| Abbyson Corporation Introduces "The Power Of Home" Retail Concept ...
The Power of Home, an alliance with multinational shopping mall powerhouse The Westfield Corporation, is a completely new vision in home furnishings created with the consumer in mind. The Power of Home boasts the slogan Your vision, Your design, Your home, and its flagship store is projected to open in the completely remodeled Westfield Topanga Canyon mall in May 2007.
The Power of Home will join newcomers Michael Kors, Coach, Burberry, and a brand new Neiman Marcus to be part of Westfield Topangas landmark renovation project estimated at $620 million in total projected sales and 1.6MM square feet.
The concept of The Power of Home is simple: to provide a wide variety of products to the consumer at middle to upper level prices, but this includes a twist. The Power of Home will feature a fully experienced design team as staff, as well as a completely unique touch-screen Design Center for customers convenience.
Arcadia council weighs Caruso's mall proposal
ARCADIA - The rivalry between shopping center giants Caruso Affiliated and Westfield appears to be coming to a head in this city, as City Council members considered a 830,000-square-foot outdoor mall proposal brought before them Wednesday night. Caruso's upscale project, slated for the parking lot of the landmark Santa Anita Race Track, entered the final stages of city approval in a night filled with red "Yes!" buttons and black T-shirts printed with stop signs. The meeting began about 7p.m.; an inch-thick stack of requests to speak was barely dented by 9:30p.m. Audience members packed the Masonic Lodge, which had seats for 700. An overflow room at the nearby library had another 150 seats. A decision had not been reached as of late Wednesday. During his presentation before the City Council, developer and CEO Rick Caruso touted the project, known as The Shops at Santa Anita, as a community-friendly one that respects the race track's history.
Sugar Grove sales tax to start in July
SUGAR GROVE -- Shoppers in Sugar Grove will be seeing their bills inch up by 1 percent this summer, when the village's new sales tax goes into effect. The tax applies to all purchases except food and medicine. The Sugar Grove board enacted the new tax just in time to catch an April 1 deadline set by the state, which manages the collection of all sales taxes. Sugar Grove's current rate of 6.5 percent will increase to 7.5 percent beginning in July. That puts the village tax slightly higher than in other area towns, with only Aurora higher at 7.75 percent. Sugar Grove conceived the new tax as a way to fund incentives for a large shopping mall that national developer Forest City has proposed for the corner of Galena Boulevard and Route 47. While that project has been bogged down in talks with the Illinois Department of Transportation, Sugar Grove trustees have spent months debating whether to enact the sales tax anyway.
He's come back to a hometown transformed
And we both moved away as adults, but chose to come back, for good. We returned to a hometown greatly transformed by an influx of newcomers, especially those from outside the South. His homecoming story is profound. It shows that while Charlotte's nowhere near perfect, it has come a long way in embracing diversity. Holland, 54, grew up in a Pentecostal, middle-class family. He was shy and self-conscious about growing up gay in the Bible Belt. Sometimes other kids were cruel, and he grew to feel he belonged somewhere else. He worked a part-time job at Eastland Mall and graduated from Garinger High School. Next, he earned a psychology degree at UNC Charlotte. Then he studied to become a chiropractor but only practiced for a couple of years after earning that degree.
Western Book Notes
Last year the beloved Denver book store, Tattered Cover, vacated its old digs in Cherry Creek because of rising lease costs, and relocated to Colfax (in addition to keeping its LoDo and Highlands Ranch locations open). Recently, Margaret Jackson of the Denver Post reported that the old Tattered Cover space will be turned into a high-end health club called Pure Vida Fitness and Spa. The Denver Business Journal further writes that "Spa owners describe it as a 'membership-based, exclusive, adult-only health club and spa,'" so it sounds like the ambiance of the place will be the exact opposite of the old Tattered with its abundant chairs and browsers-welcome mentality. Speaking of the Tattered Cover, the book store's owner, Joyce Meskis, was just named the Director of the University of Denver's Publishing Institute. She will assume the position in January 2008. According to a press release, "Founded in 1976, the Publishing Institute is an intensive four-week, graduate-level course devoted to all aspects of book publishing.
Duke Energy Volunteers Celebrate Earth Day & Community With PWC
CINCINNATI, April 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Volunteers from Duke Energy will celebrate Earth Day and community spirit by weatherizing and repairing the home of a disabled People Working Cooperatively client Saturday, April 28, as part of Duke's Global Service Event. Duke Energy employees -- including Ohio/Kentucky Duke Energy President Sandra Meyer, will work alongside PWC's repair professionals at Covington, KY home, helping to building a ramp and make the home more energy efficient. The 77-year-old client was disabled by construction accident, and needs major home modifications to make his home safe .
German soccer club visits Denison
Diving saves, yellow cards and half-time are all understood when it comes to the universal game of soccer. But it is the off-field experience that the players from SV Minfeld will take away from their week in America. That's not an insult to the three teams they played over the last couple of days, concluding with a match against the Denison SVI Xtreme yesterday afternoon at Munson Stadium."We didn't think it would be this green and we'd see lots of cowboys," Minfeld captain Jutta Glckselig said. "Very clich/."The German girls had the home-country advantage against many of those same girls two years ago, when Xtreme club president Kurt Stange took his team on the soccer trip of a lifetime.Stange spent some of his formidable years growing up in Germany when his father was stationed there from 1974-77.
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