Fire guts parts of Mission apartment complex
Photo by Daniel BlomA three-alarm fire Saturday morning destroyed parts of the Hillsborough Apartments complex at 5315 Foxridge Dr. in Mission.Fire crews arrived on the scene around 11 a.m. Saturday, where the blaze had engulfed the first and second stories of buildings encompassing around 10 units. The Hillsborough complex has more than two dozen buildings spread over several acres, and features one and two-bedroom layouts. Fire officials are investigating the cause of the blaze.This isn’t the first time in recent history that fires have struck at northeast Johnson County apartment buildings. The Wellington Club Apartments two miles south of Hillsborough caught fire in February 2013, and the 56 Metcalf Apartments, just across Metcalf and a bit south of the Hillsborough complex, experienced a major fire in December 2013.Photo by Daniel Blom.
International Law Section inks agreement with São Paulo Bar June 1, 2011 Regular News THE INTERNATIONAL LAW SECTION recently signed a cooperative agreement with the São Paulo (Brazil) Bar Association in Miami. Former ILS Chair Edward H. Davis, Jr., left, signed the cooperative agreement on behalf of the section and George Augusto Niaradi, right, signed on behalf of the São Paulo Bar Association. ILS member Quinn Smith, center, was instrumental in having the agreement come to fruition. He presented a gift to the São Paulo Bar Association on behalf of Mayor Tomas P. Regalado and the City of Miami. Brazil has surpassed Japan as Florida’s No. 1 trading partner.
Adler Realty Investments, Inc. (Adler) purchased four multi-tenant office buildings in Phoenix for $16M. The property is part of a larger 80 acre mixed-use park called “Corridors” in the Deer Valley submarket of Phoenix. The Alter Group, the developer of the park, was the seller in the transaction.The 164,000 square feet office campus is currently 86 percent leased, including a 41,000 square foot lease with the State of Arizona signed while the property was under agreement for sale. Adler, who recently sold a similar sized industrial park in the Los Angeles area, reinvested the sale proceeds into the Corridors project to successfully execute a 1031 tax deferred exchange. Adler plans to aggressively lease the remaining 23,000 square feet of vacant space at the project and provide a steady cash flow stream for its investors.“We are pleased with the acquisition of the new project and being able to execute on a 1031 tax deferred exchange for our investor group,” said Michael Adler, president of Adler. “Chris Engel, our director of acquisitions, is aggressively looking throughout the western United States for other investment opportunities to meet our other exchange requirements.”James Clark, III of EnTrust Realty Advisors represented both seller and buyer in this transaction.
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A Dockwise Type I heavy transport vessel will transport two topside modules, which have a total weight of 20,000 tonnes, for the riser platform. A third 6,000-tonne module will be transported to Norway on a Dockwise Type II ship.Dockwise Vanguard will execute the delivery of one topside for the Johan Sverdrup processing platform during the first half of 2019. Following its arrival in Norway, the module will be offloaded in a fjord near Stavanger.Johan Sverdrup, located approximately 150 km offshore Stavanger, Norway, is one of the five biggest oil fields on the Norwegian continental shelf with expected resources of between 1.7 and 3 billion barrels of oil equivalent. It is a joint development by Statoil, Lundin Norway, Petoro, Det norske oljeselskap and Maersk Oil. Dockwise Vanguard offshore Malta.www.boskalis.com
A £6m project to install a concrete deck slab over 150m of abandoned coal mine workings has been completed near Edinburgh. Donaldson Associates designed an innovative slab with transition zones of Vibro stone columns and Tensar polymer geogrid reinforced stone platforms for the project. Subsidence of the undocumented shallow mine workings was first recorded in 1880, and in 1992 crown holes of up to 2m diameter appeared. Attempts to fill the workings were only partially successful, and further subsidence occurred, imposing 60 km/h speed limits on the 200 km/h railway.The recently installed slab deck is supported on 336 steel and concrete mini-piles between 9·5m and 27m in length, down to solid rock. The alignment was transferred to a 300m temporary slab during a 54h possession, and the track reinstated afterwards in a series of short possessions. To avoid differential settlement of the track in the transition zones onto both the permanent and temporary slabs a 12·5m zone of Vibro stone columns was overlaid with a 35m long 150mm to 550mm deep stone layer reinforced with Tensar geogrid, a high performance geosynthetic grid. Levels were monitored throughout the first two weeks of 200 km/h operation, and no differential movement was found.Tensar International, Great BritainReader Enquiry Number 139