A new two-story building in a historic home district of Cleveland, Tenn., is causing concern to area residents just off Bowman Avenue near Lee University.

CLEVELAND, Tenn. Eyebrows are being raised over an indoor basketball gym being built in a Cleveland neighborhood that helped launch the city's historic preservation movement.

Cleveland city officials have fielded complaints about a 4,844-square-foot, two-story building going up behind the Centenary Avenue home of Matthew and Tara Brown. The couple cleared away a 912-square-foot, 1930s-era house at 932 Oak St. to make way for their gym, which some local residents feel is too large and out of character with the neighborhood.

"Some people are upset about it, and others were simply wondering what process did he go through to get this approved," City Manager Janice Casteel said.

The Browns declined to comment.

City planner Corey Divel also said he's gotten calls about the gym.

"I think I had two phone calls when it first started going up," he said.

The Browns went through the necessary steps to build the gym, Divel said, including getting a certificate of appropriateness from Cleveland's seven-member Historic Preservation Commission. It approved the certificate in a 4-0 vote at its May 21 meeting, according to meeting minutes, with support from commissioners Joan Benjamin, Randy Wood, Charlotte Thorogood and Maryl Elliott.

Architect Douglas B. Caywood, who sits on the historic preservation commission and was the Browns' architect for the gym, was absent. Caywood declined to comment Friday about the issue.

Plans on file with the city show that the gym building is 18 feet tall to the eaves, where the roof begins. The basketball court is 50 feet wide, the same as a regulation NBA court, and has two nets. It will be 61 feet long, about two-thirds the length of the 94-foot-long regulation court. The new building will include a one-car garage and a kitchen.

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With the addition of a fourth car for Kurt Busch, Stewart-Haas Racing beefed up its organization this offseason. The challenge now is getting all four teams operating at a high level, which wont be easy.

With a pair of high-profile additions in Kevin Harvick and Kurt Busch, along with the continual recovery of Tony Stewart, there is no shortage of intrigue at Stewart-Haas Racing this offseason.

A switchover to the Generation 6 car combined with the expansion of a third full-time team for Danica Patrick put SHR in hole the team wouldn't climb out of until late spring. The breakout began with a Stewart victory at Dover, who followed his triumph with five top-10s in the next eight races.

Stewart's season, however, came to an end abruptly Aug. 5 when he broke his leg in a sprint car accident. He missed the final 15 events of the year, and the three drivers who filled his seat (Max Papis, Austin Dillon and Mark Martin) did so with tepid results.

With Stewart on the sidelined and removed from title contention, the onus fell on Ryan Newman to carry the SHR banner. The veteran did so admirably. On the strength of his victory in the Brickyard 400, Newman qualified for the Chase for the Sprint Cup, and notched six finishes of 10th or better in the playoffs.

The success enjoyed by her teammates during the second half of the season did not manifest itself for Patrick. The rookie struggled mightily, and her sterling eighth-place finish in the Daytona 500 was her only top-10 of the year.

Patrick repeatedly had difficulty in qualifying, with a dismal average starting position of 30.1 -- third worst among all drivers who competed in all 36 races. Most troublesome was her inability to improve as the season progressed and she gained experience, as Patrick had just one finish better than 20th in the final 18 races.

Kevin Harvick (No. 4 Budweiser Chevrolet); Danica Patrick (No. 10 Go Daddy Chevrolet); Tony Stewart (No. 14 Mobile 1/Bass Pro Shops Chevrolet); Kurt Busch (No. 41 Haas Automation)

Few if any teams have undergone the upheaval that SHR has experienced within the previous six months. In fact, it might be easier to list what hasn't changed than what has, including the departure of Newman, who was let go to make room for the addition of Harvick, and the out-of-nowhere signing of Busch.

Furthermore, SHR has also brought crew chiefs Chad Johnston and Rodney Childers on board, both of whom were previously with Michael Waltrip Racing. Johnston will lead the No. 14 team and replaces Steve Addington, who never quite meshed with Stewart. Childers, who is held in high regard in the garage, was brought over specifically to pair with Harvick. As for Busch, he will work with first-year crew chief Daniel Knost, a former engineer for Newman.

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Lebanon The Meriden Road sawmill at Lebanons town line with Plainfield will sit idle at least until spring, awaiting city approval of additions to the main building that would house modernized equipment.

Citing a need for more specific details about the extent of the project, the Zoning Board of Adjustment on Monday night deferred until March 3 a decision on the request from G.H. Evarts and Company of Springfield, N.H., to build additions totaling 6,000 or 7,000 square feet at the north and south ends of the 30,000-square-foot building. Even with the go-ahead from the zoning panel, the project which the company says will not lead to more activity at the site, just make the mill safer and more efficient will need to undergo a review by the Planning Board.

Weve been shut down since the end of the summer, company president George Evarts said after the zoning boards public hearing. We had 16 people working there. Theyre working in other parts of our operation for now.

The citys zoning administrator denied G.H. Evarts and Company a permit on Dec. 20, ruling that the sawmill, which sits in a residential zone between Meriden Road and Great Brook, constitutes a non-conforming use that requires a special exception from the zoning ordinance.

On Monday night, administrator Carmela Hennessy explained that the board is the most appropriate body to rule on the technicality to either overrule her decision, or to uphold the decision and then decide whether to grant a special exception.

Meriden dairy farmer Rob Taylor said that his operation relies upon the sawmill as a source of wood byproducts that his cows use daily.

Approximately 50 head of our young stock is nestled in a pile of Evarts sawdust right now, Taylor said. Its an essential part of our operation.

Lebanon nursery owner Norm Longacre similarly praised the sawmill.

We have been procuring product from this sawmill going on 40 years, Longacre said. It would be a shame for it to close down.

Pointing to the citys own improvements of its public works garage, police station and middle school in recent years, Longacre added, There comes a time when you have to upgrade.

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It's not easy to ask voters for a tax increase when city coffers are flush with cash, but that is the awkwardly enviable position that members of the Palo Alto City Council find themselves in as they eye a November ballot measure.

Even if the voters shoot down the proposed increase to the city's hotel-tax rate that is recommended by city officials, the council will push forward with its most urgent and most complex infrastructure priority -- a new public-safety building.

That was the consensus of the council's Infrastructure Committee, which voted unanimously on Wednesday to make the public-safety building the city's top priority. The vote came after a broader discussion about the city's long list of needed infrastructure repairs, some of which would potentially be paid for with revenues from the hotel-tax hike.

The committee has yet to figure out what projects to include in the possible bond package. Despite the council's sense of urgency about a new police building, the project has consistently failed to attract the public. Recent polls confirmed the findings of past polls: While a bare majority might support the $57 million police headquarters, it would be difficult for the council to get the supermajority of voters needed to pass a bond. With its vote Wednesday, the committee signaled that the project should be pursued regardless of the November results, with existing funds if necessary.

City officials have been talking for more than a decade about the need to replace the small and seismically deficient police headquarters inside City Hall. The Infrastructure Blue Ribbon Committee, a citizen task force charged in 2010 with identifying the city's infrastructure priorities, described the existing headquarters as "unsafe and vulnerable." Yet the quest for a new police building has been riddled with setbacks and disappointments. In 2009, with the economy sagging and no imminent plans to fund the project, the city terminated its option to lease two properties on Park Boulevard that officials had hoped could house the new facility. And last month, developer Jay Paul Co. withdrew its offer to build a new police building in exchange for the city's permission to construct two office buildings next to the AOL headquarters at 395 Page Mill Road.

With an estimated price tag of $57 million, the public-safety building comprises more than a third of the city's budget on needed infrastructure repairs. City Manager James Keene likened the infrastructure picture to a stackable Matryoshka doll, with the public-safety building on the outside layer. Having a definite plan for funding this project, he noted, could help shift the conversation on paying for the other items on the long list, which under the most recent estimate adds up to about $155 million.

While a bond measure would help the council tackle some of the other gaping projects on the list -- including new downtown garages, a host of bike improvements and replacement of two obsolete fire stations -- members of the four-member committee agreed that the police building is important enough to be pursued with existing funding.

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As with all updates for Polyphony Digital's latest racing simulation, Gran Turismo 6., 1.04 brings with it a number of new features and new vehicles.

The new additions to the Gran Turismo 6 garage include a special Gran Turismo Racing Series iteration of the Mercedes-Benz AMG Vision, a Corvette Stingray Gran Turismo Concept car, and two F1 cars, the Gran Turismo Red Bull X2014 Standard and the Gran Turismo Red Bull X2014 Fan Car. Those last two rides are available as part of the new Red Bull X Challenge, a series of races now found in the game's career mode where players are instructed on how to race an F1 car by current World Champion Sebastian Vettel.

Alongside this handful of cars comes an unexpected but thoughtful present from the developers behind Gran Turismo 6. Following the installation of the 1.04 update, Gran Turismo 6 will scan your PlayStation Network information to determine when you were born. Then, once your birthday rolls around, you'll automatically receive a car created in or near the year that you were born, totally gratis.

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3.15PM: A huge slice of the historic Mount Buffalo Chalet will be demolished under a plan to return the once-luxurious residence to its former glory.

A huge slice of the historic Mount Buffalo Chalet will be demolished under a plan to return the once-luxurious residence to its former glory.

The state government wants to reopen the century-old resort by 2015 as a visitor centre and cafe, in a redevelopment they hope with attract future private investors to develop the hotel.

But the plan to spend more than $7.5 million restoring the dilapidated and abandoned property comes hand-in-hand with a significant demolition.

The tennis court, former staff quarters, garage and steam generator house are all on the chopping board. The main lounge, entry lobby, drawing room and ballroom will be saved.

In a letter to Heritage Victoria from the government, land management policy executive director Peter Beaumont said the decision to demolish the buildings had not been taken lightly.

Mr Beaumont said it was no longer economically viable to restore the entire chalet.

The principle of the current proposal is to restore the core of the chalet to its former glory, he said.

It is not feasible to do this while retaining the many ad hoc additions, hence the strategic decision to remove the badly deteriorated fabric to attract investor interest.

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Marat Guelmans gallery has never stopped organizing exhibits but will now return to the commercial art trade.

Thelandscape ofMoscow galleries seems tocyclically shift andthen ossify every couple ofyears dominant galleries drop off andnew spaces open, resulting ina small circle ofregular venues that hold themajority ofthe big art shows. This week has brought news ofsome notable shifts inthe Moscow art world, with theGarage Center forContemporary Culture revealing significant additions totheir exhibition space, while gallerist Marat Guelman announced his return tothe art trade.

TheGarage Center forContemporary Culture was founded in2008 byDasha Zhukova, aformer model andcurrent romantic partner oftycoon Roman Abramovich who has recently been pilloried fora photo showing her seated ona chair resembling anaked black woman. Despite thelimited credentials ofits founder, Garage's significant financial resources have quickly made it animportant venue forarts inMoscow, with exhibits fromprominent international artists attended bycelebrities andbusiness leaders.

Garage has already shifted locations, leaving its first home atthe former Bakhmetevsky Bus Garage fora temporary pavilion inGorky Park, yet it has been announced that it will move toits permanent home inthe Gorky Park pavilion formerly occupied bythe Seasons restaurant inabout 14 months. Garage also announced theopening ofProject Space, anew experimental exhibit space aimed forpresenting work byyoung andless well-established artists than themain Garage exhibit platforms.

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Three homes ofGarage (top down), frombus park totheir future building.

Garage has already called forexhibit proposals fromcurators forthe new space, which will open inFebruary. Aseries offive exhibits has already been announced forFebruary, beginning with curator Snezhana Kristevaya's project "There, Where We Are Not," which will include works bya number ofyoung Russian artists.

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Garages present an excellent storage space, and can lower insurance premiums on automobiles. They are also an excellent way for property owners to add value to their homes. Modular garages offer the best possible value for money and return on investment as they have the ultimate solution to multi-car storage, though their size means they have to be excellently constructed. Waterloo Structures has been specializing in outdoor structures for the home for over 25 years, and have created customizable modular garages that offer customers the best quality structures tailored to their exact requirements.

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A spokesperson for Waterloo Structures explained, Our modular garages are designed to be the most flexibly designed of any on the market, with a list of options for construction, colors and special features and additions, with the broadest available range of sizes. The modular garages come pre-constructed in two halves that are then bolted together on site. We also have a comprehensive price chart based on the size and primary building materials: wood Duratemp, vinyl and LP SmartSide. All modular garages come with reinforced floors, and have two garage doors and up to four windows.

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A redesigned player enters the mid-size sedan segment about twice a year, making it one of the most hotly contested segments as well as a best-selling one. The current-generation Chrysler 200's sales for 2013 were 122,480, which was near the bottom of the mid-size sedan segment. It garnered roughly a third of the Honda Accord's 366,678 yearly sales, which is the country's second best-seller to the Toyota Camry and its 408,484 in yearly sales.

2015 Chrysler 200 Up Close

The 2015 Chrysler 200 only has one direction to go when it hits dealerships this spring. Potential buyers of the slickly styled redesigned sedan will be confronted with varying standard features on the four trims levels, including two engine choices and front- or all-wheel drive.

There are some show-stopping standard features like keyless entry and keyless start, but items such as map lights aren't available until you've moved up to the second-highest trim level. Rear passengers only get their own air vents with option packages or on the highest trim level, the 200C. We help navigate the differences here.

Basics: A 184-horsepower, 2.4-liter four-cylinder engine; nine-speed automatic transmission; 60/40-split folding rear seats; 17-inch steel wheels; body-colored door handles and side mirrors; power windows with driver's window automatic up/down operation; and a tilt/telescoping steering wheel

Interior & Tech: Steering-wheel-mounted audio controls, USB input and four-speaker stereo system

Miscellaneous: Keyless entry, keyless start, LED taillights and rear armrest with cupholders

Options: UConnect 5.0 adds the multimedia system that's standard on the Limited and higher trims.

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