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The $480,307 Industrial Sites Reuse Program grant will largely subsidize the $722,956 remediation cost to remove the outside and interior walls, asbestos contamination and old equipment. Borough officials have been converting the closed building from a Class C, non-functioning, out-of-date facility into a Class A office to be used as the new borough complex.

Im very happy we were able to get it, said Councilwoman Anita Barton, representing Ward 4 where the borough office will be located. It is a help for us financially.

Barton said that the remediation costs went up slightly because they had discovered a little more asbestos in the building in the summertime.

You cant just go into a building and assume it is safe, Barton said. We had to be sure the building would be safe.

On Oct. 27, workers at the construction site were installing metal wall studs between the concrete floors and ceilings on the first and second floors of the building. The building is surrounded by an 8-foot chain-link fence faced with green fabric to obscure the construction site from sidewalk observers. The upper floors are visible from Fayette Street and Fourth Avenue.

The grant application for the Conshohocken project was received by state officials in August 2014, said Lyndsay Kensinger, a DCED spokesperson. There have been no other ISRP grant projects awarded in Montgomery County so far this year, she said.

In September, borough council borrowed $10,781,000 from two banks to pay for the construction costs. The annual debt service will start at $312,619 in 2015 and increase to $719,766 per year in the subsequent 24 years of the loans. Borough officials said the $719,766 in annual debt service would be decreased by eliminating the annual $240,000 that the borough currently pays for its office rental at 1 W. First Ave. The borough also expects to receive about $225,000 per year when all of the 20,000 square feet of rental space is occupied in the new borough office building.

Council awarded a $10,497,600 basic bid to TN Ward Co. of Lower Merion on Sept. 3 along with alternate bid items that brought the total cost of construction $10,709,600. The alternate bids include a vegetative tray system on the main roof for $103,500; a screen for the rooftop mechanical systems for $46,500; a six-panel, closed-loop solar hot-water array for a $38,500; an upgrade in the rubber roof thickness from 0.06 inch to 0.09 inch for $13,500; and a ground face cement block rather than split face for $10,000.

Borough Engineer Paul Hughes had recommended eliminating a $713,000 alternate for a second entrance on Fourth Avenue that included site work, structures, stairs, exterior envelope, interior re-configuration and the associated mechanical, electrical, plumbing and fire protection elements. Continued...

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By Karen Brune Mathis, Managing Editor

That corner, at northwest Kernan and Atlantic boulevards, is anchored by LA Fitness, Academy Sports & Outdoors, Earth Fare and, next spring, Belk. A 7-Eleven also operates on an outparcel.

The 290-unit Sorrel apartments are under construction on the site, just north of the retail area. The address is 11901 Atlantic Blvd.

President Toney Sleiman said Monday he also is studying the option of building a movie theater there, pending results of a competitive review to determine if the area can support one.

The whole area is a great area, Sleiman said.

According to Sleiman.com, demographics show average household income of $70,343 within five miles of the location. It found a population of almost 176,000, among more than 67,700 households.

That indicates an average household size of 2.6, possibly reflecting the number of young professionals and couples who live among the apartments and housing developments in the area.

The five-mile median age is 34.2, while the one-mile median age is a younger 32.4.

Sleiman projects a 2018 population of more than 183,000.

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Mark Grisafe, owner of M. Grisafe Architects, received the Chai Award for Outstanding Voluntary Service from the Alpert Jewish Community Center of Long Beach, Ca. The Alpert Jewish Community Center presented the volunteer service award to Mr. Grisafe on September 7, 2014, at a community-wide meeting brunch. Members of the M Grisafe Architects team, volunteers and staff, and residents of the Long Beach community attended the annual event at the center.

The more than 2,300 member Alpert Jewish Community Center (AJCC) offers programs and services for individuals of all faiths throughout Long Beach. Grisafe has volunteered his architectural expertise at the AJCC for the past several years.

Grisafe's work at the AJCC includes small construction projects and serving as the architectural resource for the AJCC's Facilities Task Force. In this capacity, the AJCC recognizes Mr. Grisafe as instrumental to a number of the AJCC's recent and upcoming architectural improvement projects.

For Grisafe, who points to his family as having instilled in him a tradition of community service, the Chai Award for Outstanding Voluntary Service is an honor, "but the real reward is having had the opportunity to meet so many good people." On the connection between community service and building a successful small business, Grisafe says, "building the charitable spirit into the company's business model was an obvious choice."

News of the award and its connection to the work and mission of M Grisafe Architects was first reported on the company blog and has received a large and enthusiastic response from the companys clients, contacts, friends and members of the community online via social media and offline.

About M. Grisafe Architects

M. Grisafe Architects is a full service commercial and residential architecture firm based in the Long Beach, Ca area. Grisafe provides a broad range of commercial architectural services including expertise in building design, tenant improvements, commercial interior design and more. The firm also provides residential architectural services including construction documents, landscape and yard design, and interior design. Learn more about the firm at http://mgrisafearchitect.com/long-beach-architects-architectural-design-firm/

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BAY CITY, MI Bay City is filled with historic homes, but there are a few that stand out from the rest.

Patricia Drury's 132-year-old Victorian-era home, 813 N. Sheridan St., just off Center Avenue, isfeatured in the December edition of "Old House Journal," a national magazine that focuses on the restoration of historic homes. The 10-page spread highlights the home's manyantique pieces, as well as itsrich history, including a story about the timeSusan B. Anthony stayed the night there in the early 1900s.

"It's a great honor being in the magazine," said Drury, 85. "It's very unusual that any home like this in Bay City gets this type of recognition. What's so unique about this home is that it's so unchanged. There is almost no alteration to these rooms. It's filled with history."

After purchasing the home for $36,000 in 1982, Drury started researching its history.

Aretired history teacher who taught at Bay City Junior College and later Delta College, Drury said her research of the house introduced her to John Wesley Knaggs and his wife May Stocking Knaggs. The couple built the home in 1882. Through her research, Drury came across portraits of the couple, which hang on the wall in her living room today.

John Wesley Knaggs was a Civil War veteran who lost his arm in battle. He would go on to open an insurance business in Bay City.

His wife May Stocking Knaggs, who was inducted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame in 2002, was a well-known leader in the women's suffrage movement. Described as a "logical and convincing speaker" by the Detroit Free Press, she believed that men and women should be viewed as equals in responsibility and opportunity to vote.

She heavily campaigned for Susan B. Anthony, who actually stayed overnight in the house during one of her trips to Michigan. The room Anthony slept in now has her initials etched into the corners of the door frame. It also features a $4,000 antique bed.

"It's probably one of the greatest pieces of history that is a part of this house," Drury said on Anthony's stop in Bay City.

Drury learned much of the house's history through a memoir written by Helen MacLennan Rambow, the granddaughter of John and May Knaggs.

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Norman Baker has launched a fresh attack on Theresa May, saying he resigned as a Home Office minister after facing a constant battle to introduce policies in the face of a Tory lurch to the right in pursuit of Ukip voters.

Nick Clegg was making plans to replace him with a woman. The deputy prime minister has faced intense criticism for failing to appoint any women to one of the Lib Dems five cabinet posts. Bakers replacement will have the title of minister of state one rung below a cabinet minister.

The preparations for the mini-reshuffle came after Baker resigned. He had likened his experience working under the home secretary to walking through mud. The former minister expanded his attack on May on Tuesday morning as he accused her of failing to allow him to develop policies.

Baker told the BBC News channel: The home secretary was reluctant to let me have my head and it was a constant battle to try to get things through. That is unfortunate not just for the Home Office but actually for the government.

The former minister dismissed criticism from Damian Green, who was sacked as a Home Office minister in the Tory summer reshuffle, that he had acted as a Lib Dem home secretary on a par with May.

Baker said: We are in a coalition government and therefore it was right that I took an interest in matters right across the department which is no different to how I behaved in the Department for Transport.

But he said that his battle was complicated by the Tories lurch to the right in response to the Ukip threat.

I have done it for a year, it is very hard work, the Home Office is probably at the cutting edge of the coalition, he said. It is where most policy issues are difficult, whether it is Europe or immigration. It has not been helped by the lurch to the right from the Conservative party as they chase Ukip off to the fringes.

Baker said there was no point in hanging on to office. We dont always have to cling to office as ministers. If we think there is a time to go, there is a time to go. I want a break. I want to spend more time with my family, more time in my constituency, more time doing stuff I want to do, like my music.

The Lib Dem president, Tim Farron, accused the home secretary of insulting the electorate by acting as if the Conservatives had won an overall majority at the last election in her high-handed treatment of Baker.

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Employees work inside The Building Center on Jenkins Dairy Road in Gastonia, which is in the process of a $500,000 expansion project at the site.

How do you know the housing market continues to recover? Try the recent expansion of a local building supply company.

The Building Center recently launched the second phase of its four-year expansion plan, President Skip Norris said. The more than $484,000 project will install more than 6,000 square feet of space at its Jenkins Dairy Road building in Gastonia, which Norris said will be used to create and store additional roof and floor trusses produced by the company.

Norris said the companys local expansion plans began last year with the installation of 10,000 square feet of storage space for building materials. Next year, portions of the property will be raised to allow for the installation of better storm drains, and Norris said a new production facility will open at the site in 2016.

Our business made it through the downturn in housing, and we feel like were in a pretty strong position right now, Norris said. Were projecting an increase in sales over the next year at roughly 20 percent.

The region lost some of its building supply companies during the recession, Norris said, which offered his company a chance to grow as the market started to rebound. The company has expanded some of its current facilities, like the one in Gastonia, but its also expanded to new markets, most recently Burlington and, later this week, Mebane.

Founded in 1977, The Building Center has six locations throughout North and South Carolina. It opened its Gastonia location in 1997. It offers framing, treated and engineered lumber, trusses, roofing, siding, windows, custom entry doors, millwork, railing systems, decking, columns, hardware and other supplies.

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