TAMPA Hillsborough County Tax Collector Doug Belden has chosen the Tampa neighborhood of Drew Park to build a new service center where customers can get drivers licenses, birth certificates and concealed weapons permits.

Construction of the new 25,000-square-foot building is expected to begin next month at 4100 W. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Belden said the office will be open for business in September.

The new building will replace the tax collectors office at the Lowes and Target shopping center at 6283 W. Waters Ave.

Belden said he is saving taxpayers between $1.5 million and $2 million because hes building the new office on state-owned land once occupied by the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles. As part of a deal Belden worked out with the state, the motor vehicles department will use 5,000 square feet of the new building for administrative work.

Taxpayers also will save about $400,000 a year on rent the tax collector was paying at the Waters Avenue site. He is leasing the land on Martin Luther King Boulevard from the state for a dollar a year.

The new construction is Beldens latest move to expand services and provide them in offices closer to taxpayers. In April, he opened a new office building on county-owned land on Falkenburg Road. By leasing government-owned land at minimal cost for the two newest buildings, Belden said he saved taxpayers $3 million in land acquisition.

The building boom is being driven in part by the Florida Legislatures 2010 mandate that the state Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles close most of its offices. As a result, many motor vehicle department duties, such as issuing drivers licenses and license plates, are being transferred to county tax collectors.

Written and road tests for new drivers licenses are now being given at the tax collectors office on East Hillsborough Avenue. Belden said his office leases the East Hillsborough site for $350 a year.

Eventually the road tests will be given at two other locations, one in Plant City and the other in south Hillsborough.

We want to geographically cover all of Hillsborough County, Belden said.

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Road construction continues Wednesday in the northbound lanes of Interstate 359 as the Alabama Department of Transportation repaves the road.

The reorganization of the Alabama Department of Transportation has proven to be a boon to Fayette.

ALDOT has put a new area office in the city the only new office it is adding in Alabama under a reorganization plan announced last year.

Last week ALDOT announced that it is buying a 52,000-square-foot building located in Fayettes industrial park. The new area office will house highway administration, maintenance, construction and materials operations for a six-county area.

ALDOT, which oversees the states roads and bridges, estimated it would invest more than $6 million during the next three years in Fayette. The move also will bring new jobs to Fayette. How many jobs has not been determined, said ALDOT spokesman Tony Harris.

The Fayette area office will have 110 to 135 ALDOT employees but that number will include managers, supervisors and others workers who will transfer from other ALDOT locations, Harris said.

He noted that ALDOT has lost around 500 employees through retirements and attrition since 2011. Those positions were not refilled, so even if 100 positions were filled, ALDOT still will have around 400 fewer positions than five years ago.

Jobs that might be filled could include clerical, maintenance workers, laborers, warehouse employees, mechanics and equipment repair workers and engineers, according to ALDOT release.

ALDOT said its new organizational structure should provide increased decision-making authority at the local level and more accountability and efficiency.

It is going to have a major economic impact over the next three years for our whole community, Fayette Mayor Ray Nelson said of the new state office.

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Purple pipes at One La Jolla Center indicate the presence of recycled water servicing the new building's restrooms. Irvine Company

Purple pipes at One La Jolla Center indicate the presence of recycled water servicing the new building's restrooms. / Irvine Company

One La Jolla Center, Irvine Company's new office tower opening this summer in the UTC area, boasts a world-class architect, prime location and environmental bragging rights:

The 15-story building at 4665 Executive Drive will use a dual plumbing system that will enable it to use recycled water in the restrooms and air conditioning cooling towers.

"The cost of recycled water, compared to potable (drinking) water is about 80 percent less expensive," said Erron Williams, the company's senior director of engineering.

The city said it charges 80 cents per 100 cubic feet of recycled water and $4.47 per 100 cubic feet of potable water when used in a commercial building.

One La Jolla Center is due for completion in August. / Irvine Company

Located next to the two-building La Jolla Center complex built in 1986, the $100 million, 306,000-square-foot building is not only located in one of the county's top office submarkets but it also is the only major speculative office building under construction. It is due to open in August.

Unlike most of its competitors, Irvine, which has acquired several high-profile office buildings downtown as well as in the north city area, had enough financial clout to develop a building without preleasing most of the space. By doing so, it can attract tenants that might otherwise have to wait for years before moving into new space elsewhere.

Williams said Irvine owns five other dual-piped buildings, including three at Irvine Center in Orange County. One La Jolla Center is its first in San Diego.

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CHICAGO (FOX 32 News) -

A new 190,000 square foot building office building will be constructed just east of the United Center, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced during a news conference Thursday morning.

The new facility will create several hundred new jobs and will be the future home of Bulls, Blackhawks, Levy Restaurants and United Center employees.

Investments like this new office building can have a multiplier effect and bring more economic development in their wake, which is why I am excited about this latest addition to the United Center and what it means for the entire community, Mayor Emanuel said Thursday.

In addition to office space, the building will also be the home of a 10,000 square foot ground-level Bulls and Blackhawks retail store and public atrium.

The new building will be located on the east side of the United Center on South Wood Street between Monroe and Madison Streets. Construction is expected to begin in the fall of 2016.

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CHICAGO (AP) - Officials in Chicago have announced the construction of a new office building for the Bulls and Blackhawks near the United Center.

The planned 190,000-square-foot facility would house a retail store, along with offices. Officials said Thursday that the facility would create up to 300 jobs and be privately funded.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and chairmen for the Bulls and Blackhawks announced the facility on Thursday. Construction of the new facility could also move the iconic Michael Jordan statue indoors. Drawings of the proposed building show the statue inside the atrium lobby.

Crews will break ground on the project in the spring. Its slated for completion in 2016.

The proposal detailed Thursday is smaller than United Center owners first proposed in 2012.

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Crews continue to work on the state Capitol. Tom Scheck / MPR News

There will be no delay in the remodeling of the state Capitol after the House, Senate and governor announced an agreement today on how to allocate space in the building.

The Capitol Preservation Commission signed off on a final design this morning that increases public access to conference rooms, dining rooms and bathrooms.

The design reduces the number of offices for state senators insidethe Capitol building from 39 to 4. However, nearly all senators will have offices in a newly constructed building across University Ave. from the Capitol.

Every member of the commission, including Gov. Mark Dayton, praised the agreement.

Its a big step forward for the public and the peoples building, Dayton said.

Every member of the commission voted for the plan after Dayton, DFL Senate Majority Leader Tom Bakk and GOP House Speaker Kurt Daudt worked behind the scenes to agree on a floor plan that served all of them.

The truth is we would be sitting here right now approving renovations of the Capitol to permanently be a senate office building if we werent building an office building across the street, Bakk said.

Bakk said the senate leaders who have offices in the renovated Capitol will not have offices in the Senate Office Building.

Construction crews are currently working on a major overhaul of the 109 year old Capitol building. The work is scheduled to be completed in 2017.

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Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co., which is building a new 32-story 1.1 million-square-foot office building at its headquarters campus in downtown Milwaukee, has signed a lease for 56,320 square feet of office space at the 411 East Wisconsin building in downtown Milwaukee.

Northwestern Mutual is leasing space on the seventh and eighth floors of the building, as well as the lower-level concourse area.

Even though the company is building a large new office building that will be complete in 2017, the lease at the 411 East Wisconsin building is not necessarily going to be temporary, said Steve Palec, managing principal for the Milwaukee office of Cresa, who brokered the deal for Northwestern Mutual. Jim Cavanaugh and Matt Hunter of CBRE were the listing brokers for the deal.

The root of (the deal) is they are growing, Palec said. It is not as Band-Aid-ish as you may think.

(Northwestern Mutual has) had a significant amount of job growth, said Jeffrey Patterson, president and CEO of Riverview Realty Partners, which owns the building.

The lease with Northwestern Mutual is significantly longer than the 2017 completion date for the companys new office building, Patterson said. He declined to disclose the length of the lease.

We dont believe (the Northwestern Mutual lease) is temporary, Patterson said.

Northwestern Mutual plans to have about 250 employees in the 411 East Wisconsin building by the end of this year, company spokesman John Gardner said. The employees will work in the technology area, on efforts to enhance the companys technological experience for its policy holders, he said.

The technology employees added at the 411 East Wisconsin building are part of additional growth on top of the 1,900 employees that the company has said it plans to add at the new building that is under construction on its headquarters campus, Gardner said.

Long term, we have not yet determined how (the 411 East Wisconsin) building will play a larger role beyond 2017 (when the new building is completed), Gardner said.

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Mivne Gazit has acquired the share of Paz Oil Company Ltd. (TASE:PZOL) in an office building on Yigal Alon St. in Tel Aviv for NIS 34 million, sources inform "Globes." The two companies had a partnership for many years in the office building on a lot at 148 Yigal Alon St.

The 3.5-dunam (0.875-acre) lot currently contains a four-storey office building built in 2001 and designed by Lerman Architects. All the office floors are occupied. The lot also contains a Paz filling station and convenience store, which Paz will retain. Sources also inform "Globes" that the company previously promoted an Urban Building Plan for adding 16 floors above the existing structure, and even took out a building permit for its construction, but the project was delayed by disagreement between the partners. Now, after acquiring Paz's rights in the building, Mivne Gazit plans to go ahead with construction of the additional storeys.

Mivne Gazit VP marketing Roni Carmon told "Globes" today that the additional floors that the company was planning to build above the existing structure would contain only office space, which Mivne Gazit planned to sell, not lease. The price per sq.m. in the building is expected to vary from NIS 12,000 per sq.m. to NIS 14,000 per sq.m. in shell condition. Mivne Gazit also said that because it was only necessary to renew a building permit it had already obtained before, it believed that the process would be quicker than the usual process at the Tel Aviv municipality. The company plans to be both the developer and the performance contractor for the project. Beit Mivne Gazit is located in northwestern Tel Aviv. Various projects, including high-rises, are being built or planned for future construction nearby.

Among other things, these include a 28-storey project slated for construction by a purchasing group near Beit Kardan and a midtown project with two 50-storey buildings: one for housing and one for offices. p>Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - http://www.globes-online.com - on January 21, 2015

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Building construction rose in Council Bluffs in 2014.

There were 30 permits issued for new building construction compared to 19 in 2013, according to the year-end permit numbers in the citys Building Division. And that added up to more than $20 million in additional commercial valuation with those projects, said Steve Carmichael, the citys chief building official.

The valuation for new commercial construction for 2014 totaled $265 million, compared to the total of $244 million the previous year.

Its very good, he said.

Included in the many projects for which permits were issued were two strip malls on West Broadway, a 10,099-square-foot-building in Metro Crossing Shopping Center, a new apartment and commercial building in the 100 block of West Broadway, a 6,000-square-foot building in the 900 block of South 17th Street and a 36,960-square-foot building in the 3100 block of Harry Langdon Boulevard.

Other projects for which city officials issued building permits included a 5,053-square-foot building for U-Haul Co. of Nebraska in the 700 block of 32nd Avenue, a well house at the MidAmerican Energy Company plant, a pump station on North 28th Street and various buildings along Bunge Avenue for Googles southern campus.

Theyre spread out all over the town, Carmichael said.

Besides new commercial construction, permits for alterations of current commercial buildings increased to 191 last year, compared to 171 in 2013.

Building permits issued for new residential construction dipped, but just slightly. According to city records, 67 single-family housing permits were issued last year compared to 70 in 2013.

I think part of the issue is that were running short on lots, Carmichael said. More lots would help out immensely, because now the numbers limit potential buyers to buy a lot.

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