Move Away from Traditional Floor Plans

by Steven Jones Focusing on office design and building maintenance are important parts to doing business that many corporation owners ignore. The layout of office interiors can have a profound effect on the frame of mind and efficiency ... of being “closed in” or claustrophobia. Most home offices wind up set up in this style, with extra [more...]

Date: 2008-12-15 08:29:17

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DLF staggers SEZs on fund crunch

DLF, which recently asked the government to cancel the approval for an IT special economic zone (SEZ) ... of leasing space, the company now plans to build office space and sell it, sources added.However, analysts ... and companies, mainly IT firms, go slow on their expansion plans.“If the economy weakens further, they may [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 07:43:15

Irvine Co. announces first layoffs in 16 years

Irvine Co. headquarters in Newport Beach (Updated to add links, photos, more details and background.) The Irvine Co ... property taxpayer in the county. The original 93,000-acre Irvine Ranch, formed from several Spanish ... has been transforming the ranch into master-planned housing developments, apartment and office buildings [more...]

Date: 2008-09-19 23:12:46

Get Away from Traditional Floor Plans

By Bob JohnsonPaying attention to office design and building maintenance are vital facets to doing business that many company owners neglect. The design of office interiors can have a deep end result on the frame of mind and efficiency ... . A lot of home offices end up set up in this manner, with too much office equipment or furniture using [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 15:56:00

Even Better Than Greenspoint: New AstroWorld Festival Office Park!

One of Swamplot’s best tipsters forwards a link to a website featuring lovely renderings of a family of glassy office buildings and blocky parking ... of nonsense with their clever plan, clearly modeled after several better-known suburban office parks ... . Get it? Just like it says on the Crosswell Torian home page: “Piece of dirt? [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 00:43:14

Erie PA Today News, Events and Info for today, Friday, November 21, 2008

Teri Rhodes gave birth to her baby Theresa Rhodes on August 12, 2007 in her Mercyhurst College apartment ... with mitigating circumstances of 2 years. A water filter on the 5th floor of the Erie County Courthouse broke ... this week in November 2003, Scott Enterprises announced plans for a hotel, two office buildings [more...]

Date: 2008-11-21 12:33:46

Upzoning approved for St. George

September 14, 2008 After several years of downzoning much of the borough to curb sprawling housing developments, ... say the office vacancy rate currently hovers around 13 percent and where plans to build a new $200 ... on building up retail on busier blocks by requiring storefronts of the first floor of residential [more...]

Date: 2008-09-14 02:43:14

RPI receives proposals for Troy landmark

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute today said it has received proposals from developers willing to buy and renovate a downtown office building and Proctor’s theater, the historic Troy landmark vacant since 1978. But the school, through ... together. It also requires that potential buyers detail a plan for the buildings that “will complement [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 16:07:52

Why Planning the Correct Office Interiors is so Vital to Profits

By Bob JohnsonPaying attention to office design and building maintenance are imperative parts to doing business that many company owners ignore. The layout of office interiors can have a deep consequence on the disposition and productivity of staff members and upper management [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 18:04:00

Heath Shuler First Dem to Oppose the (De)Stimulus Bill?

It was always hard to imagine that every Democrat would march in lockstep support of a massive spending bill that stands little chance of actually ... on job creation, he added. “We want people to work,” he said. “We need to be building bridges ... for the economy: A Congressional Budget Office analysis said most of the plan’s $355 billion [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 20:15:47

A Sneak Peek at Frank Gehry's New Headquarters

As we reported back in early November, starchitect Frank Gehry is planning to move closer to the sea soon, ... new building. Here's a bit: The 3.53-acre campus consists of two 1950s warehouse buildings, which are being upgraded and expanded. A 50,000-square-foot main building will house Gehry offices [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 11:00:05

Beyond the Shroud: New Images of Five Allen Center

A major downturn in the economy tends to make it a bit easier to happen upon images of developments that have been planned in secret — though finding them can be somewhat less exciting than unearthing plans that are actually likely ... Five Allen Center office tower Downtown. We saw one hazy picture of this building back in June [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 23:56:08

Spoil Your Own Country BROWNSKI Not Ours’

Immigrants Have Taken 40% of all Homes Built in Last Decade December 4, ... European immigration since 2005. The Brown Government plans to build three million new houses in the UK ... by the Home Office. Nearly 600,000 properties have been needed to house immigrants since 1997 — [more...]

Date: 2008-12-04 17:31:20

Back from the Inauguration

Well, my attempts to live-blog from the Inauguration fizzled ... metro station at 3:30am, with the plan to have breakfast at CMU’s Washington DC office (just half a block from the Capitol Building) at 5am. At the time I thought it was ridiculous to leave so early [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 05:29:08

Toronto Janitors Organize for Rights, Respect and Justice

(By John Riddell from The Bullet) As darkness falls in Toronto and tens of thousands of office workers pour out of the downtown skyscrapers, ... the office towers and readies them for the next day’s activity. These buildings house Canada’s richest ... insurance, no Canada Pension Plan, no job-accident coverage. The Ontario government views them as self [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 18:20:36

Health Week starts April 28

1343 F St.: Arthur Burt Co. Footwear for "society affairs," afternoon or evening. 1341 F St ... Shop on ground floor Washington Post, Jan 9, 1912 Plans for the construction of a ten-story office ... . 1315-1317 F St.: Baltimore Sun Building Contemporary Photo Washington Post, Apr 9, 1903 The Baltimore [more...]

Date: 2008-08-27 23:15:59

Debt Rattle, September 28 2008: Your country needs you

G. G. Bain Your country needs you April 1917 New York City recruiting office - 23rd & Broadway (Flatiron Building). Ilargi: Of course I sympathize with the people who are trying to get through to their Congressmen and Senators with petitions and pleas and plans, screaming for them not to accept the $700 billion -at any one time- Paulson plan [more...]

Date: 2008-09-28 21:06:11

And So This Is Christmas...... at the Office

Well, not for me. Not yet anyway. It's extremely... odd to be working on Christmas Eve Day. But I do ... - when I was a leasing agent while we lived in Southern California. That was pre-family though of course. However ... one of them! We'll be the only two in the building. My Director doesn't have family plans today [more...]

Date: 2008-12-24 13:45:39

1,000 Buildings Landmark Bonanza

The NY Post reports on the Landmarks Preservation Commission pushing for the approval of over 1,000 historic designations while Bloomberg is still in office. "The number of proposed designations includes a planned new historic district in Prospect Heights with 860 of the buildings [more...]

Date: 2008-07-29 19:07:47

President Obama: We will harness new energy

Cross-posted on WattHead Today Barack Obama took the oath of office and became the 44th President of the United States of America ... to do with it? Now is the critical time to make big plans, build the movement and make all the changes [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 22:29:28

Lobbyists, local gov’ts releasing stimulus plans; Granholm ’still working’ on it

(Photo: karmablue via Flickr.com) While Gov ... submit those road and bridge projects and any another structural project (office building, salt shed, etc [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 12:52:27

viking mondays? courage.

What’s this about Viking Mondays?  Well, you know what they say about best laid plans. Who are they anyway, the they in “they”? ... every winter?  Did you leave your slave cube, only to build up the same walls in your home office?” [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 13:30:56

Moving Office

Next week, I'll be packing up my old office and getting ready to move to a new one the following week ... - temporarily, we're told. There are long-term plans to renovate the entire floor, but moving everyone ... , Georgian stone building which is a registered heritage property. According to the blue plaque [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 22:15:00

JustQuotes: Presidio Plans, Proposals, And Preservationist Protests

“Over the past 12 years, the nonprofit has renovated hundreds of historic buildings within the 1,491-acre park, many of which had been ready to crumble. The Presidio Trust now leases out these properties as homes and office... [more...]

Date: 2008-06-09 15:05:29

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