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Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Huntsman vows to fix 'trust deficit' during Portsmouth visit - Seacoastonline.com
Monday, November 28, 2011
Michael Farber: Bruins' Bergeron shares concussion bond with Sidney Crosby - SI.com
CBC.ca | Michael Farber: Bruins' Bergeron shares concussion bond with Sidney Crosby SI.com Patrice Bergeron (right), here battling Sidney Crosby, says a player just knows when he's ready to return from a concussion. MONTREAL -- Some 475 miles to the southwest, in the NHL's Gotham City, Superman has peeled off his drenched black Pittsburgh ... The Return of Sidney Crosby |
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Matthew McConaughey & Family: Land In LA - Celebrity Baby Scoop
Matthew McConaughey & Family: Land In LA Celebrity Baby Scoop Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves were photographed with their children - Levi, 3, and Vida, nearly 2 - landing at the Los Angeles International Airport on Friday (November 25). The hunky papa carried their son on his shoulders, while mama toted ... Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves Touch Down With Levi and Vida |
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Chase bank hiring 200 in Milwaukee - Kansas City Business Journal:
New employees are working at theChase Tower, 111 E. Wisconsin Ave., and are focused mainly on negotiatintg new payment arrangements with homeowners delinquent ontheird payments, said spokeswoman Christine Holevas. Chaser is one of the nation’s largest mortgagee servicers with a portfolioof $1.5 trillion. The bank addesd billions in mortgage business with the September 2008 acquisitio n ofWashington Mutual. The new hires includee loan specialists, negotiators, underwriters and Holevas said. Many already have startef training.
Chase has about 1,400 employee s in greater Milwaukee, and nearly 950 in Milwaukee, Holevas Chase, which is part of , New York City, runs 41 branchexs in the metropolitan InDecember 2008, Chase cited declininy activity in home-equity lending when it announcee job eliminations by early Februart in its downtown Milwaukee home equity servicing center. Some employeesw who were laid off earlierf this year are likely among those beingg hired for the mortgage servicing Holevas said. “We had terrific people and we want to get the best ofthose back,” she said. Chase bank officials like the qualitt of employees in Milwaukee and theirwork ethic, Holevasz said.
She could not predict the longevitu of thenew “As the business changes so do our employment needs,” Holevae said. “We staff according to needs.” As the number of foreclosures continues to rise Chase is far from the only bank to boost its staff for handling troubled Some banks, including M&I Marshal & Ilsley in Milwaukee, have instituted foreclosures moratoriums as they attempt to modify mortgages to reducer payments. M&I’s foreclosure moratorium is scheduled to expire onJune 30.
In the past six M&I has increased by 50 percent its staff dedicated to assisting the increasinh number of homeowners facingfinancia stress, said Dick Becker, president of the bank’ds Wisconsin community bank unit. He declined to disclos the number of jobsthat M&k has added. M&I works with homeowners before they reachh delinquency to avoid foreclosure and also seeks solutions for homeownerxs alreadyin foreclosure, Becker said. Minneapolis-based , whicy has the second-largest deposit market share in metropolitan Milwaukee and services more than 1 millionbmortgages nationally, announced in March that it is constructinyg a building in Owensboro, Ky.
, for its mortgagee services unit. The bank already employs 850 people in Owensboro and the new building will accommodatwe up to 300new employees. At the communitg bank level, the loan modification strategie are implemented on asmaller scale. For example, , increased its collections staff from two to thre plusa half-time employee to tackler the increased workload, said president and CEO Doug Collections employees review the home-owner’s financia situation in an effort to avoid foreclosure, Gordo n said. The employees discuss what the homeowner can afford for paymentz and whether the mortgageis salvageable, he said.
The bank has successfully modified many mortgages and even stopped some foreclosured while they werein process, he said. “We’d much rathert modify them — work with them — than Gordon said. “Nobody wins in that. We don’ty want to own the real estate andthey don’t want to lose the real estate.”
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
What do other cities have that we don't? A big space crunch, for one - Business First of Columbus:
Take in the view from the top of the Rhodes State Office Tower onCapitol Square, and it's easy to see one big differencre between Ohio's biggest city and its sisters goingh through growth spurts. "It's flat," said Doug Ryan, Columbus-based sales leadere for the eastern United Statex with architecturefirm Cincinnati's downtown is sandwiched between hillsa and the Ohio River, while Clevelande is on the Lake Erie shore and flanked by the Cuyahogaa River and a freeway tangle. Downtown Columbuds has the Scioto Riverr and not much else inthe way.
"Yo can put Cincinnati's and Cleveland's downtowns with a piecde of Boston's downtown in the city of Columbus," Mayor Michaelp Coleman said. Ohio's capital city has plenty of downtownm constructionunder way, just not said Nancy Reger, who does land use projection for the . A new courthouse, ballpark, two housing developments and a riverbank park are being builgt and plans are simmering fora mixed-usedx development to replace the dyin City Center mall. On the is soon to start an addition and is finishingan 11-story addition. "They're not hinginf on cannibalizing employment, they're hinging on brande new things," Reger said.
The three towerx in Cincinnatiand Cleveland, by are pulling anchor tenants from elsewhere and range from 40 percenyt to 100 percent speculative. , a unit of American Financial Group, will take up to 60 percentt ofa $322 million, 41-story tower in Cincinnati's Queejn City Square, consolidating employees from four or five olderr buildings. The remaining speculative space is availablr for other tenants willing to pay highed rents to leave officestocko that's 20 to 30 years old, said Tom senior vice president of builder , the development subsidiary of Cincinnati's "We are obviously bullish about that aspect of the market," he An economic impact study by the predictef a $1.
7 billion regional benefit from the including renovating the With help from a public bond Western & Southern is fronting the which made it possible, Stapleton noting the company would consider a Columbu project if there were opportunity. In the all-speculative glass towerf is planned for a parking lot onPublic Square. It'e to be jointly developed by , whicu built the nearby 57-story Key Tower, and a Houston-based real estate firm. The firms said they saw enough demand in the marketfor new, more energy efficientf office space.
Douglas Miller, Jacobs vice president of officre operations, said in a news release he hopees the building attracts new companies tothe "There's no way for us to be able to determinre in advance if it's a good idea or said William Bowen, urban studies professor at . "Ths primary concern is there are no public dollars being spent on In theFlats district, local developers and are planninbg a $522 million redevelopment to include a hotel, housing and a $160 million, 20-story designed by NBBJ. Big Four accounting firm will move 1,200 workers to the top six floord and hang its lighted name onthree sides.
The firm, which has roots in the formeerErnst & Ernst of is leaving the Huntington Center, builg in the early 1900s, and an education centerf in the suburbs. Law firm Tucker Ellie and West LLP is taking anotherfour floors.
Sunday, November 20, 2011
'God forbid, it happened again' - Enid News & Eagle
Fox News | 'God forbid, it happened again' Enid News & Eagle Certainly it couldn't happen again to the same school, could it? But it did, and the news of the deaths of Budke and Serna brought back terrible memories of that day on Jan. 27, 2001, when OSU basketb » |
Thursday, November 17, 2011
United Technologies uses design formats museums could adopt in new Washington ... - Washington Post (blog)
United Technologies uses design formats museums could adopt in new Washington ... Washington Post (blog) In its new offices on Pennsylvania Avenue, United Technologies wanted to get the message out that its subsidaries, some historic American names, all fit under one umbrella. Sikorsky, Carrier, Otis, Pratt & Whitney, ... |