New lot to ease Logan arrivals
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Picking up family and friends at Logan International Airport could soon be a lot less nerve-racking.
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(InfoWorld) - Xerox has its legendary PARC labs. Now Microsoft has its famous parking lot. Work has just begun on a massive underground parking garage at Microsoft's Redmond, Washington, headquarters, a structure that should alleviate current parking headaches on the corporate campus. The buzz around this low-tech project at the high-tech giant's headquarters is growing locally since a television news crew went out to gawk at the hole in the earth. While hardly comparable to Boston's big dig project, the local news at least seems ready to add this one to the record books. One report called this the second largest underground garage in the western hemisphere, but Microsoft spokesman Lou Gellos said he had no idea where that factoid came from and couldn't confirm it. The garage will be around 1,440 feet (439 meters) long and 540 feet wide. In American football terms, that's four fields long and one and a half wide. It will have four floors of parking, all underground. Up to 5,000 cars will fit in the garage. Four additional office buildings and a green space will take up the area above ground. The garage and new buildings are part of a $1.3 billion campus expansion that Microsoft announced last February. At that time, expansion planners figured the garage would be above ground but as they got further into the design process, they came up with the idea of making it subterranean and placing additional offices and common areas above, said Gellos. The digging, which started the first week of June, will take until about October and the garage should be ready for use in the second half of next year. In another effort to reduce parking problems on campus, Microsoft has long offered employees free bus passes. It also has a fleet of Toyota Prius cars to shuttle workers around campus.
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By Mike D. Smith, The Beaumont Enterprise, Texas  Feb. 4--Potential buyers who think they have plenty of time to shop for a  good deal before putting up cash for that coveted deer lease or quiet country  plot might not want to wait too long.
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By Priscilla Frulla, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Mar. 10--BILOXI -- Two major shopping centers may be coming to D'Iberville and Gulfport and new retailers are coming to existing centers.
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CHICAGO -- The Cubs received permission to add 70 "bullpen box seats" along the third base line at Wrigley Field, and install additional signage inside the park.
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A plan is being developed to alleviate the growing pressure from pedestrian and vehicle traffic in Times Square.
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Red Sox officials said they hope to add up to 2,000 seats to Fenway Park after next season in a proposal that will be unveiled to the neighborhood and the city over the next few months.
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It looks like an undeveloped dirt lot in a residential neighborhood, so city officials decided to put a long-awaited four-lane road extension through it.
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By Lisa P. White, Belleville News-Democrat, Ill.  Feb. 6--BELLEVILLE -- The City Council voted Monday to buy 14.6 acres on Freeburg Avenue where the city plans to build a new street salt dome.
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By Henry J. Waters III, Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo.  Sep. 22--Folks are in a snit about a rezoning request by not-for-profit Covenant Community Development Corp. for an area near the corner of Sexton Road and North Garth Avenue.
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By Johnson, Frances  Construction is under way in West Valley City on a 209unit apartment project called Liberty Commons. It is being developed by Salt Lake City-based Cowboy Partners.  Liberty Commons will sit on 11 acres just east of 5600 West on 2700 South.
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It's bit more involved than renting a trailer and begging a few friends for help, but that can be expected when moving the world's largest collection of Abraham Lincoln documents to its new home.
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By Michael Andersen, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Feb. 19--Build a better parking lot, and the world will beat a path to your door.   Don't laugh.
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Lahey Clinic has finalized plans for a $50 million expansion of its Peabody medical center. About 63,000 square feet will be added to the 162,000 square feet at Lahey Clinic Medical Center, North Shore. The expansion will include 15,000 square feet of additional space for Children's Hospital Boston, which has an outpatient center at the facility. The clinic's ...
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When Mary Stengel shops at South Shore Plaza in Braintree, she doesn't waste time endlessly circling on the hunt for parking. She pulls up to the covered lot next to Legal Sea Foods, pulls out $5, and hands her keys to a valet.
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By KING, David  After years of wrangling, an 1100-section subdivision at Yaldhurst has been given the green light.   DAVID KING has a look at what's in store for potential buyers.
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By Mark Harrington, Newsday, Melville, N.Y.  Sep.