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St. Petersburg, Florida-based Climate First Bank plans to move its headquarters to a former BB&T branch that it bought for $3 million.
“We’ll rejoice!” the choir sang. “We’ll rejoice!”And it felt like a night for rejoicing Saturday as members of the Bach Festival Society choir and the society’s orchestra performed “American Folksongs & Spirituals” on the outdoor stage at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, as part of its Frontyard Festival.
Florida cities experiment with underground waste containers Out-of-Sight Trash Three years ago, Kissimmee installed its first underground waste containers behind city hall. Today, the city has 11 such systems around town and recently added four subterranean bins at the Hamilton at Lakeside apartments, making it the first apartment complex in North America to use the underground waste infrastructure, which was developed by an Italian company. Other Florida cities are also experimenting with the method. Clearwater is in the process of designing and installing several units near the beach and wi...
Respect gaining for cut-and-sew industry To spur cut-and-sew manufacturing in Colorado, it’s time to get back to basics December 10, 2020 As COVID-19 spread across Colorado in the spring, sewing skills were suddenly in high demand. Outdoor manufacturers like Melanzana in Leadville, Phunkshun Wear in Denver, and Osprey’s pack repair team in Cortez pivoted from their usual catalog to face masks, as did numerous home-based sewers. It was a shot in the arm for Colorado’s cut-and-sew industry, which has withered as manufacturing largely migrated overseas over the last 40 years. But can the m...