Mantecas Post Office on Maple Avenue was under construction 75 years ago.

The dawn of 2014 will also mark the 106th year of a post office being based in Manteca. Prior to 1908, Manteca was a rural route of the Lathrop post office. The only other post office in the area was at Atlanta on Lone Tree Road at Due Road east of present-day Manteca.

The Maple Avenue location is actually the sixth post office in Manteca.

The first five locations were:

The Cowell & Wiggin General Store starting on July 22, 1908.

The Wiggin Hotel directly across the street from the general store on Yosemite Avenue.

The southwest corner of the IOOF building that now houses Manteca Bedquarters.

The back of the old South San Joaquin Bank building on South Maple that up until a few years ago housed the Bank of the West.

Rented space at the Old City Hall building on Sycamore Avenue.

Mantecas first and only from the ground up post office was built at North Maple Avenue and Center Street. The Mediterranean-style building cost $80,000.

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MANKATO As the state and nation continued its relatively slow ascent out of the recession, the Mankato area saw a dizzying amount of new construction and business growth in 2013.

Topping the list is the recently started $15 million Tailwind Group project along Front Street and Riverfront Drive in Mankato. The project will see the demolition of Miller Motors and RedSky to help make way for a housing and retail building on Front Street, a parking ramp and a seven-story office tower along Riverfront Drive.

Construction in Mankato was up by a third in the first nine months of the year compared to the same period last year.

The $8.9 million Mankato Clinic expansion on the Wickersham Campus is underway, with an opening slated for mid-2014.

VINE Faith in Actions $5.5 million project near downtown is transforming a former college classroom building turned government office building into in an adult community center for area residents in mid-life and beyond. The complete gutting of the Nichols Office Center began this year, with completion expected in the middle of next year.

Imperial Plastics built a new $10 million building in the citys east-side industrial park.

A flurry of retail and restaurant construction also took place this year, much of it in-filling vacant lots along Madison Avenue.

Pawn America recently opened a new store with more warehouse and retail space than its former site on Madison Avenue.

A new Panda Express restaurant also opened recently in front of Cub Foods on Madison Avenue.

Family Video and Marco's Pizza built a building along Victory Drive, behind McDonalds. The video store is open with the pizza shop to open soon.

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FAIRMONT The construction of the new state office complex on Adams Street is moving along on schedule and on budget, according to Richard Forren, a partner with the Fairmont architecture firm of Omni Associates that is working on the project.

Forren said the project is expected to be completed in February 2015. The new building will be 80,000 square feet and four stories tall.

PJ Dick Inc., a general contracting and construction company headquartered in Pittsburgh, was awarded the contract to build the complex for $17.2 million in August.

Forren said the construction team is working hard to keep to the timeline.

Theyre doing a very good job of trying to maintain the schedule, Forren said.

Forren said that while they are on time now, weather could cause delays this winter.

Pouring concrete and laying masonry are all weather dependent, Forren said. But when the weather turns nice, PJ Dick does a very nice job of making up time and putting the project back on schedule.

To try and prevent delays, Forren said they are working hard to enclose the building as soon as possible.

In the coming months, what wed like to be able to do is get the building enclosed, and then a lot of work can take place inside the building without allowing the weather to affect it or hinder the schedule, Forren said.

The stair and elevator shaft are complete. Steel is due to arrive the first week of January, and the retaining walls are complete. Were pouring the mechanical room and are just waiting for some mechanical equipment to arrive, and well be set before the building becomes enclosed, Forren said.

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THE City Council of Bacolod has passed a resolution requesting Office of the Building Official (OBO) acting head Isidro Sun Jr. through the Office of the Mayor to look into the alleged construction of a skywalk or footbridge at 15th Lacson-Streets.

If possible, the council said, the OBO should issue a notice of violation and stoppage of the construction.

Councilor El Cid Familiaran, author of the resolution passed during Monday's session, said the councils action addresses the issue of "double standard" in dealing with businesses in the city.

He cited the case of Metro Safari Resort in Barangay Alangilan, which is being required to secure business permit, while a business establishment along Lacson Street has not been issued a notice of violation for its ongoing construction.

The management of L' Fisher Hotel earlier sought the City Council's approval on the use of the air space for the construction of pedestrian/foot bridge that will link the existing hotel building to its new building that will house casino gaming, and other activities.

Councilor Caesar Distrito, chair of the committee on laws and ordinances, said they will discuss the issue concerning L' Fisher Hotel after they have passed the ordinance regulating the airspace in Bacolod City.

The ordinance declaring certain portions of 15th-Lacson Streets (between Lacson and Aguinaldo Streets) into patrimonial property to regulate its airspace was approved by the council on its second reading.

Distrito said it is timely that they have created a general policy because of the construction boom in the city.

With the passage of the ordinance, the city will be able to raise real property taxes, and all requests for the use of airspace will pass the City Council, he added.

Distrito said this will generate income for the city coming from the application fees of business establishments.

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Promising another boost to the Clark County economy, fast-growing financial firm Fisher Investments is developing more office space in Camas, with a second five-story building now under construction.

The campus has grown by more than 155 new employees since May, bringing the total Camas workforce to 650 people, said Ken Fisher, founder and chief executive officer, by email this month. Business is on the upswing for the Woodside, Calif.-based firm, which manages $52 billion in assets, up from $49 billion seven months ago.

"We continue to grow, expand and do our best to improve what we do and innovate for the future," said Fisher, a 63-year-old Forbes columnist, author of best-selling financial books and billionaire.

He said Fisher Investments employs a total of 1,600 people.

Fisher has invested about $47 million in developing the Camas campus, north of Pacific Rim Boulevard and east of Southeast 192nd Avenue. It's first five-story office structure opened in 2011, followed by a one-story building that houses the company's processing operations and printing equipment. Each five-story structure will accommodate up to 700 employees. That could put the majority of the Fisher Investment's workforce in Camas as the new office building comes online.

But Fisher refused to speculate on the expected completion date for the new building because construction projects are subject to too many variables, he explained.

"I'm not going to hang myself on a date of when the project will be complete, but we're moving ahead full speed," Fisher said.

He isn't ready to call the Camas campus the company's headquarters, either, said Fisher. His firm's northward migration began with an east Vancouver satellite office for 50 employees in 2006. At the time, Fisher said Clark County offered advantages, such as lower-priced housing for his employees and a friendlier business climate.

That is still the case, Fisher said. He also was impressed by the Camas School District's recent annual report.

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KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama) -- Malaysia's construction industry is expected to be busy next year, driven by both private and government projects, particularly the Economic Transformation Programme (ETP).

Under the National Key Economic Areas (NKEA) listed in the ETP, the country saw the launch of 195 projects over the past three years, bringing in a total committed investment of RM220 billion.

The projects are expected to contribute RM144 billion to gross national income and create 435,000 new jobs.

Construction Industry Development Board Malaysia (CIDB Malaysia) Chief Executive, Datuk Seri Judin Abdul Karim, said the construction industry was expected to secure a total of RM115 billion worth projects in 2014.

Last year, the total projects secured were worth RM120 billion, which surpassed the expected RM95 billion, Judin said.

"The construction industry did very well this year to grow by 18 per cent compared with last year despite the gloomy global economy," he said.

Judin said the current trend was forecast to continue next year with the anticipation of continuous economic stability.

"We expect the bulk of next year's projects to come from non-residential construction projects.

"The industry would also see more private sector projects compared to government-owned," he told Bernama.

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The state building inspector issued a stop work order Friday, Dec. 20, at the Billerica House of Correction due to structural concerns.

According to Alex Zaroulis, spokeswoman for the state Executive Office of Administration and Finance, the state building inspector was called to the House of Correction at the request of the Department of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance (DCAMM), the state agency overseeing the expansion project.

"DCAMM called the state building inspector because they noticed that a column had fractures in it as they were working on it," said Zaroulis. "In an abundance of caution, they wanted to make sure there was not going to be any structural issues."

As a result of Friday's inspection, a stop work order was issued until the structural integrity of the building can be fixed.

"We will continue to examine it over the next couple of days," Zaroulis added. "There will be activity up there as they work to make sure things are secure."

DCAMM will continue to cooperate with the state building inspector, Zaroulis said.

"They will be working on it tomorrow to shore up any potential further fracturing as they continue to work with the state building inspector," she said. "Safety is our main concern."

The state has embarked on a $37 million expansion of the Billerica House of Correction that includes the construction of two new buildings, adding 496 beds to the facility. Detainees from the Cambridge Jail will be moved to Billerica as the Cambridge Jail will be closing. Middlesex Sheriff Peter Koutoujian hopes the move will be temporary as the state finds another suitable site to construct a Middlesex County jail complex in southern Middlesex County.

Zaroulis could not confirm what portion of the buildings was identified as having fractures.

"This will hopefully just be a small stop," she said.

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Posted: 12:00 pm Wed, December 25, 2013 By BloombergNews Finance and Commerce Tags: CBRE Group Inc., China, RET Property Consultancy Ltd., Shanghai Tower 12:00 pm Wed, December 25, 2013

A Chinese national flag flies in front of buildings in the Lujiazui district of Shanghai, China. The Shanghai Tower project in the district will add 2.4 million square feet of office space, or more than 10 percent of the new supply forecast for the city in 2015, according to RET Property Consultancy Ltd. (Bloomberg News file photo)

When completed in 2015, the Shanghai Tower will be Chinas tallest building. The 2,074-foot skyscraper will also deepen a glut of offices in the city, putting pressure on rents.

The project, in the Lujiazui financial district, will add 2.4 million square feet of office space, or more than 10 percent of the new supply forecast for the city in 2015, according to RET Property Consultancy Ltd. About 21.5 million square feet of grade-A offices will be added between 2014 and 2015, more than double the supply in the previous two years, according to broker Savills Plc.

The Chinese governments resolve to turn Shanghai into a global economic, financial and shipping hub by 2020 has led to an office building boom to accommodate companies such as Citigroup Inc. and Nike Inc. that set up a presence in the city. Rents in Shanghai outside of central locations may fall as much as 17 percent in the next three years as space is added and the worlds second-largest economy strives to maintain growth that has averaged 10.5 percent in the 10 years to the end of 2012, according to broker CBRE Group Inc.

Such a big supply will pressure office rents in prime locations, said Alex Chen, Shanghai-based senior associate director at RET Property. The numbers are showing that vacancy rates and rents are definitely heading in a negative direction citywide.

Office rents in Shanghai fell 0.3 percent to 8.41 yuan per square meter per day in the third quarter, the first quarterly drop since 2010, according to Savills.

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Once finished, Shanghai Tower will rank as the worlds tallest building after the 2,716-foot Burj Khalifa in Dubai, data compiled by Chicago-based Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat show. It will surpass Chinas current record holder, the 1,614-foot Shanghai World Financial Center, which is diagonally across Dongtai Road and houses the local offices of Google Inc. and Ernst & Young LLP.

Lujiazui, on the east side of the Huangpu River in Pudong and across from the Bund historical waterfront area, has evolved from rice paddies three decades ago into Shanghais main financial district. The 1,381-foot Jin Mao Tower, now the citys second-tallest, sits across from Shanghai Tower and Shanghai World Financial Center.

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A proposal is in the works to transform Cibolo's downtown area into a hub for shops, office space, entertainment and public events, while maintaining its historic charm.

Plans to revitalize the downtown area are being led by the Cibolo Economic Development Corporation, which presented its plans at the Dec. 10 Cibolo City Council meeting.

The proposed plans would target the revitalization of the downtown area bordered by North Main Street, Pfeil Road, Wiederstein Street and Loop 539.

Mark Luft, Cibolo Economic Development director, said the downtown revitalization plans were developed by San Antonio-based Mdn Architects and will involve public and private ventures.

Plans include several retail and office spaces, a commercial space, a multi-family residential complex, renovation of a former Cibolo school building on Loop 539 and construction of a community events center and an amphitheater.

The city plans to renovate the old two-story, school building, which was constructed in 1916, for additional office space and community meeting rooms. An amphitheater would be built behind that building. A community events center, approved by voters in the 2008 bond election, would be built near the former school building and amphitheater site.

Walking trails would provide connections between the community center, the old school building, amphitheater site and an open town square.

Ashley White of Mdn said the amphitheater could be used for public and private events, such as school performances and plays, weddings, concerts, films, and company or private picnics.

Luft said a proposed public access pathway between the former school building and proposed retail and office spaces on North Main Street would be available for several public activities, such as Cibolofest and a farmer's market.

We are providing a space for public involvement, Luft said.

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