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Cosm immersive experience adding to an entertainment-focused Detroit

Fri, 16 May 2025 08:05:44 +0000

Cosm is adding to downtown Detroit鈥檚 drive to be an entertainment-hospitality destination district. The Inglewood, Calif.-based 鈥渟hared reality鈥� company will open its fourth immersive experience dome in the heart of downtown Detroit next year or in early 2027. Think of it as a planetarium-like environment taken up a few notches. In fact, Cosm is the […]

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Amid Trump鈥檚 battle against DEI, nonprofits filling critical labor gaps are caught in the crossfire

Tue, 13 May 2025 10:05:20 +0000

CHICAGO 鈥� Recruiting women into construction has for years been a painstaking but broadly popular effort, with growing bipartisan and industry support amid persistent labor shortages. But President Donald Trump’s aim to stamp out diversity and inclusion programs threaten to cripple community-based organizations that have been critical to that goal. The Trump administration has moved […]

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States sue Trump administration for blocking the development of wind energy

Fri, 09 May 2025 10:05:28 +0000

WASHINGTON 鈥� A coalition of state attorneys general filed have filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s attempt to stop the development of wind energy. Attorneys general from 17 states and Washington, D.C., are challenging an executive order Trump signed during his first day in office, pausing approvals, permits and loans for all wind energy […]

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Multiple projects to breathe new life into Michigan鈥檚 state capital

Fri, 09 May 2025 08:10:49 +0000

Longtime hometown Gentilozzi Real Estate is embarking on one of its most ambitious projects to date 鈥� a partial transformation of Michigan鈥檚 state capital, Lansing. The $320 million project encompasses five buildings, some new and others retrofitted in and around the legislature itself, and a neighborhood to the near north. Teaming with Metro Detroit realtor […]

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Federal grant cancellation fails to derail Texas high speed rail

Wed, 07 May 2025 08:15:16 +0000

The advocacy organization US HSR envisions, 鈥渁 21st century, 17,000-mile national high speed rail (HSR) system鈥� across the United States. An important element is the 240-mile HSR connection between Dallas and Houston that would shorten a four-hour car trip to just 90 minutes. The link would also remove an estimated 12,500 cars per day from […]

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Massive repair job on leaky NYC aqueduct will take a few more years to complete

Wed, 07 May 2025 08:10:07 +0000

NEW YORK 鈥� A $2 billion project to fix a massive leak in a water tunnel that supplies about half of New York City鈥檚 water that was already paused recently due to drought conditions, won鈥檛 be completed for a few more years, city officials said recently. Department of Environmental Protection officials have been planning for […]

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California high-speed rail leader pushes state to support private investment

Mon, 05 May 2025 08:12:51 +0000

SACRAMENTO, CALIF. 鈥� A long-delayed project promising nonstop rail service between San Francisco and Los Angeles in under three hours may be able to secure the private funding it desperately needs if California agrees to pay the investors back, its chief executive told The Associated Press. Ian Choudri, who was appointed CEO of the California […]

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Los Angeles homeowners begin to rebuild after devastating wildfires

Fri, 02 May 2025 12:45:40 +0000

LOS ANGELES聽鈥� Nearly four months after wildfires reduced thousands of Los Angeles-area homes to rubble and ash, some residents are starting to rebuild. In the Pacific Palisades neighborhood, construction workers recently began placing wooden beams to frame a house on a lot where only a charred fireplace remains standing. In the seaside city of […]

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What’s next in the Commanders’ process of building a new stadium in Washington?

Fri, 02 May 2025 10:00:28 +0000

WASHINGTON 鈥� Roger Goodell acknowledged that a new, state-of-the-art Commanders stadium in Washington would drastically increase the chances of the U.S. capital hosting the Super Bowl for the first time. 鈥淲e鈥檝e got to get it built first,鈥� the NFL Commissioner said. Before shovels are even in the ground at the site of the old RFK […]

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Starbucks’ new drive-thru in Texas is the coffee giant’s first 3D printed store in the U.S.

Thu, 01 May 2025 10:00:08 +0000

BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS 鈥� There’s a new pour from Starbucks: Its first 3D printed store in the U.S. The Seattle-based coffee giant with more than 17,000 locations nationwide has never had a store quite like the one opening this week in the Texas city of Brownsville, along the U.S.-Mexico border, where a computer-controlled robotic arm did […]

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3 workers killed and 2 injured when scaffolding gives way at Texas construction site

Wed, 30 Apr 2025 13:34:09 +0000

PORT ARTHUR, TEXAS 鈥� Three workers were killed and two others injured after a scaffolding gave way at a Texas construction site, authorities said. First responders were called to the Port Arthur LNG site early Tuesday for an industrial accident involving Bechtel workers, according to a Jefferson County Sheriff鈥檚 Office statement posted on social media. […]

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Vertua low-carbon concrete plays a big role in Houston Methodist expansion

Wed, 30 Apr 2025 10:05:03 +0000

Centennial Tower at the Houston Methodist Hospital is projected to open in 2027, maintaining the facility鈥檚 status as one of the most respected medical complexes in the United States. In 2024, the hospital was named to U.S. News & World Report鈥檚 Honor Roll of best hospitals in the country for the eighth time and is […]

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