Otis Electric Supplying 230 Units to Wuhan Metro Otis continues its strong relationship with Wuhan Metro in China with Otis Electric Elevator Co., Ltd. winning a contract to supply a total of 230 elevators and escalators to lines 11 and 21, as well as onsite, around-the-clock service. This brings the total of Otis units on…
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What promises to be Atlanta’s tallest residential tower, a 53-story glass structure designed by Perkins+Will, is planned as part of the 4.5-acre, mixed-use development Opus Place in Midtown, the Robb Report reported. Construction on No. 2 Opus Place is expected to start in the fall and wrap up by 2020. It will contain approximately 220…
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The nonprofit Playhouse Square Foundation plans to build a 34-story, 378-ft.-tall tower containing more than 300 apartments on the edge of the theater district in downtown Cleveland, The Plain Dealer reported. The organization also plans a six-level parking garage topped by resident amenities. The location is at East 17th Street and Euclid Avenue. Global real-estate…
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H&B CEO Eison Honored as “Entrepreneur of the Year” H&B Elevators CEO Jashan Eison (ELEVATOR WORLD, April 2014) has been honored as “Entrepreneur of the Year” by the Metropolitan Economic Development Association, a Minneapolis-based organization that promotes minority business ownership, FOX 9 reports. Eison went to work for H&B in 2007 as a project manager…
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Thompson, HR Green Form Area Alliance Thompson Elevator Inspection Service, Inc., serving the Chicago area since 1975, has formed a strategic alliance with HR Green, Inc., which has offices nationwide and has had a Chicago presence since 1913, aimed at better serving area municipalities. According to HR Green, the alliance provides fire and elevator code…
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Kings III Emergency Communications of the Dallas area has been acquired by Rockbridge Growth Equity, a Detroit-based private equity firm. The deal closed on June 20. Rockbridge stated Kings III was an attractive opportunity due to its in-house design, engineering, manufacturing and emergency-dispatch departments. Kings III CEO Dennis Mason said the alliance “represents an exciting…
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A tower in downtown Seattle’s red-hot condo market is among the last to be built in the neighborhood this decade, developers say. The Seattle Times reports that NEXUS, a 41-story, 382-unit tower under construction at 1200 Howell Street, will offer residents numerous amenities covering 21,000 sq. ft. and spread across multiple floors. Among them are…
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Renderings of Residential Hudson Yards Tower Revealed Renderings of the second residential tower in Hudson Yards, the 33-story One Hudson Yards, have been revealed, showing a red-stone-and-glass façade rising out of a podium, ArchDaily reported. The design is by Davis Brody Bond with interiors by Andre Kikoski Architect. The structure is set to rise next…
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We are focusing our attention this month on the West Coast. I have family in California and Washington State, so I am very careful not to call it the “land of nuts and flakes” or the “left coast” — those liberal flakes are related to me! We consider them the family progressives and love to…
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Nineteenth-century design with unique history was employed in a wide range of buildings. One of the most intriguing hydraulic elevator systems developed in the 19th century was the water-balance elevator. Its use in the Western Union Telegraph Building in New York City was explored in From the Ascending Room to the Express Elevator: A History…
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