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Even as Europe stands knee-deep in economic uncertainty, EuroCucina 2012, which was held April 17-22 in conjunction with Salone Internazionale del Mobile at the Milan Fairgrounds in Rho-Milan, Italy, seemed fairly abuzz with activity. Aisles were sufficiently populated to require vigilance for circulation, and booths were well packed to make photography challenging.

Nevertheless, The Europeans have taken quite an economic hit in the last four years, said Giulio Petrilli, VP of project sales for Snaidero USA, and EuroCucina regulars, such as Petrilli, noticed a smaller footprint. According to show organizer Cosmit, while this years outing boasted 166 exhibitors (up from 151), total exhibition space was down from 32,652 to 26,894 sq. m, and attendance experienced a slight dip from 297,460 to 292,370 for the combined event, which also included a furniture accessories component and the International Bathroom Show.

KITCHEN ART

Regardless, the biennial kitchen extravaganza still had much to awe visitors, if not in the number of new innovations, then in sheer artistry. Whereas American shows tend to be more product-focused in their displays, here, booths were often fully accessorized and dramatically illuminated to stoke ones imagination, emotions and viscera. Some displays took a real-life approach, such as SieMatics three BeauxArts vignettes, which were created by Mick De Giuliowho also designed the cabinet lineto be easily transferable to an actual home, and Marchi, an Italian maker of traditional and transitional kitchens, segmented its booth into four elaborately furnished environments, each inspired by a bit of Americana and each in near move-in condition. Others incorporated everything from paper sculptures and plastic flamingoes to crockery, oversized light fixtures and groupings of common household and food items to convey an attitude, a mood or frequently an atmosphere of warmth and domesticity.

Marchis booth was beautifully outfitted with several fully furnished vignettes depicting Americana

As in previous years, many of the kitchens on display were prototypes, noted Petrilli and Amir Ilin, president of Kche+Cucina and North and Central American sales manager for Pedini USA. This makes sense, as several featured mammoth peninsulas or multiple islands bridged by countertops outfitted with stools. Some islands curved, sloped and/or terminated in a casual dining table, seating or a shelving unit angled to break up the long horizontal lines. All required lots of space, which runs contrary to the reality of European kitchens. In Europe, most people live in apartments, so the kitchens are much smaller than what you would find in a catalog or at a show, Ilin said. EuroCucina is like a fashion show, so youll see things that may never go into production, such as large islands that could easily dwarf the roomiest of kitchens stateside. However, Ilin added, prototype or not, the products set a trend or provide a direction.

WOODEN APPEAL

One highly visible trend was a raw, sawn-wood look that some may recall from last years inaugural LivingKitchen show in Cologne, Germany. In fact, Petrilli thinks it may have originated in Northern Europe, where pronounced graining and rustic wood effects have long been favored. Shown in medium- and dark-wood tones, as well as gray, and often paired with countertops formed of large wooden planks that appeared as if sliced from a tree, the back-to-nature look was pervasive in Milan, but Petrilli and Ilin are doubtful about its success. Both Snaidero and Pedini introduced it a few years ago and it never took off, Ilin said. Customers liked it, but they didnt buy it. Sometimes you need products that make people ooh and aah, but then they move on. Moreover, Petrilli said, The Italian market has gone strictly into the lacquers, which account for 90 percent of Snaideros business and tend to be less expensive than wood. Italians, in terms of a general market, are downscaling their kitchens because of the economy, and theyre basically choosing lacquer.

Minacciolo went back to nature with its Natural Skin kitchen in cooked pine.

Other popular finishes at the show included glass (especially in the frosted variety), metal and laminates, which hold appeal no doubt because of their affordability. Some companies experimented with textured concrete, ceramics or stone on cabinet doors, drawers and sides, and countertops, which were either very thin or very thick, were served up in a variety of materials. Yet despite the selection of finishes, colors in general veered toward neutral with white, gray and wood tones dominating the exhibits. Ilin noted, From a psychological standpoint, when the economy starts to slow down, things become softer, and colors are less bright and gutsy.

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A popular horse-betting facility in Scott County shut down more than a year ago. Sunday, the building re-opened to the public for the first time since then.

200 TV monitors with nothing but horse racing lined the walls of Colonial Downs. A year later -- a congregation full of excited people fill the space which is now the sanctuary of Uplift Church.

We noticed that it had sat vacant for almost a year and we knew it had closed down. So, we put somebody in charge of finding out if it was available, and if they would be willing to rent it to a church, and they said, yeah absolutely, says Patrick Johnson, pastor.

Johnson and members of his church went right to work remodeling, cleaning and preparing for the grand opening.

We started five weeks ago, and this whole building was totally different. Just to come through every Saturday and see how this has changed is phenomenal, says Britney Miles, church member.

Uplift Church has changed a lot too since Johnson started it back in 2012, when he held services in the basement of his home. We first originally started with five families, he says.

Those five families have grown into this -- with attendance numbers no one anticipated -- but couldn't be more thrilled about. It was just amazing to see 239 people come to Christ today. I was definitely excited, Miles adds.

And so was Connor Lovelace who came to Uplift for the first time. I work with a lot of the people that go here and they just make you feel at home. It's just a really welcoming environment. I love it. I love it a lot, Lovelace says.

All bets aside, it's a celebration of a fresh start and a new beginning. It's taken a whole lot of people. What grew out of those five families have now grown to more than that and they've all pitched in, and I mean just really done an amazing work to get all this work done, Johnson says.

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DELAND As cleanup work at the site of a former golf course wraps up, developers are hoping to start construction on a new shopping center on the site in the southern part of city next month.

Country Club Corners could host shoppers as early as next fall, said attorney Mark Watts of Cobb Cole, a representative for Lake Mary-based Tailwinds Development.

The 14.5-acre shopping center is one piece of a roughly 105-acre mixed-use development planned for the site of what was once the DeLand Country Club. The centerpiece of the shopping center will be a 53,785-square-foot Publix supermarket.

The new grocery store will replace an existing Publix directly across the street, anchoring the Southpointe Commons shopping center.

The Publix building will have another 8,400 square feet of retail space attached to it. Another 31,300-square-foot junior anchor retail building is planned just north of the Publix. Combined with smaller outparcels, the center will offer 104,033 square feet of retail and restaurant space in total.

The new Publix will be significantly larger than the old one, which is 42,000 square feet, said Dwaine Stevens, a Publix spokesman.

The developers are working with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection to clean up dieldrin pesticide contamination on the property. The pesticide was used on the golf course decades ago before it was found to be toxic and banned in the 1980s.

In 2011, contamination was discovered in the soil and groundwater of several neighborhoods near the golf course. There is work going on on the property now, said Watts. Most of that is related to the remedial action plan that was approved by the DEP. On the commercial side I think well be wrapped up in January (with the remediation work) and well be starting with the infrastructure part of the commercial side.

Watts said the cleanup work has progressed well and without any surprises. Similar work on the residential side of the project is set to begin in April.

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At just 24 years old, Kenroy Waldron is a Clerical Assistant at the Division of Settlements and Labour, and the Chief Executive Officer of his own company Kii Dronn Contracting Services.

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1.Your favourite childhood memory? Flying kites with my brothers at Christmas time.

2.What was your lowest point in life? When I lost my mother. She passed away after accidentally inhaling fumes from a bottle of bright bowl and Clorox mixture.

3. What is your favourite dish? Buss up shut and curried chicken.

4. Which person has been the most influential to you? Or, persons you can credit for your achievements thus far? If I say one person that would be unfair; I have a strong support base. I thank God for them daily they know who they are.

5. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? I am happy with who I am. What you see is what you get.

6. What is the best advice that you have ever gotten? I was chatting with my father, Mr. Beresford Waldron and he told me, Kenroy everyone wont be happy with what you have accomplished thus far, but keep trusting God in all that you do.

7. Where have you travelled thus far? I have been to St Lucia and I loved the time I spent there. I hope to return soon on business.

8. What is your guiltiest pleasure? I love cars. After praying in the morning, I am usually outside by 5:30 am every morning cleaning my car.

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Now deeply into construction, Tampas next mega-mansion will rise three stories tall and spread out over a 47,000-square-foot space, roughly half the size of some Publix grocery stores, and likely feature rooftop gardens, fountains, and a dozen bedrooms, bathrooms and living rooms.

Luckily for guests and visitors, the mansion will have an open-door policy and everything inside will be for sale. The couches in the living room, the robes in the bathroom and the wine glasses in the kitchen. Thats because this mega-mansion will be a Restoration Hardware Gallery adjacent to International Plaza mall, one of just four supersites the San Francisco-based home design retailer will open around the nation this year.

While most other retailers are closing stores or shrinking stores to better compete with online rivals, Restoration Hardware is very much going the other direction, building big. Very big. And the retailer thus joins a small pack of companies bucking current trends and going for mega-stores: Bass Pro Shops and Academy Sports among them.

In a kind of video manifesto, RH patriarch and Chairman Gary Friedman told Wall Street investors this month that his new stores are so different that they simply wont fit into the established financial models, and anyone hoping to understand the companys strategy just simply has to visit one of these new mega-sites in San Francisco, Houston or Atlanta.

We created spaces that blurred the lines between residential and retail, indoors and outdoors, physical and digital, Friedman said. We created spaces where guests who visit our new homes are saying I want to live here. Ive been in retail almost 40 years and Ive never heard anyone say they wanted to live in a retail store, until now.

Rumors about Restoration Hardwares plans in Tampa have circulated for some time, particularly ever since the Champps Americana restaurant closed at International Plaza and remained dormant.

The company officially is mum about its current store at Hyde Park Village, but given how top executives speak of smaller, 7,000-square-foot sites, its likely the new International Plaza gallery will replace the current, smaller Hyde Park Village site.

This month, paperwork started to circulate through City of Tampa offices that named Restoration Hardware as the retailer, and company officials confirmed the location to the Tribune.

Restoration Hardware has long zigged when other retailers have zagged. It was one of the first merchants to fully embrace the idea that customers want to buy into a whole lifestyle, a whole aesthetic, a whole social strata, and not just walk in to buy a couch or doorknob.

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