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EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (WEAU)- The countdown is on and the clock is ticking for the U.S. Postal Service. Will the doors of a new location in Eau Claire be open before the holiday mailing rush?

After closing its old downtown Eau Claire location at the end of September, crews are working to put the final touches on a new post office on East Madison Street.

There are a lot of things that we have to do as far as security and things like that that you wouldn't think of with a normal retail location, U.S. Postal Service spokesperson Pete Nowacki said.

Nowacki says crews have set up countertops and are beginning to set up P.O. Boxes at the new location. Work is on schedule for an opening date of December 1st.

It has been our goal all along to have this new facility up and running by December 1st so we can help people meet their holiday needs, Nowacki said.

While the location nears completion, satellite post office locations like the one inside of Festival Foods continue to see a big increase in customers sending mail from their location.

Sometimes we have lines back to the health and beauty aids section, Festival Foods assistant store director Teresa Henrickson said.

Since the downtown post office on Barstow Street closed its doors at the end of September, Henrickson says they have adjusted the staffing and the hours of their satellite location to keep up with customer demand.

We have been tracking our increase in business and it's been up 30% since they have closed and we have added extra staff, Henrickson said.

As work continues on the new location, there are several spots around town you can take your mail to. A temporary post office, that currently houses P.O. boxes has been set up at the USPS processing facility on Hogarth Street.

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CHICAGO For years, this brown-brick building near Wrigley Field housed people who had nowhere else to go. It had peeling walls and broken smoke detectors. But its tiny one-room apartments offered homes to residents too poor for a one-bedroom, too risky to pass a credit check, too vulnerable on the perpetual edge of homelessness to sign a one-year lease.

Today, from the outside, the building looks the same: six stories, with tall windows and an elaborately carved entryway that still announces the property by its pre-World War II name, the Hotel Carlos. But it now contains studios remodeled with stainless steel appliances, granite countertops and hardwood floors. Rent reaches $1,125 a month. The ad in the window promises vintage charm.

In buildings like this one on Chicagos North Side, the shrinking pool of affordable housing a problem facing many thriving cities is playing out in a particularly vividway. Often, gentrification displaces the poor through less directmeans: Wealthier residents move in, businesses catering to them follow, property values rise, the economics of a neighborhood change, and longtime residents are priced out. But here and in other former single room occupancy hotels in Chicago the displacement is much more literal.

It is one unit for one unit, one single, living alone, for another single, living alone. Young professionals are moving in to occupy the very same and very small spaces recently home to people living on less than $1,000 a month. In their remodeled homes, sometimes as small as 250 square feet, what was once deteriorating becomes vintage.

When the building near Wrigley was sold to a developer in 2011, the low-income residents in its 130 units had to move out. And then something similar happened at the Abbott Hotel on Belmont. And the Norman on Wilson, and the Chateau on Broadway, and the Lawrence House in Uptown.

Its like a systematic taking over of where poor people live, says Adelaide Meyers, a soft-spoken 47-year-old woman who had to leave the Norman. She now lives in an apartment, where her father had to co-sign the lease, on the far north side of the city. The crime is worse in that part of town.

For Chicago, the debate over these buildings captures a larger tension that is simultaneously playing out in parts of Los Angeles and New York and Washington: The new owners and tenants moving in bring higher tax dollars, capital to revive old buildings and momentum to draw even more young professionals. But those benefits have come at a cost. Now Chicago is trying to save what amounts to 6,000 remaining SRO units, a small fraction of what once existed in the city as a housing stock of last resort for the poor.

The city council passed an ordinance today aimed at protecting the buildings and their residents. Developers and building owners have argued, though, that the new law will unfairly expect a few property owners in the city to take responsibility for a problem Chicago's shortage of affordable housing far beyond their control.

In an unfortunate twist of geography, many of the remaining SROs in Chicago happen to be located in lakefront neighborhoods on the North Side that are now in vogue. Since 2011, developers there have bought more than 2,000 low-income units for conversion into high-end apartments where the rent costs twice as much.

The properties arent simply demolished, cleared for wholesales redevelopment, because while they may be crumbling on the inside, they are often beautiful from the street, wrapped in art deco details or stone filigree. For new residents, these places embody an alternative to yuppie Chicago: historic architecture instead of cookie-cutter construction, authentic neighborhoods instead of ritzy ones.

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Pronews 7's Palo Duro Canyon set will soon find a new home in the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum.

If you've been watching Pronews 7 lately, you may have noticed some new faces among many other new additions. These past few months, more reporters as well as anchors have joined our team along with new cameras, cars and an overhaul of the Canady Broadcast Center. Engineers from across the country are camped out now at the beacon of broadcasting excellence, preparing our signal, our building and our staff for..."The Upgrade."

We are proud to announce (and really excited about) "The Upgrade," the next step of our transition to reveal a whole new look. Friday, November 14th, will be the last day Pronews 7 will broadcast from our legendary Palo Duro Canyon set. It has been in existence for more than 20 years and will soon find a new home in the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum. This set has been a staple in our community. Hundreds of school groups, scout troops, friends and family have had their pictures taken in front it. And to wish it a proper farewell, we are opening our doors Friday, from 2pm-4pm, and inviting viewers to bring their cameras and have their picture taken with the piece of history before it finds a new home.

With the farewell of the set comes a new look. That will be revealed after the new year, so in the meantime you'll notice us working through "The Upgrade." It may be quite entertaining as we test out the new equipment, broadcast from our garage as the new set is installed (yes, a garage - no one said this was going to be easy) and smile a whole lot - I told you, we're REALLY excited.

We want you to be a part of "The Upgrade", follow the progress on Twitter #ABC7Upgrade and on our Facebook page as well as at connectamarillo.com

During this transformation, one thing will not change...our commitment to bringing you the best news coverage possible in The Panhandle Spirit.

Stay tuned and THANK YOU for watching!

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One of Richard Leplastrier's designs, Angophora House, Sydney. Photo: Michael Nicholson

A Sydney architect credited with being "the key philosophical influence" behind much of Australia's best architecture today has become one of two Australians to receive Britain's highest architectural honour.

Richard Leplastrier and Melbourne-born Peter Wilson will receive Royal Institute of British Architects International Fellowships in London next month. The pair are the only Australians to be awarded the prize since its introduction in 2011.

Leplastrier is lauded internationally as one of the world's leading architects recognition achieved despite his aversion to media and publicity, and a body of exquisite little-seen and 'humble' residential work.

Richard Leplastrier, one of the country's most awarded architects. Photo: Andrew Goldie

"This is a great honour for Rick, who is respected around the world for the humanitarian qualities of his work and teachings," close friend and fellow architect Peter Stutchbury said. "He's devoted his life to an architecture in which people are worth more than buildings, to a philosophy of responsibility."

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Despite being Australia's second most awarded architect, the 75-year old 'national living treasure' remained as humble as his work, Stutchbury said. Glenn Murcutt remains the country's most awarded.

Leplastrier is celebrated for creating buildings and spaces that respond particularly sensitively to their site and culture, as well as being one of the nation's most respected architectural educators, mentoring many of the profession's current crop of practitioners.

Announcing the honour, the Royal Institute said Leplastrier "provided the backbone of thinking and belief" of much of the best work seen in Australia, noting his "extraordinary apprenticeship with Jorn Utzon, with whom he worked at the time of the Sydney Opera House".

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