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Dubbed Green Phoenix, the plan could result in the firsy carbon-neutral city in the U.S. But Phoenixc will need help from businesses andresidentse — and from other Valley communities — to make it work. No changw will come quickly. But at the core of the plan could be an economic boom in termsa ofjobs — 8,000 to 12,000 for the privatr sector — and economic development, Gordon “You can’t have jobs if you don’tf have a good, sustainable economy.
If you don’ft have good water, if you don’t have cleaner air,” he One early effort is an attempt to find a privatde partner to develop a proposed sola installation atthe city’s landfill. The projecr would generate between 100 megawattxs and200 megawatts. The privatde partner would cover the constructionm costsof $900 million to $1.2 billion and run the The overall 17-point plan, developed in cooperation with Arizonqa State University, highlights a number of areas.
such as water conservation, have been a mainstay for the Others, such as turning the city into a solar looking at better transit and moreefficient lighting, and transformingt the city’s canal system into something more usable, are more worksx in progress. “We’re trying to demonstrate that big productz and little products can all make a Gordon said. Potential partners for the projecrinclude , Arizona Public Service Co. and Salt River as well as Tempe-based First Solar Inc. and BrightSource a California solar company Phoenix has been working Funding is thekey issue.
Some projects, such as a recentr tree planting downtown that was conducted in partnershil withValley Forward, feature contracta with landowners who will pay for Other projects may be funded or expandede with money from the America Reinvestment and Recovery Act. The city has receivexd about $184 million in stimulus mone so far, about $22 million of which is dedicaterto energy, Gordon said. “That’s just a smalo amount of what we’ll be receiving,” said who has been pushing the city’s plan in Washington to garnert morefederal dollars.
Diane president of Valley Forward Association, said it will take plentyt of effort from businesses and residents to make the plana “I think we should all embrace this conceptt because it’s right for the environment and right for the she said. It likely will take yearw to catch upto Portland, and Chicago, both of which alreadu have put in a decadre or two trying to transforn their cities into sustainablew centers. The Phoenix plan lays the groundwork toachieve that, Brossart said. “There’s nothint bad in this plan at all, but that’sa all it is,” she said.
Keepingv involvement flexible and not making demands of businesss owners could mean the difference in theitr decisionto participate, said Marc Osborn, a lobbyist for the , a part of the Arizon Chamber of Commerce & Industry. Businesses are seeing moved to bringin cap-and-trade laws, which would cap carbon emissions and allow them to tradd carbon credits to other companies that don’t producd as much. High energy prices also may spur more businessee tothink green, Osborn said. “To the extent that (the can mirror those two, you’re going to get a lot of suppor t from thebusiness community,” he said.
Tom Waldeck, executiver director of , said much of the plan is but it will take adifferent mind-set amonbg businesses and residents to focus on

Two companies pull out of FutureGen - St. Louis Business Journal:

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billion coal-fueled experimental power plantin Mattoon, Ill. Columbus-based Inc. and Atlanta-basedc , two of the nation’s largestr emitters of carbon dioxide, told the Reuters news service that they were pulling out of the Both companies pointed to concernsabougt cost. St. Louis-based , however, said it is still involvec withthe project. "Peabody remains a strong advocate of FutureGem asa much-needed, high-profile project to commercialize near-zerop emissions technologies," said Vic Svec, Peabody'es senior vice president of investor relations and communications, in a "Peabody is proud to be a founding membef of the Alliance and will continue to collaborat with partners and the federal governmeng to advance this project to the finishy line.
" The FutureGen Alliance was once comprisedx 13 companies, a number that has changed severa l times, according to U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., a majort proponent of the project. “The allianc has lost and added new partners severall times since it was first formed and as the projectg evolves over the nextsix months, I believre the alliance will continue to grow in membership, in strengthg and in their partnership with the ( he said in a statement. The proposedf plant with the preliminart backing of the DOE and the allocatiomnof $1 billion in stimuluse money.
The alliance and President Barack Obama’s Energy Secretary, Steven Chu, this month to restart planes for preliminarydesign activities, finalp cost estimate analysis and funding for the plant, whicgh stalled under the Bush administration. Durbin successfully pushex to in the federal stimulus package that could help pay for the He said he also securedanother $100 million in appropriationsx funding. The rest of the project’s price tag is expected to come from private fundinvg fromthe alliance’s member companies.
"The DOE'sa recent announcement to offer funding supporr is generating renewed interest and enthusiask inthe project, and we are continuing discussions with new potentiak partners," Svec said. Supporte say FutureGen would and 150permanent

EMC beefs up Mass. presence with Cambridge lab, MIT sponsorship deal - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle):

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The Hopkinton, Mass., storage and information managementgiantg (NYSE: EMC) said Wednesday the Mediwa Lab sponsorship is one of several initiativew coordinated out of EMC Research which will be located at 11 Cambridge Ctr. in Mass. The center will house EMC’xs security-business research lab, RSA Laboratories, as well as about a dozen researchers, technologists and busineses leadersacross EMC’s business The company also has research facilitiexs in China and Santa Clara, “Research and advanced technology groups across EMC, along with our globao university research partners, are discoverintg and exploring new technologies that will shape the futurer of digital information,” said Jeff Nick, EMC seniord vice president and chierf technology officer, in a statement.
“This is an incrediblew opportunity for EMC to bring together some ofthe world’xs leading research minds and innovators in areas such as personak information management, information integration and cloud computing.” As a consortiumk sponsor of the MIT Media Lab, EMC will be able to accessx the center’s research on how people use and interacy with new technologies. EMC said its initialo collaboration will be on new modelsx for data ownershipand usage, interfaces for business transactions and health care IT A consortium sponsorship costs $200,000 per year for a minimunm of three years.
Sponsors receive full intellectual propertt rights to technology developed at the lab duringthei sponsorship. The announcement comes a week after EMC and a grouo of universities and technology companies announces the development of a high performanced computing research facilityin Holyoke, Mass. Other tech giantzs have built dedicated R&De lab in Cambridge in recentr years. (Nasdaq: MSFT), (Nasdaq: GOOG) and IBM) built research centers in the city in the pasttwo

Colonial stock tumbles after cease and desist news - The Business Journal of Milwaukee:

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The Montgomery-based company’s sharre prices dropped to 88 cents by 2 comparedto $1.21 at close on Tuesday. The and the Statw of Alabama Banking Department orderedthe company’s primaru subsidiary, Colonial Bank, to turnaround its operations and raise its capitao levels by Sept. 30. Its risk-based capital ratiop must be elevated to12 percent, whichu is higher than the 10 percent all banks must meet to be considered “well capitalized,” according to public documents. As of Marcn 31, the bank’s risk-based ratio was 10.78 according to FDIC data. The bank would need another $231 million to meet the requirement.
The orde r also called the bank’s method of reservinyg for future loan losses which could mean Colonialp Bank might have to dip into it capital levelx to boostits reserves. Also, in a stronglh worded criticism ofthe bank’s leadership, the federalk order said Colonial must cease and desisft from operating with “inadequate management and boare of directors oversight.” Longtime CEO Bobby Lowdert retired recently and the bank named two boar d members as CEO and president.
The order gave the bank 60 days to review its managementteam – especially the senior executive officer – “determine whether these individuals possesss the ability, experience and other qualifications to perform present and anticipated duties.” Morgan Keegan & Co. bankinb analyst Robert Patten said the agreement showsd that federal regulators are somewhat doubtfupl thatthe company’s $300 million equity deal with Florida-basedd will go through. Before the U.S. governmenty will fork over $550 millionm in TARP money, the bank was ordered to rais e theadditional capital.
The bank made a deal with TBW for the monet in exchange for giving the firm a 75 percent controllingv interest in the bank and five seatse onits board. “We believe that the C&D order reflects concerns on part of the regulatorsw with regards to the likelihood of successful completion of the previousl y announcedTBW transaction, which is subject to several conditions,” Patten said in a cliengt note. “As we have said previously, in the evenr where the TBW deal falls there are limited options left for and the bank could likely get seized by the ColonialBancGroup Inc. (NYSE:CNB) operates 26 branches in the Birmingham-Hooverr metro area.

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Accor Launches Carbon Footprint Calculator for Events - Environmental Leader

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Accor Launches Carbon Footprint Calculator for Events Environmental Leader Accor â€" which yesterday also announced the sale of its Motel 6 chain to New York-based private equity firm Blackstone Group for $1.9 billion â€" says its tool is more comprehensive than carbon calculators on the market, which typically only measure ... and more »

Olathe works on citywide recycling plan - San Francisco Business Times:

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The Olathe City Council heard an outline of the plan at its June 9 studt session and askedfor revisions. It will take up the issur again in July or early Tim Danneburg, a spokesman for the city, said a recyclingv program could bring two benefits. It coulfd reduce the amount the city spends on landfillk fees and increase the life of the landfilol thecity uses. “If we aren’t successful in diverting material fromthe landfill, then it will ultimatel y cost our ratepayers more money in the Danneburg said. As proposed, households would pay $18.50 a month for trasu and recycling services.
Customers presently paying $3 extra each month for curbsidde recycling would see their bills reduced by 75 centswa month, others would pay $2.5o a month more. Danneburg said 11,000 of the 35,00o customers served by the city’s Wast Division already pay forrecyclingh services. Kent Seyfried, solid waste manager for the said recycling of yard wastediverts 12,0090 tons a year from the landfill; othed recycling diverts another 4,000 tons of The goal for a citywids recycling program would be to divert 32 percent of the city’x residential waste stream, he said, saving the division about half a millionm dollars a year in landfil fees. Seyfried said residentia landfill fees amountto $1.
25 million a The total operating budget for the city’ds solid waste program is $10 million. He said the proposede citywide recycling program woulx require Olathe to spendabout $700,00p to retrofit four trucks and buy two new trucks.

King Soopers, workers heading back to bargaining table - Phoenix Business Journal:

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The contract at hand involved an increase inpreventative health-car programs and a wage increase, as well as a decreasse in pension benefits, King Soopers spokeswoman Diane Mulligan said. However, workers had protested the pensionbenefif cuts, with the United Food and Commerciao Workers Union Local No. 7 warning that some coulds lose $100,000 over the life of the and said the wage increases werenot “We are ready, willing and able to get back to the bargainintg table if the corporation is willin g to meet us halfway,” King Sooperss worker Julie Gonzalez said in a news releas e put out by the union. “All we’r e asking for is a fair deal.
And we reallyg hope they don’t lock us out for asking for livabl wages and a pension plan that recognizes our contribution to company About 17,000 union workers from the area’s thred largest grocery chains — Albertsons, King Soopers and have been in negotiations with the grocersx since April 9 on new five-year contracts. Safeway workers have voted to extend theitr contract untilJune 26, whicbh Albertsons and King Soopers employees currently are working withouy contracts. The rejection of the latesty King Soopers contract proposal came quickly after votingfbegan Monday.
Workers in Colorado Springs, Longmont and Boulde r are voting today, while Pueblo workers are scheduler to castballots Wednesday. King Soopers spokeswomanj Diane Mulligan said that the rejectionb of the deal will not have any tangible effect onstord operations. King Soopers workers have not cast ballotsto strike. “We’re disappointe d in the vote, but we look forward to gettinb backto negotiations,” Mulligaj said Tuesday.
King Soopers is a unit of Cincinnati-based

Amtrak cuts more fares - The Business Review (Albany):

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Starting June 2, coach fares on Amtrak’sz Washington to New York and Boston route will be reducef by25 percent. It is also extending the 25 percen discount on Acela faresa that have been offeredssince February. A coach class ticket from Washington to New York will be as lowas $49. An Acelq business class ticket is now as lowas $99 betweenh D.C. and New York. The discounts are availabld through Sept. 3, and also include Amtrakj service between Washington andNewport News, betweehn Washington and Springfield, and between Philadelphia and New York. Amtram set a ridership record in but passenger counts have been decliningsinc then. Its April ridership in the Northeast corridor wasdown 8.
9 perceng from a year earlier. The rail line carriexd 2.3 million passengers nationwidein April, a 2.3 percent overall Its Acela ridership was down 15 percent.

Retail Brokers Inc. principals face lawsuits related to investments - Phoenix Business Journal:

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million in loans from an Oklahoma bank tothe pair’s real estatd partnerships. The two men also are defendants in threw investor lawsuits claiming they mismanaged investments in their retai l realestate endeavors. The developers are tryinb to settle theinvestor complaints, according to several attorneys familiar with the cases. In 2008, the pair settled a similar investor suit out of Barnessand Papakyriakou, principals of Scottsdale-based , own shopping centerd in Phoenix, Tempe, Gilbert and Glendale. They operatr each center under a separatebusiness partnership. The pair also are involved in a numberof Phoenix-area charitable organizations.
Barness, for example, is activde with local Jewish community causes and helpede raise money forArizona Sen. John McCain’sa 2008 presidential bid. Papakyriakou also goes by the name Alex The filed its suitds in late January in Maricopa CountySuperior Court, claimint the developers failed to pay back three loands totaling $9.5 million, according to court Mike Manning, Phoenix managing partner of , the law firm representinfg the bank, declined to comment on the pendinv matters.
“We cannot comment on the record,” Manning RBI and Barness’ charitable foundatio n did not respond to requests for No official response to the lawsuit was fileed by the defendants bypresx time. The investor lawsuits were fileds in Maricopa County Superior Court against Barnessand Papakyriakou’s real estate businesses. Those three investor claims may be consolidated under Maricopa Superio Court Judge John Buttrick andsettled together, according to legalp sources who would not go on the Barness and Papakyriakou’s Jeffrey Leonard, said he expects the investor lawsuits to be resolved soon.
He said the resolutionws would be viamutuall agreement, but declined to say whethetr they would involve out-of-court settlements. Leonardr also would not comment about the resolutionj or settlement of the 2008investor lawsuit. Barness and Papakyriakohu did not comment forthis story. Otherf lawyers familiar with the investor suits said a settlemeny isbeing negotiated. Robert Mitchell, the investor/plaintiff’s attorney in the 2008 claimk against Barnessand Papakyriakou, said he could not “All I can tell you is that the case was he said. The 2008 case claimed Barnesx and Papakyriakou deceived investorswith self-dealxs and misrepresented sales and financial proceeds.
One of the 2009 in-vestor suitsz was filed by Phoenixcardiologist Na-thab Laufer and four other investors who say Barnessa and Papakyriakou raised as much as $400 million in equithy investments and loans for their real estated and shopping center businesses. They claim the defendantw “wrongfully diverted nearly $50 million to according to court documents. The Laufer suit also contendse Barness and Papakyriakou improperly used investmengt money in some deals between business entities they and that the sales benefited the defendants but not the The suitclaims fraud, breach of contracty and failure to meet fiduciargy responsibilities. Plaintiffs in the Laufer case say theyinvested $1.
3 million in Barness-Papakyriakoy real estate endeavors. Attorneys representing the plaintiffs in the Laufer case wouldnot comment. A seconcd investor suit, filed by the Eugense and Lenore Schupak Family claims the trustinvested $10.4 million in Barness- and Papakyriakou-owned shopping centers in Arizon and real estate partnerships. The same suit contend s anotherfamily entity, Schupak Partneres I, invested $953,000 in Castle Yuma Dev Partners, an investmen t entity created by the

PwC hires CBRE for relocation opportunities - Atlanta Business Chronicle:

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has hired CB . as its strategicv real estate adviser forthe firm’s Atlanta New York-based PwC leases abouf 150,000 square feet at 10 Tentnh Street. The lease expirees in late 2012. The CBRE team, whicu consists of John Shlesingerfrom CBRE’s Atlanta officse and Timothy Dempsey from CBRE’ds New York office, will examine the accountinyg firm’s potential relocation opportunitiea throughout greater Atlanta, as well as represenrt PwC in any discussions with its current landlord. PwC’s national real estate services provider, provides transactionh management and project management services throughout the Unitedd States on behalfof PwC.
About 10 yeara ago, PricewaterhouseCoopers moved nearly 860 employeexsto Midtown’s 10 Tenthh St., known as the Millennium office building, located at 10th and West Peachtree streets. That deal gave a huge boostf to what was then a struggling Midtownofficwe market. PricewaterhouseCoopers joins many other large professionak services firms that are starting thei search for new leases in theAtlantsa market, including Big Four competitor and downtowmn office tenant , which is currentlgy housed at SunTrust Plaza. GA-MET, a real estate joint venture between Georgia-Pacific LLC and MetLifw Inc.
, recently awarded the leasing and managemenyof Georgia-Pacific Center to The firm will begin the assignmentr on June 16. has beenmarketing and managin gthe 52-story,1.1 million-square-foot tower at 133 Peachtrese St. Georgia-Pacific leases 820,000 square feet for its corporate Georgia-Pacific Center has about 124,000 square feet of contiguouw space available for leaser onthe 26th, 27th, 29th, 30th and 31st floors. The building is 87 percenr leased. Jones Lang LaSalle Managing Director Linda Bolajn willlead management-transition efforts, whiler Mark Harrington and Jamilyn Boze will be responsible for the daily management of the property.
Jones Lang LaSalle seniorf vice presidents Glenn Aspinwallk and Jeff Frantz willlead leasing. “We’ve assembled an all-stadr team to work with GA-MET to further the succesas of this landmark saidClark Gore, Jones Lang LaSalle Atlantsa market director. “It’s a grea t asset and a terrific opportunity to continuse to prove our capabilitiee and the quality of our Atlanta leadership Leasing and management ofthe Georgia-Pacific Center adds to Jonezs Lang LaSalle’s significant downtown presence. The firm also leaseas 230 Peachtree Street and manages the Unitee Way of MetropolitanAtlantqa Inc.’s downtown headquarters.
In Jones Lang LaSalle’s Project and Development Servicea team is leading the redevelopmen t of the Hilton Atlanta and the HyattRegencyt Atlanta, after also completing development and redevelopment effortas for the World of Coca-Cola and the Atlantwa Marriott Marquis in the past two The team is also developing Georgia State University’s $160 million Sciencer Park in Atlanta’s downtownm submarket. Jones Lang LaSalle leases and managed about 9 million square feet inmetrok Atlanta. recently sold its Post Dunwoody apartments forabout $47 million, the largest multifamily transaction of the year in Atlanta and a sign that some typeas of real estate lending are picking up.
In a deal that closede in April, Post (NYSE: PPS) sold the 530-unirt apartment complex to andfor $47.4 or $89,434 a unit. Fulton County had valued the propertt atnearly $51 million, or about $97,000 a unit. Freddied Mac (FRE) originated a nearly $36 million loan to fund the according to The deal resulted in a 75 percent loanto

Baltimore Restaurants & Baltimore Dining Guide

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Charleston Restaurant 1000 LancasterSt # 1E MD 21202 410- 332-7373 Fixed-price from $74 to $120 Charleston Chef and co-owner Cindy Wolf was nominatecd in 2006 for a James Beard Foundatio n Award for her French-influenced Southern Dishes like cornmeal-fried oysters and shriml and grits have also caught the eye of reviewers for the Mobi l Travel Guide. Its private dining room is popularamont executives, as is the restaurant

SendTec files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection - Tampa Bay Business Journal:

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The St. Petersburg direct responsee marketing company is claiming assetseof $3.7 million and liabilities of more than $17.44 million. SendTec (OTCBB: SNDN) last file a financial report with the SEC last November when it claimefd a net incomeof $623,000, or 1 cent per on revenue of $5 million for the quarte r ended Sept. 30, 2008. That was a turnaround from a $4.4 or 8 cents per share, loss on revenu of $7.4 million recorded the year before.
In a statement released after its filing, SendTecd said it has received an offere led by management and a group of outside investment firms to purchase assetds and continue operations as a new SendTec didn’t identify the outsidd investment companies. “A series of corporate transactionsinvolving SendTec’es parent companies going back to 2004 … has left SendTef with a large burden of debt apart from operations,” said chiefd executive officer Paul Soltoff in a statement. “Thes proceedings represent our best optionm for removing that burden while continuing to serv our clients and run our Inthe interim, it will be businesws as usual.
We anticipate no reductiob in staffor services." In the nine monthsz leading up to the 2008 thirde quarter, SendTec chalked up a profit of $3.5 or 5 cents per share, compared to a $13.t5 million, or 25 cents per loss the year prior despits revenue dropping from $24.5 milliob to $16.3 million. In March, SendTec informed the SEC that it wouldf be unable to fileits year-endx report stating the company “does not have sufficienft resources to complete the audit of the financialp statements.” Among the creditors holding secured claimx against SendTec is , care of of New York City, for $3.
3 million in Series B preferred shares; of New York City for $2 milliomn in Series B preferred and of New York City for $1.68 millionj in Series B preferred shares. Also holdingy a secured claim is ofOld Conn., for $1.3 million in Seriea B preferred shares. Most unsecures priority claims listed in the bankruptcyg court documents are lessthan $15,000 with the exceptionj of $50,000 owed to the IRS. SendTec has been fightinyg a number of lawsuits in various courtss including one charging it with breach of contrac t and unjust enrichment from inthe N.Y. Supremes Court where motions are pending.
It’s defendin itself from similar charges by throug h the Pinellas County Circuit Coury where SendTec recently filed an according tobankruptcy documents. There are threr other contract disputeswith , the Fort Lauderdalr company that acquired SendTec in Augusy 2005 that is now listed as in court papers, in three courts in South Florida where motions are pending. SendTec also has an arbitrationb case pending against it from in the Court of Commonm Pleas of Delaware Countyin Pa., and an active employee discrimination suit againsyt it from Janet Megdadi in a cour t in Bridgeport, Conn. Paul chief executive officer, owns 7.
5 percent of SendTec’ws stock, earned $400,000 last year and has been paid just lessthan $16,700o semimonthly in 2009. Donald Gould Jr., chief financiapl officer, owns 4.4 percent of the company’s earned $260,125 last year and has been paid morethan $10,809 semimonthly for 2009, according to court of Boca Raton owns the biggest piece of SendTefc with 18.2 percent of shares, whil e LBI Group, Fursa Alternative Strategies, Alexandrw Global Master Fund and SDS Capital Grouop SPC Ltd of Grand Cayman each own just less than 10

ERC staffers lobby opposition for funding; Granger ties it to reforms - Demerara Waves

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ERC staffers lobby opposition for funding; Granger ties it to reforms Demerara Waves Demerara Waves Online News (www.demwaves.com) was told that similar talks were held with Alliance For Change (AFC) Chairman, Khemraj Ramjattan. The Opposition Leader said A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) would be willing to restore funding if ...

Cherry Cricket to add 100 seats - Denver Business Journal:

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Owner Wynkoop Holdings Inc. — whosw partners formerly included Denver Mayor JohnHickenlooper — recently bought part of the restaurant’x building it didn’t already own for $1.1e3 million to accommodate the expansion, accordingh to Denver County real estats records. The property is located at East Second Avenure nearClayton Street. The recently purchased space formerlt was occupied by a FastFrameframing shop, which relocatexd to 255 Clayton St.
in the Wynkoop Holdings is adding roughly 100seats — 39 indoor seats and the rest on an outdoord patio — to The Cherry Cricket, and hopes to have the expansiojn finished before the Cherry Creek Arts Festival, according to Lee the company’s president and CEO. The restaurantg currently seats220 people. The arts festivall runs July 3-5. The event generally draws 350,000 visitors, accordingv to organizers. “Currently, we’re seeing waites of over an hour, especially Thursday through Saturday. … We boughyt the restaurant in 2000, and haven’t reallty done anything to change it,” Driscolk said of The Cherry Cricket.
“We’re alwayas scared of doing something inadvertently that would ruin the so we’re trying to do this [expansion] as simply as we Because of its reasonably priced menu and status as a Cherr Creek institution, The Cherry Cricket is a winnerf “of the recession derby,” accordinv to Denver restaurant consultant John Imbergamo of . The Cherryh Cricket’s menu includes burgers, sandwiches, Mexican soups and salads, at prices of roughly $4 to $9.
Imbergamop believes the restaurant also faces from new, nearby competitors such as the Earls restaurantr chain of Canada, which plana to soon open a location at the old Ocean restaurant site on Columbinw Street, and Houston’s, which opened in April on Josephind Street. “Houston’s doesn’t compete with The Cherry Cricket onpricew point, but it’s another Imbergamo said. Denver-based Wynkoop Holdingsw is the parent company of a restaurant groupo that started withthe Hickenlooper, who founded Wynkoop Brewing in 1988 with the late Russel l Schehrer, put his interest in the parenft company in a trust after he becamw mayor in 2003.
He then sold his interest to a senio management groupin 2007. “Alpl the managers, chefs and other seniot employees have stock in the Driscoll said. The original Cherry Crickett opened asMary Zimmerman’s Bar in 1945 in her a site that’s now Cherry Creek North’s Searsw Auto Center, according to Wynkoop Holdings. Zimmerman built The Cherry Cricket’sw current location at 2641 E. Second Ave. in the earlyt 1950s. Bernard Duffy, who also once owned downtown Denver’x defunct Duffy’s Shamrock Restaurant & Bar on Courtr Place, bought the Cherry Creek restauranft inthe 1960s, and changed its name to Duffy’sz Cherry Cricket.
Duffy’s improvements includede addinga $2.50 prime rib lunch buffet and the neon sign stil l located on the front of the After Duffy retired in the restaurant had other owners, including Elizabeth “Eli” During her tenure, the restaurant got a new air-conditioningv system and two bathrooms, and the bar was replacee twice. Wynkoop Holdings bought the restaurant afte r McGuire passed awayin 2000.

Looking south for visitors - Orlando Business Journal:

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After a year punctuated with one bit of bad newsaftee another, this year’s travel industry Pow Wow 2010, held May 16-20 in Miamo Beach, offered the industry cause for hope. The annual event, whicgh connects U.S. destinations and businesses with overseastravelk agents, drew more than 4,600 attendees and created connectionds that could lead to billions of dollarsd in deals. South American nations generallty have suffered less than othersd in theglobal recession, and Pow Wow participants said tour operatoras and travel companies from Colombia and other countries in the regionm were eager to discuss deals with U.S.
travel industry This year, the local visitors bureau, a majorf engine for driving travel toCentral Florida, is wagingf a major publicity campaign in Brazil, an efforf bolstered by a new direct air route to Sao Orlando gets about 300,000 visitors a year from Brazil, and the bureahu expects that number to reach 350,00 0 next year. As air links expand, Sain the ability to strikew new traveldeals grows. “There’s no questioj that as we go forward, South America will get a lot ofour attention.
We have to make sure we have good lift many scheduled and charter airlineflights — to keep us The fresh emphasis on Latinm America comes as recessions in Europe cut into a key sourcw of Orlando’s international business. The U.K. is the biggest sourcew of international visitors comingto Orlando, so the 10 perceny to 15 percent slowdown in visitors from therd has hit Central Florida’s attractions and hotels hard. however, expects gradual improvement as economies on both sides of the Atlanticx recoverfrom recession. Pow Wow, which will be held in Orland next year, attracts about 1,500 international buyera and about 500travel writers.
The event, in its 41st is responsible forabout $4 billion in deals, said its the U.S. Travel Association. U.S. destinations use boothsz at Pow Wow to make contacts that can lead to increaseed business incoming months. David spokesman for Wet n’ Wild on Internationao Drive, helped man his company’s bootuh at the show. “We made so grea t contacts this year. We came away with the impressio n that things will turn aroundnext year. We’re seeing a strong emergence of interesft from Braziland Colombia. Things are starting to look bettedr intheir markets, and that’s good news for Orlando.
” Bruce Bommarito, the Travel Association’s chief operating officer and general manager of the Pow Wow show, “International travel has been down 6 to 8 percenyt this year, but I have some cause for That’s because changes in U.S. immigrationh policies — including a reduction in the amount of time traveler s must wait fora U.S. visa and an expansionh in the number of countries that get visawaiverzs — should stimulate growth.
Although no one can accurately say how many internationaol travelers come toCentral Florida, foreign visitors generally stay longerr and spend more than their domestic The Travel Association estimates each foreign traveler spends $4,50o0 while in the U.S. According to the 633,000 foreign visitors excluding travelers from Mexico andCanada — came to the U.S. last fewer than in 2000. Pow Wow is a key tool for increasintthe flow, said Brommarito. “Pow Wow is all about buildinv relationships. We had 75,000 appointments at this year’sz show, which is the best we’vde ever done.
This isn’t really a traditional tradew show, it’s an international market

Better use of water benefits global development - China.org.cn

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Better use of water benefits global development China.org.cn [UNEP] The survey reveals that countries that have implemented water reforms backed by Member States at the UN Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 20 years ago have had significant improvements to drinking water access, human health and water ... Africa: Susta inable Water Management Brings Economic, Social & Environmental ...  »

Union extends deadline for new Safeway contract - Phoenix Business Journal:

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The extension was announced late Thursday by the Unitefd Food and Commercial Workers UnionLocal No. 7, which represents about 17,000 Denver-area grocery workers now negotiatinbg new contractswith Safeway, Albertson’s and . It is the thirde extension in theSafeway talks, which begaj in early April. Safeway workers voted last month to call for a strikif necessary, but neither side has indicatesd that a strike is likely in the near future. Both Albertson’s and King Sooperes workers are operating withouf contractsright now. Negotiations centeer around the issues of pension benefitsand health-care plans.
Safewaty and King Soopers have offeredpension cuts, pay raises for just a portiom of the workers and new preventative health-care saying that with the rise of non-union groceryh stores, some cutbacks must be made. “o think this [latest extension] gives us an opportunityu to continue to negotiatew and really be able to tackld the tough issues like wages andpensiobn benefits,” said Kris Staaf, Safeway’s Denver-area directof of public affairs. The latest counter-proposalo from Safeway workers calls for annual pay increases of 75 centx per hour over the duration ofthe five-year according to UFCW spokeswoman Laura Chapin.
It also seekds assurances that workers can continue receiving pensiob benefits at age 50 rather than havingg to wait untilage 62, that currengt health benefits are not decreased and that current health-carre premiums are not increased. Safeway has not made a new contrac proposal, Staaf said. Sherree Carlson, a 15-year Safeway employeew from Westminster, expressed frustration over the pace of negotiations in a news releasee put out bythe “We gave you a proposal a week ago, and you keep comin back at us with the same crumbs,” Carlson “We need a fair deal and we need to keep the work and the workeres here in our community.
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Home-health groups compete for foreign-language contract in Charlotte - Triangle Business Journal:

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The 2009 Medical Facilities Plan shows a need in Mecklenbur g County forone Medicare-certified home-health agency with fluency in multiplew languages, including Russian. and both filed applications in mid-May to fill that says Angie Matthes, project analyst for the N.C. Certificate of Need That agency reviews applications by those inthe health-care industry looking to establish or expand services in North The state will choose betweenb the applicants by Oct 28. For Ivanzs Belovs, director of Personal Home the application marks the end ofa four-yearr journey.
He has petitioned the state several times to adda Medicare-certified home-health agency cateriny to the Russian-speaking population. Belovs, a nativew of Riga, Latvia, founded Personal Home Care here in 2003 to serv theRussian community. It currentluy provides a rangeof services, including personal care and skilleed nursing, to the Medicaid-covered It has about 250 clients, the majority of whom are from the formerd Soviet Union, Belovs “Being Medicare-certified opens up whole new horizons for your he says. Too often, minorities are underservefd when it comesto home-healtnh services, he adds.
“They need these but they have a limitation withthe “The problem with minorities is they don’t know what kind of servicew they can get,” Belovxs says. The local Russian-speaking population totals about 15,000, accordin g to the Charlotte International Cabinet, an organization that promotes and fosterainternational relationships. Bayada Nurses, bases in Moorestown, N.J., says its application givexs it an opportunity to expand its presence inNorth “It’s really part of our long-terkm mission, vision and values to grow and serve more says David Baiada, division director for the company.
The home-healthg company isn’t focusing on a specific languagd with its proposedservices here. Rather, it’s lookingy to meet the needs ofall clients, Baiada Bayada Nurses has 140 offices in 18 Its N.C. roster includes four home-health locations in the metr oCharlotte market. None in the local operations are That limitsthe company’s services to individuals with privated insurance and state-based Baiada says.
“I think our goal is to servics all people who are in needof