Shawmut Design and Construction has joined Draper and Wexford Science & Technology to break ground on the 111,000-square-foot Integrated Microelectronics Production & Advanced Chip Technology (IMPACT) Center in Lowell, Massachusetts.
Sears will debut a fast-fashion brand called Now + Here next month in in-store shops and online, with styles aimed at rivaling H&M and Forever 21. The shop will get monthly deliveries of trendy tops, bottoms, cardigans and vests that will range in price from
Whole Foods Market plans to open a new store in an unexpected location: Hawaii’s largest shopping mall, where it will occupy the ground floor of a Nordstrom store. Retailers such as Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s are being courted by malls looking to fill vacant
A $400 million tower planned for Journal Square in Jersey City, N.J., may include a hotel, ground retail, housing units or office space. HAP Tower could span 42 stories, and it is the fourth large project planned for the Journal Square area. Read The Jersey
The 182-room Hilton Mystic hotel in Connecticut has been acquired by hotel owner and operator Distinctive Hotel Group for $14.1 million. The property is expected to be renovated while retaining its Hilton brand. The sale is part of RLJ Lodging Trust‘s capital-recycling strategy through sales
The new lifestyle brand that Hilton Worldwide plans to develop won’t focus solely on appealing to the millennial segment. Hilton also hinted that a second brand may be in the works but declined to give further details. Read the HotelNewsNow.com story here
Japanese fast-fashion retailer Uniqlo is in talks to open its first stores in Canada by 2016, in Toronto’s Yorkdale mall. The retailer operates 1,300 stores in 14 countries, and it’s on a mission to move from fourth-largest global fashion retailer to first by the end
Sustainability sounds controversial, but on the municipal level it’s really just about improving people’s quality of life. That also means helping to protect urban residents from the impact of climate change and extreme weather. Read the GovTech.com story here
Linconshire, Ill.-based pizza chain Sarpino’s USA plans to grow from 46 to 350 units in the next five years, with an ambitious franchising plan. According to research, the average pizza store in the United States does approximately $500,000 a year – Sarpino’s doubles that number,
Louisiana’s $50 billion coastal restoration plan, to be implemented over the next 50 years, is expected to boost the state’s construction industry, based on a report commissioned by the nonprofit organization Restore Louisiana Now. The plan would involve rebuilding barrier islands and hurricane storm surge
Mama Fu’s Asian House, an Austin, Texas-based restaurant franchise, will open the first of its new, smaller prototype to serve the Arboretum area in Texas. Read the FastCasual.com story here
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