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December is when publications like to forecast upcoming trends for the new year. Mark Nash, author of a number of books on real estate, has come up with some good ones, based on a survey of more than 900 industry professionals. Here's some of the features homeowners should be looking to put in their dwellings in 2007: Upscale garages. "It's no longer the out-of-sight-out-of-mind dumping ground. Today's garage owners want them decked out with cabinet and storage systems, mini-refrigerators, insulation, heating and air conditioning and durable but residential-looking flooring." Man caves and Mom caves. "Personal dedicated space for one person in a household where they can go and work on projects or chill without being disturbed." Two home offices.
PALMER - Amid a mix of support and opposition from some Mat-Su Borough residents Monday evening, the borough planning commission unanimously voted to send the Point MacKenzie prison site to the assembly as its preferred site.As in most meetings where public comment has been taken, residents of the areas where a prison could be built - Point MacKenzie and Sutton - showed either complete support or total opposition for the development.Just before voting to agree with the site selection committee, members of the planning commission expressed concern about environmental impacts on a designated wildlife area and watershed adjacent to the proposed prison site in PointMacKenzie.The same concern was shared by many residents from the Lost Lake area, who said the tranquil area with year-round residences and vacation homes would be destroyed by a prison development.Officials with various organizations in charge of planning the prison said the environmental issues would be looked at more closely in the near future.And, even as the Point MacKenzie Community Council adamantly opposed the prison during a Nov.
Idle bulldozing equipment and a trailer sat yesterday near a hill in northeast Oceanside where Vista Unified School District officials expect to begin construction of dual magnet high schools next week. The project is the centerpiece of Proposition O, a $140 million school bond measure that voters approved in 2002 to build facilities and relieve overcrowding. It has drawn its share of criticism, with opponents arguing for a more central location within the district. The property is northeast of the intersection of state Route 76 and Melrose Drive in the northwest corner of the Vista Unified district. The district has faced several legal challenges over the project, including a pending lawsuit filed by an Oceanside couple who allege Vista Unified has misspent funds from the school bond measure.
The Columbus City Council voted Tuesday to declare Foliage Farms as surplus property and take bids from those interested in individual pieces, the whole property, or both.The move follows a presentation, last week, from Paul Broussard, deputy director for Michigan-based Trinity Village Nonprofit Housing Corp.Broussard said the company wants to build several modern modular homes, at least 1,200 square feet in size, on the property.The homes would be built using federal tax credits and would provide homes for residents earning between $13,000 and $40,000 a year, depending on family size.“We may donate the property to a bona fide not-for-profit corporation, like Habitat for Humanity," Armstrong said. “We can do this, but you also have the authority to declare it to be surplus property and put it out for sealed bids.
RIVERSIDE, Calif., Dec. 7, 2006 -- Fleetwood Enterprises, Inc. , one of the nation's leading producers of recreational vehicles and manufactured housing, announced today its results for the second quarter and first half of fiscal 2007 ended October 29, 2006. Consolidated revenues for the quarter were $526.6 million, down 16.4 percent from $629.5 million in last year's second quarter. The Company incurred a net loss from continuing operations of $19.8 million in the current quarter or $0.31 per diluted share compared with net income from continuing operations of $3.8 million or $0.07 per diluted share in the prior year. The current year results included $2.6 million in restructuring costs, primarily severance. Including discontinued operations, the net loss totaled $20.4 million or $0.32 per diluted share compared with a net loss in the second quarter of fiscal 2006 of $1.9 million or $0.03 per diluted share.
SAN MATEO, Calif., BUSINESS WIRE -- Subhead of release should read: Milestone Shipment Comes Only 15 Months After First Shipment of Simulcast Edge Processor (sted Only 12 Months). The corrected release reads: RGB NETWORKS SHIPS 1000TH VIDEO PROCESSOR Milestone Shipment Comes Only 15 Months After First Shipment of Simulcast Edge Processor RGB Networks, the leader in network video processing, today announced that they have shipped their 1000th VIA family video processor, a Simulcast Edge Processor (SEP), that was delivered to Time Warner Cable. The SEP was first shipped in August of 2005 and has since shipped to every major cable operator in the U.S., as well as operators in Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean. The 1000 video processing units shipped to-date also include RGB's Broadcast Network Processor (BNP) and recently introduced Modular Media Converter (MMC).
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