Monthly Archives: August 2014
U.S.S. Kidd trying to recover from significant cash flow, debt problems – The Times-Picayune
The U.S.S. Kidd lost nearly $90,000 last year -- and that's before accounting for more than $300,000 in debt its operating agency owes the state for unpaid insurance premiums.
A new audit released Monday by the Louisiana Legislative Auditor gives an overview of the historic Baton Rouge destroyer's financial problems and the challenges its new director, Alex Juan, stepped into when she took the job last December. Juan said her organization is making good progress in attracting new visitors and resolving Read more [...]
McIlroy listed as early favorite for 2015 Masters
With the PGA Championship now in the books, golf fans must wait 240 more days until the next men's major championship. Based on how the last few weeks have gone, the name topping the list of favorites for the 2015 Masters should come as no surprise.
Rory McIlroy was installed as a 5/1 favorite to win next spring at Augusta National by Jeff Sherman, golf oddsmaker at the LVH Superbook in Las Vegas, Nev. McIlroy captured the PGA by one shot over Phil Mickelson Sunday at Valhalla, and will head down Read more [...]
City block near Container Park listed for sale – Las Vegas Review
Have a few million to spare?If so, you could buy a city block in downtown Las Vegas, just across the street from the Downtown Project’s hot Container Park.Mike Mixer and Josh Smith of Colliers International’s gaming division have listed for sale a 2.33-acre block bordered by Carson and Bridger avenues in the north and south, and Seventh and Sixth streets to the west and east. It’s one of the last properties available downtown, the brokers said.Colliers didn’t say how much the property is Read more [...]
Listed building setting leads Pickles to refuse permission for 70-home Norfolk … – Out
Secretary of state for communities and local government Eric Pickles has dismissed the appeal of a developer seeking permission for a 70-home development in Norfolk, due to the “less than substantial” harm that would be caused to the setting of a Grade I-listed building under the proposals.11 Aug 2014
Attic that inspired Jane Eyre’s ‘madwoman in the attic’ Bertha open for public …
Novelist Charlotte Brontë penned the ‘madwoman in the attic’ based on her experiences vising the stately home of Norton Conyers, North Yorkshire, in 1839.Upon her visit, the author heard the homeowner’s “legend of a mad woman who had, sometime in the previous century, been confined in a remote attic room still known as ‘Mad Mary’s Room’”, the house’s website states.Eight years later, Brontë based Mason – the wife of her protagonist’s love interest Edward Rochester – on Read more [...]
From Marathons To Mud Runs, Endurance Events Boost San Diego’s Economy
Credit: AFC Half
Runners stream through Balboa Park toward the finish line of the America's Finest City Half Marathon on August 18, 2013.
The recent court ruling overturning funding for the San Diego Convention Center expansion has some worried that the city's tourism industry could take a hit. But a new report Read more [...]
Tinwell firm gets £1m contract to restore listed watermill
A £1m contract to restore a listed watermill has been awarded to a local firm.
The William Scott Abbott Trust announced on Tuesday that it has awarded a £1 million contract to Messenger Construction. The contract is to restore the trust’s 18th century Grade II* listed watermill located at Sacrewell, near to Wansford, Cambridgeshire.The 10-month restoration project has just started, which is mainly funded by a £1.4m grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund. The project Read more [...]
Sterling Annex listed in September tax sale – Wilkes Barre Times
WILKES-BARRE — The four-story Sterling Annex has shown no visible signs of renovation since a Bear Creek Village man bought it two years ago, and now the property is on the Luzerne County’s back-tax auction list.Property owner G2A-B Realty LLC, owned by George Asimakopoulos, owes $49,000 in real estate taxes for 2012 and 2013, county records show.The River Street annex is located next to the lot that once housed the landmark Hotel Sterling. The condemned hotel’s demolition in July 2013 has Read more [...]
Niche developers shake up UK housing market
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