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- Real estate investor gets lots of calls
- Getting down to it
- Israel’s BioPetroClean lets Mother Nature do the dirty work
- Fresno a player in debate over nuclear power Proposal for plant in…
- Week in Review

Real estate investor gets lots of calls
pittsburghlive.com – Apr 8, 2007
With those sales completed, DiCesare said he’s on the hunt for additional investments to add to his portfolio that includes about 400,000 square feet of office and retail space, mostly in Allegheny County. One property is the six-story Gatehouse building at Station Square on the South Side, where he’s signed a Subway restaurant to a 10-year lease. Another company that has been on a buying spree is Landmark Properties Group, a Hampton-based real estate management and development firm. As recently reported, the company acquired two North Hills-area office buildings, the 36,962-square-foot Town Centre and the 28,762-square-foot Meadow Pointe Office Park, both in McCandless, and Keystone Corporate Square, a 98,448-square-foot garden-style office complex, in Indianapolis. The purchase price of the three properties was about $10 million. Landmark’s portfolio of office and retail property totals more than 1 million square feet. Real estate notes:* Carrier Corp…
Brown Memorial Library at Central Catholic High School, Oakland. Work begins in June. And it has joined Guardian Self Storage of Pittsburgh in planning its first out-of-state storage facility near Denver. * New additions at the West Hills Industrial Park in Franklin Township, Armstrong County, include Jerich Co. , which expects to open this spring once construction of its 10,000-square-foot distribution center and warehouse is completed. The firm imports and distributes valve parts for the faucet repair industry. Also locating there is PA CareerLink Armstrong County by the Tri-County Workforce Investment Board.

Getting down to it
Seattle Times – Apr 8, 2007
The homes range from 736 to 2,700 square feet, but downsizing is not just a numbers game. CITY LIVIN’YOU MIGHT NOT think that moving to a 2,700-square-foot condominium with two bedrooms and 3 ½ bathrooms is downsizing. But it is if the Broadmoor mid-century contemporary you moved from was 3,500 square feet with four bedrooms, four baths and two big living rooms. “I loved the house, but it just had too many memories of Nancy,” says Frank Stagen, who sought a downtown condo after the death of his wife. His two children are grown. Stagen, vice chairman and CEO of the development company Nitze-Stagen, wanted a warm but uncluttered home, and, contrary to popular opinion, a home with no water view…
“I loved the house, but it just had too many memories of Nancy,” says Frank Stagen, who sought a downtown condo after the death of his wife. His two children are grown. Stagen, vice chairman and CEO of the development company Nitze-Stagen, wanted a warm but uncluttered home, and, contrary to popular opinion, a home with no water view. “I’ve lived with western views,” he says. “The water view is highly overrated. At night the water is dark. And the sun! When I look out here, this is a city.

Israel’s BioPetroClean lets Mother Nature do the dirty work
Israel 21C – Apr 8, 2007
There, BioPetroClean concocted the perfect cocktail of bacteria, including nutrients that would consume the greatest amount of oil in the shortest time. The end product would be carbon-dioxide and water. To convince EAPC, BioPetroClean built a two by two meter cement tank near its oil storage facilities in Ashkelon. Inside it, the company added the bacteria, suspended in a liquid medium, to hundreds of gallons of contaminated water. Within a few days, the murky water came out of the tank crystal clear. “Lots of people at my company didn’t believe in this method at first,” Levi told ISRAEL21c. “We tried it in small amounts and I saw the results before my very eyes, how in two or three days, our dirty water looked like seawater again.

Fresno a player in debate over nuclear power Proposal for plant in…
San Francisco Chronicle – Apr 8, 2007
, plant is still operating. Still, several obstacles stand in the way of a nuclear revival in the United States, including the wariness of Wall Street. Nuclear power plant construction “is incredibly capital-intensive, both the research and the construction of facilities,” said Andrew Friendly, a venture capital investor with Advanced Technology Ventures in Boston, a company that helps fund cutting-edge energy technologies. “No one wants it in their backyard and we still haven’t figured out what do with the waste. ” On paper, nuclear power has always looked great. Since the 1950s, one of the industry’s most effective boasts has been to point out how a few thimblefuls of uranium can generate as much energy as dozens of trainloads of coal, which is a major source of greenhouse gases. They also note that North America has abundant uranium, so nuclear power doesn’t require reliance on foreign fuel…
They also note that North America has abundant uranium, so nuclear power doesn’t require reliance on foreign fuel. But opponents will point out there is more to the nuclear industry than the nation’s 100-plus operational atomic power plants scattered across the map. There is also a national infrastructure of rail lines and highway shippers whose job it is to ferry nuclear and spent fuel to and from reactors and to temporary storage sites. If anything kills further nuclear reactor development in the United States, though, it’s likely to be a problem that has haunted the entire nuclear age: nuclear waste. In the 1970s, federal officials promised to take spent nuclear fuel off the utilities’ hands and bury it somewhere. One possibility included burying it inside craters gouged in the Nevada desert by atom bomb tests.

Week in Review
Traverse City Record Eagle – Apr 8, 2007
Because he is a habitual offender, he could face up to life in prison if convicted. CHARLEVOIXEntergy to take over waste storageCHARLEVOIX — It's 107 acres, radioactive and soon to be someone else's problem. The spent fuel storage area at the Big Rock nuclear power plant site near Charlevoix will be handed over this month to a New Orleans power company, said Consumers Energy spokesman Tim Petrosky. Consumers will pay Entergy Corp. $30 million to assume responsibility for Big Rock's dry fuel storage area, where waste from 35 years of nuclear power production is kept. The transaction is tied to Entergy's previous purchase of Consumers' Palisades nuclear plant near South Haven. To be finalized by May 1, the deal includes 107 acres surrounding a basketball-court sized pad where 441 bundles of spent fuel rods are sealed in concrete and steel casks, Petrosky said.