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Penetron Specialty Products produces and sells high quality flooring products for flooring preparation and installation projects across the U.S.A. and Canada. As part of the global PENETRON Group, PSP offers the Groups well-known product expertise and experience, providing contractors, builders, and architectural and engineering professionals with technical and product support to help make every installation a success.

Technical Expertise and Industry Knowledge With over 30 years of experience as both a floor topping contractor and construction product salesman, Bob Baumeister has a comprehensive understanding of the construction industry. He has worked for the NST Group (New Slab Technology), the MAPEI Corporation, Master Builders, Inc. and other companies, gaining valuable technical expertise in all aspects of flooring products and project management. Bob is also a 23-year member of ICRI (International Concrete Repair Institute) and ICRI-certified in Concrete Slab Moisture Testing.

Bobs experience and technical knowledge are very important to us. It will deliver tangible benefits to our customers throughout North America, adds Pete Trainor, PSPs Vice President of Sales for the U.S.A. and Canada. As part of the PENETRON network, he will add vital capacity to our rapidly expanding customer support team.

Focus on Technology and Project Support My main tasks will be to provide key accounts with specific technical support and to help drive PSP product sales such as PENETRONs VB225 vapor mitigation systems into new markets, adds Bob Baumeister. PENETRON has a history of sound product innovation and working closely with customers to ensure all goes well with a project its a great fit!

With a full line of flooring preparation products including primers to self-leveling underlayments and vapor mitigation systems PSP continues to grow rapidly thanks to a product systems approach, especially for the larger industry projects.

The PENETRON Group is a leading manufacturer of specialty construction products for concrete waterproofing, concrete repairs and floor preparation systems. The Group operates through a global network, offering support to the design and construction community through its regional offices, representatives and distribution channels.

For more information on PENETRON waterproofing solutions, please visit penetronsp(dot)com or Facebook(dot)com/ThePenetronGroup, email CRDept(at)penetron(dot)com, or contact the Corporate Relations Department at 631-941-9700.

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home-decor business moves from garage to a storefront

By Megan Wilkinson

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STRUTHERS

Struthers locals have noticed that a new business made its home at 11 Poland Ave.

The storefront had been vacant for more than a year. Ashlis Attic, a Struthers couples home-decor and refinishing business, moved into the location officially Monday, and both its owners reported theyve had walk-ins every day.

Ashli Zinkhon, co-owner of the shop, said she and Adam Reuss, her boyfriend and co-owner, have been working for about two months to clean the vacant storefront for their business. She said the shop has a completely different feel from when they started cleaning.

The last people who were in here closed in 2013, but they left it in a bit of a mess, Ruess said. Weve been busy trying to give

the place a rustic look so people feel comfortable when they come in.

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As far as old buildings go, the near-abandoned building dubbed the old AT&T building located near Pasadena City Hall has seen better days. The 47-year-old structure has been sitting empty for more than three years after the basement flooded during hurricane Ike. But renovation plans are moving forward to bring the building back to life.

On Tuesday (Nov. 4) the Pasadena City Council again took up the issue of repairing the building and using it to house the Fire Department, Code Enforcement, Municipal Court and Fire Marshal Departments.

What were looking at is total costs for remodeling the AT&T building of about $11 million. This does not include repairs to the parking garage behind the building, Councilmember Pat Van Houte said.

The City of Pasadena also owns another dilapidated building located at 901 Curtis, which was also damaged during Hurricane Ike. Engineers estimate a cost of roughly $11 million to tear down 901 Curtis and build a new building. Van Houte questioned why the same money was being spent to tear down and rebuild one building but not the other.

One way gets you a remodeled building and one way gets you a new building, she said.

The old AT&T building was donated to the city by Southwestern Bell in 2011 in exchange for real estate fees and closing costs of roughly $25,000.

During remodeling, a portion of the $11 million renovation budget will be spent to remove mold and remediate asbestos issues.

The building has a torn roof. The windows are broken. The flooding happened and the basement took on 10 feet of water. It has mold. It has asbestos, Councilmember Don Harrison said. It is my understanding the city itself condemned the garage. All this happened because of one event: Hurricane Ike.

Van Houte asked why thecouncil wasnt allowed input on the decision.

This was presented to council as Weve made a decision, vote for this one. This has never been something for council to discuss, the pros and cons, she said. Theres a problem with the way were making decisions and I am not convinced this is the best choice.

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Some 28 cranes towered over construction sites around uptown Charlotte in 2008, but they became a rare sight as the recession ground development to a halt.

Today, the cranes are rising again in the citys center.

A dozen or more projects are under construction or newly completed inside the Interstate 277 loop, as well as just outside it along Morehead Street and parts of Kings Drive.

Look toward the north end of uptown and youll see the nearly complete SkyHouse Uptown apartments rising 24 stories above North Tryon. Over by NASCAR Plaza, dirt is moving for a 10-story Embassy Suites hotel.

And bigger projects are in the works: Three real estate groups are angling to start construction next year on uptown office towers, vying to throw the first new one skyward since the recession.

But its the flurry of apartment construction that draws the most notice and questions of whether its too much for the citys population to sustain.

Real estate developers behind the construction wave say it isnt. Theyre placing increasingly large bets on the rebounding local job market and on demographic trends that are seeing more and more young urban professionals move to Charlotte.

Uptown Charlotte is one of the most desirable places to live in the Southeast, if not the country, said real estate developer Clay Grubb, part of the group behind the SkyHouse tower. The real question should be, why has it taken this long for construction to boom.

A growing number of real estate studies and experts back that up. Charlotte landed at No. 7 out of 75 U.S. real estate markets to watch in 2015, according to a new report from the Urban Land Institute a think tank focused on development and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

The only cities faring better: the Texas boomtowns of Houston, Austin and Dallas-Fort Worth, along with San Francisco, Denver and Los Angeles.

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Coming from a townhome into a Colonial-style home, John and Renee Morehouse wanted to make the most of their extra space.

A formal dining room was unnecessary for now, so that spacious spot was turned into a playroom for their 2-year-old daughter. Unsure about how to use the formal living room, which was sitting vacant, they worked with designer Lauren Harris to create a TV-free gathering space. Now the stylish yet flexible space serves as a conversation area, with four chairs on casters, a round ottoman and storage cubes offering padded seating.

We wanted it to be area to sit before dinner or after dinner, Renee said.

Built in 1970, the Colonial-style home in Dunwoody has four bedrooms, two full and two half baths.(Christopher Michael Oquendo/ http://www.ophotography.com )

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Residents: John and Renee Morehouse, their daughter, Kate, 2, and their dog, Murphy. John is a research engineer at Georgia Tech; Renee is a behavioral scientist at the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention

Location: Dunwoody

John Morehouse, research engineer at Georgia Tech, and Renee Morehouse, a behavioral scientist at the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, have settled into their Dunwoody home with 2-year-old daughter Kate Morehouse. They worked with Lauren Harris Interiors on selecting pieces and a palette for spaces including their family room.(Christopher Michael Oquendo/ http://www.ophotography.com )

Size: 2,700 square feet, four bedrooms, two full and two half-baths

Year built: 1970

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Premier Greg Selinger

Premier Greg Selinger appears to have temporarily stamped out the fire that's been raging over his leadership.

His five dissident ministers have been silenced -- for now -- by their resignations from cabinet and their speedy replacement.

Selinger and his remaining supporters are soldiering on with the tasks of government, making spending and policy announcements. The Nov. 20 throne speech will, no doubt, be full of language that the NDP government means business.

In their view, they've got until April 2016 to right the ship, despite engine problems, leaks and a captain who saw a mutiny by what many once considered his closest crew mates.

Left unresolved is where five former high-ranking ministers -- Erin Selby, Andrew Swan, Stan Struthers, Theresa Oswald and Jennifer Howard -- will sit in the legislative assembly when the throne speech is presented. Will he remove them from the NDP caucus as he did with Christine Melnick, another discordant MLA? Will they suffer the indignity of sitting as independents on the other side of the floor, next to the Opposition Progressive Conservatives and the lone Liberal MLA? Will they be allowed by Selinger to run again in the next election to represent the NDP? Or do any of them have other plans, such as running as NDP candidates in the next federal election? Or retiring from politics altogether?

Whatever happens in the days ahead, it's also clear Selinger isn't completely safe. He may have pulled the knife from his back, but the wound is far from healed. And others, too, could soon unsheathe their own weapons.

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BEFORE: When an addition off the back of this walk-out basement created a larger family room, great effort went into hiding the new beam in the ceiling and the new columns in the walls where the old back wall of the house used to be. This ensured that the new space would feel like one large room rather than two small rooms next to each other.

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Editor's note: Portions of this column were previously published on deseretnews.com and on their website at renovationdesigngroup.com.

Identifying load-bearing walls is an important part of home remodeling. However, just because a wall is a structural wall doesnt mean it cant be removed if needed. Removing a load-bearing wall is not a design deal breaker.

We have discussed removing structural walls in this column before, but it is worth discussing again.

Removing a structural wall is not so difficult that avoiding this possibility should be the driving factor in the redesign of your home. The most important consideration is to determine how your family functions and how your home can be changed to support your lifestyle.

If a structural wall needs to come down to achieve your goals, then so be it.

Removing a load-bearing wall will require the services of a structural engineer. When a project requires structural changes, the municipal body that will issue the building permit will require stamped, signed drawings and calculations issued by a licensed structural engineer.

Before beginning to draw final drawings, we like to meet with the engineer at the home to consult on what the existing structural conditions probably are. At this stage, design professionals use their expertise and experience to make educated assumptions regarding the structural framing of the house. If the structure is not visible, a few test holes may be cut here and there which are helpful. However, it is not until the contractor actually tears into the project that the whole structural story may be known.

There are many ways to put a house together some much better than others so it is not shocking or upsetting if part of the solution has to be reconsidered. When you have created a great team with a competent, experienced architect, engineer and contractor, the adjustments can be quickly made, and you are on your way again. There is usually not a great financial impact to such a redesign. Keeping a 10 percent contingency fund will help in not being stressed by the adjustments that may happen along the way.

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