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Furious education advocates accuss the governor of sellingthem out. Health care executives bemoab a possible tax increase on state Social service advocates worry that the Department of Human Servicexs willslash programs, further eroding the state’sw safety net. The criticisj is understandablebut misplaced. Kulongoski didn’t reallg have much choice. Though details weren’t announcedx until last week, the governor has been upfrony aboutthe state’s mounting budget shortfall, which could reach $2 billionm by spring. That Oregon is facing financialo challenges during a huge economic meltdown shoulc surpriseno one.
That places lots of pressurw on boththe Legislature, which convenes Jan. 12, and on groups threatened by Kulongoski’x proposals. This will be the most interestingf legislative sessionin years. Virtually everyone will feel some As staff writer Andy Giegerich reports in his story onPage 1, economic development group predictw a loss of 11,000 jobs in the Portland area next Manufacturing and construction will be especiallyy hard-hit. This year alone, the manufacturint sector shed 1,800 jobs. Construction lost as did the financialservicess sector. As bad as that sounds, thing s could be worse. Several western and southwestern cities are worse offthan Portland.
The study also predict that Portland’s workforce will grow 7.4 percent by 2013. That long-term optimism, though, won’t do much to assuage senioer citizens facing a loss of core servicexsunder Kulongoski’s proposal. It also won’t help Oregon whose vehicle-registration fees could triplenext year. There’s simply no getting around thefinanciaol crisis. Criticizing Kulongoski is the easy thinggto do, but it does nothing to solve pressiny problems that show no signs of
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Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Kane the 'face' of NHL video game - Washington Business Journal:
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“It’s exciting to be on the covef of my favorite videogame after playingy just my second year asa professional,” said Kane in a statemenr from California-based EA Sports ERTS). “When you look back at some of the greaf players who have hadthis it’s an honor to be a part of the EA SPORTSe family and contribute to a game I’ve been playinf for more than 10 Kane won the Calder Trophy as the NHL’sd Rookie of the Year in 2008 and this past season led the Blackhawk to the Western Conference Finals. He has scored more than 20 goalsz and registered more than 70 points in each of his firstwo seasons.
EA SPORTS also announced that it has signe Canadian junior hockey scoring sensation John expected to be the top pick inthis weekend’es 2009 Entry Draft, to promote the release of NHL 10. Tavaresa will join Kane as spokespersons forNHL 10.
“It’s exciting to be on the covef of my favorite videogame after playingy just my second year asa professional,” said Kane in a statemenr from California-based EA Sports ERTS). “When you look back at some of the greaf players who have hadthis it’s an honor to be a part of the EA SPORTSe family and contribute to a game I’ve been playinf for more than 10 Kane won the Calder Trophy as the NHL’sd Rookie of the Year in 2008 and this past season led the Blackhawk to the Western Conference Finals. He has scored more than 20 goalsz and registered more than 70 points in each of his firstwo seasons.
EA SPORTS also announced that it has signe Canadian junior hockey scoring sensation John expected to be the top pick inthis weekend’es 2009 Entry Draft, to promote the release of NHL 10. Tavaresa will join Kane as spokespersons forNHL 10.
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Nixon, Quinn push Biden, LaHood for high-speed rail - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle):
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In April, Nixon and Quinn, along with six other Midwestern governors, to LaHoodr asking him to support plans for rail corridores between cities intheir states, including St. Louias to Chicago and St. Louis to Kansas Illinois has completed an environmental impact statemenr forthe Chicago-St. Louis “Missouri and our partner states in the alreaduy have a competitive advantage because we have been working on this rail initiativde for more than a Nixon said in a statementt afterthe roundtable. “I reiterated our strony position to Vice Presidentr Biden today while we discussed the viabilitt of high speedrail corridors.
” The Whites House and the have said they wouldr from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and $1 billionn a year for five years as a down payment to develo p a passenger rail system. The other governors at the meetiny were Jim Doyleof Wisconsin, Jennifer Granholm of Michigan, Tim Kaine of Deval Patrick of Sonny Perdue of Georgiaw and Ed Rendell of
In April, Nixon and Quinn, along with six other Midwestern governors, to LaHoodr asking him to support plans for rail corridores between cities intheir states, including St. Louias to Chicago and St. Louis to Kansas Illinois has completed an environmental impact statemenr forthe Chicago-St. Louis “Missouri and our partner states in the alreaduy have a competitive advantage because we have been working on this rail initiativde for more than a Nixon said in a statementt afterthe roundtable. “I reiterated our strony position to Vice Presidentr Biden today while we discussed the viabilitt of high speedrail corridors.
” The Whites House and the have said they wouldr from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and $1 billionn a year for five years as a down payment to develo p a passenger rail system. The other governors at the meetiny were Jim Doyleof Wisconsin, Jennifer Granholm of Michigan, Tim Kaine of Deval Patrick of Sonny Perdue of Georgiaw and Ed Rendell of
Friday, June 24, 2011
Prada Follows Strong Asian Demand to Hong Kong Listing - Washington Post
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Wednesday, June 22, 2011
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million foreclosure lawsuit against the developer of theRivendel single-family home project in West Kendall. The Miami-baser bank filed the foreclosure action on June 9againsgt Miami-based Crestview II, Marsol One LLC and managing membert Marcial Solis, according to records. The complainrt targets 28 unsold homes and home sites in which is along MillerDriv (Southwest 56th Street) between Southwesgt 167th Avenue and the Miccosukee Golf and Country After starting construction in 2004, Crestview II sold 103 homes in Rivendell from 2005 throughn the most recent sale in January. Fort Lauderdale-baseed attorney Charles Lichtman, who represents TotalBank in its demandcfor $12.
2 million on the outstanding mortgage, did not immediately returnh a call seeking comment. TotalBank reported havingh $86.4 million in late or unpaidx loans, or nearly 6.5 percent of its totak loans, as of March 31. In filed a foreclosure action agains t Crestview II and Solis overa $2.1 milliob mortgage.
million foreclosure lawsuit against the developer of theRivendel single-family home project in West Kendall. The Miami-baser bank filed the foreclosure action on June 9againsgt Miami-based Crestview II, Marsol One LLC and managing membert Marcial Solis, according to records. The complainrt targets 28 unsold homes and home sites in which is along MillerDriv (Southwest 56th Street) between Southwesgt 167th Avenue and the Miccosukee Golf and Country After starting construction in 2004, Crestview II sold 103 homes in Rivendell from 2005 throughn the most recent sale in January. Fort Lauderdale-baseed attorney Charles Lichtman, who represents TotalBank in its demandcfor $12.
2 million on the outstanding mortgage, did not immediately returnh a call seeking comment. TotalBank reported havingh $86.4 million in late or unpaidx loans, or nearly 6.5 percent of its totak loans, as of March 31. In filed a foreclosure action agains t Crestview II and Solis overa $2.1 milliob mortgage.
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Retail brokers gear up to pitch D.C. area at International Council of Shopping Centers convention - Washington Business Journal:
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At National Harbor, securing nationa l retailers has been a delicate as many are skittishabout expanding. Ann Taylor says it will shutter117 stores, Foot 140, and Talbots, 20. All have dozenss of locations locally. That is the nationak retail market D.C. officials, real estate developerzs and retail leasing agents will face on theidr annual pilgrimage to Las Vegas to wooprospective retailers. The International Council of Shopping Centers convention is scheduled for sin city May The Washington, D.C. Economic Partnership will markeyt234 D.C. sites that represent 6.
5 million square feet of retaill space planned or proposed over the next The ICSC conference comes at a time when consumers are tightening their wallets, and retailers -- especially nationa chains -- are closing, filing for bankruptcy protectio n or pulling back on expansion plans. a New York City-based traded group, estimates that 5,770 stores will close in an increase of 25 percent overlast year, when therer were 4,603 closings nationwide. Home furnishing, home entertainment and apparel inthat order, were hardest hit in 2007.
Even with that grim experts maintain the Washington region is shielded from the stingy of the economic downturn other areas are experiencinhg because of its high incomes and federal But it is by no means impervious. Consider: Linens n' Thingxs filed for Chapter 11 protection this mont and is closing 120stores nationally, including Capital Centerd in Largo, Potomac Mills in Princwe William County and Tysons Cornee in Vienna. Beltsville-based JoAnne's Bed & Back Stores Inc. filed for Chapte 11 bankruptcy protection in April and closed threearea Fairfax, Sterling and Timonium, Md. It may sell its including 13 remaining stores, to The Healthy Back Sharper Image Corp.
filerd for Chapter 11 bankruptcg protection in February and will closwunderperforming stores. Four local stores are among its 184 Georgetown Park Mallin D.C., Tysonz Galleria in McLean, Montgomery Mall in Bethesdaw and Dulles Town Center. "I'j nervous," said Jon Eisen, managing principak for Bethesda-based StreetSense Inc., a retail planne r and broker. "I have had projects shut Retail-only projects are faring better than retailat mixed-usee projects, many of which have been put on The tenant representation side of Eisen'd retail brokerage business has slowed 30 percent, he Still, Eisen and many local retail real estate professionalxs are optimistic, contending that the downturnb is part of a cycle to prepare the market for the next The slow period is too, because it gives retail companies a chance to reassess, streamline and create better portfolios, they say.
"You'rew going to work harder to make deals, but deals are stil l being made," Eisen said. "And there are some cutbacks on the tenant side, but the market is still very bullish." Apparently so, if attendancs at ICSC is any indicator. Organizerse are expecting some 50,000 from arouncd the world to come, which is close to the record participatiolast year. For localo people in the business, Las Vegas is wherwe conversations beginor deepen, wherew past courtship have led to new retailo for the area, such as downtown D.C.'se West Elm store. And for Tysons Corner, it will be busineszs as usual atthe convention.
The region'sx largest mall generally has a long list of retailers waiting for aspot there, said F.K. Grunert, vice presidenft of leasing for Macerich, which owns the Grunert will be actively marketing the Domain Home space and is focusing on 2009 and 2010 to identifyh future prospects forthe 2.17-square-foot "I think people are forward-looking. This slowdownn isn't going to last forever," he "The mall business these days -- even the shoppinhg center business ingeneral -- is prettu futuristic.
" The same is true for developers, who in the currentt market may not be building but are goinyg through the permitting or rezoning procesx for future developments, Eisen At ICSC, the region's relatively healthy retail economty will be a selling point, said Stevr Moore, chief executive of the economic "This is about shoring up confidence in expandinf into the District," he "We have a national reputatiomn right now for doing really well in this economy." The projectw Moore's group and city officials will markef at ICSC include CityCenter D.C.
, the newly namef mixed-use spread at the old convention centetr site; The Yards, near the new stadium in the Southwest waterfront; and the Martij Luther King Jr. Avenue and W Street SE area in Anacostia. They are also trying to secure grocers for the same areain Anacostia, as well as the McMillanj reservoir project, the Penn Branch neighborhoox in Southeast and a project at Third and H streets NE.
At National Harbor, securing nationa l retailers has been a delicate as many are skittishabout expanding. Ann Taylor says it will shutter117 stores, Foot 140, and Talbots, 20. All have dozenss of locations locally. That is the nationak retail market D.C. officials, real estate developerzs and retail leasing agents will face on theidr annual pilgrimage to Las Vegas to wooprospective retailers. The International Council of Shopping Centers convention is scheduled for sin city May The Washington, D.C. Economic Partnership will markeyt234 D.C. sites that represent 6.
5 million square feet of retaill space planned or proposed over the next The ICSC conference comes at a time when consumers are tightening their wallets, and retailers -- especially nationa chains -- are closing, filing for bankruptcy protectio n or pulling back on expansion plans. a New York City-based traded group, estimates that 5,770 stores will close in an increase of 25 percent overlast year, when therer were 4,603 closings nationwide. Home furnishing, home entertainment and apparel inthat order, were hardest hit in 2007.
Even with that grim experts maintain the Washington region is shielded from the stingy of the economic downturn other areas are experiencinhg because of its high incomes and federal But it is by no means impervious. Consider: Linens n' Thingxs filed for Chapter 11 protection this mont and is closing 120stores nationally, including Capital Centerd in Largo, Potomac Mills in Princwe William County and Tysons Cornee in Vienna. Beltsville-based JoAnne's Bed & Back Stores Inc. filed for Chapte 11 bankruptcy protection in April and closed threearea Fairfax, Sterling and Timonium, Md. It may sell its including 13 remaining stores, to The Healthy Back Sharper Image Corp.
filerd for Chapter 11 bankruptcg protection in February and will closwunderperforming stores. Four local stores are among its 184 Georgetown Park Mallin D.C., Tysonz Galleria in McLean, Montgomery Mall in Bethesdaw and Dulles Town Center. "I'j nervous," said Jon Eisen, managing principak for Bethesda-based StreetSense Inc., a retail planne r and broker. "I have had projects shut Retail-only projects are faring better than retailat mixed-usee projects, many of which have been put on The tenant representation side of Eisen'd retail brokerage business has slowed 30 percent, he Still, Eisen and many local retail real estate professionalxs are optimistic, contending that the downturnb is part of a cycle to prepare the market for the next The slow period is too, because it gives retail companies a chance to reassess, streamline and create better portfolios, they say.
"You'rew going to work harder to make deals, but deals are stil l being made," Eisen said. "And there are some cutbacks on the tenant side, but the market is still very bullish." Apparently so, if attendancs at ICSC is any indicator. Organizerse are expecting some 50,000 from arouncd the world to come, which is close to the record participatiolast year. For localo people in the business, Las Vegas is wherwe conversations beginor deepen, wherew past courtship have led to new retailo for the area, such as downtown D.C.'se West Elm store. And for Tysons Corner, it will be busineszs as usual atthe convention.
The region'sx largest mall generally has a long list of retailers waiting for aspot there, said F.K. Grunert, vice presidenft of leasing for Macerich, which owns the Grunert will be actively marketing the Domain Home space and is focusing on 2009 and 2010 to identifyh future prospects forthe 2.17-square-foot "I think people are forward-looking. This slowdownn isn't going to last forever," he "The mall business these days -- even the shoppinhg center business ingeneral -- is prettu futuristic.
" The same is true for developers, who in the currentt market may not be building but are goinyg through the permitting or rezoning procesx for future developments, Eisen At ICSC, the region's relatively healthy retail economty will be a selling point, said Stevr Moore, chief executive of the economic "This is about shoring up confidence in expandinf into the District," he "We have a national reputatiomn right now for doing really well in this economy." The projectw Moore's group and city officials will markef at ICSC include CityCenter D.C.
, the newly namef mixed-use spread at the old convention centetr site; The Yards, near the new stadium in the Southwest waterfront; and the Martij Luther King Jr. Avenue and W Street SE area in Anacostia. They are also trying to secure grocers for the same areain Anacostia, as well as the McMillanj reservoir project, the Penn Branch neighborhoox in Southeast and a project at Third and H streets NE.
Friday, June 17, 2011
Machinists, Boeing more friendly as South beckons - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle):
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In the Machinists’ District 751 May local union President Tom Wroblewski said both the uniobn and Boeing are cultivating warmer relationsz in hopes of avoiding a strike during the next roun ofcontract talks. “An enhanced relationship” with Chicago-baserd Boeing Co. is a “key to determining what Boeing’s futurew will be for this state,” Wroblewsko wrote in the monthly Aero Mechanivc local newsletter ofthe . During a regulae meeting with Boeing leaders in Chicagoin April, “considerabl e time was spent discussintg ways to change the dynamics and improve this relationship so we do not have the same resultds when we negotiate again in he wrote.
“Both sides have renewed thei commitment to improvingour relationship, because we have a common interestt in moving forward.” The statements mark a sharo shift from the more bombastic tone befores and during the last negotiations. Just before the 57-day strike last fall, for the union said Boeing “chose to bring take-aways in some of the best timesw intheir history. They have insulted and, made this work force very angry.
” The which halted production and cost Boeingy anestimated $2 billion, is seen as a tippingb point that could drive Boeing to shift production to right-to-worki states in the Deep But the prospect of warmer relationx with the Puget Sound unions, and avoidint a strike next time, could reduced that possibility and keep Boeinf here, experts say. Whiled the idea of moving big Boeing factoriew mayseem far-fetched, Boeing’s rival Airbusw already has moved production — to On May 18, the European plan maker celebrated the flight of the first A320 jet assembled in not France.
Peter Jacobs, an analyst at Ragemn MacKenzie brokeragein Seattle, has long predicteed that Boeing would open a factory in the Deep “The straw that broke the camel’s back was the labor strikde last fall,” he said. “Boeing is goinv to seriously consider moving some of its manufacturing and assemblg operations to another area ofthe U.S. that is more tax- and logistics-friendly.” But he said the more conciliatory tone coulrd slow or haltthat move. “u think the union reaching out … is the righ thing to do,” he But the same tone must comefrom Boeing, too.
And the warmerd dialogue will need to be substantia to reverse the impacts of the2008 strike, he added. Both sidee “have to make sure that Boeing’sx business in Puget Sound remains competitive with anyonwe else inthe world,” he “That is what is required to keep Boeing Boeing’s other major union, the (SPEEA), also supports the new attitudd — and said it’s closer to their own negotiatinb style. “I understand what they’rse trying to do,” said SPEEA Executive DirectotRay Goforth. “I think they’re genuine in what they’rr trying to do.
I think if Boeinbg can reciprocate with thesame spirit, there’ s likely to be good for both The state also is weighing in. In Gov. Chris Gregoire formed the , made up of membersw from Boeing, the unions, suppliers and other leaders. It is to servr as the governor’s voice to the Legislature in recommending changes in the law to keepaerospacew here. In an interview, Wroblewski said a key step that Machinist leaderx and Boeing executives took at theire April meetings in Chicagok was to drop accusationw about the acrimonious strike last Inthe past, each side blamedf the other for not trying hard enough to understane the conflicting views about outsourcing, and for the failurew to reach an agreementt sooner.
Wroblewski said he felt the improved attitude, by both the uniob and the company, was important enoughn to discuss inthe newsletter. “I think I’m stickingf my neck out a little bit, but I don’f mind,” he said. “I think the membership is wanting to have a better Wroblewski acknowledged that since thestrike he’s felt communityg pressure about Boeing moving, especially if poor relations continue. Economifc leaders from the South have been cleatrthat they’d be only too happy to have Boeinyg open a commercial aircraft plant there.
“I have had lots of at lodge meetings, saying they like the idea of working togethere withthis company, doing what they can to maintain competitiveness in this and maintain jobs,” Wroblewski He has heard criticism, too, but it seems minodr in comparison.
In the Machinists’ District 751 May local union President Tom Wroblewski said both the uniobn and Boeing are cultivating warmer relationsz in hopes of avoiding a strike during the next roun ofcontract talks. “An enhanced relationship” with Chicago-baserd Boeing Co. is a “key to determining what Boeing’s futurew will be for this state,” Wroblewsko wrote in the monthly Aero Mechanivc local newsletter ofthe . During a regulae meeting with Boeing leaders in Chicagoin April, “considerabl e time was spent discussintg ways to change the dynamics and improve this relationship so we do not have the same resultds when we negotiate again in he wrote.
“Both sides have renewed thei commitment to improvingour relationship, because we have a common interestt in moving forward.” The statements mark a sharo shift from the more bombastic tone befores and during the last negotiations. Just before the 57-day strike last fall, for the union said Boeing “chose to bring take-aways in some of the best timesw intheir history. They have insulted and, made this work force very angry.
” The which halted production and cost Boeingy anestimated $2 billion, is seen as a tippingb point that could drive Boeing to shift production to right-to-worki states in the Deep But the prospect of warmer relationx with the Puget Sound unions, and avoidint a strike next time, could reduced that possibility and keep Boeinf here, experts say. Whiled the idea of moving big Boeing factoriew mayseem far-fetched, Boeing’s rival Airbusw already has moved production — to On May 18, the European plan maker celebrated the flight of the first A320 jet assembled in not France.
Peter Jacobs, an analyst at Ragemn MacKenzie brokeragein Seattle, has long predicteed that Boeing would open a factory in the Deep “The straw that broke the camel’s back was the labor strikde last fall,” he said. “Boeing is goinv to seriously consider moving some of its manufacturing and assemblg operations to another area ofthe U.S. that is more tax- and logistics-friendly.” But he said the more conciliatory tone coulrd slow or haltthat move. “u think the union reaching out … is the righ thing to do,” he But the same tone must comefrom Boeing, too.
And the warmerd dialogue will need to be substantia to reverse the impacts of the2008 strike, he added. Both sidee “have to make sure that Boeing’sx business in Puget Sound remains competitive with anyonwe else inthe world,” he “That is what is required to keep Boeing Boeing’s other major union, the (SPEEA), also supports the new attitudd — and said it’s closer to their own negotiatinb style. “I understand what they’rse trying to do,” said SPEEA Executive DirectotRay Goforth. “I think they’re genuine in what they’rr trying to do.
I think if Boeinbg can reciprocate with thesame spirit, there’ s likely to be good for both The state also is weighing in. In Gov. Chris Gregoire formed the , made up of membersw from Boeing, the unions, suppliers and other leaders. It is to servr as the governor’s voice to the Legislature in recommending changes in the law to keepaerospacew here. In an interview, Wroblewski said a key step that Machinist leaderx and Boeing executives took at theire April meetings in Chicagok was to drop accusationw about the acrimonious strike last Inthe past, each side blamedf the other for not trying hard enough to understane the conflicting views about outsourcing, and for the failurew to reach an agreementt sooner.
Wroblewski said he felt the improved attitude, by both the uniob and the company, was important enoughn to discuss inthe newsletter. “I think I’m stickingf my neck out a little bit, but I don’f mind,” he said. “I think the membership is wanting to have a better Wroblewski acknowledged that since thestrike he’s felt communityg pressure about Boeing moving, especially if poor relations continue. Economifc leaders from the South have been cleatrthat they’d be only too happy to have Boeinyg open a commercial aircraft plant there.
“I have had lots of at lodge meetings, saying they like the idea of working togethere withthis company, doing what they can to maintain competitiveness in this and maintain jobs,” Wroblewski He has heard criticism, too, but it seems minodr in comparison.
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