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A plan to build 25 units of senior housing in Lincoln Place got a boost from the city's Urban Redevelopment Authority board yesterday over the objections of one member. The board approved the sale of a 3.5-acre plot of vacant land on Mifflin Road to Action Housing Inc. and the 31st Ward Community Action Group to further the plans for the housing. City Councilwoman Tonya Payne, a URA board member, voted against the sale, saying that the URA should have put out a request for proposals from developers. Council had passed a resolution authorizing the city to convey the property to the URA for the purpose of senior citizen housing.
O'Hara grocer Giant Eagle plans to test walk-in clinics in some stores in northeast Ohio. The grocer has partnered with Summa Health System to put clinics in stores in the Akron area next year. In addition, a Cleveland-area site is planned in partnership with University Hospitals. The sites would use nurse practitioners with doctor oversight to treat conditions such as strep throat, ear and sinus infections, flu and colds. Giant Eagle is working with FastCare to help set up the clinics.
Natural gas producer Range Resources donated $100,000 to Dollar Energy Fund to assist families in and around Washington County with utility bills. Under the program, the donation will be matched by utility companies. Range began drilling for natural gas in Washington County five years ago.
GE Transportation has announced that its facilities in Erie and Grove City will build ten locomotives as part of a contract with South Africa's Transnet Limited. The contract calls for GE Transportation's arm in South Africa to supply Transnet Limited's subsidiary, Transnet Freight Rail, with 100 new locomotives. The other 90 locomotives will be built in South Africa. Terms were not disclosed.
Dominion Resources, Inc., the Richmond, Va.-based parent of local natural gas utility Dominion Peoples, has named two new members to its board of directors: Former U.S. Attorney General William Barr and Robert H. Spilman Jr., CEO of Basset, Va.-based Bassett Furniture Industries. ... U.S. steel producers shipped 6.1 million tons in October, up 5 percent from September but down 13 percent from the same month a year ago, the American Iron and Steel Institute reported.
First Published December 19, 2009 12:00 am
