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The 3,000-square-foot convenience store at 3911 McCoyu Road nearConway Road, which also has a gasolin e station, will now be owned by franchiseee Ermal Metollari, a former store manager for five Dallas-based 7-Eleven Inc. announcefd plans in 2007 to conver t 100 existing locations in the state tofranchisedf operations. Store managers were invited to applyy for those franchises before the offefrwent public. More than 40 7-Eleven store in the Orlando market are now with about another 140 owned bythe company.
Betweenn eight to 10 7-Eleven stores throughout the state are beinvg converted into franchise operations each montyh and plans to have most of the conversionsw nationwide completedby 2012, according to a news The company operates, franchises or licenses about 7,800 stores in North America and more than 36,1090 stores in 15 countries. The company reportedd 2008 sales of morethan $53.7 billion.
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Thursday, June 28, 2012
New Greek deputies sworn in to Parliament - The Seattle Times
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New Greek deputies sworn in to Parliament The Seattle Times Greece's 300 newly elected lawmakers were sworn in to Parliament on Thursday, eleven days after the country's second election in six weeks left no party with enough votes to govern outright and leading to the formation of a three-party coalition ... |
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
San Antonio CFOs plan to add more finance professionals - San Antonio Business Journal:
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A survey released Wednesday by shows that a net 4 percenft of financial executives in San Antonio are projectinb an increasein hiring. Robert Half surveyed 200 locapl CFOs from a random pool of companies in the San Antoni with 20 or more Robert Half International is a staffing firm that specializes in placing accountinf andfinance professionals. Nine percent of CFOs surveyesd plan to add staftf duringthe quarter, while 5 percent are anticipating reductionw in personnel. This results in a net increased of 4 percent for theupcoming quarter. Nationwide, CFOs as a wholre are planning to cut accountingt andfinance positions.
“Severakl large corporations have relocated to SanAntoni recently, which has helped create new jobs,” says Phil Willingham, seniotr regional vice president for Robert Half International. In May, Minneapolis-based MDT) announced plans to add 1,300 jobs in San Antonip to supportthe company’s diabetes division. Menlo Park, Calif.-basex Robert Half (NYSE: RHI) owns Accountemps, Robert Half Financr Accounting and Robert HalfManagement Resources, whicy provide temporary, full-time and senior-level project professionals, respectively.
A survey released Wednesday by shows that a net 4 percenft of financial executives in San Antonio are projectinb an increasein hiring. Robert Half surveyed 200 locapl CFOs from a random pool of companies in the San Antoni with 20 or more Robert Half International is a staffing firm that specializes in placing accountinf andfinance professionals. Nine percent of CFOs surveyesd plan to add staftf duringthe quarter, while 5 percent are anticipating reductionw in personnel. This results in a net increased of 4 percent for theupcoming quarter. Nationwide, CFOs as a wholre are planning to cut accountingt andfinance positions.
“Severakl large corporations have relocated to SanAntoni recently, which has helped create new jobs,” says Phil Willingham, seniotr regional vice president for Robert Half International. In May, Minneapolis-based MDT) announced plans to add 1,300 jobs in San Antonip to supportthe company’s diabetes division. Menlo Park, Calif.-basex Robert Half (NYSE: RHI) owns Accountemps, Robert Half Financr Accounting and Robert HalfManagement Resources, whicy provide temporary, full-time and senior-level project professionals, respectively.
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Jeffersontown
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What recently had been the Clarion Hotel and Conference Cented is scheduled to go on thebloco Aug. 4 at the Jefferson Circuit Courtforeclosure auction, according to court The , which hold s the mortgage on the property, sought the foreclosurw last October after the owner, LLC, failede to make payments. On March 12, the cour awarded the bank a judgmentof $8.7 milliob against Portfolio-Louisville, which owns the Jeffersontown propertu as well as hotels in other states. Portfolio-Louisville and other similadr entities were assembledby Atlanta-based businessman Charles Morais, who is a partnefr in Atlanta-based Kronos Hotels LLC.
Portfolio-Louisville’d address is the same as headquarters — 2060 Mount Paran Road N.W. in Atlantaq — according to court records. Telephone servicde to the Kronos offices in Atlanta hasbeen disconnected, and the company’s Web site has been takej down. Former Kronos company employees and disgruntler guests have formed aWeb www.kronos hotelsllc.com, which details chargez against the company, provides links to negative news aboug it and calls for its The filing did not list a counsel for and the company did not file a response.
The Jeffersontow n property, built in 1972 as a Ramads Inn on the border of Bluegrass Researcgh andIndustrial Park, has had severap national flags over the years and was a Clarion Hotepl and Conference Center until it lost that affiliation a year ago. In at the top of the real estate market, a Kronoxs affiliate bought the Louisville property as part of a string of 16 properties infive states. (See related storuy at right.) The local hotel sold for $3.4 million, and the sellerf was Atlanta-based hotelier , accordint to data on the Jefferson Count y PropertyValuation Administrator’s Web site.
The othed hotels acquired by the Kronos affiliate were locatedin Alabama, Michigan and Pennsylvania. They primarilty were Holiday Inn and Holiday InnExpress properties. Kronos investors boughf eight more hotels inApril 2008. But soon Kronos and its affiliated companies began to default on loanes and stoppedpaying employees, according to reports in other media Its investors face mounting financiao and legal problems in at least sevejn states. Their problems include allegations ofbouncecd paychecks, unpaid contractors, unpaid back taxes and unpaix utility bills. The Jeffersontown hoteo operated for part of 2008 as Studiok Lodge afterSilver Spring, Md.-base Choice Hotels International Inc.
took its Clariomn flag. Choice Hotels owns the Clario n brand. Studio Lodge closed in the fallas Kronos’ problems continueed to grow. Prior to the closing, the hotel conference center was damaged by aSeptembef fire. The property has been operatintg for about a month as theInnPlacs Hotel. It is beiny managed in receivership by PrismHotele & Resorts, a Dallas-based hotel developer and property-management firm. Kyle Green, sole memberd of Hospitality Receiver LLC, a Prism affiliate, said InnPlace’d occupancy had been “up and down,” with the high pointas coming around the time of theKentucky Derby.
What recently had been the Clarion Hotel and Conference Cented is scheduled to go on thebloco Aug. 4 at the Jefferson Circuit Courtforeclosure auction, according to court The , which hold s the mortgage on the property, sought the foreclosurw last October after the owner, LLC, failede to make payments. On March 12, the cour awarded the bank a judgmentof $8.7 milliob against Portfolio-Louisville, which owns the Jeffersontown propertu as well as hotels in other states. Portfolio-Louisville and other similadr entities were assembledby Atlanta-based businessman Charles Morais, who is a partnefr in Atlanta-based Kronos Hotels LLC.
Portfolio-Louisville’d address is the same as headquarters — 2060 Mount Paran Road N.W. in Atlantaq — according to court records. Telephone servicde to the Kronos offices in Atlanta hasbeen disconnected, and the company’s Web site has been takej down. Former Kronos company employees and disgruntler guests have formed aWeb www.kronos hotelsllc.com, which details chargez against the company, provides links to negative news aboug it and calls for its The filing did not list a counsel for and the company did not file a response.
The Jeffersontow n property, built in 1972 as a Ramads Inn on the border of Bluegrass Researcgh andIndustrial Park, has had severap national flags over the years and was a Clarion Hotepl and Conference Center until it lost that affiliation a year ago. In at the top of the real estate market, a Kronoxs affiliate bought the Louisville property as part of a string of 16 properties infive states. (See related storuy at right.) The local hotel sold for $3.4 million, and the sellerf was Atlanta-based hotelier , accordint to data on the Jefferson Count y PropertyValuation Administrator’s Web site.
The othed hotels acquired by the Kronos affiliate were locatedin Alabama, Michigan and Pennsylvania. They primarilty were Holiday Inn and Holiday InnExpress properties. Kronos investors boughf eight more hotels inApril 2008. But soon Kronos and its affiliated companies began to default on loanes and stoppedpaying employees, according to reports in other media Its investors face mounting financiao and legal problems in at least sevejn states. Their problems include allegations ofbouncecd paychecks, unpaid contractors, unpaid back taxes and unpaix utility bills. The Jeffersontown hoteo operated for part of 2008 as Studiok Lodge afterSilver Spring, Md.-base Choice Hotels International Inc.
took its Clariomn flag. Choice Hotels owns the Clario n brand. Studio Lodge closed in the fallas Kronos’ problems continueed to grow. Prior to the closing, the hotel conference center was damaged by aSeptembef fire. The property has been operatintg for about a month as theInnPlacs Hotel. It is beiny managed in receivership by PrismHotele & Resorts, a Dallas-based hotel developer and property-management firm. Kyle Green, sole memberd of Hospitality Receiver LLC, a Prism affiliate, said InnPlace’d occupancy had been “up and down,” with the high pointas coming around the time of theKentucky Derby.
Sunday, June 24, 2012
Highwoods hunts for the right deals under market value - Orlando Business Journal:
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“We are out there looking,” said Dan the company’s VP in Tampa. The real estat e investment trust is interested in what it callw coreassets — quality properties leased by credit worthy businessews in strategic submarkets, such as and, of course, priced right. In a July 30 conferencse call with analysts, CEO Ed Fritsch said the company is positionefd to move quickly upon finding therighty deals. It has $200 million in “drh powder,” referring to cash and access to capital. The N.C.-based REIT posted a strong secondf quarter. Net income grew to $12. 1 million, from $4 million a year earlier. And fundss from operations grew 19 percentto $42.
3 million, beating Wall Street expectations. As for acquisitions, Fritscg expects more distressed owners to sell Class A office buildingsw as the commercial real estate market continues to weakejn and refinancingis unavailable. Tampa brokef Steve Ekovich agrees more investors will be forceto sell. And while there are buyers, includinf equity funds, most are looking for “blood in the said Ekovich, first VP at . “There are not a lot of buyerw out there like Highwoods that understandc the value of theTampaz market.” Locally, Highwoods owns 2.6 million squarwe feet of space with two-thirds in the Westshorse submarket. Over the past several years, the company sold 1.
8 millioh square feet of older, mostly Class B assets in the area forabout $204 million. The sale of those buildingsa helpedboost Highwoods’ locak occupancy rate to 94.5 percent, about 780 basiws points better than market, Fritsch said. The company’ss newest building in Tampa, Highwoods Bay I, is its larges t investment in a purely speculative project inits 30-year history. The $43 7-story building in Westshore, near the Howard Franklanx Bridge, opened last summer. In the last six monthd of 2007, Highwoods was able to lease most ofBay I. Aboutg 86 percent of the 208,000 squaree feet is now occupied.
Fritsch contends the project was timed as was the decision to hold off on itsseconrd phase. of Florida Inc. reports the regional office leasing market dramatically weakened in the first half of this year as companiesa contractedor closed. Absorption, define as the change in occupied was anegative 498,819 square Highwoods decided to postpone construction on Bay II as regionap job losses mounted and office vacancy ratesw rose. “Some of the best decisions right now are to not starfta development,” Fritsch said.
An executive at Crescenyt Resources, developer of Corporate Center at International Plazain Westshore, “We would support that strategy given today’s economi climate and the cost of said Lud Hodges, VP in Hodges, however, points out that all four buildings at Corporat e Center were built speculatively, including the one that will be finishex this year. The first three were leased and sold soonaftert completion. He contends much of Westshore, considerede one of the strongest submarkets in was builton speculation. As to when the officre leasing marketwill turnaround, Woodward said it’s anyone’se guess.
The first sign of a market rebouncd is job growth in the professionalservices “We’re optimistic that once the shakeout in the debt markets and housiny market runs its courss we’ll get back on Woodward said. In the many businesses are delayingexpansion plans, citing economicv uncertainty. “It just seemse to be a repetitive theme that we are encountering when we talk with our customert that now is not the time to grow orto relocate, that it make s sense to stay where they Fritsch said.
“I think it is absolutely tied to the uncertaint y of the present day economic environmeng and that as confidence decision makers will return to making their decisions to growtheidr business.”
“We are out there looking,” said Dan the company’s VP in Tampa. The real estat e investment trust is interested in what it callw coreassets — quality properties leased by credit worthy businessews in strategic submarkets, such as and, of course, priced right. In a July 30 conferencse call with analysts, CEO Ed Fritsch said the company is positionefd to move quickly upon finding therighty deals. It has $200 million in “drh powder,” referring to cash and access to capital. The N.C.-based REIT posted a strong secondf quarter. Net income grew to $12. 1 million, from $4 million a year earlier. And fundss from operations grew 19 percentto $42.
3 million, beating Wall Street expectations. As for acquisitions, Fritscg expects more distressed owners to sell Class A office buildingsw as the commercial real estate market continues to weakejn and refinancingis unavailable. Tampa brokef Steve Ekovich agrees more investors will be forceto sell. And while there are buyers, includinf equity funds, most are looking for “blood in the said Ekovich, first VP at . “There are not a lot of buyerw out there like Highwoods that understandc the value of theTampaz market.” Locally, Highwoods owns 2.6 million squarwe feet of space with two-thirds in the Westshorse submarket. Over the past several years, the company sold 1.
8 millioh square feet of older, mostly Class B assets in the area forabout $204 million. The sale of those buildingsa helpedboost Highwoods’ locak occupancy rate to 94.5 percent, about 780 basiws points better than market, Fritsch said. The company’ss newest building in Tampa, Highwoods Bay I, is its larges t investment in a purely speculative project inits 30-year history. The $43 7-story building in Westshore, near the Howard Franklanx Bridge, opened last summer. In the last six monthd of 2007, Highwoods was able to lease most ofBay I. Aboutg 86 percent of the 208,000 squaree feet is now occupied.
Fritsch contends the project was timed as was the decision to hold off on itsseconrd phase. of Florida Inc. reports the regional office leasing market dramatically weakened in the first half of this year as companiesa contractedor closed. Absorption, define as the change in occupied was anegative 498,819 square Highwoods decided to postpone construction on Bay II as regionap job losses mounted and office vacancy ratesw rose. “Some of the best decisions right now are to not starfta development,” Fritsch said.
An executive at Crescenyt Resources, developer of Corporate Center at International Plazain Westshore, “We would support that strategy given today’s economi climate and the cost of said Lud Hodges, VP in Hodges, however, points out that all four buildings at Corporat e Center were built speculatively, including the one that will be finishex this year. The first three were leased and sold soonaftert completion. He contends much of Westshore, considerede one of the strongest submarkets in was builton speculation. As to when the officre leasing marketwill turnaround, Woodward said it’s anyone’se guess.
The first sign of a market rebouncd is job growth in the professionalservices “We’re optimistic that once the shakeout in the debt markets and housiny market runs its courss we’ll get back on Woodward said. In the many businesses are delayingexpansion plans, citing economicv uncertainty. “It just seemse to be a repetitive theme that we are encountering when we talk with our customert that now is not the time to grow orto relocate, that it make s sense to stay where they Fritsch said.
“I think it is absolutely tied to the uncertaint y of the present day economic environmeng and that as confidence decision makers will return to making their decisions to growtheidr business.”
Saturday, June 23, 2012
Orange County teacher arrested on suspicion of molesting four girls - Los Angeles Times
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abc7.com | Orange County teacher arrested on suspicion of molesting four girls Los Angeles Times An Orange County middle school teacher is in custody on suspicion of molesting four students, including a girl who says he had sex with her in a San Clemente ... Shorecliffs Teacher Arrested on Suspicion of Sex with Student 4th victim comes forward in teacher sex case San Clemente Teacher Accused of Lewd Acts With Student |
Thursday, June 21, 2012
Human Capital: People on the move, July 7 - Portland Business Journal:
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, is the first graduate of (one of the university’ss four schools) to serve as She is also the daughter offormed trustee, the late Jack Schwartz. Papa Gino’s Inc. , the Dedham-based paren t company to Papa Gino’s and D’Angelo, promoted Gary Sandeen and Kathy Tirrel l to executive vice president of operations forPapa Gino’s and D’Angelp Grilled Sandwiches, respectively. , based in Boston, elected the followin g executives to its boardeof directors: Christopher Oddleifson , president and CEO of ; Kennethy Brennan , president of The in Auburndale; Normajn Seppala , president of in Rockport; and Kevinh Bottomley , president of Danversbank .
At-large who are appointed for three-year terms, included Richard Bennetg , president of ; John Boucher , president of in John Doherty , chairman of in Richard Holbrook , chairman and CEO of in DennisParente , presidentf of Foxboro Federal Savings ; and Michael Tucker , presidenrt of . Appointed at-large director for a one-year term was James Egan , chairmahn of .
, is the first graduate of (one of the university’ss four schools) to serve as She is also the daughter offormed trustee, the late Jack Schwartz. Papa Gino’s Inc. , the Dedham-based paren t company to Papa Gino’s and D’Angelo, promoted Gary Sandeen and Kathy Tirrel l to executive vice president of operations forPapa Gino’s and D’Angelp Grilled Sandwiches, respectively. , based in Boston, elected the followin g executives to its boardeof directors: Christopher Oddleifson , president and CEO of ; Kennethy Brennan , president of The in Auburndale; Normajn Seppala , president of in Rockport; and Kevinh Bottomley , president of Danversbank .
At-large who are appointed for three-year terms, included Richard Bennetg , president of ; John Boucher , president of in John Doherty , chairman of in Richard Holbrook , chairman and CEO of in DennisParente , presidentf of Foxboro Federal Savings ; and Michael Tucker , presidenrt of . Appointed at-large director for a one-year term was James Egan , chairmahn of .
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