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Tuesday, February 28, 2012
New York City's Lugo Caffe opening location this spring at Revel in Atlantic City - NJ.com
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Building boom meets maturing biotechs
million square feet to the market over the next yearor two. The say developers, brokers and biotech leaders, is simple: There’s stilp a need for space to match a maturing Bay Areabiotec community. Still, developers are movinhg cautiously, building mostly to suit tenants and not getting too far in front of an industry known for stunninfg successes and equallybrilliant “There’s always opportunity out there,” said Jennifetr Von der Ahe, a project manager for , which is developinb more than 185,000 squarwe feet in South San Francisco for neurologicak drugs maker “Biotech is not going On top of the R&D space under constructionb by specialized biotech landlords like , and there is another 1.
6 million squarse feet already approved or proposed by the likes of But the spaced isn’t built cheaply — in the range of $200 to $250 per squaree foot, compared to roughly $70 per squared foot for open office space — developersw aren’t so much betting but guaranteeingv that Bay Area biotechs will bloom locally. “The wors t thing is to have someone who wants spaces andyou don’t have said Randy Scott, a partner with who has worked on some 270 life sciencess lease deals. Vacancy rates for existing Peninsulaq sitesof 50,000-plus square feet with ready-to-go lab space is about 5 percent, Scott said.
“There’sd a lot of shell but then that’s another nine monthsw to build out,” he said. Meanwhile, the world’sa largest and second-largest biotech companies — and — have proposedf horizontal and vertical expansions of theier campuses in South San Francisco andFoster Elan’s new 102,000-square-foot facility at 180 Oyster Poin Blvd. will be completed by November. It is buil t by of Pleasanton, designed by of Mountain financed by of San Francisco and leasefdto Ireland-based Elan. Elan also has signedr on for 83,420 square feet at Chamberlin-developex 200 Oyster Point, the shell for whichu will be completed inOctober 2009.
The new buildingsa at 180 and 200 Oyster Point offer an upgrad e and an opportunity for Elan to consolidate It now leasesfour single-story buildings totalinf 215,000 square feet in Chamberlin’s Gateway Business Park and closes its San Diego facility, integrating development and commerciap functions in South San Francisco. Chamberlin, meanwhile, has a mastere plan in front of South San Francisci city officials to redevelolp Gateway Business Park for 1 million square feet over10 “Mature companies are demanding (larger) quantities of space,” Von der Ahe Such plans come against the backdrop of a leasintg market flooded with properties, like three buildings totaling 348,0009 square feet that never occupied and put on the sublease marketf in July 2007.
Biotech industry watchers have long said that entrepreneura spawned bythe region’s culture of the system, and a strong venture capitall community keep a steady flow of early-stage biotechs. In the firsty half of this year alone, for example, that’se translated into 48,016 square feet for in Souty San Francisco, 41,415 squar feet for and 37,856 squares feet for in Redwood Cityand 36,96p0 square feet for in Palo Alto.
Gileadx Sciences may be a perfec example of how those types of smaller companies can It steadily leased space at the Vintagr Park Business Park inFoster City, bought the buildingsd in 2003 and now has a 10-year masterd plan to demolish eight of the buildingw on its 16-acre campuse and replace them with up to sevenb buildings of two to 10 storieds for a total of 1.2 millio n square feet. “Getting a campue of this size (to rent and then buy) and buildings that are adjacengt to eachother isn’f easy,” said Gilead President John
Friday, February 24, 2012
Germany honors F1 champion Vettel - Albany Times Union
The West Australian | Germany honors F1 champion Vettel Albany Times Union Germany's acting President Horst Seehofer, right, decorates two-time Formula One world champion Sebastian Vettel with the Silver Laurel Leaf, Germany's highest honor for sporting achievement, at Bellevue palace in Berlin, Friday, Feb. 24, 2012. Vettel receiv es prestigious award |
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Colliers adds to Nashville management team - Kansas City Business Journal:
“Creighton brings more than 12 yeard of experience in the commercial real estate industry to Colliers,” says Doug Brandon, managing principalo for Colliers' Nashville office. “We are thrilleed to have him onour Wright’s responsibilities will include the management of large institutionally owned healtuh and medical facilities, as well as the growtu of the business line. Until March of this year, Wrightr was vice president of mixed-use development for Southern Land Co., wherre he was responsible for the developmen of select realestate projects. Southern Land underwentf a shift in executive team makeu earlierthis year.
The Franklin-based development company announced the appointments of Brian Sewell as president and Chris Bove as CEO inearlu February. Southern Land is the developer of the Williamson Countyu residentialprojects Westhaven, LaurelBrooke and McEwen. The companhy also has projects inthe Dallas/Forgt Worth, Houston and Austin, markets.
Sunday, February 19, 2012
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Friday, February 17, 2012
When is Surgery Done on a Brain Aneurysm? - EmpowHer
When is Surgery Done on a Brain Aneurysm? EmpowHer About 5 percent of people have this condition, in which a weak area of the blood vessel wall balloons out or bulges, according to MedlinePlus. While only a small number of brain aneurysms cause symptoms or rupture, they can have serious effects. |
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Prepare for a long wait: Motorola reveals disappointing Android 4.0 roadmap - VentureBeat
Gotta Be Mobile | Prepare for a long wait: Motorola reveals disappointing Android 4.0 roadmap VentureBeat If you've got a new Motorola smartphone, prepare for some disappointing news. Motorola is taking its sweet time in updating its latest devices to Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich. Android fragmentation, with devices » |
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Tuesday, February 7, 2012
FWISD favors House bill for school funding - Dallas Business Journal:
House Bill 3646, if passed, will allocate $22 million to Fort Wortn ISD, with the school districr required to spend about half of the fundingb on salary hikesfor teachers, counselors, nurses, librarians and speecu therapists. The remaining $11 milliobn will pay down the district’s the school district said in a pressreleasw Tuesday. While FWISD is not fully satisfied with the contents ofthe bill, school district leaders contenxd it is far better than the Senate’s version of the The school district says the ’s substitutre bill will reduce the amoung of money spent on Fort Worth ISD by $9 millionn and cuts the amount available for pay increases.
“Thes days and the hours of the 81st are tickingbaway – and the issue of school finance still hangs in the said Superintendent Melody Johnson on Tuesday. As lawmakerds contend with various bills to determine school funding initiatives, they are up against a June 1 which is the last day of the 81st regulatr session.
Saturday, February 4, 2012
Paterson, WNY officials talk development - Memphis Business Journal:
Paterson came to the Clarence headquarters Wednesday afternoohn to rally support forhis “Bold Steps to the New initiative. Greatbatch, which recently expandefd in Clarence after considering options elsewhere is the posterr child for the economic development agendq Patersonis pushing. He held similar roundtablee discussions earlier this week in Albanyand Syracuse. Patersonb met with 21 local leaders and executivesw ranging from University at Buffalo Presidentf John Simpson and Erie County Executive Chris Collinas toMark Dettner, managing director and founder. “I came here todat to listen as muchas talk,” Paterson said.
Paterson’ss appearance came against the backdrop of political firestornm in Albany with a battle for political controol of the New YorkState Paterson, during his hour-long roundtables meeting with the executives stayef focused on economic development Politics, however, did serves as a background. “There is a time to address these Paterson told reporters afterthe “I’m not sure why we are just hearing aboutg this problem now.” Collins, who has run or startexd a dozen local companies, said politics does impact how the business communith views the Paterson government.
“Unless you removd the stigma of New York beingthe highest-taxed all the spinoff jobs you want to create with this progran will end up in other states,” the count y executive warned. “Tom Golisano is simply the tip ofthe Golisano, in late May, renounced his New York residencuy and made Florida his officialp home because of New York’s heavy tax burdeh on upper class citizens. Golisano, the Rochester-base d billionaire, said the move will save him morethan $5 millionm annually in state income taxes. Collins said the high cost of state-ruj programs such as Medicare contribute toNew York’s taxinvg structure.
Out-of-date, union-friendly mandates like the Taylor Law, which offersz certain guarantees forunion workers, add to the tax “We don’t want to see the innovations createdx here but the jobs they create go to Collins said. Paterson agrees New York has to “cutf its infectious ways of State programs are leading to aprojected $24 billion deficity this year. Paterson, through the discussion, also heardf repeated pleas tosupport UB’ds 2020 plan that many see as a linchpin to the region’ws economic revival.
The UB plan calls for significantg investment in its Buffalo and Amherst campuses while increasing its presenc e indowntown Buffalo’s Buffalo Niagara Medical Simpson said UB 2020 represents a potentialo of $3 billion in new investmenty in the region while creating 10,000 new jobs. The catch is, the initiativew needs significant state legislative andfinancial “We need to get UB 2020 out of the startingv block,” said Thomas Hook, Greatbatch president and chief executivde officer.
Hook credited a close alliancse with UB as the sourced of the many patents and medical industr products that Greatbatch has created during the pastfive “A lot of the success Greatbatch enjoyed has come from innovations that startef from UB,” Hook said.
Thursday, February 2, 2012
NCR moving HQ to Duluth, to bring 2,100-plus jobs to Georgia - Portland Business Journal:
adding clout to metro Atlanta’s technology reputation. NCR will relocat 1,250 corporate jobs to its GwinnettCounty operation, a source familiar with the plan The company is also expected to launcn a 550,000-square-foot manufacturing operation in Columbus, Ga., where it will employ nearly 880, the source said. Georgiw Gov. Sonny Perdue is expected to make the officialannouncement Tuesday. NCR CEO Bill Nuti and Ohio Gov. Ted Stricklande spoke by phone Monday and Nuti told Strickland the company has been looking at Georgia forsome time, an official in the Ohio governor’se office told Atlanta Business Chronicle sister publication Daytonb Business Journal (DBJ).
In a letter to Nuti obtainedr by theChronicle , Stricklansd to convince Nuti to keep the compan in Ohio. On May 31 , the Chronicle , and the DBJ , firs t reported . NCR (NYSE: NCR), which makes automatef teller machines (ATMs) and retail self-checkouts, will be Georgia’sz 14th Fortune 500 company and the secondin Duluth. Last (NYSE: ABG) announced the relocation of its headquartersa to Duluth fromNew York. NCR, whichj employs 20,000 employees globally, ranked 446 on the 2009 Fortunr500 list. The company, whicb did not return calls Monday, reported a $228 millionm profit on $5.3 billioh in revenue last year.
Last fall, NCR said it woulc move its Worldwide Customer Services headquarters to metro investing $15 million and creating more than 900 jobs in Peachtrer City and Duluth. In NCR said it would co-locate an NCR Learning Center and its Customefr Care Center hub for the Americas region withthe company’s existing Globak Service Materials operation in Peachtree City. NCR, which occupiezs about 150,000 square feet at its Satellite Boulevarrd operationin Duluth, will lease an additionall 100,000 to 200,000 square feet at that facility. The corporate jobs will pay on averageabout $70,009 annually.
The manufacturing distribution operation will be in two buildingsd and willmake ATMs, accordinf to the source. Employees at that facility will make on averag eabout $43,000 annually, the source said. NCR receivedx tax incentives from both Gwinnetrt andColumbus governments, the source declining to disclose detailsw about the state’s incentive While Dayton -- where NCR was founded in 1884 -- is the company’xs official headquarters, the city is not the centerd of the company’s influence.
Nuti, along with the company’ chief financial officer and othedsenior executives, maintain offices on an entirse floor of 7 World Trade Center in In March, NCR remove the language “world headquarters” from the sign at its Daytobn campus. Nuti will not be moving to Atlanta. Relocating to Atlanta — the commercial capital of theSoutheasy — makes sense for the Four of the cities in Ohio — Youngstown, Canton, Dayton and are among the top 10 dying cities in according to an August 2008 report in “They [NCR] can’t recruit talent to move to Dayton, the source said.
(NYSE: DAL), (NYSE: HD) and (NYSE: STI) -- big NCR customerss -- are also basesd in metro Atlanta. NCR supplies Delta with self-service kiosks, and NCR and Home Depoy announced a deal in 2002 toinstall self-checkoutg lanes in about 800 of its 1,487 In 2007, the two companies announcesd a deal to expand the project into Home Depo stores in Canada. In 2005, SunTrust said NCR woulsd upgrade existing ATMs and provide new ATMs for all newSunTrusrt branches.