Work has started on a multi-million pound residential scheme in Liverpools Baltic Triangle creating three blocks housing 324 apartments as well as retail and leisure space.

Neptune Developments has put together a 24m funding packing to start work on the project next to the Baltic Fleet pub and just outside the city centre.

A previous developer, Windsor, had started work on the site in 2006. But the scheme collapsed in 2007 with debts of 46m, becoming one of the biggest property failures in the city.

The site was abandoned with some concrete structures still in place, including foundations and lift shafts, and basement car parking.

Now Neptune, which already has a strong track record for delivering projects in Merseyside, has started work on the site with completion due between June and September next year.

Neptune will be committing a substantial amount of its own funds into the project and has secured funding from HSBC.

The company told the ECHO: The funding package, worth 24m, will assist with the cost of developing the scheme that will provide an important option for those looking for accommodation in this part of Liverpool, which is not only a convenient position to live, but also a prestigious one in context of the Liverpool city centre market.

The Baltic area has undergone a major transformation in recent years and is now an established hub for hundred of businesses in the creative and digital sector.

Balfour Beatty Construction is the main contractor and Jon Adams, the firms delivery unit managing director, added: Balfour Beatty has extensive experience in delivering high-end residential schemes, and of working in Liverpool where we have constructed the Liverpool One development and the recent successful completion of the Aloft Hotel.

We have a long established relationship going back over 15 years with Neptune and we look forward to working with Neptune Investments to deliver this exciting new development in the heart of the Liverpool docklands.

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Now deeply into construction, Tampas next mega-mansion will rise three stories tall and spread out over a 47,000-square-foot space, roughly half the size of some Publix grocery stores, and likely feature rooftop gardens, fountains, and a dozen bedrooms, bathrooms and living rooms.

Luckily for guests and visitors, the mansion will have an open-door policy and everything inside will be for sale. The couches in the living room, the robes in the bathroom and the wine glasses in the kitchen. Thats because this mega-mansion will be a Restoration Hardware Gallery adjacent to International Plaza mall, one of just four supersites the San Francisco-based home design retailer will open around the nation this year.

While most other retailers are closing stores or shrinking stores to better compete with online rivals, Restoration Hardware is very much going the other direction, building big. Very big. And the retailer thus joins a small pack of companies bucking current trends and going for mega-stores: Bass Pro Shops and Academy Sports among them.

In a kind of video manifesto, RH patriarch and Chairman Gary Friedman told Wall Street investors this month that his new stores are so different that they simply wont fit into the established financial models, and anyone hoping to understand the companys strategy just simply has to visit one of these new mega-sites in San Francisco, Houston or Atlanta.

We created spaces that blurred the lines between residential and retail, indoors and outdoors, physical and digital, Friedman said. We created spaces where guests who visit our new homes are saying I want to live here. Ive been in retail almost 40 years and Ive never heard anyone say they wanted to live in a retail store, until now.

Rumors about Restoration Hardwares plans in Tampa have circulated for some time, particularly ever since the Champps Americana restaurant closed at International Plaza and remained dormant.

The company officially is mum about its current store at Hyde Park Village, but given how top executives speak of smaller, 7,000-square-foot sites, its likely the new International Plaza gallery will replace the current, smaller Hyde Park Village site.

This month, paperwork started to circulate through City of Tampa offices that named Restoration Hardware as the retailer, and company officials confirmed the location to the Tribune.

Restoration Hardware has long zigged when other retailers have zagged. It was one of the first merchants to fully embrace the idea that customers want to buy into a whole lifestyle, a whole aesthetic, a whole social strata, and not just walk in to buy a couch or doorknob.

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SYDNEY Cape Breton veterans advocate Ron Clarke said he isn't optimistic anything will change as a result of Monday's cabinet shuffle.

"We didn't lose anything by having him (Fantino) fired, and we didn't gain anything either by them putting in (Erin) O'Toole. I can't put all the blame on (Fantino) because Mr. Harper runs the show and they'll do what Mr. Harper tells them to do," he said in a phone interview with the Cape Breton Post on Monday afternoon.

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Clarke, who was named newsmaker of the year by the Cape Breton Post last week, has become a household name when it comes to cuts to Veterans Affairs. He led his charge to the nation's capital where he met with parliamentarians, senators and other officials to protest cuts made under Fantino's leadership. He has asked for the reopening of eight Veterans Affairs offices that were closed last year, including the one in Sydney.

"It's not a democracy, especially when Harper says 'Jump' and they say 'How high?'" Clarke said.

Clarke said he doesn't have high expectations for Fantino's replacement, O'Toole.

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The three-story L-shaped hotel designed for Steve Zemo by architect Scott Yates of H&R Design would overlook a walled garden. The five-acre site off Old Quarry Road is expected to hold three other commercial buildings, including a multi-use office building, a storage facility and a large event space. The project will have a public hearing Tuesday, Jan. 6.

Hotel rooms that resemble apartment units, increased traffic on some of the towns busiest intersections, and runoff that would negatively affect the Great Swamp these are all concerns facing the Planning and Zoning Commission as it prepares to host a public hearing for the proposed Old Quarry Commons, a mixed-use project that includes a 48-suite hotel on the five-acre site off Old Quarry Road.

The project, which was submitted to the commission by local developer Steve Zemo, is expected to be completed and occupied by the end of 2016, if approved, according to the proposed plans.

In addition to the hotel, the proposal includes three other commercial buildings a storage facility, an event space and a mixed-use office building that would have 11 residential apartments on the second floor that would be located on the northern side of Old Quarry Road across from the old Schlumberger site.

Members of the the public have already raised concern with the designs specifically at the hotel, which would have 27 of its 48 units equipped with two bedrooms and two bathrooms as well as other additions, like a washer and dryer and a kitchen area.

I am very concerned that this is more reflective of an apartment building than a hotel, said local developer Patrick Downend in a letter to Town Planner Betty Brosisus on Dec. 10.

Individual units have laundry equipment, he said. I would challenge the applicant to produce a list of other Connecticut hotels that have in-unit laundry.

The kitchen areas designated on the plans are quite large for a hotel room, he said. The average hotel room size is approximately 850 square feet. Keep in mind the average hotel room size in the United States is between 300 and 400 square feet.

There are 27 two-bedroom, two bath units. That is very unusual for a hotel this size.

Mr. Downend also had an issue with the proposed hotels length of stays.

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Greg Ritter, a 91-year-old retired Baltimore Gas and Electric employee, crafted a stained glass window at St. Paul's Independent Church in Millers, Maryland, to honor his late wife and son. (Submitted)

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Walking through the front door of St. Paul's Independent Church in Millers, Maryland, you might catch a rainbow of vibrant light shining through a stained glass window.

The window isn't large, just 4 feet long and 1 foot tall, and the design of bright squares surrounding three crosses is fairly simple.

The story behind the window, though, speaks to one man's efforts to honor the memory of his son and wife.

Greg Ritter, a 91-year-old retired Baltimore Gas and Electric employee, moved to Hanover's Homewood retirement community with his wife, Josie, in 2005. Jeff, one of their four children, lived nearby with his wife and daughters.

When Josie died in August 2013, followed by Jeff in October, Ritter grew determined to honor their legacies. He got that chance in May, when his son, Mike, mentioned that the church in which he serves as an elder planned to replace the window above its front door.

Using skills he learned at classes at Homewood, Ritter carefully crafted a design for a replacement window over the course of three months a large cross flanked by two smaller ones.

Religion has always played a large role in the family's life, even though Ritter said he no longer attends church regularly.

"I'm a graduate. I'm too old to get in trouble," he said with a laugh.

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