L.A. Committee Approves High Rise With Market-Rate Condos The Los Angeles City Council’s planning and land-use- management committee approved plans for a 41-story tower at Figueroa and Eighth streets. The building will include 438 condos and approximately 5,000 ft2 of commercial space on the ground floor. There will also be an enclosed parking structure with…
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Hadid-Designed 62-Story Tower With KONE VT System Opens The 62-story One Thousand Museum, the late Zaha Hadid’s final residential tower in the U.S. (ELEVATOR WORLD, April 2018), is open in downtown Miami, The Architect’s Newspaper reported in July. Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) told EW the vertical-transportation (VT) system, which includes elevators and a car lift,…
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45th Annual Pop/Joe Golf Outing Honors Witham National Association of Elevator Contractors (NAEC) Deputy Director Teresa Witham was presented with the Gene Frohlinger Distinguished Service Award at the 45th Annual Pop Frohlinger/Joe Marchese Memorial Invitational Golf Tournament on June 10 at the North Hempstead Country Club in Port Washington, New York. Commonly known as “Pop/…
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Casino Celebrates Amenities, Including Revamped Elevators Ocean Casino Resort in Atlantic City, New Jersey, held a first-anniversary celebration that included a ribbon-cutting for new amenities, including a pair of service elevators that were converted into public elevators, The Press of Atlantic City reported in June. The Ocean, formerly the Revel Casino, welcomed guests for the…
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thyssenkrupp Acquires Longtime Distributor O’Keefe thyssenkrupp Elevator has acquired Omaha, Nebraska-based O’Keefe Elevator, which has more than 120 employees and been led by members of the O’Keefe family for more than 100 years. The largest full-service elevator company serving Nebraska and Iowa, O’Keefe has been thyssenkrupp Elevator’s exclusive distributor since 1947. Notable O’Keefe new installations…
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Largest Demolition Moving Along The largest demolition in NYC is moving along at 270 Park Avenue (ELEVATOR WORLD, January 2019 and May 2018). New scaffolding and netting have been installed on the exterior of the 52-story, 1.5-million-ft2 building. This will be the tallest intentionally demolished structure in history. An exterior mechanical hoist has also been…
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It would be easy to dismiss cabs and doors as just the “pretty” side of the elevator business; however, the way the cab looks and the way the doors work says everything about the building in which the elevator works. The way it looks may be your only chance to make an impression on passengers…
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When Ian Strong, a second-grader at Glenwood Landing Elementary School in Glen Head, New York, learned his school was organizing a science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics fair, he knew exactly what his project would be: revealing the mysteries of one of his favorite inventions, the elevator. For his task, Ian conducted months of hands-on…
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Controllers, switches and more offer modern solutions to timeless problems. New Position Switches and Door Contact Porta Westfalica, Germany-based BERNSTEIN AG has introduced its IN-series switches and SEL3 door contact. The new position switches, IN62 and IN65, are designed to meet increased market demand and have contacts specially designed for switching low currents. The IN65…
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Weak office market fails to prevent an efficient, flexible tower with a Schindler VT system from earning CTBUH award.
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