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Real estate developer Gordon Group Holdings LLC, design firm Studio V Partners and other collaborators expect to launch a concept they say is an alternative to department stores within a year. At Trex, a retail trade show in New York on Thursday, architect Jay Valgora, who founded Studio V in New York, said the concept, called "Epicenter," combines bricks and mortar, Internet and catalog retail services. "Epicenters draw on high tech and low tech," Valgora said. They are meant to inhabit spaces in malls left vacant as traditional department stores increasingly close and consolidate. Spaces will offer customizable modular pods to a variety of retailers with shorter leases than traditional mall stores. Consumers will receive an electronic device to browse with. When they go into a store, they can scan products to purchase the items and have them shipped directly to their homes.
WASHINGTON Â- Mississippi will get most of the money available to move hurricane victims out of storm trailers and into Katrina Cottages and other types of more permanent housing, according to documents the Federal Emergency Management Agency sent to congressional lawmakers Thursday. FEMA has decided Mississippi will receive about $280 million of the $400 million appropriated earlier this year for the special housing program. Louisiana, which was competing with Mississippi for the money, will get a little less than $75 million - once FEMA issues final approvals - although Louisiana officials have argued for months that their state has more damaged homes and displaced residents than Mississippi. They reacted with outrage to FEMA's decision. "FEMA has clearly learned very little from its mistakes, let alone basic math or a sense of fundamental fairness," said Sen.
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GRANGER -- The closest neighbors to a proposed cell tower on Hickory Road will ask county commissioners Tuesday to veto a special use permit that would allow the construction.
The County Council voted 7-2 last week to allow Charles Hayes Inc. to build a 120-foot tower at 51050 Hickory Road, near the corner of Adams Road.
The measure is subject to approval by the commissioners. If they veto it, it would go back to the council to sustain or override the veto.
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