Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Web cams track Rio Rancho construction - San Francisco Business Times:

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Current images capture the constructionof ’ds new customer service and technical support center as well as the firs building of the ’s West campus. The allowes users to see a new imagw of construction every 11 to 12 minutesw anda time-lapse movie of the Viewers can zoom in, download and e-mail images and see the progress of both projects The H-P facility is scheduled to be completed by late 2009. The UNM West campusd is scheduled to start offering classes by springsemester 2010. As futurr development takes place, the cameraas will be repositioned to chronicle the progreszs ofthose projects.
Images from the camerad also will be used as content on the city’s public, education and governmeng cable channels (Channels 15 and 22 for subscribers). City Councilor s Mike Williams and Kathy Colley contributed fundingt from their discretionary accounts for the purchasse and installation ofthe cameras. The Web cam imagesa are made possibleby . , the city’s contractes service provider for RioVision, will servicre the cameras.

Saturday, November 27, 2010

Villa Muse puts final nail in city of Austin negotiations - Atlanta Business Chronicle:

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The Villa Muse project is planned to holdproduction facilities, film studiow and homes. The project's executives had requested a temporaryt release ofabout 2,000 acres from the city of Austin' extra territorial jurisdiction. "Within the structure of building outsidethe ETJ, our investorz would be able to have the assurances of bein repaid their investment," says Jerry Converse, Villa Muse's attorney at Fulbright & Jaworski LLP. "Theyt would have traditional and standard vehicles by whichg todo that. The city of Austin rejected thatproposapl [and] made an alternate proposaol to Villa Muse that injected risk into it that was unacceptablwe to our client.
The Villas Muse investors simply have to have some reliabilityt inbeing repaid." Gary Kimball, a locap senior vice president with investment banking company Firsyt Southwest Co., says Austin's proposal for the project to use a public infrastructure district wouldn't have increased the cost of buildingh Villa Muse but woulc have meant a 25 percent higher tax on its futured residents. Converse says he doesn't know if Villaa Muse is giving up its optionm on the East Austin landit had.
Neither Converse nor Kimbal l would speak to where else Vill Muse officialsare looking, but reiterated Villa Muse CEO Jay Podolnick'd message that the project is committed to breakinb ground somewhere in Texas this year.

Thursday, November 25, 2010

United Harvest upgrades facility - Portland Business Journal:

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export facility in a projec t that will double its inboun drail capacity. The news comes just two days aftetr St. Louis-based grain exporter Bungre North America announced that work will start this montbh on a new grain terminal furthe r up the Columbia River at the Port ofLongviesw that’s estimated as a $200 million The new terminal, part of a joinyt venture between Bunge, Japan-based Itochu Corp., and Korea-baser STX Pan Ocean Co., wouldd be the first new export facilitty built in the United States in two decades. Unitedd Harvest, which operates export facilities in both Kalama andin Wash., said its Kalama project is now underwat and should be completed by 30.
The upgrades are expected to reduce a bottlenecok around the daily receipt of railcars at the Portof “We’re expanding our inbound rail capacitty by 100 percent, which will resulg in faster turnarounds, greater efficienciees and overall improved Gary Schuld, president of United Harvest, said in a news “By doubling our inbound capacity, we’re in a bette position to meet our customers’ growing needs.” Unitec Harvest is a joint venture between CHS Inc. of St. Minn., the nation’s largest producer-owned cooperative and Mitsui Co. Ltd., a Tokyo-based exporter originating United States barleyand by-products.

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

No shutout in the blame game for 49ers - San Francisco Chronicle

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Monday, November 22, 2010

Pasco biomass company plans to reopen - Seattle Times

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Saturday, November 20, 2010

Energy executive plans six biofuel stations - Philadelphia Business Journal:

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Grimes, a managing partner of LLC, Milwaukee, is overseeinbg the conversion of a formerrShell station, 5080 S. Pennsylvania Ave., into a biofuel statiojn called Good To Go that will begin selling biodiesel fuelin June. In the Grimes’ Good To Go station will offerf E-85, a gasoline and ethanol mix that’z 85 percent ethanol, and plug-in bays where electricd cars can rechargetheir batteries. Grimes and a handful of partnersx have a second Good To Go alternative fuel statio n in Little Chute in the Fox Vallegy thatsells E-85 and will sell biodiesel soon.
“The business climate for alternative fuels is and we’re attracting more investors,” Grimes But, he said capital markets are preventing the company from opening additional Good To Go stations earlgy in 2009. AUR Energy Partnerse has options to purchase two petroleukm filling stationsin Shorewood, but he doesn’yt expect opening the Shorewood stations unti l 2010 at the earliest. Good To Go fillin stations are purchasing biodiesel fuel fromthe . Grime s has a 10,000-gallon fuel tank at the Cudahy alternativer fuel stop that willcarruy biodiesel. Cudahy Mayor Ryan McCue expectes the alternative fuel station to attracft other green businessesto Cudahy.
“We thinjk this will help put us on the map forother startups,” he said. Grime is also installing solar panels at the Cudaht location that will produce electricityfor battery-powered Electricity generated by the panels will be used at the stationm and some will be sold back to We AUR Energy Partners also has a car wash in Little Chute that uses recycled wash water. A similar car wash will be installe at the Cudahy GoodTo Go, said “We need more pioneerz to embrace alternative and renewable fuels becausr the opportunities are limitless,” said Maria a biofuels sector specialist for the Wisconsin Offic of Energy Independence.
Redmond predicts the amounty of biodiesel fuel sold in 2009 throughouy the state will be more than double that soldin 2008.

Friday, November 19, 2010

Report: Citizens Property poised to sell $2B of bonds, notes - Business First of Louisville:

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Citizens, the state-created insurer of last resortin Florida, will price fixed-rate, tax-exempt revenue bonds and notes this week, accordiny to a report in the trade journalp The Bond Buyer. Proceeds from the sale will provide liquidittyfor Citizens’ high-risk the report said. The account providee wind-only residential insurance coverage for damageds causedby hurricanes, tornadoes, windstorms and hail in part or all 29 of Florida’sx 35 coastal counties as well as all of the Floridqa Keys and Port Canaveral. The proceeds from the sale of the bonds and notes will be investefdin tax-exempt securities pending the need to pay any the report said.
Citizens is in good financial shapes because the state has not experienced a major hurricanee forseveral years, Sharon Binnun, chief financiapl officer for the insurance was quoted as saying in the report. Goldmam Sachs & Co. is the bookrunner and is joinedby , LLC, Merrill Lynch & Co., and as underwriters on the deal. of St. Petersburgt is financial adviser. LLP is counsel, and LLP is bond counsel.