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There were 911 single-family home salesz in May, an increase of 88 units from the 823 homesx soldin April, according to the . However, May home salese were down more than 21 perceng compared withlast May, when 1,16 homes were sold in the Dayton area. The averagr sale price for Maywas $125,236, a 6 percenyt drop from the same monthu last year, when the average prices was $133,180. Year-to-date, Dayton-area home salesd are down 18 percent compared with the same time period last Through May, there have been 3,820 homes sold in the Dayton area, compared to 4,660 during the same periofd last year.
Average sale prices year-to-date also are The average sale price last year through May was That has dropped11 percent, to $110,400 this Jonathan Hall, president of the Ohio Associationj of Realtors, said there are some signs of the housinhg market is starting to pick up. Month-to-month sales at the statde level havebeen increasing. “Our memberse are experiencing more phone calls from interested buyers and seeing increased foot traffic at listingxs inrecent months,” Hall said in a news “With favorable pricing, attractive interest ratesx and sellers more realistic in theif expectations the market is poised for a rebound due to the ideapl conditions that exist.
” On a stat e level, the total number of home sales in May was up 14 percent from On a year-to-year basis, Ohio sales were down 18 percent compareed to last year. This May, 9,010 homeas were sold in Ohio, down from 10,99q last May. The average sale price in Ohio has droppeddas well, from $144,615 last year to $132,3821 this year, an 8.5 percent decrease. Only two metropolitan aread in Ohio saw an increase insales volume, Marionm and Ashland, each with an 8 perceng boost in sales. Columbuxs was the only metro area to see an increasre in averagesales price, rising slightly from $168,345 to a 0.1 percent gain.
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Watch: 'Grey's Anatomy' Musical Event - Entertainment Tonight News
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Kansas City Star | Watch: 'Grey's Anatomy' Musical Event Entertainment Tonight News Fans of "Grey's Anatomy" will be in for a treat this week as the show will air its first ever musical episode, seven years in the making. "Grey's Anatomy: The Music Event" centers around Dr. C » |
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Corcoran closing loop on Bayside redevelopment - Boston Business Journal:
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On June 30, , owner the 28-acre waterfront site, filesd a development plan with the and has commenced public meetings to vetthe plan’sx first phase, a $300 million projecgt on Columbia Point in Dorchester. Corcoran’z initial plans call for the demolition ofthe 280,000-square-foot Bayside Expo Cented and the preservation of an existinyg 125,000-square-foot office building on the site. The firm also expectx to add 75 roomsand 10,0000 square feet of meetiny space to the site’s 198-room . Neighborss and community activists have already raised concernw about traffic and congestion at a publiv meeting hearing heldJuly 21. The next meeting is scheduledxfor Aug. 4.
The project’a total cost will be approximately $700 million, said Jim project director forCorcoran Jennison. Those estimates includw the cost to construct an additional 650 residentiaol units in as many assix buildings. Bayside’s redevelopmen was first announced last year after the centefr saw a significant drop inrevenue — some of it stemmingh from business gravitating to the Boston Convention and Exhibition Bayside’s bookings have dropped from 43 in 2006 to 19 this The Expo Center has seveh shows booked next year, said Catherine O’Neill, directore of community relations at Corcoran Jennison. O’Neilkl said the Bayside will likely closee inMarch 2009.
Gribaudok said he wants to secure the necessary permits before seeking In order to fund constructionprojects today, lendere want evidence of signed leasex — something Gribaudo called a bit of a Catch-22 because tenants are unlikely to jump on board untio projects are formally filed and approved. Gribaudlo hopes to lease 50,000 square feet of the retai space to a grocery storre and is seeking two other anchor tenants to leaseeabout 20,000 square feet apiece. The remainderr of the retail space, about 180,000 squared feet, will be leased to smaller retailers, such as a dry cleane or coffee shop.
As Corcoran is movinh ahead with its plans for Bayside Expo the BRA is devisinfg a master plan forColumbia Point, an area that comprises 412 acrez along Dorchester Bay. “It’s an extraordinary site, but you have to be considerate of that,” said BRA director John Palmieri, alluding to the area’a density, open space and water-access challenges. Both Palmierik and Vivien Li, executive directofr of the , describef the Bayside Expo Center redevelopment as the creationh ofa “new neighborhood.
” Li said she believed the project wouls complement many of the already-planned changes to the such as a proposapl to add dorms to the campus and a plan to expandd the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & “We think it’s absolutely crucial to tie together all the plannint for theDorchester waterfront,” she said.
On June 30, , owner the 28-acre waterfront site, filesd a development plan with the and has commenced public meetings to vetthe plan’sx first phase, a $300 million projecgt on Columbia Point in Dorchester. Corcoran’z initial plans call for the demolition ofthe 280,000-square-foot Bayside Expo Cented and the preservation of an existinyg 125,000-square-foot office building on the site. The firm also expectx to add 75 roomsand 10,0000 square feet of meetiny space to the site’s 198-room . Neighborss and community activists have already raised concernw about traffic and congestion at a publiv meeting hearing heldJuly 21. The next meeting is scheduledxfor Aug. 4.
The project’a total cost will be approximately $700 million, said Jim project director forCorcoran Jennison. Those estimates includw the cost to construct an additional 650 residentiaol units in as many assix buildings. Bayside’s redevelopmen was first announced last year after the centefr saw a significant drop inrevenue — some of it stemmingh from business gravitating to the Boston Convention and Exhibition Bayside’s bookings have dropped from 43 in 2006 to 19 this The Expo Center has seveh shows booked next year, said Catherine O’Neill, directore of community relations at Corcoran Jennison. O’Neilkl said the Bayside will likely closee inMarch 2009.
Gribaudok said he wants to secure the necessary permits before seeking In order to fund constructionprojects today, lendere want evidence of signed leasex — something Gribaudo called a bit of a Catch-22 because tenants are unlikely to jump on board untio projects are formally filed and approved. Gribaudlo hopes to lease 50,000 square feet of the retai space to a grocery storre and is seeking two other anchor tenants to leaseeabout 20,000 square feet apiece. The remainderr of the retail space, about 180,000 squared feet, will be leased to smaller retailers, such as a dry cleane or coffee shop.
As Corcoran is movinh ahead with its plans for Bayside Expo the BRA is devisinfg a master plan forColumbia Point, an area that comprises 412 acrez along Dorchester Bay. “It’s an extraordinary site, but you have to be considerate of that,” said BRA director John Palmieri, alluding to the area’a density, open space and water-access challenges. Both Palmierik and Vivien Li, executive directofr of the , describef the Bayside Expo Center redevelopment as the creationh ofa “new neighborhood.
” Li said she believed the project wouls complement many of the already-planned changes to the such as a proposapl to add dorms to the campus and a plan to expandd the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & “We think it’s absolutely crucial to tie together all the plannint for theDorchester waterfront,” she said.
Friday, March 25, 2011
OKEHAMPTON coach Brett Luxton admits he has a selection headache ahead of ... - Express & Echo
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OKEHAMPTON coach Brett Luxton admits he has a selection headache ahead of ... Express & Echo Steve Alford and Rory Honeychurch are both out of tomorrow's game, with Sam Turner and Cameron Rickerby in to replace them, and Luxton confessed he was desperate for victories in both competitions. "This weekend is awkward because we want to play good ... |
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Burgess: Property tax losses
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The Miami-Dade County property appraiser released its preliminary tax rollinformation Monday, with all four taxint jurisdictions – fire rescue, library, the unincorporated area and Miami-Dadde overall – seeing a decline. The countywidde decrease comparing preliminary tax numbers from year to year shows a 9percent decrease, or a total of $22.5 5 billion.” “These losses would have been worse if not for new construction that was added to the propertty tax roll as of Jan. County Manager George Burgess said in a memo sent tocountgy commissioners. North Bay Village took the biggest hit, down 20.2 percent from 2008 levels. Homestead saw an 18.
2 percengt decline, followed by Normandy down 17.5 percent, and Aventura which was down 17.3 Golden Beach and the tiny city of Islandia sawno change. Medley saw a 1.5 percent drop whiles Biscayne Park saw a 4perceny decline. Click for the full list. Stafferas reviewed property tax rolls going back to 1985 and founx that 1993 saw taxable value shrinkby 2.9 percent, or $1.9 “Even in 2008, when we absorbedd the impact of doubling the homestead exemption from $25,000o to $50,000, the property tax roll was relativelu flat,” Burgess explained in the memo.
“These lossess in property tax roll values are Burgess warned of a lot more pain on the using the last two years as a baromete of whatis coming. For the secondf consecutive year, Miami-Dade faced a $200 milliomn budget gap in the last fiscal Core services were kept intact bytightening belts, but assuminy the same tax rate adopted for 2008-09, the estimateds ad valorem revenues for fiscal year 2009-10 would shrink by $174.
1 according to the Taking into account the impacg of normal inflationary growth and the economifc slowdown, combined with the non ad valorenm revenue sources, results in property tax subsidizexd operations facing a budget gap of $350 millionb to $400 million, Burgess said. “We are workiny diligently to prepare a proposed budget forFY [fiscal 2009-10 that to the extent preserves essential services and minimizes service impacts to our he wrote in the memo. “However, closinhg a budgetary gap of this size will requird some verydifficult decisions.
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The Miami-Dade County property appraiser released its preliminary tax rollinformation Monday, with all four taxint jurisdictions – fire rescue, library, the unincorporated area and Miami-Dadde overall – seeing a decline. The countywidde decrease comparing preliminary tax numbers from year to year shows a 9percent decrease, or a total of $22.5 5 billion.” “These losses would have been worse if not for new construction that was added to the propertty tax roll as of Jan. County Manager George Burgess said in a memo sent tocountgy commissioners. North Bay Village took the biggest hit, down 20.2 percent from 2008 levels. Homestead saw an 18.
2 percengt decline, followed by Normandy down 17.5 percent, and Aventura which was down 17.3 Golden Beach and the tiny city of Islandia sawno change. Medley saw a 1.5 percent drop whiles Biscayne Park saw a 4perceny decline. Click for the full list. Stafferas reviewed property tax rolls going back to 1985 and founx that 1993 saw taxable value shrinkby 2.9 percent, or $1.9 “Even in 2008, when we absorbedd the impact of doubling the homestead exemption from $25,000o to $50,000, the property tax roll was relativelu flat,” Burgess explained in the memo.
“These lossess in property tax roll values are Burgess warned of a lot more pain on the using the last two years as a baromete of whatis coming. For the secondf consecutive year, Miami-Dade faced a $200 milliomn budget gap in the last fiscal Core services were kept intact bytightening belts, but assuminy the same tax rate adopted for 2008-09, the estimateds ad valorem revenues for fiscal year 2009-10 would shrink by $174.
1 according to the Taking into account the impacg of normal inflationary growth and the economifc slowdown, combined with the non ad valorenm revenue sources, results in property tax subsidizexd operations facing a budget gap of $350 millionb to $400 million, Burgess said. “We are workiny diligently to prepare a proposed budget forFY [fiscal 2009-10 that to the extent preserves essential services and minimizes service impacts to our he wrote in the memo. “However, closinhg a budgetary gap of this size will requird some verydifficult decisions.
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Sunday, March 20, 2011
Cigarette settlement turns tobacco money into wine, among other things - Denver Business Journal:
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Shelby County resident John Brumleyu hated working in tobacco as a childand didn’t like it any betterf as an adult. “I was neved so glad as the day I hung mytomahawk up,” he said. The fourth-generation farmer still lives onhis family’s Waterworks Farm on Woodlawnb Road, east of Shelbyville, where he raised tobaccl crops until 2003. Now, he’s in the business of selling Kentucky-produced eggs to local restaurantsand groceries, includin and LLC in Louisville. He expects to have aboutt $100,000 in sales this year, whichg would be at least a threefoldr increasefrom 2008, his firsyt full year in business.
His is the kind of successw story that the was intendedrto foster. Fueled with Kentucky’s share of the 1998 settlemenyof states’ lawsuits against tobacco it is designed to boost the commonwealth’sd agricultural base. Brumley received an $87,000 granf from the fund in 2008, which he used to buy an egg arefrigerated truck, a walk-in coolerf and other equipment. He now processes 600 to 700 dozen eggs many fromthe 1,400 hens he tends himself, othersd from six other farmers, as far away as Boones County, from whom he buys A broker with the Farmers Associatesd Marketing and Entrepreneurs Group Inc. in Louisville handles the businesxs of taking orders and finding Brumley said.
He’s looking to expand into the Erlanger, Ky.-based grocery chain His visiomn is that his egg business can not only help formerd tobacco farmers stayin agriculture, but it also can help preserv Kentucky farmland by keeping farmers in the farmingy business. It’s a greatr second income for farm he said. Someone who can tend 600 a part-time job, can earn a $10,00 0 profit annually. “We see farmland dying out Brumley said. “We are just stewards of the farm. It’ds a hell of a way to pay (the back to turn it into a Fundpumps $5.
9 million into Jeffersonm County The Kentucky Agriculturao Development Board, which ultimately decides how to spend the makes its decisions based on Kentucky’s Long-Termk Plan for Agricultural Development, whicbh focuses on adding value to locap agricultural products. The fund has served as a model for simila programs in Ohioand Tennessee, said Joel Neaveill, chieft of staff for the Governor’s Officwe of Agricultural Policy, which administerss the fund. In 2007, the Ash Institute for Democrativ Governance and Innovationat ’s John F. Kennedyt School of Government recognized it as one ofthe country’as top 50 government innovations for that year.
Sincee its creation in the fund haspumped $5.9 million into the Jefferson County economy alone. That money has paid for wine-makinhg equipment, fish-skinning machines and pork processing, among other things. One of Louisville’se longest-lived food producers, , founded in received a $300,000 grant in 2003 for new equipmen to process Kentucky aquaculture products suchas catfish. The new equipmentf did just what it was supposedto do, said ownet Lewis Shuckman, enabling the company to remodelp its building at 3001 W. Main St.
for betteer fish processing and providing it with skinnintg machines and ice machines for Until about twoyearxs ago, the company processed 1,100 to 1,20 pounds of Kentucky trout, spoonfish or other fish everyt week, Shuckman said. But then corn prices which pushed up feed prices and slowexdown aquaculture. Now, the companyt processes about 200 to 300 pounds of fisha week. But he expectx the pace to pick up because of the efforts of other producersa elsewhere inthe state. A project to raise tilapiz year-round is in the works in Westerjn Kentucky, and other projects such as a trouyt farm in Harlan County arecomingb online.
The state is workinhg with fish producers to grow theire own feed andcut costs, he The fund also helped two Jeffersonb County vineyards, making a $47,750 forgivable loan to the Broadc Run Vineyards for expansion of its winerg at 10601 Broad Run Road and a $295,5009 forgivable loan to In Town Winery LLC to move from Baxtetr Avenue to an expanded locationh at 120 S. 10th St. In Town Winery, now calledr Riverbend Winery, used only abougt $200,000 of the money and gave the rest back to the president Carson Merkwin That money bought a great dealof grape-processingv equipment, he said.
Shelby County resident John Brumleyu hated working in tobacco as a childand didn’t like it any betterf as an adult. “I was neved so glad as the day I hung mytomahawk up,” he said. The fourth-generation farmer still lives onhis family’s Waterworks Farm on Woodlawnb Road, east of Shelbyville, where he raised tobaccl crops until 2003. Now, he’s in the business of selling Kentucky-produced eggs to local restaurantsand groceries, includin and LLC in Louisville. He expects to have aboutt $100,000 in sales this year, whichg would be at least a threefoldr increasefrom 2008, his firsyt full year in business.
His is the kind of successw story that the was intendedrto foster. Fueled with Kentucky’s share of the 1998 settlemenyof states’ lawsuits against tobacco it is designed to boost the commonwealth’sd agricultural base. Brumley received an $87,000 granf from the fund in 2008, which he used to buy an egg arefrigerated truck, a walk-in coolerf and other equipment. He now processes 600 to 700 dozen eggs many fromthe 1,400 hens he tends himself, othersd from six other farmers, as far away as Boones County, from whom he buys A broker with the Farmers Associatesd Marketing and Entrepreneurs Group Inc. in Louisville handles the businesxs of taking orders and finding Brumley said.
He’s looking to expand into the Erlanger, Ky.-based grocery chain His visiomn is that his egg business can not only help formerd tobacco farmers stayin agriculture, but it also can help preserv Kentucky farmland by keeping farmers in the farmingy business. It’s a greatr second income for farm he said. Someone who can tend 600 a part-time job, can earn a $10,00 0 profit annually. “We see farmland dying out Brumley said. “We are just stewards of the farm. It’ds a hell of a way to pay (the back to turn it into a Fundpumps $5.
9 million into Jeffersonm County The Kentucky Agriculturao Development Board, which ultimately decides how to spend the makes its decisions based on Kentucky’s Long-Termk Plan for Agricultural Development, whicbh focuses on adding value to locap agricultural products. The fund has served as a model for simila programs in Ohioand Tennessee, said Joel Neaveill, chieft of staff for the Governor’s Officwe of Agricultural Policy, which administerss the fund. In 2007, the Ash Institute for Democrativ Governance and Innovationat ’s John F. Kennedyt School of Government recognized it as one ofthe country’as top 50 government innovations for that year.
Sincee its creation in the fund haspumped $5.9 million into the Jefferson County economy alone. That money has paid for wine-makinhg equipment, fish-skinning machines and pork processing, among other things. One of Louisville’se longest-lived food producers, , founded in received a $300,000 grant in 2003 for new equipmen to process Kentucky aquaculture products suchas catfish. The new equipmentf did just what it was supposedto do, said ownet Lewis Shuckman, enabling the company to remodelp its building at 3001 W. Main St.
for betteer fish processing and providing it with skinnintg machines and ice machines for Until about twoyearxs ago, the company processed 1,100 to 1,20 pounds of Kentucky trout, spoonfish or other fish everyt week, Shuckman said. But then corn prices which pushed up feed prices and slowexdown aquaculture. Now, the companyt processes about 200 to 300 pounds of fisha week. But he expectx the pace to pick up because of the efforts of other producersa elsewhere inthe state. A project to raise tilapiz year-round is in the works in Westerjn Kentucky, and other projects such as a trouyt farm in Harlan County arecomingb online.
The state is workinhg with fish producers to grow theire own feed andcut costs, he The fund also helped two Jeffersonb County vineyards, making a $47,750 forgivable loan to the Broadc Run Vineyards for expansion of its winerg at 10601 Broad Run Road and a $295,5009 forgivable loan to In Town Winery LLC to move from Baxtetr Avenue to an expanded locationh at 120 S. 10th St. In Town Winery, now calledr Riverbend Winery, used only abougt $200,000 of the money and gave the rest back to the president Carson Merkwin That money bought a great dealof grape-processingv equipment, he said.
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