DELANCO A former employee of the townships construction office was charged with stealing money from building permit and rental registration fees and using it for personal expenses, authorities said Friday.

Carla Ann Sarlo, 44, of South Warrington Avenue in Cinnaminson, was charged with one count of third-degree theft for taking $1,200 in fees she was supposed to deposit into a municipal bank account, the Burlington County Prosecutors Office said.

Sarlo surrendered to authorities Friday morning and was released on her own recognizance pending the presentation of her case to a county grand jury for indictment.

She began working as a clerk in the Delanco construction office in September 2003 and is alleged to have stolen the permit fees between May 1, 2011, and June 30, 2011. The money came from 12 individuals who sought permits and rental registrations and paid their fees in cash, investigators said.

Instead of making bank deposits on the townships behalf, Sarlo stole the money and used it to pay for gasoline, food and her cellphone bill. To conceal the thefts, she recorded the transactions in a log but later voided the entries, authorities said.

The thefts were discovered after a person who paid Sarlo for a rental registration received a delinquent notice from the township.

Sarlo, who was fired in August, has repaid the municipality $941, said Joel Bewley, spokesman for the Prosecutors Office.

The case was investigated by detectives from the Prosecutors Offices special investigations unit.

David Levinsky: 609-871-8154; email: dlevinsky@phillyBurbs.com; Twitter: @davidlevinsky

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DELANCO A former employee of the townships construction office was charged with stealing money from building permit and rental registration fees and using it for personal expenses, authorities said Friday.

Carla Ann Sarlo, 44, of South Warrington Avenue in Cinnaminson, was charged with one count of third-degree theft for taking $1,200 in fees she was supposed to deposit into a municipal bank account, the Burlington County Prosecutors Office said.

Sarlo surrendered to authorities Friday morning and was released on her own recognizance pending the presentation of her case to a county grand jury for indictment.

She began working as a clerk in the Delanco construction office in September 2003 and is alleged to have stolen the permit fees between May 1, 2011, and June 30, 2011. The money came from 12 individuals who sought permits and rental registrations and paid their fees in cash, investigators said.

Instead of making bank deposits on the townships behalf, Sarlo stole the money and used it to pay for gasoline, food and her cellphone bill. To conceal the thefts, she recorded the transactions in a log but later voided the entries, authorities said.

The thefts were discovered after a person who paid Sarlo for a rental registration received a delinquent notice from the township.

Sarlo, who was fired in August, has repaid the municipality $941, said Joel Bewley, spokesman for the Prosecutors Office.

The case was investigated by detectives from the Prosecutors Offices special investigations unit.

David Levinsky: 609-871-8154; email: dlevinsky@phillyBurbs.com; Twitter: @davidlevinsky

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STAMFORD -- A man walked into a Shippan office building Friday afternoon and pulled out a handgun during an argument with a former co-worker, police said. Almost the entire patrol shift was sent to the scene, some officers armed with riot shields and assault rifles.

Joel D'Ort, 27, of 2808 Lehigh Ave., Allentown, Pa., was arrested, and police were still working Friday evening on the extent of his criminal charges.

D'Ort was arrested at his former Mohegan Avenue home after police secured the seven-floor office building at 70 Seaview Ave. with search teams. While clearing the building, officers got information about D'Ort and ran his name through their records, then went to his nearby former home, where he was arrested, police Lt. James Matheny said.

D'Ort used to work for XL Capital, a company located in the Seaview House building at 70 Seaview Ave., police said; they did not know the exact nature of his employment there. The company takes up most office space at the building.

At 1:13 p.m., a Seaview House employee called police and said a man threatened a woman with a gun on the fifth floor of the offices.

During the confrontation, the woman had a phone pulled from her hand as she tried to call 911, police said; she was later treated at Stamford Hospital for a hand injury.

Believing there may be an armed gunman in the Seaview House offices, the police department "emptied the building and sent everyone we could," police Lt. Sean Cooney said. At least 20 officers responded, he said.

Officers formed teams and searched the building floor by floor, starting at the seventh story and working their way down. A second team searched the parking garage, and a third secured a perimeter around the building, stopping traffic at the office complex.

Police found a handgun stashed in a ceiling tile in the fifth floor after an employee told officers the suspect had gone in that room for a few minutes after the confrontation, Cooney said. It was not the same room in which the alleged dispute occurred.

During the search, police developed information that led them to a home on Mohegan Avenue a few blocks away in Shippan, they said. Officers spotted a man peering at them through windows inside the home, police said. The man, later identified as D'Ort, opened the door and came outside, where police said an officer told him to lie facedown on the ground; he was taken into custody without incident.

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A Cushman & Wakefield team is ramping up marketing efforts for the upper portion of Gary Barnetts International Gem Tower, the 46th Street office building currently under construction that will have commercial condos in its base and office floors for lease in the tower.

The 34-story buildings rental floors begin on 23 and are about 22,500 square feet apiece.

Already the C&W team, led by several executives at the firm including Stuart Romanoff, have rebranded the rental portion as 55 West 46th Street, an address distinct from the condo portions 50 West 47th Street entrance.

Gem Tower

Its a new building that is well known for its condo space, so were out getting everyone acquainted with the office floors for lease, Mr. Romanoff told The Commercial Observer. The rental floors have their own separate lobby that is exclusively for the use of the tenants that will lease space. The condo entrance is on the other side.

Mr. Romanoff said the property features the latest building systems and amenities, including an iris scanner that will allow tenants to enter the property without having to check in at asecurity desk or swipe an identification through a card-activated turnstyle, the typical entry process in most office buildings.

The iris scanner will literally be able to recognize anyone who comes to the building and is linked to the elevator system so if youre a tenant and you come in, youll just walk straight to the elevator and it will automatically know which floor youre heading to and take you there, Mr. Romanoff said, noting that 55 West 46th Street was likely the first commercial office property in the city where such advanced technology will be deployed.

Mr. Romanoff and his team are marketing about 300,000 square feet at the property and said that he is hoping to anchor the space with at 100,000 to 150,000-square-foot tenant.

The building is right near Sixth Avenue where there are a lot of large skyscrapers so this will give a tenant who otherwise would be a small fish in a big pond a huge identity, Mr. Romanoff said. He said that a large tenant would be able to secure branding and signage rights at the property.

55 West 46th Street will also cater to single or two-floor tenants. The buildings two top floors for instance feature extra high 16-foot ceilings that are aimed at high end boutique space users with deep pockets. Asking rents at the building are in the high $90s for the buildings lower rental floors and well into the triple figures for the top floors of the tower.

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Permission to stock and train. It's a document that allows a contractor, tenant or owner to essentially move into and start employee training at a new building.

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The permit for the new courthouse shows Margaret Simone from Turner Construction requested it. It appears COJ inspector Robert Woods signed it, and the head of the building department Jim Shock gave approval.

But the fire marshal's signature is absent from the permit. The fire marshal's signature is on other Stock and Train documents obtained by First Coast News.

The director of the city's Planning and Developement Department Calvin Burney said the stock and train permit was approved a couple of days afterthere was a coordination meetingat the courthouse. "All the players were around the table, there were no objections issued," said Burney.

David Decamp with the mayor's office said Wednesday night that Schock signed off on the Stock and Train form after getting a verbal ok from each of the inspectors. Schock checked the box for the fire marshal due to the discussions at the coordination meeting on May 15.

We obtained a stock and train permit application form for the Primrose School being built on Southside on Hodges near Butler Blvd. A number of inspectors checked off and signed the form before the permit was issued.

"The city of Jacksonville is pretty thorough," said Susan Muller who is building her third Jacksonville area Primrose pre-school. Several inspectors came to check and sign off before permission was granted for stock and train.

"It was extremely thorough," said Jarod Kemp of VJA Construction. "We took about a week to go through the inspecdtion process, (They don't let you cut any corners?) We don't cut any corners. (No inspectors here were missing?) No sir."

City of Jacksonville Councilman Matt Schellenberg said even though Shock signed this form, he believes someone else is responsible.

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MONTREAL , June 7, 2012 /CNW Telbec/ - Aimia and Kevric Real Estate Corporation announced today that Aimia will be moving its global headquarters to a new location in the heart of Montreal's financial district in early 2014. Aimia will occupy four floors of Kevric's latest project, a 35-story office tower and condominium complex currently under construction at the corner of Viger Street and Beaver Hall Hill. The office tower will be named after Aimia while the residential portion of the project will be known as Altoria.

"We are pleased to have secured this prominent location in the Quartier-International district, in a premium office space that better represents who we are as a successful global company," said Rupert Duchesne , Group Chief Executive, Aimia. "We are particularly proud to have this unique building named after our company. The Aimia Tower marks a significant milestone in our history that began right here in Montreal and truly reflects our strong commitment to this great city."

The building will be one of Montreal's tallest and most spectacular buildings and will comprise more than 230,000 square feet of LEED Gold office space, including a 10-story office tower and 25-story residential condominiums.

"As Montreal's first major office building since 2000, the Aimia Tower and Altoria condominium complex is a monumental achievement, setting new standards of quality for commercial space in downtown Montreal ," said Richard Hylands , President, Kevric Real Estate Corporation. "Adding Aimia as the lead tenant is a natural fit given our joint commitment to innovation and the environment. With its dramatic and contemporary profile, Aimia Tower's concrete structure, clad in energy-efficient tinted glass, will make a striking visual impact on the north side of Victoria Square ."

Aimia Tower has been designed with the objective of achieving LEED Gold certification and will include: use of geothermal energy including 19 geothermal wells, pre-heating of domestic hot water, fresh air governed by CO2 detectors, low-consumption valves for reduced potable water consumption, a rainwater retention basin, use of low-emission materials, pale coloured roofing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, terminals for recharging hybrid and electric vehicles and more.

"We are excited to be moving to a green building as part of our ongoing efforts to proactively minimize our environmental impact and promote our commitment to carbon neutrality," added Duchesne.

The agreement with Aimia marks another milestone in developing the Altoria project, which is on track for completion in late 2013 for the office portion and spring 2014 for the residential portion. To date, the excavation is completed and the foundations are under way.

About Kevric Real Estate Corporation Over the past several years, Kevric Real Estate Corporation has established itself as one of the leaders in property development in Montreal and Canada . Its growing reputation has earned it a place among the largest private property developers and managers in Canada .

Kevric's mission is to acquire, develop and reposition properties with the potential for strong returns in the Toronto , Ottawa and Montreal markets.

The Company offers specialized services in building and redeveloping properties, property and asset management, marketing and leasing, as well as project financing.It is currently the co-owner and/or manager of Place Bonaventure in Montreal and, following a number of sales and acquisitions, of a dozen properties in Quebec and Ontario.

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TORONTO, June 5, 2012 /CNW/ - Commercial Interior Design Firm, the McGregor Design Group, is pleased to announce the launch of a new website, that will provide much needed tips and trends on Office Design and Construction for those contemplating an office relocation, a renovation project or planning to negotiate a lease.

Previously kept "trade secrets", these tips will be regularly enhanced with new information the McGregor Design Group'steam uncovers, during their work designing and executing projects, meeting with authorities and specialists; and contributing on special Committees and Councils.

Meant to help ensure value and enhance the process for project owners, Tips and Trends provided will include subjects such as:

"In this creative based economy - Design is a very powerful tool." Lynn McGregor, Founding Principal

Website address: http://www.mcgregordesigngroup.com

About the McGregor Design Group:

The McGregor Design Group, established in 1988, and based in Toronto, Ontario, specializes in the creation of exquisite, effective workspace design. Their Interior Design and Project Management Teams are known for their attention to detail, their effective management of process, schedule and budget; and for their "white glove" service, to many market sectors. Clients include: Imperial Oil Limited, Inmet Mining, Maple Leaf Foods, Lerners LLP, CIBC, etc.

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The construction of an office building and LED light bulb manufacturing plant at the Interstate 74 Technology Park in Bettendorf appears to be back on track after delays due to trouble securing financing, Bettendorf aldermen learned Monday.

LED America first came to the council in August and had hoped to begin production by March, but the financing could not be secured, Economic Development Director Steve Van Dyke told the city council.

Developer Alan Frankel is seeking city approval of an application for $400,000 in financial aid from the state of Iowa, as well as tax-increment financing districts for a 13,000-square-foot manufacturing plant and a 4,800-square-foot office building.

The manufacturing plant could grow to between 50,000 and 100,000 square feet in later phases, and would employ 132 when fully built, Van Dyke said.

Frankel told the council Monday that commitments have been made to lease all of the available space in the office building.

The total budget for the project is $2.4 million. Van Dyke said construction could be complete by the end of the year.

Revised park plans for Forest Grove

The council also heard a presentation on a revised concept for the development of Forest Grove Park, a 100-acre parcel of land northeast of the intersection of Forest Grove Road and Middle Road.

Ideas for the park include a large greenspace, an adventure course, an amphitheatre, a community building, restoration of Spencer Creek that would allow visitors to play in the water, a winter plaza with opportunities for winter sports such as sledding and ice skating, and a handicapped-accessible baseball field, as well as several recreation trails.

Parks and Recreation Director Steve Grimes said the plan still is being tweaked. He said he will come back to the council with a budget for the park amenities and a proposed plan for building them in phases, which would take place over the course of many years.

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WINNIPEG, June 5, 2012 /CNW/ - It was announced today that the Qualico Head Office building in Winnipeg has been awarded LEED Silver certification. LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) is an internationally recognized certification program and benchmark for the design and construction of green buildings.

"Achieving LEED silver status places Qualico on the leading edge of environmental design and construction practices in North American. It also demonstrates our commitment to the environment and long term sustainable development," said John Daniels, Vice President, Qualico Winnipeg. "Not only have we reduced the building's impact on the environment, but reduced operating costs and improved the quality of the environment for our employees.

"Some of the features of the building include energy efficient windows, a geothermal mechanical system, green roofs, a building management system and water efficient plumbing fixtures" said Brian Cornelsen, Qualico Project Manager. "A significant challenge was to ensure the building operated as intended and part of the LEED program was to complete comprehensive commissioning of all building systems."

The Qualico head office is a 3-storey, 65,000 square foot building located in Winnipeg Manitoba. The building also incorporates over 6,300 square feet of outdoor garden and rooftop patio and is home to over 150 employees.

Some green facts about the Qualico head office include:

Qualico is a fully integrated real estate development company with corporate head offices in Winnipeg and operations in Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, Regina and Winnipeg. It is one of the largest real estate development operations in Western Canada. http://www.qualicowinnipeg.com

LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) was developed by the U.S Green Building Council in 1998 and consists of a suite of rating systems for the design, construction and operation of high green buildings, homes and neighbourhoods. http://www.usgbc.org

John Daniels Vice-President Winnipeg Branch Qualico Phone: (204) 233-2451 jmdaniels@qualico.com

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LIHUE The LEED green building certification program, a nationally accepted benchmark for design, construction and operation of green buildings held its first Leadership for Energy and Environmental Design training workshop on Kauai in April with another planned for June.

Organized through the U.S. Green Building Council, the training was provided by Maui-based Green Building LLC in partnership with Unlimited Construction, the Kauai Workforce Investment Board and WorkWise Kauai.

The USGBC is a nonprofit membership organization whose vision is a sustainable built environment within a generation.

There were 15 participants from Kauai-based companies and organizations, including Kauai Island Utility Cooperative, the County of Kauai, Kauai Community College, Wilcox Memorial Hospital and local architecture firms.

With interactive classroom instruction and site visits, participants got a first-hand look certified buildings and high-performance green home design. The program is designed to create green building training opportunities with campus learning in partnership with certified green builders.

Scholarships for qualified applicants to attend the training were available through the State Energy Sector Partnership grant. This federal green jobs training initiative is administered by Hawaii Workforce Development Council and the county workforce investment boards.

The next LEED Green Building Basics & LEED Green Associate Exam Prep Workshop will be held June 26-27, from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Kauai Community College, OCET 105. For information and to register, visit http://www.GreenBuildingHawaii.com/classes.html.

SESP scholarships are available to assist in covering the cost of attending the training and exams. Applications are available online at http://www.sesphawaii.com.

For information about the scholarships, contact Adele Manera at WorkWise Kauai, 274-3056 or adele.a.Manera@hawaii.gov. Or contact Tracy Hirano, KCC Office of Continuing Education & Training, 245-8351 or thirano@hawaii.edu.

For information about Green Building LLC and upcoming training, visit http://www.greenbuildinghawaii.com.

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