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SAN FRANCISCO --San Francisco fire officials Wednesday night said a crane and concrete slab on a South of Market high-rise construction project that were unstable and considered at risk of falling have been secured, but evacuation orders for nearby buildings remain in place, CBS San Francisco reports.

Concerns about the stability of the crane and a 3,000-pound concrete slab at the top of the 35-story building under construction were raised Wednesday afternoon.

The project developer said in a statement that the 2:45 p.m. incident occurred when a system used to form concrete walls was being raised from levels 35 to 36 and had a partial hydraulic failure.

An engineer with special expertise was being flown in to help the construction crews, crane operator and fire department figure out the best way to relieve the pressure on a concrete wall.

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San Francisco Assistant Fire Chief Tom Sirogusa said some of the closed streets in San Franciscos South of Market will reopen Wednesday night after workers level the platform on the 35th floor of a luxury apartment building.

He says construction crews alerted authorities after the giant slab tilted Wednesday afternoon because a 30-ton concrete pump was sitting on top of it.

Sirogusa says officials decided to evacuate 16 office buildings and shut down several surrounding streets out of an abundance of caution.

Earlier, he said one a strut in a crane had malfunctioned.

He says the concrete pump sitting on top of the platform will be removed Thursday.

Fire officials described the incident as a failure of one of the struts supporting a crane at the buildings core, and said the tilt of the crane system caused one of the concrete walls and formwork to lean out.

During a fire department press briefing just before 6 p.m., San Francisco Fire Department spokesman Officer Jonathan Baxter said there is no danger of the concrete slab falling from the top of the high-rise project.

At this point we have been able to vet again, through our city inspectors as well as the contracting teams that we have shored the formwork that is in question, said Baxter. The crane that is in question is also secure.

Baxter insisted that media reports regarding the danger had been exaggerated.

Were seeing reports in the media that the crane is going to fall. That is false, said Baxter.

The initial tweet indicated that the building at 41 Tehama was being evacuated due to the slabs potential to fail and that people should avoid the area. The correct address of the construction site was later determined to be 33 Tehama Street.

San Francisco Department of Emergency Management officials warned people to avoid an area between several streets.

Lendlease Senior Vice President Mary Costello said the 37-story, 403-unit luxury residential tower near the Transbay Transit Center is being developed by Hines and Invesco Real Estate. LendLease is the general contractor.

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Accounting firm PwC is considering relocation of its downtown St. Louis office to Ballpark Village, real estate sources said Thursday.

PwC is currently in leased space at 800 Market Street. Sources said the accounting firm is interested in occupying the office building planned for construction at Ballpark Village next to Busch Stadium.

The St. Louis Business Journal first reported PwC's interest in Ballpark Village, adding that the firm also is considering a move to Cupples X, an office building Koman Group wants to build at Cupples Station, near Busch Stadium.

A Cardinals spokesman told the Post-Dispatch there is interest in Ballpark Village office space from a variety of potential tenants but that none of the space is leased.

Representatives of Cordish and Koman Group did not return requests for comment.

The Cardinals said in October they hoped to begin construction this year on Ballpark Village's $220 million next phase, which includes the office building and a 29-story apartment tower. The buildings could be completed in 2019.

One real estate source said a potential obstacle to a move by PwC to Ballpark Village is the status of the firm's lease at 800 Market Street, owned by St. Louis BOA Plaza LLC. PwC's lease there expires in July, said the source, adding that the landlord has balked at allowing the firm to renew its lease only until space at Ballpark Village is ready.

In December, St. Louis aldermen approved $16 million in Ballpark Village tax incentives in addition to the $49 million the city granted in 2012 as part of the project's first phase.

Another possible issue in a PwC move to Ballpark Village is the net new jobs provision of the latest amendment to the project's redevelopment agreement with the city. The provision, sought by the city, requires that Ballpark Village office jobs must not come from elsewhere in the city unless they would be lost permanently or moved out of the city absent office space at Ballpark Village.

Some aldermen have questioned the practicality of enforcing that provision.

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Evacuations were lifted late Wednesday night in San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood after fire officials confirmed a heavy piece of equipment on the 30th floor of a skyscraper under construction was no longer in danger of collapsing.

Firefighters in the afternoon ordered evacuations from 16 buildings while they responded to and investigated reports of an unstable structure on top of the building at 41 Tehama St.

Neighboring sites at 543, 531, 527, 505, 547, 555, and 557 Howard Street, 44 Tehama Street and 235 Second St. were also asked to evacuate as a precaution.

All the evacuations were lifted except at 41 Tehama, officials said.

A crane and pump sitting on top of the structure in question caused concerns about its stability.

"We were able to determine the crane was not affected, but the pumping station was affected," fire spokesman Jonathan Baxter said.

Crews worked for three and a half hours Wednesday night to stabilize and level out the platform to be sure the 19,000-pound pump remains in place.

Fire officials at an earlier news conference said city engineers and building construction crews had secured the structure. In addition, fire officials said there was no imminent threat to the public.

"During the process of normal construction in a high-rise building, a platform was shored up and held in place with some struts one of the struts in the northeast corner had failed, and when that failed, the platform itself leaned at a 15 degree angle," explained Assistant Fire Chief Tom Siragusa. Construction crew contacted SFFD, who ordered the evacuations based on the preliminary information. Siragusa said crews will be working to secure the unstable platform. Once the platform is stabilized, crews will be working to lower a heavy pump sitting on top of it.

"Our number one concern was the workers and public safety," he said. 'We erred on the side of caution."

Fire officials initially reported an unstable concrete slab on the 30th floor of the building, which they said weighed around 2,000 pounds.

But a statement from Hines and Invesco Real Estate, the developers for 41 Tehama, which is now being advertised as33 Tehama, said the concrete slab was not in any danger of falling:

"This afternoon, an incident occurred at the 33 Tehama site between levels 35 and 36 where an interior forming system had a partial hydraulic failure while being raised to the next level. The interior forming system and the concrete placement arm have been secured and are being evaluated by engineers to bring it back to level.

No injuries and or damage has been reported.

Please note the boom is located in the center of the top level. This is not the crane attached to the outside of the building. Previous reports that a 2,000 pound slab of concrete is in danger of falling are also false."

Hines is also listed as one of the developers of the nearby Salesforce Tower, which is being built adjacent to the Transbay Transit Center in San Francisco, andis projected to become the second tallest building on the West Coast.

According to its website, 33 Tehama is a 37-story, 403-unit luxury residential tower, also near the Transbay Transit Center site. It began construction in 2015, according to a 2015 statement from thecontractor Lend Lease.The project is designed by Arquitectonica andwill feature a fitness center, clubroom, rooftop solarium, outdoor terrace, and ground-floor retail/art space.

A permit application for the construction project, which was filed in 2015, lists the cost of the project at $106,869,000.

In January 2016, a contractor called Pacific Structures Inc. filed a permit application for a tower crane to work on new construction at 41 Tehama. The estimated cost was $100,000. The contractor for the actual construction permit is Bovis Lend Lease, Inc.

Records from the Office of Safety and Health Administration, from the U.S. Department of Labor, reveal both Bovis Lend Lease and Pacific Structureshave a history of violations.

San Francisco Fire Department Assistant Chief told reporters at a news conference that if the concrete slab fell down, there would be damage to nearby buildings. The California Highway Patrol closed down the Fremont Street offramp as a precaution. An engineering expert will be flying in from Washington to investigate the situation. Multiple agencies, including the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, San Francisco Police and CHP assisted SFFD with the high-rise emergency.

Those working at nearby buildings that were evacuated tweeted out photos from the scene. Conor Murphy, who works at the shared office space, Galvanize, tweeted: "When @galvanize gets evacuated for an issue with a nearby building, class continues in the street!"

Scott Manley tweeted out photos of crowds and law enforcement officials gathering outside on the street as news of the evacuations broke around 3:30 p.m.

"Our office was just evacuated because the 33 Tehama crane might fall," tweeted David Spinks who works at the LinkedIn building on 222 2nd St.

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NBC Bay Area's Rachel Witte and Jean Elle contributed to this report.

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Police are searching for at least three people who earlier this month broke into an office building under construction by kicking through the drywall.

The thieves smashed in the walls and dismantled an alarm when they broke into the office building near Northwest 150th Street and Santa Fe Avenue in Edmond. They got away with hundreds of dollars in items.

"They kicked through the drywall in several spots and found where they could actually penetrate through the wall, said owner Cody Ward, with Neal McGee Homes.

Police said the men were caught in surveillance pictures Feb. 5 while most people were watching the Super Bowl. The thieves stole paint and plumbing fixtures.

"It's very frustrating to have people break into your buildings," Ward said.

Ward and the builder do not recognize the thieves and don't think they've worked on the building. Police are working to determine if they are also responsible with a tailgate theft last week.

WEBVTT T FOR AT LEASTTHREE PEOPLE WHO BROKE INTO ANOFFICE BUILDING KNOCKING OUTWALLS TO TAKE HUNDREDS OFDOLLARS IN ITEMS.JESSICA: KOCO'S JONATHAN COOPERSPOKE WITH THE BUILDER TODAY,AND IS NEAR NORTHWEST 150TH ANDSANTA FE WITH DETAILS.JONATHAN: POLICE SAY THOSETHIEVES BROKE INTO BOTH UNITS OFTHIS OFFICE BY KICKING THROUGHTHE DRY WALL.TONIGHT POLICE ARE TRYING TOFIND OUT IF THESE THIEVES ARECONNECTED TO EVEN MORE CRIMES.HOLES SMASHED IN THE WALLS ANDAN ALARM SYSTEM COMPLETELYDISMANTLED.THIS DAMAGE CAUSED BY THIEVESWHO BURGLARIZED AN OFFICE UNDERCONSTRUCTION.>> THEY KICKED THROUGH THE DRYWALL IN SEVERAL SPOTS AND FOUNDA SPOT WHERE THEY COULD ACTUALLYPENETRATE THROUGH THE WALL.JONATHAN: POLICE SAY THE MENSEEN HERE ON SURVEILLANCE PHOTOSBROKE INTO THE BUILDING NEAR NW150TH AND SANTA FE ON SUPER BOWLSUNDAY.WHILE MOST PEOPLE WERE WATCHINGTHE GAME POLICE SAY THEY WERESTEALING PAINT AND PLUMBINGFIXTURES.>> IT'S VERY FRUSTRATING TO HAVEPEOPLE BREAK INTO YOURBUILDINGS.JONATHAN: CODY WARD WORKS WITHTHE BUILDER AND SAYS THEY DON'TRECOGNIZE THE THIEVES AND DON'TTHINK IT'S ANYONE WHO'S WORKEDON THE BUILDING.POLICE MEANWHILE TELL US THEY'RETRYING TO DETERMINE IF THE SAMEMEN ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR ATAILGATE THEFT NEAR DOWNTOWNJUST A WEEK BEFORE.THE BUILDER TELLS ME THEY HAVEALREADY FIXED THE DRY WALL.ALL OF THIS IS EXPECTED TO BE

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The Greater Noida authority will shift its administrative office to a new office complex in Knowledge Park 4 on February 21. The complex has been built on a budget of Rs 325 crore.

The authoritys present one-storey office, located at Chitvan Estate in Sector Gamma I, has inadequate space to accommodate the staff and all departments. It also has hardly any parking space, which results in visitors and staff parking their vehicles on the green belt and on the road, causing traffic congestion.

My office, along with other staff members, will shift on February 21. Those who want to shift before that can do so if they have readied their spaces, said Deepak Agarwal, chief executive officer (CEO) of the authority.

The new building is ready to use. The good part is that we have enough space available to also rent out to Central government departments and other offices and earn revenue, said Rajiv Tyagi, general manager of the authority.

The 88,000 square metre (sqm) office complex has three towers of 21 storeys , 17 storeys and five storeys respectively.

The building has an auditorium with a seating capacity of 600 and parking facility for 931 vehicles. It is also a green building, said Tyagi.

Government offices of departments such as sales tax, service tax, Uttar Pradesh stamp and property registration and the Noida Metro rail corporation (NMRC), among others, may shift to the new building, according to officials from the Greater Noida authority.

We have adequate space to accommodate other offices. Now, the respective departments will decide whether they want to shift to this office or not. The good thing for visitors will be that they will be able to get all their jobs done in one office itself instead of going to different places, said an authority official.

Noida authority building delayed

The Noida authority is still being run from its old office in Sector 6. The authority had in 2009 planned to build a new office building in Sector 44 along the Noida expressway. However, because of a legal dispute between farmers and the authority, nothing moved on the ground. In 2016, the authority started construction of another building, this time in Sector 96. However, work is going on at a slow pace there and the authority continues to run from its Sector 6 office, which lacks several facilities such as adequate parking for visitors and authority staff.

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Owned and operated by WVU Medicine University Healthcare Physicians, the Spring Mills Medical Office Building will be a three-story, 40,000-square-foot facility in Falling Waters, W.V. It will house an urgent care, orthopedics and sports medicine, primary care, and specialty clinics.

WVU Medicine University Healthcare will lease space in the building to establish various satellite services of Berkeley Medical Center. University Healthcare plans to offer rehab services, a womens imaging center and lab/x-ray services to support the physician practices and urgent care.

Brechbill & Helman Construction Companyis the contractor for the $11 million project, which is expected to be completed in early 2018. The building was designed by Grove & DallOlio Architects.

The New York office of Perkins+Will transformed a vacant 1980s suburban office building into the new cancer center located in Middletown, N.J.

HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital of the Lowcountry will cost $22 million to build.

The new Center for Cancer and Specialty Care is housed in the sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth's former convent in West Townin, Ill.

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Plans for a 700-space parking garage on downtowns south end could launch a larger development that would include the construction of two new office buildings.

The five-story parking garage project has been proposed for 108 E. McCarty St., on a narrow surface lot bordered by Madison Avenue and South Pennsylvania Street about a block west of the Eli Lilly and Co. campus.

A group of investors that includes John Hurley, CEO of software firm SmartFile, has filed plans with the city to construct the garage. The Regional Center Hearing Examiner is set to hear the proposal March 9.

Hurley didnt respond to an email seeking comment. Steve Alexander, a principal of Prince/Alexander Architects Inc., which is headquartered near the site, at 21 W. Merrill St., is the architect on the project. He said plans for the property have been designed to accommodate two additional structures in addition to the parking garage.

The first would be a 100,000-square-foot office building ranging in height from eight to 12 stories.

If that fills up fairly quickly, a second office building could follow, Alexander said. Or it could be a hotel; the developer is analyzing that.

The office buildings could help meet growing demand from local startup tech companies seeking short-term space while theyre in growth mode.

Hurley at SmartFile is helping to lead the effort. His investor group has spent more than $10 million to create The Union, a for-profit venture that opened in January. It is based in a 122,000-square-foot building at 525 S. Meridian St., not far from Lucas Oil Stadium.

The 121-year-old downtown propertywhich is known as the Brougher Building and once housed Harry E. Wood High Schoolwas already 90 percent leased in November, Hurley told IBJ at the time. SmartFile moved in late last month.

The Union courts high-growth tech firms that are past the startup phase but still aren't quite sure how much space they'll need in five years. It offers short-term leases in increments of 5,000 square feet that users can adjust as needs change.

Any newly constructed office building on the site where the parking garage is set to be built will follow that model, Alexander said.

Its absolutely about tech, Alexander said.

If the plans for the office buildings come to fruition, the south side of downtown could be poised for a construction boom.

Illinois-based Hillcrest Development Inc. finally is ready to break ground in April on a $17 million, 146-room extended stay TownePlace Suites by Marriott hotel two blocks east of Lucas Oil Stadium.

Alexander, who also is the architect on that project, said it should be finished in late summer 2018.

Hillcrest received its first approvals from the city in July 2015. The five-story hotel would be south of Merrill Street and between Russell Avenue and South Meridian Street as they come to a point.

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Courtesy: Pelli Clark Pelli Architects A rendering of Rockrose and Spitzer's Alexander Court redevelopment at 2001 K St. and 2101 L St. NW

Rockrose Development and Spitzer Enterprises have landed another major tenant for the JV's CBD redevelopment project,Alexander Court.

Akin Gump will occupy the top four floors at the north building, 2000 L St. NW. The 185k SF lease will beginin 2019, after the firm moves out of its 212kSF spreadat Boston Properties' 1333 New Hampshire Ave. NW. Avison Youngbrokered the deal for the landlord while CBRErepresented the law firm.

Rockrose bought the 2000 L St. building in 2013 and, together with former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, is combining it with 2001 K St. NW to createan 800k SF trophy office building. The buildings will be connected with a 12-story atrium and will have access to a rooftop terrace and 7,500 SF fitness center. The building is set to deliver by the end of the year, Rockrose director Ted Traum said.

The JV landed its first new tenantlast summer when Cornerstone Research signed for 43k SF in the L Street building. Paul, Weiss alsorenewed its lease in the K Street buildinglast summer and expanded from 51k SF to 62k SF. The K Street building is nearly fullly occupied while the L Street sidestill has roughly 175kSF left to lease after signing Akin Gump. Traum said the Akin Gump lease gives the project significant momentum, and he has received interest from other potential tenants.

"It validates the project and indicates how well it's being received in the market," Traum said. "Akin Gump is a large tenant that really had their pick of the litter in terms of all the available product. The fact that they selected us speaks to how well its being received in market and how people appreciate the quality of the architecture and amenities."

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The Kettering Health Network plans to build a medical office building on the site of a former car wash in West Carrollton.

Mike Lucking, city ecomonic development director, said, "The city is thrilled to announce that a Kettering Health Network facility will be coming to our community."

In a prepared statement released tonight, Lucking and City Manager Brad Townsend said the health network is expected to take ownership of a 3.84 acre property at 744 E. Dixie Drive, the site of the former SOnny's Auto Spa, later this year.

"This will be a substantial investment, not only to our local tax base, but also toward the health and well-bring of our community," Townsend said in the statement.

The medical office building is to include physician practices and outpatient services.

The construction timetable and cost have not yet been determined.

We are looking forward to expanding our services into West Carrollton and being an active member of the community, said Fred Manchur, Kettering Health Network CEO.

Everything we do as a faith-based health system centers on how to best care for the patient. Part of that care includes connecting people to better and faster access to quality health care. The medical office building will do just that. We are happy to collaborate with the city and county to redevelop the land.

Demolition is expected to be complete by mid-summer on the underground storage tanks and building that has been empty since August 2012. The Montgomery County Land Bank acquired the property from Sonnys LLC in December 2016.

The city plans to use approximately $176,800 in Community Development Block Grant funding and National Stabilization Program funds. Both sources are from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and filtered through Montgomery County.

We appreciate the partnership by Montgomery County and the Land Bank to help clean up a property that has become an eyesore in our community, Townsend said. The city is committed to fostering new economic development in our city by doing everything we can to limit the high costs of demolishing outdated structures and preparing land for future redevelopment, he said

The citys planning and building department will coordinate the bids for demolition contractors which is expected to be a two phase process that starts in April.

A demolition kickoff event, involving all community partners, will be announced when the schedule has been finalized.

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