before any tenants were signed bodes well for the Madison market.

There are very few developers in Madison that are kicking off a speculative office building, Redjinksi said. The market has seen an uptick, especially on the East Side, and the activity in the (American Center) is great. This is just one of many closings we have coming up.

Located off the southwest border of American Familys national headquarters at Interstate 39-90-94 and Highway 151, the center is nearly 61 percent finished, with 139 acres still for sale.

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A historic sign for McMillion Chevrolet was uncovered during renovations along Virginia Street West.

Workers renovating the facade of the Goodwill office building on Virginia Street West in Charleston found something they werent expecting recently. They discovered the building had once housed one of the citys more well-known car dealerships.

John Taylor, director of mission services for Goodwill Industries of Kanawha Valley Inc., said workers found a hand-painted sign for McMillion Chevrolet emblazoned across the entire facade of the Goodwill Industries building at 209 Virginia St. W.

There were four layers of stuff on that facade, Taylor said.

Goodwill is turning the old building into a career center to provide training and help for local residents to get jobs. The $1.5 million renovation project, paid for almost entirely through community donations and sales at the Goodwill retail outlet next door, is expected to be finished next month.

Taylor said officials for Goodwill decided they wanted to take the building back to its original appearance on the front, restoring the buildings original brick facade. We wanted to keep the integrity of that building, and we wanted to keep the history, but also make it modern, he said. Officials decided to put in new windows, but keep the old brick.

But first they had to go through four layers of stucco, slate and brick. When they finally got to the original building front, they were surprised to find the McMillion Chevrolet sign.

In the 1920s and later, the building served as a streetcar barn, then as a bus barn for the Charleston Transit Company. Taylor said Goodwill has owned the building for decades, using it for offices and as a storefront before a new Goodwill retail store was built next door.

Our Goodwill has been in the area for 50 years, Taylor said. We knew about the car barn and stuff, but we didnt know about the dealership.

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Grafton-based orthodontic practice Butterfoss and Barton and a Hayes dental practice both plan to expand in a new office building under construction along Route 17 in Gloucester.

Hayes Family Dentistry with Dr. Diann Gordon will move about a half mile away into half of the 5,000-square-foot office facility near the Farm Fresh-anchored shopping center. The other half will be occupied by Butterfoss and Barton, said Hayes Family Dentistry owner Dr. Robert George. Construction should be completed by late summer.

"We'll have great visibility and a good location," said Dr. Thomas W. Butterfoss, who partners with daughter Dr. Jennifer Barton.

The project represents more than a $1.2 million investment, excluding new equipment, George said. Both offices will employ about five people each. The property is owned by 3224 GW LLC, which is owned 25 percent by Butterfoss, 25 percent by Barton and half by George.

George, who owns and works with Yorkshire Family Dentistry in York County, acquired Hayes Family Dentistry in 2008 and realized the practice needed more space and an upgraded facility. Five years ago, George through Georgetown LLC bought less than an acre of commercial land at 3224 George Washington Memorial Highway for $300,000 with that goal in mind.

"I really think it's nice to have a facility that reflects the quality of care you provide," George said.

George, who also serves on the York County School Board, said the new office provides room for him to work in Hayes, as Gordon has been the only dentist working with Hayes Family Dentistry. Additionally, he said that practice, which is separate from Yorkshire Family, now has the option of adding another dentist.

For Butterfoss and Barton, the new office will allow room for growth with the expectation that another orthodontic associate could join the practice in 2016, Butterfoss said. The practice has offices in Grafton and Hampton.

Six years ago, the practice opened a satellite office in the Gloucester Courthouse area by leasing space for one day a week from dentist Heath Allen, Butterfoss said. Since then, he estimates the practice's patient population from Gloucester has tripled.

"It'll just make it a lot more convenient for our patients to have flexibility of days and time," Butterfoss said.

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The Windmill Lane studio where U2 recording their debut album Boy has been demolished to make way for a new residential and office building.

The one-acre site in the Dublin docklands are was bought by the property investment firm Hibernia REIT in 2014.

A spokesperson for Hibernia said in a statement:"The site was acquired with full planning permission (granted to the previous owners in 2011) for demolition of the existing structures and the construction of a mixed-use office, retail and residential development.

"In recent years the derelict site has become a focal point for anti-social behaviour and graffiti that has spread into adjacent streets. The studio itself has been empty for several years and contained no equipment or fittings to indicate its previous use."

A wall covered in graffiti from music fans from around the world has been retained as a reminder of the history of the site. The spokesperson explained:"Hibernia is conscious of the historical significance of Windmill Lane and plans to retain a 20-metre stretch of the studio wall."

Van Morrison also recorded there, and U2 returned there to work on their 1986 album Joshua Tree.

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In this photo provided by Kaitlyn Ford, emergency personnel work the scene where authorities said four construction workers suffered serious injuries in a partial wall collapse inside a commercial building near Grand Central Terminal, in New York.(AP)

NEW YORK Four construction workers were hurt Tuesday at a building being demolished near Grand Central Terminal when an interior marble banister collapsed and they tumbled to the ground floor, authorities and the building owner said.

The men were taken to Bellevue Hospital Center after the accident at about 10 a.m. Tuesday, a fire department spokesman said. They were in stable condition.

Richard Wilde, a citywide coordinator for the city's Office of Emergency Management, said the Art Deco building on Madison Avenue is being gutted in preparation for total demolition. The building is a block west of the terminal. City officials reported earlier that a wall at the mezzanine level had collapsed and fallen on the men.

The owner of the 14-story building, SL Green Realty Corp., said the workers were removing a massive chandelier when the banister gave way and they fell about 15 feet.

SL Green Realty said there was a licensed safety manager at the building.

The city Department of Buildings issued a stop work order while the accident is under investigation.

Waldorf Demolition is the contractor, with Tishman Construction as the construction manager, SL Green Realty said in a statement.

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The state plans to demolish the Docking State Office Building in less than a year at a cost not to exceed $7.5 million.

While plans to tear down Docking have been known for some time, documents posted to the Department of Administrations website give the most detail to date on the process leading to the buildings implosion. The state wants the building obliterated between December 2015 and March 2016, with demolition preparation beginning this August.

The information comes in a bid solicitation for a new energy service center. The center supplies cooling and heating to the Capitol complex. It currently sits underneath Docking, but the state wants to build a new one near the Eisenhower Building.

A spreadsheet posted as part of the bid solicitation gives a month-by-month timeline for the deconstruction of Docking. According to the timeline, the state was supposed to select a firm for the demolition between December and January.

John Milburn, Department of Administration spokesman, confirmed the timeline which is dated Oct. 10, 2014 is accurate, but said the demolition firm hadnt yet been selected, though proposals have been received.

Asbestos abatement is scheduled to begin this May. The process involves removing asbestos from the building and is slated to last six months. Removing asbestos can require sealing parts or all of a building. Milburn said the state would ensure no workers are put in danger during the process.

The timeline estimates the asbestos abatement at $1.5 million.

Preparation for demolition will run mostly concurrently with the asbestos abatement. Implosion of Docking itself is scheduled between December and March. Milburn said he doesnt know what form the implosion will take whether it will be a controlled explosion or a wrecking ball will be used.

The implosion itself will cost $5 million, according to the timeline. It is expected to generate about two acres of debris five feet deep.

Milburn emphasized the costs in the document are estimates. He said while the bid documents indicate a cost of $7.5 million, the actual cost is expected to be lower. Efforts to recycle material and store debris on state land will drop the final price tag, Milburn indicated.

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Edimara Properties Limited, a joint venture between African Capital Alliance and Samges Investments Limited, has commenced the development of the Alliance Place, an innovative office building in Lagos.

The firm noted that it leveraged complementary property development skills and an impressive track record, and hoped to redefine office space standards in Lagos as well as deliver an international and environment-friendly office building.

According to a statement by the developer, Alliance Place will be built on 12 levels and will employ green and sustainable development features.

The statement read in part, It will boast of smart technology in its building management systems and services at relatively low occupancy costs to its tenants. A high performance glass curtain wall and contemporary interior finishes will be provided for ease of maintenance.

High level user-friendly security and access control systems will be given top priority for tenants and visitors. Finally, a circular traffic management system will enhance safety and accessibility to and within the building, which has a four-floor car park. The project is expected to be delivered by November 2016 and one-third of the office space has already been committed to tenants.

The statement added that the project would be executed by a team of consultants, including Greenhouse Incorporated Limited and EQ3 as project managers; Ngonyama Okpanum and Associates as architects; Arup as civil and structural engineers; Kunle Ogunbayo Associates as mechanical and electrical engineers; Natuhab as project and regulatory consultants; and HOS Consult Limited as quantity surveyors.

The main building contractor is BCL Limited. They bring 25 years of experience to the Lagos construction arena and utilise leading edge methodologies to ensure that budget, quality and delivery programmes are met, the statement added.

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