A good school district, desirable homes and appealing surroundings have helped increase the value of Murrysville homes in recent years.
While the 2006-07 median sale price of Westmoreland County houses has risen by 1.6 percent over last year, Murrysville home prices are up 9 percent for the same period.
And since 2003-04, the median sale prices [...]

Doman Developments plans to complete a $50 million CDN Corporate Campus on Blue Heron Drive in this southwestern Ontario city. Doman plans to construct each light industrial or office building as tenants are confirmed. The development is expected to cost up to $50 million to construct. Doman is currently working on another commercial development on [...]

Xantrex Technology’s inverters have been installed by Grupo Enerpal for a 800 kilowatt photovoltaic solar project in Brazatortas, Spain. The PV system is the largest in Ciudad Real, a province of central Spain, in the southwestern part of the region of Castile La Mancha.
Eight Xantrex GT100E inverters were installed and convert direct current power from [...]

February home sales in the region fell to their lowest level in four years, as real estate associations in both Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky reported double-digit declines Friday.
Home sales dropped 11.7 percent last month in the Southwest Ohio counties served by the Cincinnati Area Board of Realtors and 12.9 percent in the counties represented [...]

OSU school of architecture students are presenting their ideas for OSU’s future residential halls as part of a course project.
Thirty-two architecture students and eight architectural engineering students are participating in a jury review of the projects.
The project for this semester’s comprehensive design studio course, Architecture 4216, is designing a residential hall for 900 [...]

Granite Construction Incorporated announced an organizational realignment of its business operations. The realignment is designed to accommodate growth of the Company’s vertically integrated Branch business in the west and improve profitability on its large, complex Heavy Construction Division (”HCD”) projects. Implementation of the strategic and organizational realignment is currently underway and is expected to take [...]

Granite Construction Incorporated announced an organizational realignment of its business operations. The realignment is designed to accommodate growth of the company’s vertically integrated Branch business in the west and improve profitability on its large, complex Heavy Construction Division (”HCD”) projects. Implementation of the strategic and organizational realignment is currently underway and is expected to take [...]

The future of the University General Hospital system will bear the mark of Houston’s Chinatown.
The choice of this growing neighborhood for the company’s second location was based on market research indicating it will be in an underserved area.
And this choice will leave a lasting imprint because the culture in this area has helped inspire a [...]

Steve Arai, who was behind the renowned architecture firm of Arai Jackson Ellison Murakami, died Dec. 27 after a prolonged illness. He was 60.
Arai graduated from the University of Washington in 1969 with a bachelor’s in architecture. In 1977, he partnered with his cousin Jerry and Cliff Jackson to build their firm into a regional [...]

Two years after taking over as executive chairwoman and leading a turnaround, Vanessa Castagna will leave Mervyns on Feb. 1.
Cerberus Capital Management LP, the New York hedge fund that purchased Mervyns from Target Corp. in 2004, said Thursday that Rick Leto, president and chief merchandising officer for Mervyns, will take over day-to-day management of [...]

Funeral services for architect Arthur W. Dekker, founder of the Dekker architecture and engineering firm, now Dekker/Perich/Sabatini, took place Tuesday in Albuquerque.
Dekker, who was 85, died on Saturday. He will be buried at the National Cemetery in Santa Fe and in lieu of flowers, contributions in Dekker’s name can be made to the University [...]

Seeking to fill the void left by the departure of its first full-time curator, the Chicago Architecture Foundation has named Gregory K. Dreicer as vice president of exhibitions and programs.
Dreicer, the founder and director of a New York City-based exhibition design firm called Chicken & Egg Public Projects, starts next Monday.
“I like the fact [...]