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In Gary, Indiana, the old Sheraton Hotel (right) will soon be demolished. (Phil Velasquez / Chicago Tribune / February 15, 2013)

8:04 p.m. CDT, July 26, 2014

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The demolition of the tallest, ugliest building in Gary, Indiana - an abandoned 14-story hotel which has been a prominent symbol of decay in this troubled steel town - began on Saturday, said city spokeswoman Chelsea Whittington.

The concrete structure right next to City Hall has been empty for two decades - so long that trees sprout from the roof. Plans called for demolition to start with the removal of a pedestrian bridge, city officials said.

Opened in 1971 as a Holiday Inn, it closed a few years later. It reopened as a Sheraton in 1979, but closed again in the mid-1980s.

Other former mayors have tried redeveloping the hotel, but first-term Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson decided the most practical thing to do is just to knock it down and replace it with public green space, said Joseph Van Dyk, Gary's redevelopment director.

"It's ugly and it dissuades potential investors and I think the removal shows great progress for the city," said Van Dyk.

Freeman-Wilson has also targeted other derelict buildings for demolition or redevelopment. Other measures to revive Gary include selling abandoned houses for $1 and having volunteers do neighborhood clean-ups.

Located 30 miles south of Chicago along the shores of Lake Michigan, Gary has long been a symbol of urban blight. The city has lost about 25,000 steel jobs since the 1970s, and its population shrank to 79,000 in 2012 from 178,000 in 1960.

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Older European cities like Rome or Paris are famed for their seamless integration of walkable streets, public art and human-scaled, lushly detailed architecture. Such a rich urban matrix, built up by deep-pocketed popes and spendthrift royals over the centuries, has been hard for modern cities to emulate, or even approach.

Credit the good folks of Bellevue for trying. Unusual in the region for the number of permanent public artworks in the city core (upward of 120), the city authorities also sponsor a major, every-other-year summer sculpture exhibition, with this years edition installed in two high-profile locations downtown. This way, the Bellwether 2014 exhibition brings art into a realm otherwise dominated by huge corporate headquarters and busy streets that do not encourage looking and lingering.

The 33-odd pieces in the show, created by several dozen artists mostly (but not entirely) from the area, are best visited by using the art commissions map to navigate the six blocks between city hall, at 110th Avenue Northeast, the location of the indoor art, and the Downtown Park, where most of the outdoor works are found. Both venues offer a variety of visual rewards and surprises, as well as a scattering of works that are awkward or underwhelming.

The Downtown Park basically a 20-acre open space with a water feature and ringed by paths presents a particular challenge to artists, as smaller or fussier pieces can easily be overwhelmed. Big and bold, on the other hand, is a suitable description for Allan Packers 20-foot robotic-looking coyote head, its vertical snout topped by a solar-powered beacon, and its plywood sides surfaced to resemble convincingly rusted iron. The animal-head association is far from obvious steam-punk lighthouse is more like it but once we decipher eyes, ears and nose, the wit of Packers hiding his coyote in plain sight makes it all work.

I wasnt so impressed by several nearby works, without such a strong, original concept and successful integration of idea and materials. A white, bulblike construction of steel rod and mesh by Mary Coss was both vague in form and unrelated to its pond and waterfall surroundings. A large, many-armed mobile with wind-powered wooden drones by Mike Rathbun suggested an amusement-park ride more than an artistically compelling statement.

I thoroughly enjoyed myself, on the other hand, in the jewel box of a glass pavilion a few blocks away at the far end of the City Hall Plaza. The curators have wisely contrasted two terrifically well-crafted installations, by two vastly different artists, in this perfectly scaled space for medium-sized works.

I am a big fan of Julia Haacks lively cluster of highly animated wooden arches, which suggest a group of dancers or athletes doing calisthenics, not to mention the odd bunny head, all clad in bold geometric stripes inspired by those of the medieval cathedral in Siena.

Alongside is what looks like the storage room of a fisherman, with white nets hanging from the ceiling all tangled up with red floats of various sizes and stages of repair. This ambitious arrangement by Connie Sabo is not at all what it seems; the entire array is crafted from recycled newspaper, which, once we catch on, raises a host of interesting issues about language, networks and the transformation of the familiar.

Many of the smaller works inside the city hall proper failed to hold up to their setting nearly as well. My suggestion to the exhibition organizers: Raise the bar by exhibiting fewer works and being more selective, with financial incentives for pieces whose size and ambition can better compete with the SUVs, sushi bars and smartphones of bustling and very non-European downtown Bellevue.

Gary Faigin is an artist, author, critic and co-founder/artistic director of the Gage Academy of Art.

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When Homejoy raised its $38 million round of funding last December, the company did so with a plan to move beyond just offering cleaning services to its customers. Its starting to make good on that plan, with the launch of a beta test for other home services.

In an email sent out to some Homejoy users (text below), the company invites customers to book and try out some of the new home services available in beta. When you click through, it takes you to a landing page that lists a wide variety of services you can book.

Those include plumbing, handyman, landscaping services, pest control, furniture assembly & installation, painting services, moving and storage, electrical services, and carpet cleaning.

For Homejoy, the test could enable the company to move upstream into higher-margin businesses. Plumbers, painters, movers, and electricians all tend to demand a premium above the cost of having your apartment cleaned. And that could be good for Homejoys bottom line, as it seems to be struggling to keep pricing for its cleaners low.

Last week, the company emailed customers to say that it was raising the price of its cleanings to $25 per hour for recurring weekly or bi-weekly appointments, or $35 per hour for single or recurring appointments every three or four weeks. That was up from the $20 an hour it was charging for regular cleanings previously.

Of course, Homejoy isnt the only company to offer more than just cleaning on its platform. Handybook, which it competes against directly in many markets, has long offered a series of services that include light plumbing and electrical work. Now the two will go head-to-head not just for customers, but also for service providers to complete the jobs.

Its not clear how extensive the test is, or in how many markets that Homejoy is offering home services today. But its clear that home services are something the company is very interested in, and if the test works, they could expand very quickly.

Weve reached out to Homejoy for more info, and will follow up with any update we receive.

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