Historic Folgers building will become rental lofts and apartments
O’Reilly Development Co. LLC on Friday completed its purchase of the Garment District buildings at Seventh Street and Broadway. The acquisition is for two buildings, dating to 1912 to 1914, with a...
View ArticleKerry, in Qatar, Warns Taliban While Also Building Support on Syria
The prospects of three-way Afghan peace talks have been thrown into doubt by the Taliban’s efforts to give their office here the trappings of an embassy, which the American and Afghan governments see...
View ArticleBuilding the Animatronic Terror That Trounced a T-Rex
Jurassic Park III may not be your favorite movie in the series. But that doesn’t mean its effects weren’t fantastic. In fact, the somewhat random third entry in the series boasted the biggest...
View ArticleFive die in latest Mumbai building collapse
MUMBAI (AFP) – A four-storey building collapsed in Mumbai Saturday, killing five people in the second such incident in as many days and underlining shoddy construction practices in the financial...
View ArticleMedina County building where LeBron James keeps his car collection: Whatever …
Whatever happened to the building in Medina County where LeBron James keeps his automobile collection? “Whatever happened to . . . ?” is a weekly series updating some of the most newsworthy and...
View ArticleFinding future for historic building leaves limited options
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Finding a future for one of the city’s beautiful old barns has a long list of requirements. And In these first few days of summer, families like the Vanderpools are busy making...
View ArticleFacebook reportedly building Flipboard-style mobile reading app
There have been murmurs of Facebook building a mobile reading app; tonight, that talk is getting a little louder. The Wall Street Journal claims that the social network has spent the past year working...
View ArticleWhy the St. Louis Cardinals Are the Best Franchise-Building Team in MLB
On the heels of suffering a rare three-game sweep, the St. Louis Cardinals still enter the last week of June with the best record in baseball. They continue to lead the most top-heavy division in the...
View ArticleGoogle Street View puts you atop world’s tallest building
A view from the world’s tallest building. (Credit: Google) You can now “stand” on top of the world’s tallest building without having to face the dizzying heights in person. In its first-ever collection...
View ArticleWatch Yeah Yeah Yeahs rock Empire State Building in new video
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs shot their new music video for “Despair” atop New York’s Empire State Building. By Mikael Wood June 24, 2013, 3:42 p.m. Pop Hiss has seen Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs do a lot of...
View ArticleSt. Louis building evacuated after explosions, fire outside
ST. LOUIS – A fire and explosion that apparently started in an underground electrical transformer sent fireballs and thick black smoke shooting from a street outside one of the largest office...
View ArticleExplosions, Fire Clear Downtown St. Louis Building
A fire and explosion that apparently started in an underground electrical transformer sent fireballs and thick black smoke shooting from a street outside one of the largest office buildings in downtown...
View ArticleCar smashes into downtown building
All four were taken to hospitals. Timothy Wilson, a spokesman for the D.C. fire department, said the child and two adults had suffered life-threatening injuries. The restaurant is at the corner of a...
View ArticleEmpire State Building’s owners get second offer to buy landmark
By Ilaina Jonas NEW YORK | Wed Jun 26, 2013 2:26pm EDT NEW YORK (Reuters) – The owners of the Empire State Building, an iconic part of New York’s skyline, have received another unsolicited offer to buy...
View ArticleBuilding a Movement to End Poverty – by Jim Yong Kim
We are closer than ever before to ending global poverty. In a little more than two decades, from 1990 to today, the proportion of people living in extreme poverty (surviving on less than $1.25 per day)...
View Article49ers TE Vernon Davis: Seahawks are ‘building a dynasty’
(Video courtesy of YouTube) Throughout NFL history, there have been some great dynasties, like the Steelers of the ’70s, the 49ers of the ’80s and the Cowboys of the ’90s. So where will the next...
View ArticleFirefighters evacuate North Side apartment building
Chicago Fire Department officials evacuated part of an apartment building on the North Side in the city’s Lakeview neighborhood tonight because of high carbon monoxide levels. As of 9:30 p.m.,...
View ArticleEmpire State Building owners get third offer to buy landmark
By Ilaina Jonas NEW YORK | Thu Jun 27, 2013 6:57pm EDT NEW YORK (Reuters) – One of New York City’s largest landlords, Thor Equities LLC, has offered more than $2.1 billion in cash to buy the Empire...
View ArticleDefense Department building its own secure 4G network
The U.S. Department of Defense is building its own secure 4G network to improve collaboration among separate branches of the military, according to the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff. The...
View ArticleChicago Confidential: Google certain to make cold-storage building cool
Less than a year ago, refrigerated rooms that once stored meat for distributors and pork traders in the brick warehouse at 1000 W. Fulton Market were overgrown with stalactites and stalagmites of ice....
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