An office building in Delray's Pineapple Grove Arts District soon will be transformed into a restaurant.

Late Tuesday, Delray Beach city commissioners signed off on plans to convert the building and demolish the existing parking lot to make room for a new parking setup with landscaping. City officials said it isn't known what restaurant will ultimately open, but the architect plans to create a space that can house a restaurant.

The project, known as "The Del," is at the southeast corner of Northeast Fourth Street and Third Avenue.

"This is a great thing for this area," Commissioner Shelly Petrolia said. "This is one of the areas that's budding and we need to bring people there."

Commissioner Jordana Jarjura said she liked that the proposal calls for reusing the existing building.

The proposal will have to receive design approval from the city before construction can begin.

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KPMG will be the main tenant at Skanska's 66 Queen Square development in Bristol

The anchor tenant for a major city centre office development has been revealed.

KPMG one of the big four accountancy firms has agreed to let most of the 66 Queen Square development due to be ready in the summer. The deal had been speculated onfor months, following rival PwC moving to 2 Glass Wharf in Temple Quarter.

The Queen Squareproject, part new-build and part refurbishment of a period building, was one of the first speculative office developments in Bristol since the recession.

Alex Jordan, leasing director at developer Skanska, said: We are delighted that KPMG will be the main tenant for our first UK commercial development project in Bristol.

As developers working with our own construction team, we have been able to adapt the design of the building to fit with the needs of our tenant, while securing the longest lease in the city in recent years.

The professional services firm has agreed a 15-year lease for the first, second and third floors and part of the ground floor, filling 52,000 square feet (4,831 sq m) of the 61,000 sq ft (5,667 sq m) Grade A office building.

Phil Cotton, Bristol office senior partner and South regional chairman at KPMG, said: This significant investment underscores our commitment to Bristol and the importance of the city to our business.

We have achieved continued success and growth in our marketplace, adding 17 million to our income over the last two years, and I am pleased to be able to plough these profits back into the business and invest in new flagship premises in Bristol.

Our new office in Queen Square will provide our colleagues and clients with top quality office space equipped with the latest technology and located in the heart of the city.

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ALGONQUIN As School District 300 administrators adjust to a new office this week, residents within the district may need to adjust how they identify their school system.

After being stationed in Carpentersville for about three decades, administrators on Monday started the incremental move from their temporary headquarters at Hampshire High School to a new $3.9 million administration building near Jacobs High School in Algonquin.

Officially, the Illinois State Board of Education will continue to recognize the district as Community Unit School District 300 (CUSD 300). But with other CUSD 300s located in Du Quoin, Rockridge and Sullivan, many within the district community know it as Carpentersville District 300.

A move into Algonquin changes the informal identifier, board Vice President Joe Stevens said. Residents, however, should quickly catch on to the change, he said.

When we moved everybody to Hampshire temporarily, it wasnt a big deal, Stevens said. Nobody seemed to have difficulties with it. They understood.

In early 2014, administrators vacated the former Central Office in Carpentersville to allow construction crews to renovate it into a permanent building for the districts alternative Oak Ridge school.

The administration temporarily relocated to Hampshire, as construction began on a new two-story office building near Jacobs.

Despite administrators move into McHenry County, the location change doesnt mean the district is cutting ties with Carpentersville, said Superintendent Fred Heid. The districts boundaries still span three other counties, including Cook, DeKalb and Kane.

We are a community school district and serve our entire district, Heid said. We continue to serve and support all of our students and families.

Officials have said the larger building will be more centrally located within the district and house all administrative departments for the first time.

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Assurances are being made that the use of a former office building as a gaelcholiste in a Co Cork town will only be a temporary measure.

Agriculture Minister and local TD Simon Coveney said there had been some concerns about the planned accommodation of the new second-level school at Waterpark House in Carrigaline

I would like to assure everyone that this is just a temporary solution and that the permanent campus for Gaelcholiste Charraig U Leighin is on track, he said.

Cork Education and Training Board (CETB) chief executive Ted Owens said it is close to getting Department of Education approval to lodge a planning application with Cork County Council for a three-school campus at Ballinrea on the city side of the town.

Among the buildings planned is a permanent home for the new 500-student all-Irish second-level, as well as a primary gaelscoil and a special school.

Although the department expects the gaelcholiste building to be ready by September 2016, the ETB is more cautious.

The project has, however, been included in Education Minister Jan OSullivans list of developments due to begin construction this year.

As patron of the gaelcholiste, the ETB is taking enrolments and applied for planning permission on December 11 to change office space at Waterpark House to educational use.

With the help of a 50,000 grant from the department, it is planned to refurbish it to provide classrooms, and to make changes to parking areas for outdoor recreational space.

The building near the recently-extended Carrigaline Community School includes a period house and modern office extension, and was previously headquarters of the Shipton Group development company.

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More than 140 firefighters took two hours to put out a blaze at an office in the construction site of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau bridge in Tung Chung early yesterday.

No one was injured.

The fire started in an office near the Tung Chung New Development Ferry Pier around 11pm on Monday.

There were four staff working in the office when the computer facilities caught fire.

The staff called the police and evacuated the premises with security guards posted outside. The fire spread quickly, sending clouds of black smoke billowing high into the air.

By the time the firefighters arrived, the blaze had been raised to third alarm, forcing the Fire Services Department to send reinforcements.

Six lines of fire-extinguishing foam were used to put out the blaze by 1am yesterday.

The site office was totally destroyed but the fire did not affect the construction of the cross-delta bridge.

A resident living in the estate facing the ferry pier said the air was quite heavy with smoke, and it was not easy to breathe so he had to close all the windows.

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The Past Weeks Biggest Deals Include: BuzzFeed, Deluxe Media, Hyatt, IQPC/Penton Media, Jabra, NanoString, Northrop Grumman, Stewart Information, and others

The product of a 2005 merger between Montreal's Molson Brewery and Golden, CO-based Coors Brewing Co., Molson Coors will occupy the 45th, 46th and a portion of the 47th floor at the 54-story, 1.37 million-square-foot CBD office tower. Occupancy is scheduled for fall 2015.

Ted Harris and Travis Young of Cassidy Turley represented Molson Coors Brewing Co, while Nicholas Pavlakovich and Matthew Gautreau of Cushman & Wakefield of Colorado collaborated with in-house rep David Sternberg on behalf of Brookfield. By: Virgil Watson

Originally scheduled to expire in September 2016, STC's new lease will keep the title insurance and real estate services company at 1980 Post Oak Blvd. through September 2019.

Acquired by Cousins Properties (NYSE: CUZ) in February 2013, Post Oak Central is a three-building office park totaling approximately 1.28 million square feet in Houston's Galleria/Uptown submarket. Additional tenants in the building include Apache Corp. and SUEZ Energy.

Robert Boykin, Bubba Harkins and Warren Savery of Cousins Properties handle leasing at Post Oak Central Two. By: Bryce Meyers

The 124,000-square-foot, six-story office complex delivered in 1989 at 101 Gateway Centre Pky. in Richmond's Midlothian Corridor. Northrup Grumman has maintained offices at this location since 2007, according to CoStar information.

Joe Marchetti, David Wilkins and Rebecca Barricklow of CBRE Richmond negotiated the lease on behalf of Patriot Equities. By: Bryce Meyers

The 500 Fairview lease has a 10-year term expected to commence on April 1, 2016. The company has an option to extend the term of the lease for two additional periods of five years each.

In addition, NanoString has extended its 36,268-square-foot headquarters lease at 530 Fairview Ave. N to run through March 31, 2026, as well.

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The Senate building

A new Senate building causes stir in the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, as its Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Femi Mimiko, bows out, TEMITAYO FAMUTIMI reports

For the outgoing Vice-Chancellor of the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, Ondo State, Prof. Femi Mimiko, his five-year stay at the university has gracefully ended.

The professor of Comparative Political Economy performed his last official duty in office with the inauguration of the institutions Senate building by Governor Olusegun Mimiko, last Friday.

The governor is the Visitor to the university.

For 14 years, the university had carried on with its activities without a Senate building, as members of staff, especially the non-academic ones, huddled up in small buildings scattered around the campus community.

When the construction of the Senate building began on March 7, 2012 by the contractor, Charvet Nigeria Limited, students, teaching and non-teaching staff heaved a loud sigh of relief.

The five-storey Senate building, described by the VC as an iconic product of research, creativity and deep thinking, sits on 12 hectares of land and provides for about 16,000 square metres office space.

The central administration building, which houses the VCs office, Registry, Bursary, a 184-seater Senate Chamber, 50-seater Council Chamber, two 50-seater conference rooms, 10 boardrooms, with 148 offices, among others, is said to have been constructed at an estimated cost of N1bn by the Ondo State Government.

A lecturer in the Department of History and International Studies, AAUA, Ogunode Oyewole, described the facility as the symbol of administration.

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BUILDING PERMITS

PMT2014-01731 635 Arapahoe Ave., Unit A; $700,000; Britton Holdings; CDC Development/Porchfront Homes; New three-story, single-family dwelling duplex with attached garage. Dwelling to contain two full baths and two half baths, three bedrooms, an unfinished basement, and all associated MEPs.

PMT2014-04291 4760 Eighth St.; $249,656.02; Lee Kuh; Koelbel Urban Homes; New single-family dwelling (please refer to LUR2013-00033 for site review approval). Total of 2,529 square feet of habitable area, including 1,998 square feet of finished "floor area" (as defined on approved site review plans), with 943-square-foot finished basement, and 163-square-foot front porch. Please refer to separate permit for detached garage.

PMT2014-04298 4790 Eighth St.; $154,657.27; Lee Kuh; Koelbel Urban Homes; New single-family dwelling having 1,866 square feet, 600 square feet of which is a finished basement. See TEC2014-00025 and LUR2013-00033 approvals. Scope of work includes associated MEPs and a front porch of 47 square feet. Detached garage (264 square feet) under a separate permit (PMT2014-04299)

PMT2014-04741 615 Spruce St.; $218,960; Nancy Devore and Richard Hill; Conversion of a non-conforming duplex to a single-family dwelling, to include an addition (915 square feet) and remodel (1,387 square feet). Removal of a basement kitchen, excavate basement for storage area (331 square feet), relocate first floor existing kitchen to addition, includes associated MEPs. Please refer to LAC (HIS2014-00032) and setback variance disposition (ADR2014-00162) for more information. Mid-roof inspection required.

PMT2014-04772 805 Kinnikinic Road; $150,000; City of Boulder; Tower One Construction Co.; Construction of a new detached ADA accessible restroom facility west of Chautauqua Auditorium. See TEC2014-00051 for utility relocations.

PMT2014-04817 4647 Huey Circle; $260,000; Holly Sroymalai; Sobo Design & Build; Addition (330 square feet finished, 330 square feet unfinished) and remodel (854 square feet) to single-family dwelling. Scope includes a 330-square-foot addition on upper level, with a new unfinished basement below, conversion of attached garage to habitable space, and 834-square-foot remodel of kitchen and bedrooms. New attached deck (434 square feet). New carport under separate permit.

PMT2014-04977 516 College Ave.; $53,000; Wake Tree; Mr Pool Inc.; Installation of in-ground spa in rear yard of residence currently under construction through PMT2013-04879. Includes associated electrical and mechanical work, no plumbing proposed.

PMT2014-05336 1600 Pearl St.; $2,500,000; 1600 Pearl; Sun Construction & Design Service Inc.; Boulder Brands tenant remodel of 25,953 square feet for office, fitness and training for Boulder Brands. Includes upgrades to plumbing, HVAC, electrical, fire sprinklers and fire alarm.

PMT2014-05357 110 S. 31st St.; $72,000; Robert and Kelly Story; Sobo Design & Build; New 495-square-foot addition of a studio to include associated MEPs, including a new bathroom. See BOZ2014-00012 for variance to parking standards.

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LISBON - Preparation for eventual construction of a new county office building at the site of the former Columbiana County Job and Family Services building is expected to begin sometime in 2015.

County commissioners took the first step this week by transferring $2 million in unappropriated funding to a newly created construction account, with the money to be used for, among other things, the new office building project.

The former JFS building on Nelson Avenue was demolished in 2013 after the JFS moved to the new county government services facility located north of downtown Lisbon. At the time, commissioners said they were contemplating constructing a new office building on the site that would serve as the new home for the county development department. They would also like to move the county Port Authority into the building to consolidate the county's economic development agencies under one roof.

After the meeting, Commissioner Chairman Jim Hoppel said they are considering using some of the $2 million that had been transferred to hire an architect to begin design work on the new building.

"We're just planning ahead a bit ... We're looking toward seeing what we can do," he said.

Hoppel and commissioners believe the development department needs a new, larger home to meet with business officials interested in expanding or moving to the county. It is currently located in a cramped and dilapidated building at the end of South Beaver Street.

"We need to get (Tad) a better place" to meet with potential business clientele, he said.

Hoppel was referring to Tad Herold, the development department director hired in September 2013. The department had been without a director for the previous 10 years when commissioners decided to revitalize the office by hiring Herold.

Hoppel said commissioners are looking at constructing a one-story building with a basement that would be large enough to house several other county offices. Commissioners pay rent for those county offices located in non-government buildings, and moving some of them to the new facility would save money that could be used to pay for construction.

In other business, commissioners renewed an agreement with Frontier Communications for continued maintenance of the equipment it provides for the county's 911 system. The one-year contract is for $38,812.

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