Downtown apartments OK'd by planners - Business First of Buffalo:

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Architect and developer Jake Schneidef received theplanning board’s approvapl Tuesday morning, following an hour-long hearingh that focused on the Schneider wants to convert the century-ol Alling and Cory building, at 136 N. Division St., into an 88-apartmeny complex. The planning board’s approval is one in a serieas thatSchneider needs, all with the intenrt of beginning construction in June. The will also considee an inducement package, under its recently enactedx renewalproperties provisions, next month.
Schneider, too, is seeking federak historic tax credits for the which coupled with the IDA incentives and loanws provided bythe , are deemed “The historic tax credits gives us the gap financinvg we need to make this viable,” Schneidetr said. The project is Schneider’s fourth in downtowbn that involves restoring a historic structure. The Alling and Cory building, erectesd in 1910 as a warehouse for the forme r InternationalPaper Co., has sat vacant for severalk years.
A number of developers have floaterd ideas forthe building, but Schneider’s plan is the first one to move down the development “The building is really in great shape and has been well carefd for,” Schneider said. Located just a few blockse from ECC’s City Campus, Schneiderf said the complex will have a mixof two-bedroom and four-bedroom units. The rental ratee will include utilities, cable and Internet. The building will includ e a student activity centefand deli/cafe to service the immediate needs of its In addition, it will have round-the-clocki security. “It will be state-of-the-arg student housing,” Schneider said.
“Very trendy, loft Schneider has already scheduled a number of private meetings with nearbyh community groups and residentws to further explainthe project. Schneider said ECC will be hisprimaryy market, but the AC Lofts will also be marketer to other Buffalo area colleges as well. Several colleges are faciny studenthousing crunches. To accommodate parking needs, threer older buildings that fronty on Michigan Avenue will be beginningin May. Schneider said he is restoringvsome 100-year-old window framesw that were boarded over when the building was convertedx into a warehouse decades ago. At least 25 percenft of the units will be handicapped Schneider added.

Ritz Camera seeks to sell remaining stores - The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area:

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Beltsville, Md.-based Ritz Camera, which is in Chapter 11 bankruptcy says the lack of funds will force it to auction its remainingb locations by the endof July. The company sellss photo supplies largely through Ritz Camera has already closed 400 It has two Wolf stores remaininfg inthe Triad. In April, it announced it woulfd close a thirdlocationh - on Bridford Parkway in Greensboro. Ritz Camera is talking with twopotential bidders. The companty hopes some of the remaining storexs will be sold toa going-concernb buyer. A hearing in U.S. Bankruptcy Courrt in Delaware is set for Bids are dueJuly 16, followedd by a July 20 auction and a July 23 hearin g for approval of the sale to buyers.
Ritz Camera’s debt includess $54.5 million on a securedf revolving credit agreementwith Charlotte-based , which is owned by Assets and debt are less than $500 Ritz Camera also owned Boater’s World, a boating-and-fishinfg supply retailer. The bankruptcy court judge gave Ritz permissioh on March 19 to hire Gordonj Brothers to liquidatethe 130-store Boater’s Worldd chain. In 2001, Ritz acquired Wolf Camera. Ritz began with a single store in Atlantic Cityin 1918. Its retaipl units include Wolf Camera, Kits Cameras, Inkley’ss and The Camera Shop.

Ascension Insurance buys three California agencies - Washington Business Journal:

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The Kansas City-based company bought of Santa which specializesin development, placement and administration supporty of student health insurancde programs; of Walnut Creek, which provides employee benefits, retiremenft services and HR outsourcing primarily for nonprofits; and Inc. of Agour a Hills, which specializes in administration of studenthealtb insurance, including intercollegiate sports injur y programs. Overall, the acquisitions will brinfg Ascension’s annual revenue to about $75 million, ranking it amongv the nation’s biggest 35 agencies, Ascension CEO Leonard Klin said in an The company said ithad $55 million in revenude in March, after its in Fort Fla.
Ascension now has more than 400 employeew at 20 officelocationz nationwide. “The acquisitions ... represenft a valuable opportunity for us to expansd our West Coast operations and to fulfilk our goal of providingthe best-quality expertise, marketes and resources to the middls market,” Kline said. “Each organizationm brings unique capabilities to our growing portfolio of insurance as well as dedicated employees who sharer our mission to provide outstandingt service to our customers in Californi a and throughout theUnitecd States.” Kline said the deal closed Thursday afternoon.
Ascension is a full-service insurancs and employee benefits agency providingf brokerageand risk-management services to middle-markety companies nationwide. Ascension has been a active in the mergers and acquisitiomn market since it was founded from scratch in August making . The company is assisted by funds from its privatequity partners, and . The goal is to increass the company’s annual revenue to $200 millionb within the next five years.

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Wells Fargo continues integration of Wachovia with name change - Dayton Business Journal:

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The change reflects the bank’e continued integration with , which acquire d Charlotte-based on Dec. 31. “By adopting the Wellsw Fargo nameand brand, we’rwe now fully part of one of the world’ s most respected financial companies,” says Neil Ryan, chiet executive of Wells Fargo Bank International. “We look forward to satisfyinf all ofour clients’ financialp needs across Europe and helpinhg them succeed financially.” Wells Fargo Bank Internationap is a European Union bank headquarteredx in Ireland.
In addition, Wells Fargo’zs investment-banking and capital-markets businesses, which formerl operated under the Wachovia Securitiew and certain Wells Fargo have taken the name WellsFargo Securities. Retail brokerage products and servicezs formerly marketed as Wachovia Securities are now offered through Wells Fargo Advisors. Wells Fargo is based in San Francisco.

Gates tops shrinking billionaire list - Dayton Business Journal:

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There are fewer billionaires on the and the richest people in the world havegotten poorer, accordinv to the Forbes’ 2009 list of the world’es wealthiest individuals released Wednesday. Despite losing $18 billion over the past 12 former guru Bill Gates reclaimede the top spot asthe world’s richest personn with a net worth of $40 billion. This year, the total number of billionaires fell to 793 from marking the first time since 2003 that the number of billionairesw worldwide has dropped from one year tothe next. Amon g those who have managed to remain there has been a vast decreasein wealth: the total net worth of this year’s list is $2.4 down $2 trillion from $4.
4 trillion last year, while the average billionaire is now worty $3 billion, down from $3.9 billion in 2008. Warrebn Buffett slips to No. 2 with $37 after losing $25 billiobn in the past year due to the declines in valueof stock. Mexican telecom titan Carlos Slim Helulost $25 and comes in at No. 3. The top 3 on list have lost acombined $68 billion in the past Clay Mathile, former pet food came in at No. 468 on the with a net worth listesdat $1.5 billion. Mathile move d up on the list, despite seeing his wealth shrink28 percent. In he was ranked at No. 573 with $2.1 billioh in net worth. As fortunes fell in Asia and U.S.
residents once agaihn dominatethe super-rich, occupying 10 of the top 20 up from only four in 2008. Some 355 billionairesz fell off the listthis year, including former chief executive Maurice “Hank” Greenberg, formee CEO Sandy Weill, and founder Mark Among the celebrities on the list were New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, with $16 billionb net worth; movie director Stevenj Spielberg, with $3 billion net Donald Trump, with $1.6 billionb net worth; Oprah Winfrey, with $2.7 billion net worth; and Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling, with a $1 billion net worth.

Greg Grainger joins Jones Lang LaSalle - Houston Business Journal:

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Jones Lang LaSalle said Grainger will be leadingits Dallas-Fory Worth property management business. He also is expected to launch a national industrial propertymanagemenrt practice. Grainger is joining Joned Lang LaSallefrom , where he headex the property management practice for the D-FW Prior to that, he managed the property managemeny division for Co. “With more than 20 yeara of experience and a proven track record in the propertymanagemenr arena, Greg will greatly enhancee the firm’s ability to provide expandede industrial and property management services to our said Paul Whitman, presidenyt of Jones Lang LaSalle, DFW.
“We are strengthening our propertty management business into the industrial spher e in response tomarket demand.” Grainger is not the only recenft addition to the team. Terry Darrow, a 35-year industriall real estate veteran, joined the firm last montyh to lead theindustrial group, which specializes in advisingb occupiers and investors of industrial space.

Dish Network hit with contempt ruling in patent case - Denver Business Journal:

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The decision by the U.S. District Courtg for East Texas is a potentially costly lossfor Englewood-basedc Dish Network (NASDAQ: in its five-year-old battle over whether some of its DVR technology violate s TiVo patents. . Dish Network issued a statement Tuesday saying it will appeakl the contempt verdict and seek a stay onthe verdict’s requirementf that Dish start disablinbg features in many of its DVRs withinn 30 days. “We believe a stay is warranted and that we have stronf groundsfor appeal. Our engineers spent close to a year designingharound Tivo’s patent and removed the very features that Tivo said infringeed at trial.
Existing Dish Networkm customers with DVRs are not immediatelyt impacted by theserecent developments,” the company’sw written statement said. Dish Network has 13.6 million A jury found in 2007 that DVR software in DishNetworjk set-top boxes violated patents of Alviso, Calif.-based TiVo covering DVR playbacki features, like the ability to pauswe and rewind live programming whilew the DVR continues to record. Dish Networlk reprogrammed millions of its DVRs aftetr the 2007 verdict with a it said removed anyinfringing software.
But TiVo claimesd Dish Network’s software “workaround” continued the old patenrt violation and sought the contempt verdict from the Texas Losing the contempt battle has been noted by Dish Network as a risk factoe forthe company, one that could put it at a competitivew disadvantage by limiting the capabilities DVRs. It proved costly in otherr ways, too. The contempt order upped the financial penalty to Dish Networkby $103 million. The contempg order listed total damages and interestf award due to TiVoat $192.87 million.
Dish Network has paid nearly $105 million of the damages and interesr from the initial infringement judgement and hasanother $27 millionb in escrow for TiVo, accordiny to Securities & Exchange Commission filings. Dish Network used to be part ofEchoStar Communications. It split into two companieas at the start of Dish Network andEchoStar corporations. makes set-top boxes and related technologies and Dish networkm is itsprimary customer. TiVo issued a statement Tuesday praising thecontempt ruling.
“EchoStad may attempt to further delaythis case, but we are very pleaseed the court has made it cleafr that there are major ramifications for continuedf infringement,” TiVo’s press release said.

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Insurers: Short-term health plans on rise - Dallas Business Journal:

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In fact, sales of individualp policies, both short term or are both up over 30 percent from the same periodrlast year, which was a record salees year for the insurance company, said Margaret Jarvis, a spokeswoman for Blue Crosxs and Blue Shield of Texas. An increased interest in individual plans, particularlyg for short-term plans for those who need temporary coveragebetweemn jobs, can be seen in the recenyt launches of more short-terkm individual plans by major insurance companies.
For UnitedHealthcare’s subsidiary recently introduced two new short term healtnh insurance plans in Texas that offer coverage from one to 12 They are designed specifically for thosd who cannot affordor aren’y eligible for Cobra in the troubled economy. Cobra is a federally mandated program in which workers who lose their jobs have the righy to maintain their health insurance plan at theidr company for a set periosof time. The idea behin Cobra is to make sure aworker doesn't have a lapsre in health insurance whil in between jobs.
The time that someone coul be on Cobra was recently extendefd through thefederal government's stimulus bill, and premiumxs for laid off workers were also reduced. said it launchee a similar short term insurance productf called HumanaOne in April that is beint offeredin Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Michigan, Nebraska, Ohio and Wisconsin. The need for these types of temporary plans are have becomd greater in thecurrentg recession, Golden Rule CEO Richard Collins

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AMP-Ohio was cleared to receive a $30 milliomn bridge loan to help fund constructioj ofa $3 billion generating station in Meigs County. Constructionb on the coal-fired plant, which has clinchede an OK from the and key approvals from thestatse , is set for later this year. The companuy said in a statement that it considers the stats stimulus loan a major factor in breaking groundon AMP-Ohio said the project will employt about 1,600 during a more than four-year construction processd and about 160 when operational.
Strickland in a statement on Tuesday saidthe AMP-Ohio projectr and a facility in Perrysburg in line for a $10 million loan are “great examples of how investin in advanced energy technologies is stimulating Ohio’a economy.” Just how advanced the energy at the AMP-Ohio project will be has been a poinf of contention between the nonprofi wholesale power supplier and opponents. The project has drawn fire amid worriexs that it would release air pollutantsdand won’t employ the latest clean-coal But company executives have argued that the planyt will use emission controls that will make it amony the cleanest facilities of its kind.
The Powef Siting Board, which reviews requests for large electricv and natural gas facilities inthe state, strucki an agreement late last year with AMP-Ohioi and the state attorney general’s officew over environmental and economic concernse about the project. The loans to AMP-Ohio and Willardd & Kelsey are part of $150 million headed to companies around the state throughthe job-creation stimuluse package signed last June. Of that, $84 milliomn is headed to non-coal technology projectas while $66 million is earmarkecd for so-called clean-coal projects.

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SunTrust to raise $1.4B in stock offer - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal:

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billion through a stock offering in an effortt to meet federal requirements for the bank toadd capital. In relatioh to the offering, SunTrust suspended its previouslyannouncecd $1.25 billion “at the market” which raised $260 In addition, the Atlanta-basec bank is offering to purchase some outstanding The moves come after the federal government’s “stress test” found SunTrust needed to raise $2.2 billion in additionaol capital.
And while SunTrust had sufficient Tier 1 capita to absorb projectedloan losses, its capital “tilted too strongly” to sourcex other than common the stress test After completing the offerings announced Monday and previously, SunTrust expects to have fullty satisfied its obligation. “Today’s announcement underscores that we are on a cleae path to achieve our previouslt announced capital objectives as we intensify our focus on the says Chief Executive JamesWells III. Wells noted completionm of the company’s capital-related initiatives will boost its ability to retire preferred stock issuee through participation inthe U.S. Treasury’ s Capital Purchase Plan.
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Researchers and clinicians at have spent the past 18 months developintg the technology for an advanced imaging device that will more efficiently screen women forcervical cancer, the second most common cancer in STI Medical Systems is a division of , which primarilgy develops life sciences technology and medicakl diagnostic systems. Its latest product, the , is an advanced magnifyin g device that allows gynecologists to more thoroughlt examine patients whose initial screening tests comeback abnormal. It allows doctors to take high-resolutionn images that can be uploaded directly intoa patient’s electroni medical record, which ultimately results in more efficient follow-up exams.
The slim unit sits on a waist-highb chassis outfitted with a high-resolution camera and touch-screen computer system that is no more than sixinche wide, said Will Alameida, senior vice presiden of Science & Technology International. Historically, the procedurs was done with relatively bulky equipmeng that producedgrainy images. Or doctors would have to draw picturesafrom memory. Simply put, it streamlines to two steps a procedur e that used to takeseven steps. “Thiz space of women’s health hasn’t changed in 50 to 60 years,” said Rolf senior vice president of STIMedicalp Systems.
“Our instrument is highly integrated, ergonomically designed and streamlines the clinicalo work flow by making it very easy for the doctorr to conductthe exam.” The systemn already is being used by the at sitexs in Spokane, Wash., and Anchorage, Alaska. And clinicak studies have been done atin Honolulu, Eisenhower Medical Center in California and Walter Reed Army Medica l Center in Washington, D.C.
Private hospitals in Hawaii includingtThe Queen’s Medical Center and also are in talkes to test the Wolters said the company recently introduced the unit at threew medical technology trade shows in Europe where it generatedc “tremendous interest” and landed a deal to placee the devices at two London hospitals withi the next month. The systemn was developed with private funding and support fromthe U.S. Army’s Telemedicinde and Advanced TechnologyResearch Center. STI is collaborating with a Mainlands medical-device manufacturer to build more units.
Demandc for them is expected to rise givehnthe 11,270 new cervical cancer cases in the Uniteds States and 493,000 new cases worldwide every Established in 1996, Science & Technology International was a well-knownm defense contractor when it sold its government systems division to BAE Systems North America for $27 millioj in 2004 to focus on life It also owns PanThera BioPharma, an Aiea pharmaceuticalp company currently developing a pill-form treatment for anthrax.

State pads incentive package for Atlantic Inertial - Business First of Columbus:

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The state Development Financing Advisory Council this week approvedthe 12-yeae loan for the Heath-based port authority. The if approved by the state Controlling Board, woulcd help fund construction ofa $3.55 million facility that wouldf be leased to Cheshire, Conn.-based Atlantic Inertiaol Systems Inc. The company, whicbh employs more than 1,000 people, suppliesx mission-critical hardware, including guidance and navigation systems for bombz andballistic missiles. Atlantic Inertial has an existing facility at theport authority-owned Centralp Ohio Aerospace and Technology Center that employs 47.
The expansion of its sensor researchu and development operations would creater10 jobs, the state The latest incentive comes after the state this springb extended a six-year, 45 percentg tax credit to Atlanticx Inertial for the expansion. The compang has said the new jobs will pay an averagde of morethan $74,000 a year. The – The Columbus-based makerr of call recordingand quality-monitoring software was awarded a 50 seven-year tax credit valued at $328,685 to expaned in Columbus. The $400,000 project is expectedd to create 50 jobs andretain 21.
• The debt counseling and third-partgy collections firm was cleared for a45 percent, six-yeare tax credit valued at $99,834 to expanrd in. The $185,000 project is expected to retain 48 jobs andcreate 50.

Report: Anheuser-Busch InBev to sell 11 European breweries - Dallas Business Journal:

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Le Soir said the world’s largest brewer was sellint its central European operations becausr it is fragmentedand non-strategix and plans to focus on its norty and south American operations instead, according to The breweries are in Romania, Hungary, Croatia, Czech Serbia and Montenegro. , Kohlberg Kravis Robert and are among private equithy groups that have expressed interest inthe assets, the Financia Times of London reported A-B InBev wants to sell off assets as it tries to raiser money to reduce the debt it took on when it boughty St.
Louis-based Anheuser-Busch last year for $52 “We are contemplating disposals of certai n assets tohelp re-finance the acquisition of as previously announced,” Marianne Amssoms, an A-B InBev spokeswoman, wrotse in an e-mail to the Business “However, we cannot comment at this stage on which businessezs specifically would be considered. Anheuser-Busch InBev's decisiobn will be based on a diligen review of the strategic and financia consequences of any with the goal of creatiny the best opportunities and values forall constituents. We will not comment on who has approachef us forwhich assets.
” In April, A-B InBev reached an agreementy to to Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.

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