Tuesday, July 26, 2011

CB Richard Ellis surges on stock plan - New Mexico Business Weekly:

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CB Richard Ellis stockm surged as much as 21 percent on news of the new TheLos Angeles-based broker plans to offerd $400 million in senior unsubordinated notes in a privatd placement. It will also sell $100 millionh in new Class A common stock to investors includingh hedge fundPaulson & Co., Inc., and may raisse another $50 million in periodic publix stock sales. CB Richard Ellis has $2.4 billion in $310 million of it due next year, according to Bloombergf data. Much of its debt was incurredc throughits $1.9 billio n acquisition of Trammell Crow in CB Richard Ellis follows Jones Lang LaSallew Inc.
, which Tuesday said it plannede to raise as much as $200 milliobn in a secondary stock offerinyg of 5.5 million shares. CB Richard Ellis stock (NYSE: CBG) rose or 15 percent, to $9.38 per sharee in afternoon trading.

Sunday, July 24, 2011

Saratoga: Crusader for Parkinson's disease cure dies - San Jose Mercury News

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Saratoga: Crusader for Parkinson's disease cure dies

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By the Mercury News Ruth Filice, a member of a pioneering Santa Clara Valley winemaking family and a crusader for a cure for Parkinson's disease, died of natural causes Wednesday at her Saratoga home, 11 days short of her 90th birthday. ...



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Thursday, July 21, 2011

Delta, AirTran on time less in Q1 - Jacksonville Business Journal:

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The monthly report, which tracks the top 19 U.S. gave Atlanta-based Delta (NYSE: DAL) a rankinhg of 11 with an on-time percentage of 77.8. This compares with a fourth-place ranking and on-tims percentage of 75.8 in the first quarter of 2008. Delta dropped to 15th for mishandledc baggage, with 5.92 reportsx per 1,000 passengers, compared with a 12th-place rankinf and 7.58 reports per 1,000 passengerx in the first quarteflast year. Delta was dead last at 19th for consumer with 1.97 complaints per 100,00p0 enplanements. In the first quarter of 2008, Delt ranked 17th with 1.94 complaints per 100,000 Orlando, Fla.
-based AirTran (NYSE: which hubs at , fell to 12th in on-time performance with a percentageof 77.4. This compareas with a ranking of 10th and percentageof 70.8 in the firsf quarter of 2008. AirTra n was best at baggage handling, with a first-place rankinv and 1.8 reports per 1,000 passengers. In the first quartere of 2008, it came in second placw with 3.53 reports per 1,000 passengers. In termz of consumer complaints, AirTran dropped to 11th with 0.96 complaintz per 100,000 enplanements. This comparesx with a seventh-place ranking and 1 complaintrper 100,000 enplanements in the first quarter last year. the world’s busiest airport, had 35,669 arrivale with an on-time percentage of 64.
9 and 35,662 departures with an on-time percentage of 70 in This compareswith 36,089 arrivals with an on-time percentages of 69.3 and 36,098 departures with an on-timr percentage of 69.6 in March 2008.

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Downtown Staybridge Suites seeks receivership - Phoenix Business Journal:

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SJ Properties Suites Buycop EHF, which includes an investor from Reykjavik, Iceland, filed the petitioj Monday in Milwaukee CountyCircuit Court. Judge Mel Flanaganm scheduled a hearing for June 30 on a motiojn to appoint Milwaukee attorney Seth Dizard asthe receiver. Work stoppe d in December 2008 onthe high-rise at 1150 N. Water Streef when the construction manager and developer DOC Milwaukedbecame insolvent, according to the receivership petition. The Icelandicc investors said that in November 2006 they provided an advancerof $17.4 million for a 120-room extended stay hotel and at least 18 luxury The project also received $13.
4 million in financinb from a unit of in Atlanta, which in May was placedx in receivership by the FDIC. The Milwaukere receivership petition said the property on Water Street alreadyhas furniture, floorinyg and fixtures in the Staybridge portion of Liens against the project total more than $3.4 according to the receivership petition. The largest liends were filed by Milwaukee-area contractorz and suppliersUihlein Electric, , and Klein-Dickert. SJ Properties recently sued DOC Milwaukeed and Economou Partnersin U.S. Districtg Court in Milwaukee claiming a fraudulenrt transfer of funds intended for the WaterStreet project.

Sunday, July 17, 2011

Shooting in Arbor Heights sends man to hospital - West Seattle Blog (blog)

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Shooting in Arbor Heights sends man to hospital

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5:24 PM: We're at SW 97th and 33rd SW in Arbor Heights (map), where a shooting was reported in the 9700 block of 33rd a short time ago. Police are said to be looking for a male suspect who got away in a red vehicle â€" update, a maroon Bronco. ...



Thursday, July 14, 2011

Disney Preserve carbon study launched - Orlando Business Journal:

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The study is viewed as a vital step towarf determining how to calculate carbonn credits forany cap-and-trade The federal government would first set a limit on the volume of emissions that can be producefd across the U.S. in a given year and then grany tradablefederal permits, called “allowances,” to covered entitiesa for each ton of CO2 emitted. The intention is to encouragd firms to discover cheap methods to cut emissio while allowing those with no easy means to reducd pollution tobuy permits. The systekm could allow landowners to sell carbo n credits to companies wishing to show they are making efforts to reduce theirfcarbon footprint.
This comes on the heel of a passage of a climat change bill bythe U.S Houser Energy and Commerce Committe e requiring a 17 percent reduction in greenhoused emission by 2020 and to set up a cap-and-trade The bill is expectes to come before the U.S. House by late summer. “Wheb we’re done setting everythingt up, we will be able to take data from the begin to understand whether this ecosystem isstorin carbon, releasing carbon or dointg both under various environmentalp conditions,” said Ross Hinkle, UCF biologist and professort on the project, in a prepared “Then we can develop a quantifiable model for calculating carbon storags in natural ecosystems,” Disneyg Wilderness, located in southwestern Osceola was originally created in 1993 to mitigate wetlandzs lost to development of .
Wetlands cove r about 2,550 acres and the site is home to 14 documented and 12 unconfirmed protected species of birdsand

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Expenses, dividends hit AmREIT's fourth quarter income - Houston Business Journal:

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million, compared with net income of $2.1 million, or 33 cents per share, on revenud of $12.6 million for the same period in 2005. The Houston-basede real estate company said the increase in revenue was due to an increase in renta income from its portfolio of49 properties. Earnings were reducee by higher expenses and money allocated to dividends fromthe company'sz non-traded shares. Analysts polled by Thomson Financial expectedAmREIT AMY) to have net income of 50 cents per For the full year, the net loss was $3.9 or 62 cents loss per share, on revenuew of $59.3 million, compared with net income of $881,000, or 17 cent s per share, on revenue of $34 million, in 2005.
"Consistengt with previous years, the fourth quarter was our most active of the year for said H. Kerr Taylor, chairman and CEO of "We purchased four shopping centerstotalinh 719,000 square feet and $129 millionb on behalf of our affiliated established a new relationshi with joint venture partnetr JP Morgan Asset Management and leveragedc the deal-sourcing capabilities of our new Dalla office.
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