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A huge former department store on Broadway in downtown Los Angeles is being sold to a New York real estate investment firm that intends to pump new life into the old building and its rebounding neighborhood.

The century-old flagship of the May Co. contains 1.1 million square feet of space surrounded by Broadway, Hill Street and 8th Street. The commercial district was once one of the best in the Southern California, but fell on hard times in the late decades of the 20th century.

Waterbridge Capital has agreed to buy the property now known as Broadway Trade Center, city officials and property brokers said. The price was not disclosed, but experts familiar with the downtown real estate market expect the property to garner $115 million to $130 million.

The Beaux-Arts-style building owned by Beverly Hills investors is probably too big to be converted to any single purpose and is likely to end up having multiple uses.

A Waterbridge representative said the company does not comment on pending transactions, but L.A. City Council member Jose Huizar said in a statement that Waterbridge plans a mixed-use development that may include offices, a hotel, stores and apartments or condominiums. There was no announcement about potential tenants.

The property is one of the largest available on the West Coast for conversion to new uses and many investors were interested in getting in on the comeback of downtown's historic district, real estate broker Phillip Sample of CBRE Group Inc. said.

"The rarity of a redevelopment opportunity in this size range, especially in a downtown core like Los Angeles that is clearly on an upward trajectory, created a tremendous level of interest from both private and institutional capital from all over the world," said Sample, who represented the seller.

Waterbridge's plan to combine several uses in one big historic building "will be a game changer for downtown L.A.," Sample said.

No building quite like that exists downtown. Historically, however, the old structure has been many things simultaneously.

It opened in 1908 as the Hamburger department store, and in addition to selling clothing and home furnishings it had an 80-foot-long soda fountain, a restaurant, a grocery store, a post office and a roof garden. The third floor housed the L.A. Public Library for a few years.

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A Virginia-based manufacturing company is set to complete more than an acre of wood flooring by May for several sections of the new San Francisco 49ers' Levi Stadium.

Nearly 45,000 square feet of acrylic-infused white and red oak, supplied by Nydree Flooring in Forest, has been installed in San Francisco's first new NFL stadium since 1960. The wood will be used for club seating, a fan store area and the Hall of Fame, setting the tone for viewers' feet as they survey tributes to football legends, such as 49ers quarterback Joe Montana.

About 20 percent of the wood used will be reclaimed red oak, recycled from out-of-use barns, warehouses and other buildings, said Jason Brubaker, co-owner of Nydree Flooring and vice president of sales and marketing.

The design, he said, has been in the works for nearly two years but actual installation began late January this year.

"We don't get too many like this," Brubaker said. "Every year, there are a few of this size, but they are definitely very helpful for overall sales and production."

As an engineered-wood manufacturing company, Nydree Flooring does business with a network of independent agents to catch bids and find new work. After a product was picked for the flooring and went to bid, R.E. Cuddie, the company installing the wood, chose Brubaker's company.

Although Nydree Flooring is based in Forest, its manufacturing plant is in Karthaus, Pa. The manufacturing plant was originally in Region 2000 about three years ago, Brubaker said.

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Each year, thousands of Arizona residents email or call Rosie Romeros radio show with questions about everything from preventing fires in their chimneys to getting rid of tree roots invading their sewer system. His goal is to provide answers that suit the specific lifestyle wherever someone lives in Arizona. Here are questions about home maintenance and improvement from the Tucson area.

Q: Javelinas travel very close to my home and yard at night. They often nibble on some of my favorite plants. Do you have any suggestions for keeping them away from my garden?

A: Javelinas love lush vegetation, tender young plants, bulbs, tubers, cacti, succulents and any plants that drop fruit or nuts. Prickly pears and flowering cactuses are among their particular favorites.

You can scare off javelinas by catching them in the act. But the problem is that they mainly graze in your yard at night, and no one wants to stay up all night to surprise them. So your best bet is to landscape with plants they wont eat; keep your gates closed; and never feed them. You can also fence off plants you want them to avoid. Some nurseries suggest sprinkling coyote urine products around favorite plants; some homeowners say that works.

Q: We are considering replacing the tile in our home with engineered hardwood floors. But we are snowbirds who leave Tucson from May to November every year when our house is totally closed up; during that time we use no air conditioning or other ventilation in our home. We have been told that hardwood could be damaged in this situation. What do you recommend?

A: Your lifestyle does present a serious problem. In Arizona, its very important before installation that your wood flooring be allowed to acclimate inside your house. Generally, any kind of wood material must sit in your house for about two weeks before being laid on the floor.

Once it is installed, you cannot leave your home for very long periods of time and turn off the air conditioning or heating while youre gone as seasonal residents tend to do. You have to continue to cool your home or there could be movement in your flooring. Instead of installing wood, perhaps you should consider travertine or some kind of tile. There is actually porcelain tile flooring now that closely imitates wood flooring.

Q: I have a 12-year-old house that Ive lived in for nine years. Ive noticed lots of ads and commercials for termite control services. I dont think Ive had termites yet, but are they a big issue in Arizona? Should I have my home checked?

A: Termites are active year-round in Arizona, but August through the fall is a time when they can be particularly active. Thats often when they shoot up exploratory mud tubes along your walls in search of wood products to feed on. A very popular phrase here in Arizona is: Its not if you will get termites, its when you will get them.

If your home is more than a few years old, you should start having annual termite inspections. You can also watch for signs of termites at work: small holes in wood or drywall, sagging wood floors or doors, and most important, those thin mud tubes on the exterior of your home or inside your garage. These tiny tubes are tan in color; termites often build them up or around solid objects to reach a food source.

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House fire causes $80K in damage, displaces Payson family

By Emiley Morgan

April 12th, 2014 @ 8:23pm

PAYSON A Payson family of five has been left without a home following a fire Saturday.

Fire officials were called to the home near State Street and 1400 South around 8:15 a.m., Terry Reilly, assistant emergency and medical services chief for Payson Fire and Rescue, said. A mother, father and three children were in the home when the father "smelled an electrical burn."

"When he went to investigate, he noticed smoke coming out of the heater vent," Reilly said. "He immediately had his family leave the home and called 911."

Two engines, one ladder truck and two ambulances responded from Payson with the help of an additional engine from Santaquin. Reilly said the fire appeared to have started in the basement and traveled up through the walls of the home and into the attic.

Due to some remodeling, firefighters had to cut holes into the siding and roof to battle the blaze. Reilly said, in total, it took around two hours to extinguish.

No one was injured in the fire, which caused a total of $80,000 in damage. Rich Woodruff. communications director for the American Red Cross said, the agency responded to provide food, shelter and clothing to the family.

Reilly said investigators were waiting to begin their investigation on the cause of the fire due to water that had built up in the basement. He said the incident was a reminder of the importance of smoke alarms.

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PAYSON A Payson family of five has been left without a home following a fire Saturday.

Fire officials were called to the home at 1865 South state Route 189 around 8:15 a.m., Terry Reilly, assistant emergency and medical services chief for Payson Fire and Rescue, said. A mother, father and three children were in the home when the father "smelled an electrical burn."

"When he went to investigate, he noticed smoke coming out of the heater vent," Reilly said. "He immediately had his family leave the home and called 911."

Two engines, one ladder truck and two ambulances responded from Payson with the help of an additional engine from Santaquin. Reilly said the fire appeared to have started in the basement and traveled up through the walls of the home and into the attic.

Due to some remodeling, firefighters had to cut holes into the siding and roof to battle the blaze. Reilly said, in total, it took around two hours to extinguish.

No one was injured in the fire, which caused a total of $80,000 in damage. Rich Woodruff. communications director for the American Red Cross said, the agency responded to provide food, shelter and clothing to the family.

Reilly said investigators were waiting to begin their investigation on the cause of the fire due to water that had built up in the basement. He said the incident was a reminder of the importance of smoke alarms.

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