Wed October 18, 2017
Barko Announces Strong-Arm Skill Challenge Winners
Attendees at the Great Lakes Logging and Heavy Equipment Expo in Escanaba, Mich., had the opportunity to participate in the Barko Strong-Arm Skill Challenge. Operators ran a Barko 295B trailer mount loader equipped with a brand new Barko 4850 strong-arm grapple to race against the clock in a log stacking competition....
Katlyn Smith - arlington Heights daily herald - Wed October 18, 2017
Wolfe House & Building Transports 120-Year-Old Historic Mansion
WHEATON, Ill. (AP) Moving a 120-year-old historic mansion in one piece can be a precarious job. But as the wheels slowly turned under the House of Seven Gables in Wheaton on August 28, the lace curtains hanging inside the windows barely nudged....
Wed October 18, 2017
Kansas Unveils Campaign to Upgrade Athletic Facilities
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) The University of Kansas has unveiled a $350 million, five-year fundraising campaign to upgrade its athletic facilities. Chancellor Douglas Girod and Athletic Director Sheahon Zenger announced the "Raise the Chant" campaign....
Wed October 18, 2017
Ballpark Village to See $65M Hotel in Second Phase
ST. LOUIS (AP) Loews Hotels & Co. plans to build a $65 million hotel as part of the second phase of the Ballpark Village in downtown St. Louis. The Live! By Loews-St. Louis hotel will be across the street from Busch Stadium....
CEG - Wed October 18, 2017
U.S. 169 Project Opens Ahead of Schedule
In the early morning darkness and damp cold of a Minnesota winter, crews closed off a 3,000 ft. long bridge deck of U.S. 169 carrying 90,000 daily motorists over an expansive wetland and small creek in the city of Edina....
Tue October 17, 2017
Cincinnati Tears Down More 'Nuisance' Benches
CINCINNATI (AP) Cincinnati has torn down some concrete benches frequently used by the homeless near its pro football stadium but is pausing demolition of other benches on that street so that city council members can first discuss it....
Tue October 17, 2017
City to Demolish Stadium
AKRON, Ohio (AP) The University of Akron's former football stadium in northeast Ohio is moving closer to demolition that could cost the city hundreds of thousands of dollars. The Akron Beacon Journal reported that the dilapidated Rubber Bowl's current owner, Team 1 Properties, has less than a month to avoid forfeiting the property under a judge's foreclosure decree....
Irwin Rapoport - Tue October 17, 2017
$385M Tower to Benefit 'Generations' of Toledo's Citizens
Lathrop Turner is building a $385 million, 13-story, L-shaped 302-bed patient care tower — Generations of Care Tower — on the campus of ProMedica Toledo Hospital. In addition, the Toledo Children's Hospital, a project that broke ground on April 4, 2016 and will be completed in July 2019, with occupation expected by the end of the year....
Wed October 04, 2017
Yoder & Frey Auctioneers Hosts Auction in Ashland, Ohio
Yoder & Frey Auctioneers, part of the Euro Auctions Group, conducted an auction at its Ashland, Ohio, site on Sept. 20. The site continues to draw an enthusiastic crowd of onsite attendees from Ohio and surrounding states while generating active online bidding as well....
Wed October 04, 2017
U.S. Agency Allows Demolition of Lead-Contaminated Public Housing
EAST CHICAGO, Ind. (AP) The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has approved the demolition of a lead-contaminated public housing complex in northwestern Indiana. The announcement paves the way for the East Chicago Housing Authority to raze the West Calumet Housing Complex....
