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Southern California Historic Restoration Firm Awarded Two Landmark Preservation Projects (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Spectra Company, the prominent historic restoration firm based in Pomona, California, has been awarded the exacting his Read More

Restoration hardware (Daily Orange)
When Diane Kunzelman shines intense light on Michelangelo's Doni Tondo, she said it's almost as if the brushstrokes are Read More

West Elm plants itself in Edina (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
The Twin Cities lands another contemporary home-furnishing store whose niche is somewhere between Ikea and Crate & Barre Read More

Ad Track: Phelps in the spotlight; marketers tap into financial crisis (USA Today)
Even as America was pummeled by recent economic events and consumers were more worried about ending up penniless in thei Read More

Prevailing-wage change starts soon (The Columbus Dispatch)
The former Seneca Hotel opened this summer as condominiums after a three-year restoration, timing that local developers Read More

Paint overtakes Bandon’s numerous murals (The World)
BANDON — Some Bandon residents are lamenting the loss of the city’s building art painted by the late muralist Jack C Read More

Depot could be on historic list soon (Osceola Sentinel-Tribune)
A community landmark could soon find a home on the National Register of Historic Places. Molly Naumann, an architectural Read More

Luxe 2008 (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Prime Outlets - San Marcos announced today the outlet shopping center will host LUXE 2008, the region's premiere holida Read More

Eden Prairie builder wins national honor (Brooklyn Center Sun-Post)
Eden Prairie-based mackmiller design+build has been named a winner in the 29th Annual Qualified Remodeler Master Design Read More

BEN Column (Bridgeton News)
Good morning! It's sunny all the way to Thursday, and maybe beyond. Get outside and exercise. The Vietnam Memorial Resto Read More