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OSWEGO, NY For more that 150 years Grace Lutheran Church in Oswego has been a beacon of love and hope in Christ. A welcoming safe haven for all, Grace Lutheran has played a major role in the spiritual wellness of Oswego and the surrounding communities it serves.

As part of the major renovation of Grace Lutheran Church in Oswego workers from Minetto Painting refurbish and paint the churchs steeple and bell tower. The renovation project is updating the 150-year-old church from top to bottom.

To ensure that Grace Lutheran Church is vibrant for another 150 years, Pastor Richard Klafehn and its parishioners have begun an extensive remodeling project that literally refurbishes the church from top to bottom.

Following months of planning the project got under way in May. In just four months Grace Lutheran Church and its parishioners have seen tremendous changes.

Piercing the sky high above Grace Lutheran is the churchs steeple and bell tower. A fixture of the citys eastside skyline, it received a thorough cleaning and painting. Now a pristine white, the tower shines brightly.

President of the Grace Lutheran Parish Council John Zanewych explained that while the exterior improvements, which also included painting of the wood and trim as well as refinishing the churchs doors, its the remodeling taking place inside that will have most impact on the parishioners as well as the community.

We have completely remodeled our basement and made a 150-year-old unusable basement into a functional hall that we can utilize for a variety of purposes. It doubles our space as we now have two halls, each able to accommodate up to 200 people. This fall we will be holding several events including a rummage sale September 26 and 27, a craft fair in November and a spaghetti dinner in December. Our halls will also be available for rent to the community, said Zanewych.

In addition to the extensive painting and remodeling a new heating system and the implementation of National Grids Smart Watt program that uses high efficiency light bulbs, has made the church much more energy efficient.

Parishioner Steve Gioia added that while much has been done, Grace Lutheran would receive even more updating in near future.

Were looking to add a lift to make our second story ADA accessible and updating the full kitchen we have on the second floor, said Gioia.

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Companies Will Demonstrate Spaulding Lightings Cimarron LED Fixture with Active Deterrence Surveillance at 2014 ASIS International Expo in Atlanta, GA

Greenville, SC Hubbell Lighting, a world leader in lighting innovation, and TOTUS Solutions, the leading provider of outdoor lighting based security platforms, will debut Spaulding Lightings popular Cimarron LED fixture (CL1) controlled by the Integrated TOTUS Surveillance Platform (iTSP) with a built-in Axis Communications multi-megapixel IP video surveillance camera (AXIS M3027-PVE) during the 2014 ASIS International Expo at Axis Communications booth #1023.

The combination of our award-winning Spaulding Lighting Cimarron LED fixture, TOTUS state-of-the-art surveillance and communications technology and Axis Communications advanced camera offers customers the perfect energy efficient, safety and security solution to meet their outdoor site lighting needs, explained Richard Abernethy, Vice President of Brand Management at Hubbell Outdoor Lighting. This innovative one platform solution is a real game changer and will be introduced to additional brands within the Hubbell Lighting product family in the near future.

By combining Axis Communications advanced multi-megapixel IP video surveillance camera with our iTSP into Spaulding Lightings fixture, weve created an Active Deterrence fixture to help prevent and deter crime instead of just recording it while it occurs, said Gregory Williams, Chief Executive Officer of TOTUS Solution. This is hands down the best surveillance light fixture on the market today and we are excited about working with these two lighting and security leaders.

We are very pleased to have the opportunity to work with Hubbell Lighting and TOTUS Solutions on this very exciting product offering. The AXIS M3027-PVE camera is perfectly suited for the integrated Spaulding Lighting Cimarron, iTSP fixture, remarked Fredrik Nilsson, General Manager, North America for Axis Communications.

To learn more about the Hubbell Lighting, TOTUS Solutions and Axis Communications outdoor lighting solution, visit Axis Communications booth (#1023) at the ASIS International Expo from September 29 through October 2 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, GA (www.asisonline.org).

About Hubbell Lighting Hubbell Lighting is one of the largest lighting fixture manufacturers in North America. The company provides a full range of indoor and outdoor lighting products serving the commercial, industrial, institutional, and residential markets. Hubbell Lighting brands include Alera Lighting, Architectural Area Lighting, Beacon Products, Columbia Lighting, Compass Products, Devine Lighting, Dual-Lite, HomeStyle Lighting, Hubbell Building Automation, Hubbell Industrial Lighting, Hubbell Outdoor Lighting, Kim Lighting, Kurt Versen, Litecontrol, Prescolite, Progress Lighting, Security Lighting, Spaulding Lighting, Sportsliter Solutions, Sterner Lighting Systems, Thomasville Lighting, and Whiteway. Hubbell Lighting: one name, distinctive brands, limitless lighting possibilities. For additional information, please visit http://www.hubbelllighting.com and follow Hubbell Lighting on LinkedIn, YouTube, Twitter and Facebook.

About TOTUS Solutions, Inc. TOTUS Solutions is the leading provider of Outdoor Lighting Based Security Platforms. TOTUS Security Platforms incorporate optimized LED lighting, megapixel IP surveillance, multi-day media storage, and secure wireless communications in a single solution. Our purpose-built security platforms are designed to transform passive surveillance into Active Deterrence to help prevent and deter crime instead of just recording it while it occurs.

TOTUS Security Platforms are lauded as New Product of the Year by Security Products, Best Outdoor Lighting Based Security Platforms by GOVIES, Best Outdoor Perimeter Protection by SIAs NPS, Securitys Best by ASIS Accolades and received the Top Innovative Technology Honor from Security Sales and Integration. For more information, visit http://www.totus-solutions.com.

TOTUS Solutions, Inc. Media Contact: Anna Belau abelau@totus-solutions.com 512-900-3295

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Published Wednesday, 24 September 2014

Irish architects Sheila ODonnell and John Tuomey. (Presseye)

Given in recognition of a lifetime's work, the Royal Gold Medal is approved personally by the Queen and is given to a person or group of people who have had a significant influence "either directly or indirectly on the advancement of architecture".

Past recipients have been such luminaries as Sir Norman Foster, who designed the Gherkin in London and Sir George Gilbert Scott, famous for the Midland Grand Hotel at St Pancras Station and the Albert Memorial in London.

The Lyric Theatre is one of a record five buildings by the Dublin-based architects O'Donnell + Tuomey to have been shortlisted for the RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) Stirling Prize.

The firm was shortlisted in 1999 for Ranelagh Multi-Denominational School in Dublin, 2005 for the Lewis Glucksman Gallery in Cork, 2011 for An Gaelras Irish Language Arts and Cultural Centre in Londonderry and in 2014 for the London School of Economics Saw Swee Hock Students' Centre.

It is 40 years since the Royal Gold Medal has been awarded to an Irish practice, with Sheila and John being among the youngest recipients of the Medal. The Lyric has won a string of architectural prizes since it was rebuilt in 2011, including Best Building at the Royal Society of Ulster Architects'.

The Lyric Theatre's chairman, Mark Carruthers, said: "Everyone at the Lyric is thrilled to see O'Donnell + Tuomey receiving the global recognition their work deserves. It comes as no surprise to any of us that Sheila and John should attract the highest accolade in world architecture - we know better than anyone that they design buildings which are both brilliant and beautiful.

"We always knew that the task of designing the new Lyric would be a stiff challenge, given the complexity of the site and the intricate, technical demands of a theatre building, but Sheila and John's ideas exceeded our wildest expectations.

"Their Lyric Theatre is a building for everyone in Belfast and beyond and we're delighted that audiences and architectural experts alike agree that it was designed by two people who are in a class of their own. As the citation for this latest award so rightly says of O'Donnell + Tuomey, 'Everything they do speaks to the best of us'."

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The most prestigious award in world architecture, the RIBA Gold Medal, has been awarded to husband and wife team, ODonnell Tuomey.

Sheila ODonnell and John Tuomey, who set up in practice in Dublin in 1988 and were to the fore in the regeneration of the original Temple Bar area of Dublin, have been the recipients of a number of national and international awards.

The firms buildings have been shortlisted for the Stirling Prize a record five times, including its most recent work, the Saw Swee Hock Student Centre at the London School of Economics, shortlisted for the 2014 RIBA prize.

Corks Glucksman Gallery, which has also garnered a number of awards from the Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland, and from RIBA as well as a UK Civic Trust award, also made the Stirling Prize shortlist for 2005.

ODonnell + Tuomey follow architect Michael Scott (Scott Tallon Walker), who won his Gold Medal in 1975 and engineer Peter Rices award in 1992.

They will also be the first husband-and-wife team to achieve the award since Charles and Ray Eames in 1979 and Michael and Patricia Hopkins in 1994, and are among the youngest recipients of the award.

At the announcement, RIBA President Stephen Hodder said: ODonnell + Tuomeys work is always inventive, striking, yet so well considered, particular to its place and brief, beautifully crafted and ever-developing. Sheila and John are at the vanguard of contemporary Irish architecture and I am delighted they are to receive this lifetime honour.

The firm has exhibited three times at the Venice Biennale and the couple are alumni of the School of Architecture at University College Dublin, where they also teach.

In a statement, they described their surprise at the news: Were delighted to have been chosen for this unexpected honour. Were humbled to find ourselves in such a company of heroes architects whose work we have studied and from whose example we continue to learn.

We believe in the social value and the poetic purpose of architecture and the gold medal encourages us to prevail in this most privileged and complicated career.

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Wall Street Lofts developer Roger Gault announced at Tuesdays Midland City Council meeting that national sandwich shop Which Wich signed the first lease in the new buildings retail space.

Gault described Which Wich as a nationally credited tenant and said that the store would be a great amenity to downtown. Gault said that during the construction of the Lofts, he has had to pass on many potential lessees as he has tried to be very selective in his choice of retailers. He said his first choice for the retail space is food and beverage users.

The Lofts are still estimated to open in mid-November. Gault said that the opening date had been pushed back because Fire Marshal James Howard required that all of the sheet rock and fire detectors be installed before the building could be opened to residents. Howard said a fire in March that destroyed an apartment project under construction in Houston is the reason for the requirements.

The parking garage that is being built adjacent to the apartment complex is also due to open in mid-November. The garage will provide a total of 301 parking spots, with 160 in the top two floors allocated for tenants of the Lofts, and 141 in the bottom two floors for the public.

Gault told the council that he was excited about the project coming to fruition, and that he was in preliminary talks about a second phase of the Lofts. But one issue was made clear during the presentation: Without city support for the parking garage, a project like the Wall Street Lofts would not be possible. The developers told the council that the parking shortage in downtown was a major issue for development.

The Lofts have three more retail spaces left open that it intends to fill. Total retail space on the ground floor of the Lofts totals 10,000 square feet, which is split into four 2,500-square-foot areas.

Gault provided figures for the estimated economic stimulus that will be provided downtown. With 126 total tenants spending at least $75 a week, Gault estimated that over a 30-year period the Lofts will create more than $14.7 million of spending in the downtown area. Project incentives from the Midland Development Corp, the city of Midland and Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone board, according to a previous Reporter-Telegram article, were totaled at $6.2 million.

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Conshohocken Borough Council approved borrowing $10,781,000 from two banks Sept. 17 to pay for the construction of the new Conshohocken Borough Hall, police station and retail space in the former Verizon building at West Fourth Avenue and Fayette Street.

Christopher Gibbons, a principal of Concord Public Finance, described the three 25-year bank loans, which will have fixed rates for seven years and variable rates for the balance of the loans.

Fulton Bank will lend $6,781,100 in tax-exempt funds at 2.86 percent interest for seven years and at a variable rate, from 3.5 percent to a maximum rate of 6 percent, for the remaining 18 years.

Phoenixville Federal Bank & Trust will lend $2,630,700 at 1.99 percent interest for seven years and at a variable rate, from 3.84 percent to a maximum rate of 4.75 percent, for the remaining 18 years.

Phoenixville Federal Bank & Trust will also lend $1,369,300 in taxable funds at 2.75 percent interest for seven years and at a variable rate, from 4.34 percent to a maximum rate of 5.99 percent, for the 18-year balance.

We are planning to use a bank financing to do it as inexpensively as possible, Gibbons said. We went out to 35 banks and got 30 proposals.

The total amount borrowed will be $10,709,600 with borrowing costs of $71,500, Gibbons said.

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.

But 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.

This proposal is a great opportunity, Gibons said. Continued...

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The former Allegheny County Health Department building in Oakland is coming down and a new retail and apartment development is going up.

City planning commission members unanimously approved plans Tuesday to demolish the health department building and to erect a 550,000-square-foot complex that will include 389 apartments and street-level retail space on Forbes and Fifth avenues.

Ambling University Development Group, the Georgia-based developer hired to undertake the project for property owner MWK Forbes LLC, hopes to begin construction of the 13-story building early next year with completion targeted for the end of 2016. Demolition of the health department building is expected to start next month.

The new building is part of a broader development that will include a 138-room hotel that is to be built on two adjacent lots. Two houses on those lots will be razed, with the commissions consent Tuesday.

Skyvue, as the residential tower will be called, will be built between Craft Avenue and Halket Street in Oakland. The complex will include a 286-space parking garage with another 70 set aside for future development.

Approval came despite concern about whether the amount of parking would be adequate given the 389 apartments to be built. Some also worried about the viability of the retail on Fifth, as it will be squeezed into a very tight section of sidewalk.

Ambling CEO Ryan Holmes said the parking should be enough. He said that in projects in Atlanta and Virginia only about 35 to 60 percent of the parking spaces set aside as part of residential projects were actually leased.

Its a concern everywhere you go. Parkings the No. 1 issue. We address it, obviously. The cities are asking for less and less parking. The neighborhoods are wanting more and more parking because they dont have any parking. Its kind of a double-edged sword, he said.

The development won the backing of the Oakland Planning and Development Corporation. Wanda Wilson, executive director, said it is consistent with the groups neighborhood plan and could have a positive impact on the neighborhoods tight housing market.

But she added that such a large-scale project required careful planning to avoid negative impacts to nearby residents. She urged the developer to try to find ways to discourage apartment dwellers and visitors from parking on nearby residential streets.

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The UPS Store is increasing its 3D printing services to almost 100 locations across the US.

In collaboration with Stratasys, UPS was the first nationwide retailer to launch 3D print services in-store last year. Now,following the success of six pilot locations along with a continuing demand, small business and retail customers now have easier access to professional 3D printing services.

UPS Store VP of Sales and Marketing Michelle Van Slyke said: We launched the pilot to evaluate if there was demand for high-quality, professional 3D printing andareexcited to be announcing an expansion.

During the pilot programme, small businesses, startups, inventors, artists and other professionals used the services, which include print functional prototypes, custom accessories, jigs and fixtures manufacture and the ability to build architectural models using a Stratasys professional grade 3D printer.

There are significant differences between home 3D printers and professional 3D printers, said Daniel Remba,SmallBusinessTechnologyLeader at The UPS Store.

Many of the challenging and time-consuming steps used to prepare a simpler printer are fully automated on the Stratasys printer, leading to added precision and reliability, higher print quality and a success rate that is unmatched by a home printer.

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