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In the late 1990s, Rick Wuest was a 30-something member of his family window-manufacturing company forgettably named Mid-Lantic Corp. when he decided the business his father built needed to change course.

Revenues were flat. Profits were reliably in the black. The Wuests did fine, living comfortably and poking along selling the vinyl windows they manufactured on Kent Island to building contractors.

It was a lifestyle business, said Wuest, referring to the window company his father, Fred, had started on West Street in Annapolis in 1980. But there was little reinvestment in the family firm.

Wuests ability to change that, building what became Thompson Creek Window Company, is all the more impressive given the difficulties many family-owned companies big and small face in navigating a path for succeeding generations.

Wuest, now 47, is a liberal arts graduate of Penn State who worked nearly every job in the company. He ached to take his family business to the next level.

I knew there was an opportunity we hadnt really yet fully realized, he said recently. I didnt know what that was.

He couldnt help but notice that the window business, long a sleepy niche in the home improvement and building ecosystem, was exploding with the entrance of vinyl replacement windows. Replacement windows are often the more affordable alternative to ripping out an entire window frame.

Some very well capitalized businesses came into the marketplace, said Wuest, referring to big names like Andersen and Pella, which were aggressively pursuing the vinyl window market. Competition was growing. The channels for windows in the marketplace were growing. Competition was coming and the prices were falling.

Wuest knew that if the company were to survive, it needed to grow. And to grow, Mid-Lantic would have to begin reinvesting profits back into the company and expand sales.

We werent very well capitalized, Wuest said.

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BUILDING PERMITS

Building construction permits over $10,000 in value that were approved in Boulder between Aug. 25, 2014 to Aug. 31, 2014. Listed below are: the case number; address; total project valuation; owner name; contractor (if applicable); and description.

PMT2014-02661 862 15th St.; $12,000; Barbara Weiland; New 220-square-foot carport with brick hip-wall.

PMT2014-02885 5589 Arapahoe Ave.; $77,088.96; Zou Zhong; Van Matre Construction LLC; Tenant finish for a 2,059-square-foot medical marijuana grow operation adjacent to existing 2,500-square-foot grow operation.

PMT2014-03006 3560 Pearl St.; $127,500; Sirius Investment; Pine Construction Co.; Interior, non-structural tenant improvement to expand RMB grow into adjacent tenant space. Includes associated MEPs. Fire sprinkler system modifications by separate permit.

PMT2014-03089 2108 55th St.; $131,675.60; Flatiron Investment; Quinlan Construction Inc; Tenant interior remodel for HistoTox to create new laboratory and office space for biomedical firm.

PMT2014-03107 3000 Palo Parkway; $625,000; Kalmia Holdings; Markel Homes Construction Co.; New single-family home. 3,710 square feet of finished space. 217 square feet of unfinished space. Garage area is 736 square feet and the porch is 151 square feet. Scope of work includes associated MEPs.

PMT2014-03194 750 Lincoln Place; $35,000; Eric and Mary Pommer; Construction of new 485-square-foot carport, with associated breezeway attaching to a single-family dwelling.

PMT2014-03251 3014 14th St.; $120,000; 3014 14th and Matt Alfermann; Interior remodel of single-family dwelling. Scope to include replacement of entire HVAC system, replacement of windows, removal of a section of interior load bearing wall with beam, remodel of kitchen and two baths.

PMT2014-03478 2125 Pine St.; $15,912.00; Scott Dagney; Melton Construction Inc.; Rebuild existing front porch, reusing existing footings.. Scope to include modification (lowering) of roof line above porch only.

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Red Lobster's upcoming move to a CNL tower next to Orlando City Hall has developers planning another office highrise for a downtown that has drawn more apartment tenants than new employees in recent years.

Although no formal plans have been submitted to the city, both CNL and Highwoods are seeking anchor tenants for long-envisioned office towers. CNL hopes to make an announcement before the end of the year.

"The decision by Red Lobster to move their corporate headquarters to downtown Orlando is a big moment for the central business district and for CNL Center," said Paul Ellis, president of CNL Commercial Real Estate.

In addition to validating the city's investments in the downtown area, the Red Lobster move marks an "important step for CNL as we contemplate the development of a third tower at CNL Center," Ellis said in a prepared statement this week. Red Lobster, which was sold by Darden Restaurants earlier this year, was likely the largest downtown lease since the recession.

Red Lobster's announcement that it would locate its headquarters in 91,000 square feet at CNL Tower I came amid a resurgence for the central business district, which was plastered with "For Lease" signs just four years ago.

Positive signs for downtown include this year's opening of the SunRail commuter line, which has two downtown stops. The $514 million Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts is scheduled to open in November.

Technology firms including Canvs, Splyt, Echo Interaction and Plan Source have leased space in the Church Street Exchange. Young professionals and others are leasing many of the 1,000 apartment units being added to the downtown market. And the downtown office vacancy rate has dwindled from more than 20 percent at the low point about four years ago to about 12 percent during the second quarter.

Despite the improving conditions, the last major addition to the downtown skyline was the Plaza, which opened at Orange Avenue and Church Street in 2006 and is now known as Chase Plaza. The smaller, seven-story GAI Building opened on the fringe of downtown in 2010. Ustler Development is underway on a four-story office building, which is fully pre-leased, on North Orange Avenue just north of Colonial Drive.

CNL and Highwoods say they are still working out details on the type of building and tenants they want to bring downtown.

However, Highwoods has proposed Capital Plaza Three, which would include 187,000 square feet, an outdoor piazza, and seven stories of office space atop seven decks of parking at 207 E. Pine St.

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Several Southern Illinois counties will receive money as part of an $8.8 million dollar state investment in construction projects, Gov. Pat Quinn announced Friday.

The projects are part of the Illinois Jobs Now! construction program and will be managed by the Illinois Department of Transportation.

Alexander County will receive $1,242,495 for resurfacing pavement, aggregating shoulders, patching pavement, paint pavement marking and reflective pavement markers on Illinois 3, from Illinois 127 to west of the I-57 ramp.

Franklin County will receive $63,023 to repair the roofing systems at Wayne Fitzgerrell State Park and another $282,494 for patching in West Frankfort from Joiner Street to Ken Gray Boulevardand curb and gutter replacement at south and north-bound U.S. 57 rest areas.

Gallatin County will receive $612,845 for pavement and shoulder replacement on the westbound lane of Illinois 13 on either side of Illinois 1.

Rosiclare in Hardin County will receive $383,649 for milling and inlay surfacing, aggregating shoulders, pavement marking and reflective pavement markers.

Bridge decks at 60 locations in Jackson and Perry countieswill be sealed, with $104,534 being provided for the project.

A three-span bridge over Rayes Creek on Illinois 15 in Jefferson County will be funded for $669,386.

Four miles of U.S. 45 in Johnson County will receive patching, marking, resurfacing, and placing of reflective pavement markers. The project will cost $925,203.

Roofing systems at Mermet Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area in Massac County will be replaced for $87,596.

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Kyungjae Lee, owner of Sushi Kudara, describes how she was setting a table in her restaurant on Academy Road seconds before a car came smashing through the window Saturday afternoon. No one was injured. Photo Store

The owners of a sushi restaurant on Academy Road are cleaning up after a car crashed through their front window this afternoon.

At about noon, Sushi Kudaras owner, Kyung Jae Lee, had just finished cleaning some tables and made a visit to the washroom when she heard the crash. "Very scared, very surprised," she said of the scene when she emerged.

Witnesses said a woman was trying to park in front of the restaurant when her brakes failed and smashed through the cafs picture window.

The driver, believed to be in her 50s, was not injured.

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They're years from bearing fruit, but 100 slender young pomegranate trees are doing something even more remarkable for the Bakersfield Country Club golf course.

They're helping it save water.

Now in its third year, the historic southwestern drought has threatened Central Valley farmers since it began.

Wells in east Porterville are running dry, and even cities like Bakersfield -- whose officials believe it has sufficient water rights and groundwater access to weather the crisis -- have called for conservation.

And the odds of a long-term, or "megadrought," shrouding the region for more than 30 years have increased to 20 to 50 percent, university officials at Cornell, the University of Arizona, and the U.S. Geological Survey said recently.

Faced with rising water and utility prices, many golf courses throughout the region are either reducing their water usage -- or doing a lot of thinking about it.

TURNING BACK THE CLOCK

It's likely no other sport is more threatened by a drought than golf, which has come to be played on thirsty grass in settings that rival the world's great parks.

Industry observers and course managers say the drought is prompting many course operators to reduce their play areas or pursue water-wise landscaping.

Others have turned back the clock to links-style golf -- redesigning venerable courses according to decades-old photographs, where neat greens, fairways and tees are punctuated by large areas of sand and rough, and trees are few.

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