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KONE Taps Senior VP, Marketing And Communications, Americas

KONE announced Vinay Kapur as senior vice president (VP), Marketing and Communications, Americas, on February 8. In this newly created role, Kapur will lead marketing and communications initiatives across the...

Developer Pushes 30-Story Multiple-Use Tower Near Miami

The city Planning & Zoning Board department of North Bay Village, Florida, is reviewing proposals for a 30-story mixed-use tower, Florida YIMBY reported in February. The 345-ft-tall tower, known as...

Landowner Proposes 45-Story Residential Tower In Seattle

Holland Partner Group, a company that owns the site of Seattle’s Elephant Super Car Wash, has filed with the city to launch building of a residential high rise, K5 reports....

Harlem Residents Call For Elevator Installation At Station

Harlem, NYC, residents are making a push for an elevator-installation project at the 1 line, 125th Street Broadway station, Patch reports. In a letter sent to New York Gov. Kathy...

TKE Debuts North American HQ With IQC And Test Tower In Atlanta

TK Elevator (TKE) formally opened its new North American headquarters at The Battery (home of Major League Baseball’s Atlanta Braves) on February 9 with facility tours, speeches by dignitaries including...

Woman Dies In Mexico Elevator Shaft Fall

A mother in Mexico plunged to her death when an elevator door opened on an empty shaft, Latin Post reports. The woman reportedly attempted to take the elevator at a...

Brooklyn’s Olympia Residential Tower Makes Progress

The 33-story residential building Olympia in the DUMBO neighborhood of Brooklyn, NYC, has made a great deal of progress, with the top already reached and a good bit of the...

Developers Alter Chicago’s 640 W Washington Tower

Chicago project 640 West Washington Boulevard, planned in West Loop Gate, has undergone a redesign, Chicago YIMBY reports. Located on the corner with N Des Plaines Street, near the Kennedy...

San Antonio Officials Set Vote On Funding Elevator Repairs

The Tower of the Americas, a popular viewing and restaurant high rise in San Antonio, Texas, is in line for improvements to its elevators, NEWS4SA reports. The situation will require...

VT Problems Upset Riders In Pakistan Bus Line

Passengers on the Green Line bus service in Karachi, Pakistan, are raising complaints over the failure or shutdown of most elevators and escalators at stops for the transportation system, DAWN...

JAPAN ELEVATOR SERVICE HOLDINGS APPOINTS BOD AND OTHER OFFICERS

Japan Elevator Service Holdings Appoints BoD and Other Officers

image courtesy of Port of Motril

Andalusian Cruise Ship Port Calls For Bids for Accessibility Project

ELEVATOR REGISTER HOPES TO BOOST SAFETY, MODERNIZATION

Elevator Register Hopes To Boost Safety, Modernization

Appana

In Memoriam: Eric Appana

The Faurbourg Elevator; photo by Jeangagnon for Wikimedia Commons

Quebec City’s Fauborg Elevator Reopens After Repairs