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The Salvation Army is expanding its services, planning to create a Sarasota park called Club Hope for the homeless at 911 Central Ave.

SARASOTA - It seemed simple enough. Redo the aging basketball and volleyball courts across from the Salvation Army. Lay sod on the scraggly grass and gravel, add benches, little gardens and a gazebo where the homeless could relax.

Create a place where everybody will be able to spread out a bit more; get their exercise, said David Clements, a Salvation Army resident.

On the weekends, Clements said it would provide a safe place to avoid the synthetic marijuana that permeates the streets. Or escape the Salvation Army patio, where another resident, Michael McMullen, said, You hear so much negativity that it starts invading you.

But confusion over the permitting process has slowed the effort to improve 911 Central Ave. though the Salvation Army is determined to continue with the changes, starting with an ice cream social at 1 p.m. Sunday on the property, where they will debut and discuss plans for what they call Club Hope.

Initially, members of the Greater Sarasota Chamber of Commerce's Leadership Sarasota class, who do an annual community service project, decided to help with the effort. They gathered in-kind donations and planned to use $5,000 from the Chamber of Commerce to complete it by their May 31 deadline.

But after meeting with Sarasota officials Thursday, leadership class member Tim Self said turning the lot into Club Hope is not the rubber stamp process they anticipated.

Instead, the Salvation Army, which owns the site, has to request a major conditional use approval. It could take four to six months to go through the process, which includes a neighborhood workshop, planning board and City Commission approval, said Tim Litchet, Sarasota's director of Neighborhood and Development Services.

That timeline would not work for the leadership class, which has to pick a new project.

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They both have leafy, flat lawns, gazebos and the ability to play home movies.

One sold this year for $67,000 while the other was 41 times that price.

The cheapest property sold in the Wellington region in the year to mid-December was a $67,000 unit in a Lower Hutt independent-living retirement home.

That's a world away from the most expensive confirmed sale - a $2.78 million home in Mallam St, at the city end of Karori.

And that may not even be the most lucrative land deal.

The Dominion Post understands a house sold privately in Roseneath in recent months for more than $5m, but because it was a private sale, it did not show up in figures supplied by PropertyIQ.

When the Mallam St property was marketed in February the "estate-like" four-bedroom home was described as the best family and lifestyle property that agent Nicholas Reeve had seen in 25 years on the job.

"It's very private, gets all-day sun and would be one of the closest Karori homes to the city yet offers so much space and seclusion."

The refurbished 1920s house sits on 1700 square metres of "sunny, leafy grounds, complete with full-sized tennis court and heated swimming pool".

Renovated in the past 14 years, the 380sqm house boasts bi-folding doors to a large courtyard, home-theatre wiring and a gated entrance.

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Updated: Friday, 03 Jan 2014 15:27 | Comments Blood Cotil (r) makes his debut over fences on Saturday

Top-class hurdler Blood Cotil bids to make a winning start over fences in the McCarthy Insurance Group Beginners Chase at Cork on Saturday.

Willie Mullins' charge signed off last term with victory in a Grade 3 hurdle at Auteuil, and with testing conditions not looking an issue, he could get the better of Our Ollie and Castle Wings.

The champion trainer also looks to have a lively contender in Turban in the opening McCarthy Insurance Group Hurdle at 12.30.

The son of Dom Alco was no slouch over timber earlier in his career and is suited by the ground, though Waaheb was second to Jezki last season and finding that form would make him a tough opponent.

Mullins also has Wicklow Brave, who bids to follow up his three wins in NH flat company with a winning start to life over hurdles in the McCarthy Insurance Group Maiden Hurdle.

The gelding took prizes at both the Galway and Listowel festivals before signing off last term with victory at Tipperary and a solid display would further boost the yard's already burgeoning novice hurdle squad.

Boondooma also tries obstacles for the first time in the following McCarthy Insurance Group Maiden Hurdle.

Michael Griffin's seven-year-old had finished second to Cheltenham Bumper winner Briar Hill at the start of last year and struck at Limerick last time.

Playing proved he had plenty more to offer at the ripe age of 11 when he hacked up in testing conditions at Limerick last time and he attempts to defy a sizeable hike in the weights when lining up for the McCarthy Insurance Group Handicap Chase.

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VOL. 7 | NO. 2 | Saturday, January 04, 2014

Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant capped a busy 2013 on the economic development front with a New Years Eve announcement of a $200 million silicon metal plant near Corinth.

The Mississippi Silicon plant will employ 200 when completed in the town of Burnsville, 100 miles southeast of Memphis. The metal made there will be used in chemical, aluminum and automotive plants.

Mississippi Silicon is a company formed by Investor Clean Tech I LLC and Rima Holdings USA Inc.

Mississippi is providing financing through a state revolving fund for building construction and workforce training. The state is also using new market tax credits. Additional incentives are being provided by Tishomingo County government and the Tennessee Valley Authority.

Just before the Mississippi Silicon announcement, Bryants office tallied $1 billion in new investment in the state during 2013 and the creation of 6,265 new jobs.

That compares to $455.5 million in new investment in Mississippi in 2012 and the creation of 2,664 new jobs.

Announcements in 2013 included a $140-million Feuer Powertrain plant in Tunica that will create 300 new jobs; executives of the German-based company broke ground for the plant this past September.

In May, the Danish company Roxul Inc. broke ground on a $160-million plant near Byhalia in Marshall Countys Chickasaw Trail Industrial Park at the Tennessee state line. The Mississippi plant is the first U.S. plant by the company that makes rockwool insulation.

Earlier in December, Aluma-Form Inc., which makes overhead electric utility products, began construction of a $6.7 million plant in a Walnut industrial park. The new plant for the company, which was founded in Memphis in 1961, will create 125 new jobs.

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