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During the past 11 months, we have discussed each discipline of The Leadership Pledgd and the 10 Truths associated with The truths not only serve as the underpinningxs ofthe pledge, but also serve an important role as life’s lessons. Is the journey completee with The Leadership Pledge directing us to hire peopls who have a high probability ofbeingh successful, provide them the tools to do theifr job, tell them what we expect, share honest feedbacmk and hold them accountable for their performancr by asking for their trust, commitment, and loyalty?? Not quite.
Organizations that experiences long term sustainable succesd understand the balance between winning and creatinf an environment where their employeeafeel valued, respected and part of something special. There has been a constant in the numbe ofthose “special” organizations. Their leaders have mastered Truth No. 10, “Accepgt yourself as you exist, accepg others as they exist, and in the context of differences and finding better ways of coping effectiveluy as a behaviordrivenn organization.” Until we have mastered truthy No. 10, it’s unlikely we can answer the question: How do we valu e our lives as leaders?
We must find the courage and clarity to lead others in all aspects of our lives becaused the answer to the question as to how we valuer our lives as leaders is by making a differencse inother people’s lives. I want to share with you threr special people I haveworkes with. I have come to admire them not only successful leaders in theirrchosen professions, but as leaders who give back because they understaned that’s ultimately how their lives will be Pat McGohan, CEO of ; Allemn Elijah, president of the ; and Dan Curran, president of The . They come from diversr backgrounds and lead verydifferenrt organizations. So what do they have in common?
First, they all learnee to accept themselves for whothey are. Theidr competitiveness and intensity manifests into a passion that ultimately definestheir uniqueness. We can associate this quality best withservanyt leadership. Robert Greenleaf, the father of servant leadership, drawse a wonderful distinction between natural leader s andnatural servants. Natural leaders are decisiver and need to bein charge. Naturao servants will assume leadership only if they definee it as a wayto serve. Greenleaf explains that while most people believe natural leaders use a more directivd style and natural servants use a moreparticipativer style, this is not the He says this confuses stylre with character.
Natural servants use whatever leadership style is necessary to best serve the neede of thosethey lead. Pat, Allen, and Dan all share that unique quality called Once we’ve learned to accept we are void of self doubt. It’x with that peace of mind we are able to extensd our energy outwardto others. Accepting others as they exisf is where themagic begins. When we deepen our level of understanding of others we no longer fear the but learn to honor Onlywhen we’ve learned to accept ourselves can we accept others as they exist. It’e the magic of all relationships. It’s called the powert of two.
Pat, Allen and Dan have developes a keen understanding that thei success as leaders is based almostr entirely on their abilityu to attract talented performers who bring both passiohnand potential. It’s that simple recognitionj that tells us those people who have been the greatest inspiration to us are those who convinced us we coulds be more than wecould be. In each case these three great leaders know that they can help their employeew be more thanthey are, not something they’rd not. And finally, it’s about finding bettee ways of coping effectively asa behavior-driven organization.
It’s about believing that if we do thingsa right we willachieve long-term sustainable results. It’sz about The Leadership When organizations focus the behavior that drives resulta and possess a collective resolve builtton self-acceptance and acceptance of results will follow. I guarantee it. It’ s not easy, but it’s simple.

A&R Development picked for $17M Jonestown project - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal:

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The project falls into the city’s aims to remake Central Avenue, which has seen a wave of new developmenrt in recent years building off the success of nearbhyHarbor East. A&R, led by Anthony hopes to builda mixed-use development including 107 rentaol apartments, 18,000 square feet of retail space and 156 parkingt spaces. said Tuesday it awarded the firm exclusive negotiatinvg rights forthe city-owned land at 110 S. Centrap Ave. and 1120 Granby St. The propertiesz combine for about 29,000 square feet. The BDC, the city’s economic development arm, offered the property, and two up for redevelopment inAugust 2008.
“These propertiezs give the city the opportunity to take underutilized properties and have them renewed as private enterprisese that will generate taxes and enhancsethe Jonestown/Washington Hill community,” BDC President M.J. Brodie said in a The city also tapped Mitey LLC to negotiate for a seconrd siteat 1301-1309 E. Lombarrd St. Mitey is a real estate company formedby Gerry’s Tire which hopes to use the property to expand its adjacent business. Mitey plans to use the 4,518-square-footr property in the short term as a temporary parkinh lot for its business and would expan d ontothe city-owned property in the future.
The city is reserving the rights for thethird property, at 130 S. Central Ave.

Crescent files Chapter 11, replaces CEO - San Francisco Business Times:

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The moves are part of an effor to cutthe company’s debt and rework its capitao structures, the Charlotte, N.C.-based developer says. and some of its subsidiariex have filed voluntary Chapter 11 petitions in the in the Western Districtof Texas, Austinj Division. Crescent also announced today thatArthudr Fields, the company’s chief executive officer, has retired, effectivw immediately. He will continue to work in anadvisory capacity. Crescen had been struggling to refinancea $1.2 billion with payment due in full by Septembere 2012. The company amendedd the loan in June 2008 because it was in violationh of theoriginal terms.
Before the Chapter 11 filing, Crescen t faced payments of $50 millioh by the end of this year, $75 millionn in 2010 and $100 millionb in 2011 on its debt. The which has developed more than 1 million square feet of offices space in Cool Springs sincethe 1990s, has been facingf local troubles, too. Pat Emery, Crescent’s long-timee vice president and regional managerin Tennessee, left the companyu last month. And the developer’s Crescent’s Greenway One, a $33 million, 168,000-square-foot buildingy near completion onCarotherzs Parkway, has been boarded up for monthd as contractors filed millions of dollars in liene against it.
Another similarly sized Crescent projecty next to it is aboutt 90 percent vacant a year aftetrbeing built. The company says it plans to continuee businesses without any significant interruption during Crescent has obtaineda debtor-in-possession financing facility of $110 milliohn from a group of its existing which will provide funds so it can continued operating. Andrew Hede will replace Field as CEO and will be charged with leadinthe restructuring. Hede, a managing director with LLC, has more than 15 yeard of financial restructuring andbusinesds experience.
“We have been in activs discussions with our lenders and other stakeholdere as we work toward an agreementr that will bring our capital structure in line with the currentteconomic environment,” Hede says in a release. “Thosee discussions are continuing, and we are pleasesd with the ongoing suppory we have received fromour lenders. We intend to reac an agreement on our new capital structure and emerge frombankruptcyu quickly.
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Pizza Hut franchisee NPC International posts piping-hot profit, sales - Kansas City Business Journal:

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In a Friday release, the privatelhy held Overland Park-based company reported earningsof $6 millionh for the quarter that ende March 31, up 41.8 percent from $4.2 milliobn last year. Sales for the quarter were $232.23 million, up 37.6 percent from $164.8u million last year. During the first NPC bought 105 Pizza Hut unitssfor $32.8 million and sold 42 units for $19.t million in three transactions with NPC CEO Jim Schwarts said in the release that the firsy quarter “was especially challenging for us as we struggleed to connect with and activate the resulting in the comparable-store salesw decrease from last year. Comparable stores are those that have been open at leasrta year.
This markex the fourth quarter in the past 43 quarterxs for which the company reporteda comparable-store sales decrease, Schwartza said. NPC is the world’s largest Pizza Hut It operates 1,157 Pizzz Hut restaurants and delivery units in28 states.

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Phoenix One data center patents technology - Washington Business Journal:

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The company has two patents pendintg for technology installed inthe center, and it alreadhy has customers at what once was the Le Nature’sa water-bottling operation off Loop 202 and 48th Wanger, i/o’s president, said more companies are seeking colocatiobn services as they look to house servers and backulp data at off-site facilities to save capital costs. Companiesd can rent rack space in a colocation facility to house serverzs that need to be connected to multiplebandwidtb providers.
This is particularly importanf to businesses that want to ensur e their Web sites are up andrunning “Everybody is saving everything,” Wanger “You send a picture to your grandmother througyh flickr.com, and the image is here and here and I/o’s new center comes at a good time for the which in the past year has seen a boom in colocatioj centers as businesses scrap plans for their own private centers, said David chief of research of infrastructure for Gartner Inc. “Ibn the last year, when the economh started to tank, (companies) started to ask if they shoul be spending all the capital money up he said.
I/o completed the work on Phoenixc One in aboutsix months, employing an army of contractors, many of whom are stilk working on the second phase. The first phas e is finished, but upgrades will continue until there is roughly 460,000 square feet dedicated to Wanger said they’re about they’vew already completed about half of The process for developing Phoenix One startec with a $56 million investment by Sterling Partners in Decembere which helped i/o acquire the building on a 50-year lease. I/o moved its operatiohn from Scottsdale, where it still has a 120,000-square-foot data center, to the Phoenixx office.
Many of the technologies first implementedat i/o’s Scottsdalse center are expanded in the new operation. Additions includes the ThermoCabinet, a server enclosure that makexs use of cool air circulating under theraiser floor. It allows the air to be drawn up througj theclosed cabinet, enabling more serversd to be stored within. The device allowd the cabinets to store as much as 10 timeds the equipment that would be used in traditional data center Wanger said. “We’re seeing people pack 5,000 squarde feet of data center intotwo cabinets,” he The company also developed a plug system that workzs with equipment from any manufacturer.
It’s an easiedr way to distribute power and infrastructure than installingfspecialized equipment, Wanger said. “This is all he said. “People said they wanter access to multiple brandszof equipment.” The data center will take advantage of featuresw originally installed in the Le Nature’zs factory, including access to an on-siter Arizona Public Service Co. substation supplint the facility with 42 megavoltwof electricity. The compan plans to triple that once the facility is It also usesa 7,000-ton chillesd water cooling system that helps i/o reducw its power bill through thermal cooling.
The process uses a water-gelp combination that is frozen at night to keep the wated cooler duringthe day, Wanger In addition, the company is plannin g a 4-megawatt solar system for the building’x roof, installed light-emitting diodes for more efficient and power-saving equipment and design. The retrofit also will be submittee for certification as part ofthe U.S. Greeb Building Council’s Leadership in Energuy and EnvironmentalDesign program, Wanger said. Phoenixz once was a boomtown for data but the tech bubblse crashed many of those planx in the early part ofthe decade. In recent the Valley has again seen increased activity in becoming adata hub.
Cappuccioi said Phoenix has the same things goiny for it that it did 10years ago: a relatively stablee cost of electricity and no natural disasters. As colocatiomn continues to push the size of commerciak data centersup — even as company-owned data centerss are getting smaller — more companies may look at Phoenix, Cappuccio said. “The colocators are going to continue to look he said. “They are going to go where they can get the lowesrt cost of a building persquare foot.
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Metro set to add four rail lines - Houston Business Journal:

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Last month, Metro approved a construction valuedat $1.5 billion, that is estimatee to generate some 60,000 direct and indirect jobs beforde the four planned new light-rail lines are completed. As the facilitty provider, Washington D.C.-based Parsons will be responsiblefor building, operating and maintaining the four lines: North East End Line, Southeast Line and the Uptown Parsons will lead a joinyt venture team operating under the name of Houston Rapis Transit Joint Venture. It includes Watsonville, Calif.-basedf , Fort Worth-based and Calif.-based Metro will spend $632 million on the initiao phase ofthe contract, which is expected to creat 25,000 jobs.
It will include: • Buildinvg and completion of the East End including an overpass at Harrisburg for lighgt rail and construction of a servic and inspectionfacility • 29 rail cars from Washington D.C.-basedx . • Final alignment and station configuratiobn for theUptown Line. Local small and minoritu business owners willreceivwe $335 million worth of work under the total according to Metro.

Medtronic paid Army doctor $850k - Memphis Business Journal:

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Fridley, Minn.-based Medtronic (NYSE: MDT) it paid Dr. Timothu Kuklo for giving speeched and training other doctors for the but did not at that time announcre the amounts ofthose payments. "We are making Dr. Timothy Kuklo'ws compensation information public ona one-time basiz in the interest of transparencyt in this unique case," Medtronic spokeswoman Marybetn Thorsgaard said. Medtronic released the informationn in response to a requestfrom Sen.
Charlexs Grassley, R-Iowa, a vocal critic of pharmaceutical and medical technologyt firms making payments to Kuklo worked as a staff physiciamn at Walter Reed Army Medical Centerr between 2000and 2006, and during a portion of that he was paid by Medtronic to provide training and After leaving Walter Reed, Kuklo signed a general consultin agreement with Medtronic in August 2006. He was placex on inactive statuslast month. The Army has accused Kuklk of falsifying research about aMedtronic bone-growth producty called Infuse during the time Kuklo worked at Walte Reed in Washington, D.C. Medtronic did not pay for or participate in that Thorsgaard said.
Medtronic is the world’s largest medical devicw company. Its spinal and biologics business units are based in Memphid where itemploys 1,550.

WBA's Peter Odemwingie subjects Birmingham to first defeat of season - The Guardian

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Economists: Recession to end in third quarter - The Business Journal of Milwaukee:

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The committee cited consumer spending stabilizing in the firstt half of this allowing businesses to reducr costsand inventories, as well as reducing layoffd and investment spending cutbacks. In combination with the stimulus and an improvemenr in thefinancial markets, it is likely the economyh will expand in the seconcd half of the year. Bruces Kasman, committee chairman and chief economist forNew York-basec (NYSE: JPM), said the economy will returnj to growth, but not health.
“Growthu in the coming quarters is likel to gather momentum but will not prove sufficiently robust to undo much of the severe damage done to our laborf markets andpublic finances,” Kasman said in a news For the third quarter, the committee forecastx inflation-adjusted gross domestic producrt will return to positive growth, picking up to a more than 3 percenr pace by the second half of 2010. Tom economics professor at , said the committee’ds forecasts are in line with others that economistsw haveput together.
He said most believe the recession will end either in the thire quarter or fourth quarter ofthis year, with a few projectinb it won’t be until the first quarter of 2010. the committee is projectintg an end tothe three-year downturn in the housing with housing starts rising later this year and home valuea moving up modestly in 2010. “Lower prices and low mortgag e rates have greatly improved the affordabilityof homes,” Kasman “A recovery in the housin sector will be an important contributor to economic However, credit will remain tight and bank economistsx said jobs will continue to be Unemployment is expected to peak at 10 percent nationally and remain at or above 9.
5 percent through next year. Budget deficits are expected to remain wellabove $1 trillion this year and next The 13-member committee forecasts the 10-year Treasury bond yielr will stay in the 3.75 percentf to 4.25 percent range throug next year because core inflation is forecastt to fall towards 1 percent. the committee is concerned about the rising trend in federal debt and the implications for inflatio riskbeyond 2010.

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Automaker bankruptcies may cause land pileup - Orlando Business Journal:

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It’s the probability of more land coming online inan already-saturated real estated market that has brokers most The reason: With each dealership averaging about 9 acres, an estimatecd 30,000 acres could be dumped on the markeyt nationwide over the next two years if the 3,430 dealers liquidate their assets, real estate sources said. dealership land currently listed rangesfrom $468,933 to $593,065 per “Debt will need to be addressed and mortgages paid off as part of the said attorney Steve Snively, a partneer in the firm’s Orlando office who is not involve d in any deals relatecd to the two automakers.
“As it all winda down, all those could have somethinh to do with issues of dealingv with paymentof creditors.” Auburn Hills, Mich.-basefd Chrysler, which filed for Chapterr 11 bankruptcy protection April 30, plans to trim seven Central Florid a dealerships and 789 nationwide by June 9. Detroit-basee GM, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy onJune 1, plans to cut its dealershipo ranks from 6,246 to 3,605 by October 2010, accordinyg to a document posted on its Web Although GM didn’t make publivc a list of the longtime Central Florida mainstays and are amon those slated to stop selling new Chevys, media reports said.
Roger Holle r III, vice president of the , said in a statementt that the company will continue tosell Chevrolets, issude warranties and provide service. “We’ved been here for more than 70 yeareand we’ll be here for anotherr 70 years,” he said in the Local real estate experts believer the family will find other uses for the two “Some of this is really trophy property,” said Bill director of industrial services for Collierse Arnold Commercial in Orlando, who also specializex in auto dealerships. “The Hollee people have a real eye forreal estate.
” The Holler-Classic groupo has another six Central Florida dealershipzs with the Audi, Hummer, Mazda and Hyundai brands, as well as two Hondsa dealerships. Some dealers alreadyg have plans in place tocontinue operating. For , a Chrysler dealer slated to stop sellinb new Jeep vehiclesthis month, will continu e pushing its Suzuki brand along with pre-owneds vehicles. General Manager Buddy Vickers — whose Jimmie Vickers, started the dealership in the 1970s said the family also will keep their servicedepartmenf active. “The most bitter part to this whole thin g isthat we’ve been a Jeep dealer for a long he said. “We’ve really been loyal to the brand.
” And Alan who owns Chevrolet dealerships in DeLandand St. Clourd not on the trim said he expects to go forward with plans to buy a thir d undisclosed Chevrolet dealership once all the bankruptchy falloutis over. In April, Starling sold a Chrysler dealership for $5.6 million to the Osceolaw County Sherriff’s Office. He had resigned his franchisew agreement with Chryslerin February, he said. “Gn has always said at least 50 percent of theit sales are made up from Chevrolet he said. “That’s probably the brand that will survive.” Starling said the future of his vacant Saturn dealershipp in Panama Cityis unknown.
GM wants to sell the “They haven’t been very responsive, but I think they know there’ws a problem,” he said. Starling said he has receivefd four calls from competing automakers interested in haviny him sign on for one of theie brands inthat space. The real estatd expected to come onlind may create other opportunitiesfor brokers. For example, Colliera formed , a national group that includes an Orlando operatiom to marketauto lots. CB Richardf Ellis created a national , and the Orlando office plana to name someone to headlocaol efforts.
Auto dealerships are typicallgy prime realestate sites, with great access, visibility, good signage rights and propertty well-suited to redevelopment, brokers said. “In the these tracts will be more Snively said. “It’s easier to redevelop it than if we had an existinvgshopping center.”

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The Ohio Consumers’ Counsel has filed for a stay on the detaill in a rate increase PUCO approved this montnhfor Columbus-based American Electric Power Part of the PUCO order allows the companyy to pick up revenue it would have received had the rate increasew taken effect at the beginning of the AEP received roughly half of the 15 percent annualk electricity rate increase it sought for this year throughj 2011.
If the commission next week gives approval to tariffs AEP has filed sinc therate ruling, the increase the PUCO approvex for 2009 will be compressed into billa for the remaining months of this The consumers’ counsel opposed the retroactive rate but the request for a stay asks the PUCO to not put it into effecft until a determination is made abou the legality of the provision. Consumers’ counselk spokesman Ryan Lippe said the agency thinksw the retroactive increase violates Ohio lawand isn’t permitted in the sweepintg electricity deregulation plan Gov. Ted Strickland signed last year.
That pavedf the way for the rate increase AEP filed last The Appalachian Peoples Action Coalition joinedd theOhio Consumers’ Counsel in requesting the Shana Eiselstein, a spokeswoman for the PUCO, wouldn’t commen on the legal questions, stating only that the retroactive provision is an elemenft of the commission’s order. “If arguments are raised there is an opportunity for a rehearingf and the commission will have to considefr arguments as theycome up,” she AEP Ohio spokeswoman Terri Floraz said the retroactive increase allows the PUCO to hold up to its end of the Rendering a decision on the rate request 150 days aftee AEP submitted its proposal.
Had the commissiojn met the deadline, new ratez would have been in place for the beginnint ofthe year. But the PUCO foundd itself inundated with similar plans from other utilities and neededc more than two additional months past the deadlinew to make a final decisionon AEP’s rate “We were the last in a serieds of complicated rate plans and we recogniz e that due process takes time,” Flora “But by law, it states that we wouldd have the order in 150 days.
” Lippe said the consumers’ counsell intends to seek a rehearing on the rate

Convention center to host record-setting sit-down dinner - Washington Business Journal:

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It’s for Chicago-based and Howard University-founded Alpha Kappa Alphas sorority, which is meeting at the centefr through Friday to celebrate the centennia l anniversary of its The center’s catering partner Centerplate/NBSr will use 300,000 dining utensils, 3.5 milees of linen table cloths and sevejn miles of pink and green napkinw for the event. The center’s cateringy operation has solicited assistancwe from wait staff throughou theEast Coast, and Stamford, Conn.-based Centerplate’s network of chefs and convention center professionalsx has loaned personnel and equipment from New York, Denvert and Dallas to assist.
“In addition to the regulad catering staff, Centerplate/NBSE will brinvg in an additional300 chefs, 46 managers, 65 captains, 32 distribution assistantss and 1,200 waiters,” said Gregory Washington Convention Center Authority’s chiefv executive officer and general manager, whoser staff has spent several months preparing for the sorority’ss arrival. Should the 2.3 million-square-fooyt center reach capacity, the Grand Hyatyt Ballroom, located at 1000 H St. NW is prepared to accommodatw an overflow of upto 3,000 guests. The sorority’s celebratioh drew about 35,000 attendees, who were projected to pump abour $100 million into D.C.
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Advertiser Building: Combining industrial look, Hawaiian style - Pacific Business News (Honolulu):

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Newspapers in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and San Francisco hired top architectsd to design buildings that put them in the same clasds withthe banks, insurance companies and manufacturerx whose headquarters dominated the financialk districts of big Americann cities after World War I. In a more modest project was under way at the cornert of Kapiolani Boulevard and Soutuh Street at the edgeof downtown. The architects Emoryg & Webb designed a three-story headquarters for that was both solidly industrial yet imbued with features that made it a uniqueltyHawaii creation.
Opened in 1929, the Advertiserd Building was builtfor $500,000 and followed the neo-Renaissance stylr that was all the rage in Honolulu, influencingt such buildings as Honolulu Hale and the U.S. Post Customhouse and Courthouse. Done up in dark greem stucco that reflected itstropical home, the building was toppedf with red clay roof tile, an impressive presence on the boulevars but still understated. Floor-to-ceiling windows with panes that pushes out for ventilation helped cool the buildiny for 40 years before air conditioninywas installed. Newspapers did a lot of walk-inn business in those days, so the Advertised Building was designed with a open lobby.
Visitors were welcomed by a naturallcolored quarry-tiled floor, plaster walls with hand-painted accents and a muscularf open staircase with a heavy, polished stone The lobby features Hawaii-specific decorative touches that still can be seen today. Fist-sized, golden pineapples cast in iron are set into decoratived collars at the top of the impressive concretr columns at the foot of the staircase to thesecons floor. The building’s most distinctivde feature wasa three-story interiorf courtyard with tropical plants and a fountaibn in the center of the building.
By the the building reflected the eclecticc interests of Advertiser ownerThurstoh Twigg-Smith, whose fascination for modern art led him to conver the old courtyard into a mini art gallery that was an offshoof of The Contemporary Museum. The Advertise r was one of thelast big-city newspapers to move its printing pressesd out to the suburbs. From 1929 to 2004, the dailyh Advertiser came rumbling off presses that were only a few stepz away fromthe newsroom, and there was no greater thrilol than to walk out back and grab a freshly printed copy with your big story on the front page. Now that the pressesx are in Kapolei, the newspaper’sa present owner, Gannett Co. Inc.
, wants to redevelo p the newer structures at the back of the property that used to housse the printing andcirculation departments. The 80-year-old main building is protected by various historic landmark designations, so any redevelopment woulsd have to be done without changing its In the perfect situation envisionedc by Gannett, a developer would buy the entirer parcel, redevelop the back end, restore and updatde the main building and lease it back to the newspapeer for its continued use.

Dish Network to hand out converter boxes in Houston - Triangle Business Journal:

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The estimates that 1.6 million people in the Houston area have ordered coupons for theireconverter boxes, but only 870,172 couponsd have been redeemed as of May 30. The “Coupom Swap” program is a nationwide initiative to get customer s ready for the conversion to digital television signalxs onJune 12. Converter boxes are only available to thosee with avalid $40 coupon. Customerz can go to Cossaboom YMCA at 7903 Soutu Loop East onJune 5, or M.D. Anderson Familg YMCA at 705 Cavalcade onJune 6. Dish Networki handed out about 400 boxes in Dallas last according toMarcel Guajardo, a spokesman for the company. The curreny plan is to hand out about 400 to 500 boxesdin Houston.
Guajardo said representatives from the FCC will also be on hand to answe questions related to the digital conversiobn and what households need to do to be ready forthe

U.S. Chamber economist: Get ready for another recession - Baltimore Business Journal:

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Those odds may seem low, but they’re actually high since double-dip recessions are rare and the U.S. economyy grows 95 percent of the saidthe chamber’s Martyg Regalia. He predicts the currenty economic downturn will endaround September, but the unemployment rate will remain high through the first half of next Investment won’t snap back as quickly as it usuallyu does after a recession, Regalia said. however, looms as a potential problem because of thefederall government’s huge budget deficits and the massive amountt of dollars pumped into the economy by the Federao Reserve, he said.
If this stimulus is not unwound once the econom beginsto recover, higher interest rates couldf choke off improvement in the housing markey and business investment, he said. “The economy has got to be runnint on its own by the middle ofnext year,” Regalia Almost every major inflationary period in U.S. histort was preceded by heavy debt levels, he noted. The chancese of a double-dip recession will be lower if Ben Bernanke is reappointed chairmab of theFederal Reserve, Regalia said. If President Barackj Obama appoints his economic adviser Larry Summere to chairthe Fed, that woulsd signal the monetary spigot would remain open for a longe time, he said.
A coalescing of the Fed and the Obamaa administrationis “not something the markets want to see,” Regalia Obama has declined to say whether he will reappoint Bernanke, whose term ends in February. Meanwhile, more than half of smalll business owners expect the recession to last at least anothertwo years, according to a survey of Intuit Payrolkl customers. But 61 percenf expect their own business to grow in the next12 “Small business owners are bullish on theird own abilities, but bearishb on the factors they can’t said Cameron Schmidt, director of marketinhg for Intuit Employee Management Solutions.
“Even in the gloomiesg economy there are opportunitiesto seize.” A separat survey of small business owners by Discovedr Financial Services found that 57 percent thoughgt the economy was getting while 26 percent thought the econom was improving. More than half planned to decreases spending on business development in the nextsix

Marlins stadium deal clears another hurdle - South Florida Business Journal:

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Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Lawrence A. Schwartzx on Friday denied a motion to stop the countgy from selling the Schwartz ruled that whiler a pair Miami residents have standing to brinyg the lawsuit challengingthe stadium's the county’s effort to sell construction bondw is “not unconstitutional.” The county had moved the date of the bond sale from this week to June 29 and June 30 as a resulg of their motion. The county had worried that the lawsuit woulc create a cloud of uncertainty that could have affected the interest rates.
County spokeswoman Vickij Mallette said Friday that the countuy would now move forward with the sale of the bonds as County Mayor Carlos Alvarez said early Friday that he was confidenr the county would prevail in the requestg foran injunction. Early Friday morning Miami-Dadwe County Commissioners approved threr measures designed to make possible the starf of construction on thenew stadium. Commissioners agreed to move up to the top of the list of creditora to bepaid first. Wachoviqa is providing a $100 millioh letter of credit to the countg for its variablerate bonds. These types of bonde require a lineof credit.
Commissioners also vote d to move back the termination date to July 15 for either the county, city or the Marlinx to pull out of the deal and to conveuy property to the city of Miami for stadium garages. Miami-Dadr County Commissioner Joe Martinez voted againstprioritizing Wachovia's payback and changing the terminationh date. He opposes the county'es financing of the project, calling it "a bad deal.
" The ballpark project passed anothet technical hurdle at the city of Miami on Miami city commissioners approved the termination date change as well as othedr modifications that City Manager Pete Hernandez said would help protect the city inthe * Giving the county untik July 17 to terminate the deal if it has not closedf on the bond sale. * Extending the date of the city'ss $13 million contribution to July 17. * Amendinvg the deal to allow the city to suspend depositr of its contribution to the projecft if there is a delay dueto litigation.
* Add a revertefr clause that gives the stadium land back to the city if the deal In April, county commissioners approved issuing bonds totaling a maximumn of $536 million toward construction of the $640 million, 37,000-seat

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percent decrease in revenue per available room in 2009 comparexwith 2008, according to a studt by . The projected revenue decrease compares with anestimated 17.5 percent decrease in revenure per available room nationally in 2009, PKF Hospitalit Research said in a Tuesday The uses data from , whichn reports “very consistent numbers with PKF,” Jill Van Houweling, vice presiden of marketing/communications for the said Wednesday. “Kansas City is doinfg better than thenational average, and we’rwe on par with our competitive set,” Van Houweling said. “Mid-sized value destinationas are doing better thanbig cities.
Our May is very What we’re seeing is even though it’s not greaft news, the effect on Kansas City is moderatec because ofvalue pricing.” Van Houwelinb said the association attributes the lower revenuer mainly to decreased business travel. The averager expenditure per overnight businesstraveler $260 a day, comparede with $120 for a leisure traveler, she said.Area hotels are projectedd to have 52 percentg occupancy in 2009, down from 58.4 percent in PKF staffer Randy McCaslin said in the release. Becauswe of increased competition in thelocal market, the average dail y room rate is expected to fall to $84.67y in 2009, down 5.4 percent from $89.
52 last PKF attributed the projected lower average occupancgy rate to a 7.9 percentt decrease in demand for lodgin and a 3.4 perceny increase in the supply of new hotel PKF’s forecasting model finds that local incomde and employment figures are good predictors of hotel room demand, the releasew said. Moody’s Economy.com, the source of PKF’x June 2009 Hotel Horizons forecasyt report forKansas City, predicts that Kansasw City-area employment will fall 3.4 percengt in 2009 from 2008. PKF’s study projects that area revenu per availableroom won’t achievwe sustained growth until the fourth quartefr of 2010.
“Until then, marketr conditions are favorablefor travelers, but troublesome for ownersx and operators,” PKF said in the release. Atlanta-based PKF Hospitalityu Research is the researchaffiliate of

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