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San Diego, CA (PRWEB) December 11, 2013

On December 3, the Better Business Bureau (BBB) in San Diego and Imperial Counties named Jackson Design & Remodeling (JDR) a winner of the Torch Award for Marketplace Ethics. The announcement was made at the 16th Annual BBB Torch Awards luncheon held at the Town & Country Hotel. The 2013 BBB Torch Award recognizes JDR as a leader in ethical business practices, conducting itself with the highest professionalism, integrity, and customer service.

Each year, companies of different sizes are selected through their local BBBs regional competition to receive a Torch Award for Marketplace Ethics. The Torch Awards promote the importance of ethical business practices, and the efforts that businesses make to ensure that our marketplace remains fair and honorable. Winning entries are forwarded to the Council of Better Business Bureaus International Torch Awards for Marketplace Ethics competition. The 2013 award is JDRs fourth consecutive Torch win, with awards earned in 2007, 2009 and 2011. Winning companies are only eligible to receive awards every other year, making this years award the companys fourth consecutive win.

Todd Jackson, President and CEO of JDR says, At JDR, we believe that we have a responsibility to conduct ourselves with integrity, honesty, and professionalism, and we weave these values into everything we do. I want to thank the San Diego BBB for honoring our commitment to excellence in these areas, and for recognizing the hard work of our outstanding team. We will continue to strive to be a leader in marketplace ethics in upcoming years.

About Jackson Design and Remodeling

Jackson Design and Remodeling has been serving the San Diego community for more than 24 years with high-end bathroom remodeling, kitchen remodeling, whole home remodels, room additions and other specialty home redesign projects. Todd Jackson, President and CEO, has established an enduring tradition of quality and service in the remodeling industry. Jackson and his team have won numerous awards for their work, including over 40 COTY awards, dozens of Chrysalis, ASID, NKBA and Master Design Awards as well as four consecutive Better Business Bureau Torch Awards for Marketplace Ethics. For more information, visit http://www.JacksonDesignandRemodeling.com, call (800) 483-1738 or follow us on Facebook, Pinterest, Houzz and Twitter.

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Morrison Remodeling & Repairs, a leading Massachusetts residential remodeling company operating north of Boston, was recently awarded a prestigious 2013 Contractor of the Year award by the Eastern Massachusetts chapter of the National Association of the Remodeling Industry (NARI).

The company took gold in the Residential Kitchen $50,000-$100,000 category with a one-of-a-kind kitchen designed by Interior Designer Cheryl Morrison and built with the help of several North Shore professionals and product suppliers.

"It was an honor to have received the Gold CotY award this year and our third Contractor of the Year in as many years," said Gary Morrison, owner of Beverly's Morrison Remodeling & Repairs. "It was a great team effort, and we could not have won the award without partnering with our talented local craftsmen and suppliers."

The Contractor of the Year award recognizes the most exceptional remodeling projects completed by NARI members over the course of the previous year.

Entries take the form of before and after photos of each submitted project, along with extremely detailed descriptions of the project itself.

A panel of adjudicators composed of remodeling industry experts then judges submissions based on criteria like craftsmanship, aesthetics, functionality, and how the contractor approached the challenges involved in the project's completion.

The project client in this case was a young family of four, new to their Beverly Farms Colonial, and the challenge Cheryl needed to overcome was that the existing kitchen was outdated, cramped and isolated from the rest of the first floor.

To integrate it into a newly opened first-story floor plan, Cheryl created an L-shaped kitchen layout with a corresponding angular island. Details like a left-set dishwasher to accommodate a lefty, the touch-technology faucet, under cabinet lighting, ambient lighting for the entire kitchen and dining room areas, and display cabinets likely contributed to Morrison Remodeling's third Contractor of the Year win.

Cheryl's design also included a strategic inset refrigerator placement that allowed for the creation of a mudroom with a closet, a bench, a coat rack placed at just the right height for children, and even a spot for the family pet.

"It was a pleasure to work with this young family to create a kitchen that will work for them for years to come," added Cheryl. "They are extremely happy with their kitchen and I am pleased that Morrison Remodeling was a part of that."

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Phoenix, AZ (PRWEB) December 11, 2013

While some homeowners undertake remodeling projects for the express purpose of boosting the value of their home in an expanding housing market, most people do it to increase the beauty, comfort and functionality of their home. Whether you are wanting to create an oasis in the master bath or a lovely area to entertain guests, homeowners ultimately want to a create living space to fall in love with.

In todays housing market, there is a never ending array of options available to homeowners in terms of flooring, tile, cabinetry, finishing materials and more. With so many possibilities it can become over whelming and even hard to visualize the final result. A paint chip, tile or fabric swatch just isnt always enough to help homeowners make good remodeling decisions.

For this very reason, the Phoenix home remodeling company TWD (Todd Whittaker Drywall Inc.) has just opened up their new full home design showroom showcasing a wide variety of home remodeling and design styles, finishes, and options for every room of your home. They want to work with homeowners to bring their vision to life, so that they fall in love with their home again.

No matter what your style, there will definitely be something that you will want in your home the minute you walk in the door, says Ron LaBrie, Design Manager. We have designed it to feel as if you are walking into a home with Living Room settings, Kitchen options, multiple Bathroom vignettes and more.

Having a showroom of this caliber on the West Valley takes the guesswork and stress out of the home remodeling process. TWD clients do not have to spend countless hours trying to imagine what a particular option or color choice may look like. With a visit to the showroom, their clients can be interactive in choosing the perfect color and texture for their floor tile, counter top slabs, cabinetry color and style to match that paint scheme they have always imagined, and be able to see it in a life-sized display. Clients can make an appointment with the TWD design team in the showroom, pick their options, and walk out the same day with the full confidence that TWD will take care of everything.

Most people tend to view remodeling as stressful, Todd Whittaker says. Our goal is to make it as easy and stress-free as possible. The new TWD showroom definitely puts the fun back into remodeling.

Visitors can make an appointment to visit the TWD Showroom during business hours at 9201 W. Grand Avenue in Peoria, or follow their Facebook page to be the first to hear about TWDs customer appreciation day and other upcoming events: http://www.FaceBook.com/ToddWhittakerDrywall.

About TWD

TWD is a full-service home remodeling company specializing in kitchen, bathroom, living room and master suite remodeling, as well as room additions, patios, media walls and garage extensions. Theyve been serving the greater Phoenix area since 1996. To learn more about the TWD Difference and what they can do for you, visit them online at http://www.twdaz.com/ or give them a call today at 623.544.1211 to schedule your free appointment.

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Posted on December 11, 2013 | By John Flowers

MIDDLEBURY The Middlebury selectboard on Tuesday failed to muster enough votes to pass a revised term sheet outlining the mechanics of an agreement with Middlebury College on construction of a new town office building and recreation center, with some members voicing concern at the institutions rejection of a request that the current municipal building/gym site be perpetually maintained as a public park.

Tuesdays gathering provided another outlet for people to pack the boards meeting room to again weigh in on the current building proposals, which have spurred some controversy. Current plans call for the town to enter into an exchange with Middlebury College, through which the institution would receive the current municipal building/gym site at 94 Main St. and a town-owned parcel located at 6 Cross St. The college would allocate $1 million to cover demolition and removal of the current municipal building and gym, as well as the costs of relocating the Osborne House from 77 Main St. to the Cross Street site. The college would additionally make payments sufficient to repay a bond in the principal amount of $4.5 million, to be applied to the cost of construction of the new town office and recreation buildings, according to the proposed town-gown term sheet.

Town officials are seeking to build a new town office building at the 77 Main St. site. A steering committee is evaluating two possible locations for the new recreation center: Town Recreation Park property off Mary Hogan Drive, or a parcel off Creek Road owned by the UD-3 school district. Officials are seeking to build the two structures within a construction budget of $6.5 million.

The selectboard and college officials have spent the past few months trying to agree on a term sheet to lay out the primary terms of the deal. The latest draft includes 12 provisions, the majority of which have been endorsed by the two parties. But one of the proposed provisions has emerged as a sticking point. The town had requested that the college maintain the current municipal building site in perpetuity as a town park. Patrick Norton, the colleges treasurer and vice president for finance, has presented a counter-offer of 99 years.

This period is consistent with other long-term, land-related transactions, such as the college lease of land to (Porter) Hospital, reads a notation next to Nortons request.

Middlebury College Public Affairs Director Sarah Ray explained the colleges position thus:

As an institution that thinks in terms of centuries we do not go beyond 99 years so as to provide future generations with flexibility, Ray said. We want this flexibility for both the town and the college.

Selectman Craig Bingham strongly objected to a finite amount of time being placed on the park provision.

When you have the proposed sale of public property, we need to maintain this as public property in perpetuity, Bingham said. Thats why I proposed that language (in the term sheet). I think its what the voters of the town expect. They expect that this will be maintained as a park. I dont want my grandchildren to face the prospect of a college building being built in the downtown.

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Bringing 900 federal workers to an office building next to Union Station is a solid and needed step to pump renewed life into downtown Kansas City.

The addition of General Services Administration employees will boost activity and interest in the core. More people will use the proposed streetcar line just outside the station, eat at nearby restaurants and enjoy other amenities such as those at Crown Center.

The move to Two Pershing Square is another vote of confidence in the redevelopment potential of the two-mile streetcar starter line. GSA workers will be able to hop on the free streetcars during the day, while nearby bus lines and a bicycle rental station also could boost transit use.

Still, the GSAs decision was not the perfect ending that many downtown boosters had hoped for a few years ago: the construction of a new building for the federal office inside the freeway loop.

But federal cutbacks scuttled that idea, and GSA officials eventually took what they said was the best and most affordable lease deal for taxpayers.

That decision will place the GSA near the Internal Revenue Services 3,000-employee facility across the street to the south. Two Pershing Square also is next door to Union Station, which in recent years has revitalized itself with the addition of several new employers, including the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce.

The GSAs move should put pressure on city parks officials to carry through with plans to reshape the listless Washington Square Park, which is east of Two Pershing Square and north of Crown Center. The city for too long has ignored the parks potential to be a lively gathering place for thousands of people who work within a few blocks.

Even with the GSA victory, downtown still faces many challenges. It has lost thousands of jobs to the Country Club Plaza and the suburbs in recent years. Ambitious plans to add hotels, housing and office buildings have been stuck in neutral, although recent movement appears promising as more projects get off the drawing boards.

The GSA workers expect to be in their new home by early 2015, just months before the streetcar is expected to begin operating. Thats a bit of good timing for all working to build a brighter future for downtown.

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View from Vine Street showing the hotel, left, restaurant and office building, right. CentrePointe designs released October 2, 2013. CMMIARCHITECTS

Construction of the long-delayed CentrePointe project will likely start in the next 10 days, developers for the project said Tuesday.

The Urban County Council unanimously approved an agreement Tuesday that would require CentrePointe developers to set aside $4.4 million in case parts of the project were not completed and the site in downtown Lexington had to be restored.

Dudley Webb, the CentrePointe developer, said he expects to pick up permits for excavation this week. The project which includes an office building, hotel, an apartment building and an underground parking garage has been stalled since 2008. Excavation on the 700-space underground parking garage will begin in the next two weeks and likely won't be completed until early spring, Webb said. The office building will be completed first, because a major tenant needs to be in the office building by May 2015, Webb said. Webb has not named the tenant but has said it is a national engineering firm.

Including financing costs, the price tag for the entire CentrePointe project is estimated to be $393.9 million.

Tuesday's agreement was the last hurdle Webb had to clear before being issued permits for the project. The project which includes an entire downtown block has been controversial after buildings were razed and financing for the project fell through. The empty block is now fenced-in green space.

Mayor Jim Gray said that the agreement signed Tuesday will give the city and the public assurances that if the project is not completed for any reason, there is money to restore the site.

"We are hopeful that the project will bring jobs to the city. That's important," Gray said. "My job is to encourage job creation on the one hand but also to protect the city." Gray said that if for whatever reason the project is not completed, the agreement provides security that the city will be able to restore the block to its current condition.

The state approved tax increment financing, or TIF, for the CentrePointe development last summer. Tax-increment financing will use tax revenues generated from the project to reimburse developers for the cost of the 700-space garage. The costs eligible for recovery include $31.9 million to be spent on a parking garage and $16.9 million from the financing of it.

But the Urban County Council approved stiff guidelines in July for the Webb Companies in order for the development to go forward as a TIF project. Key provisions in that agreement include: Webb must show city officials that he has financing for the project, submit to the city a geotechnical report on the feasibility for the underground garage, and certify that there is enough sewer capacity for the development.

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ANDREW BRANCA Daily Light Staff Writer

Baylor is relocating its current hospital on Jefferson Street next to Getzendaner Park to a new site located at the northeast corner of Interstate Highway 35E and U.S. Highway 287. The hospital will be six stories tall with the sixth story set for a future expansion. The hospital will have a 99-bed capacity that can be expanded to 125 beds. Construction is underway on the $175.5 million hospital

Posted: Tuesday, December 10, 2013 4:08 pm | Updated: 3:01 pm, Wed Dec 11, 2013.

Economic Commission OKs incentives for medical suite ANDREW BRANCA Daily Light Staff Writer Waxahachie Newspapers Inc.

The Waxahachie Economic Development Commission approved a tax abatement at its Monday meeting to incentivize construction of the medical office suite at the new Baylor hospital site.

The tax abatement, approved as a 380 agreement with Duke Realty, will encourage tenants to occupy the suites by allowing for lower rent costs. The agreement is in line with the city's Economic Development Strategic Plan which sets ensuring long-term success of Baylor and assisting in attracting/retaining medical talent.

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Miami, FL (PRWEB) December 12, 2013

It was a house that many owners would have thought was too small for an aluminum sunroom addition, says Chris Noe, president of Venetian Builders, Inc., Miami.

The lot was small, and the front of the lot was taken by much-needed parking space for a family that, like so many others, has multiple vehicles.

But today, that house has a fully enclosed, climate-controlled sunroom. The solution was conversion of a sturdy balcony that extended across the second story at the front of the home. The balcony became the sunroom.

Venetian designs and builds aluminum-framed space solutions for homeowners in all South Florida communities, including West Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood, Miami, Coral Springs and the Keys. It installs sun rooms, patio covers and roofs, and screen pool enclosures, plus insulated patio roofs, aluminum pergolas, retractable canvas awnings and aluminum lattice for privacy. The conversion actually wasnt complicated to design and engineer, Noe says of the balcony. The balcony already had a sound concrete floor and a roof. All that had to be done was remove the old posts and rails and replace them with a strong aluminum frame and windows. Some of the windows open to screens, so the balcony retained its open-air qualities.

It made for an economical and unanticipated home expansion, Noe says.

If you dont have a patio to convert, look around your home and you often can find space thats simply begging to be captured and put to new use as a sunroom, Noe says. He gives these tips on where to find the space:

Porches: Porches are a design element not much employed in todays homes, Noe says. If you have one thats sound, a conversion may be possible. If you have one thats not sound, youll have to make repairs or replace it anyway, so why not make the space a Florida room for year-round, all-weather use?

Balconies: Balconies can be quite a comfort, allowing for outdoor access from a second-floor room, sometimes a dining room or a bedroom, Noe says. But if theyre open-air, comfort may be limited because of insects and limited shelter from the rain. If the floor and roof are sound, a balcony conversion is simple. If they are not, the space can be captured and converted, with a totally new structure added to the original home. Decks: Theyre certainly not as plentiful as patios in Florida, but some houses do have sizable decks, Noe says. As with an open patio, enjoyment of a deck can be limited. A sunroom conversion, or a solarium that uses the space occupied by the deck, can add benefits including all-weather, all-hours use.

Garages: Without basements or snow, garages on smaller homes in Florida often end up as storage spaces, Noe says. But with a well-planned conversion, the garage can become a sizable sunroom and a smaller but organized storage unit that holds plenty. Windows can be added, of course, and skylights.

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MIAMI, FL (PRWEB) December 09, 2013

Homeowners who want to expand their homes need to learn that the most important ingredient in the design of an indoor or outdoor addition is their own dreams, says Chris Noe, president of Venetian Builders, Inc., Miami.

Good designs for sunrooms or screen enclosures incorporate a lot of imagination, Noe said.

Venetian designs and installs aluminum sunroom additions, insulated patio roofs, patio covers and pool screens in all South Florida communities, including West Palm Beach, Pembroke, Davie, Pinecrest, Fort Lauderdale, Kendall, Coconut Grove, Homestead and the Keys.

Everything we install gets the designers touch, Noe says, from the smallest screened entryway to the most elaborate patio or pool dome. No two designs are the same, he said.

The key is meeting the homeowners needs based on their lifestyles, he says. If you can dream it, a sunroom and screen enclosure builder with creative designers and the proper engineering can bring those dreams to life.

Noe offers these tips to homeowners considering an addition:

Know your needs: Knowing your actual need may be more subtle than just recognizing the symptoms, Noe says. For instance, if your childrens bedrooms are crowded, it may not be a bedroom you need, but a play space, hobby room or a study area. And if you cant find the space for company, it may not be a kitchen or dining room that you should add, but an indoor or outdoor entertainment center.

State your goals: Fill in the blank that comes after I want to be able to Noe says. Maybe its not have to clean homework off the dining room table before dinner, or be able to hold a holiday celebration without leaving people off the list, or exercize without having to trip over my equipment. Weve built aluminum sunroom additions as home gyms. The open, bright space adds to the workout experience, and the ceiling fans and climate control ensure comfort.

Describe your tastes: Sometimes just talking about your tastes will do, or showing the designer your home, Noe says. But its a good idea to use photos magazine illustrations or snapshots taken at a resort or a friends home. Photos can be a roadmap for the designer to follow.

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