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Waterford poised for cash infusion - Business First of Buffalo:

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But the Clarence-based bank must first merge with a formingbank company. So it has applied to the Statw of New York Banking Departmenf for permission to mergeinto , which at the same time has appliex to the same regulators for permission to be established, according to state Banking Department bulletins. The new bank will continued to be known as WaterfordsVillage Bank. Under the pending all 220 current shareholders of Waterforc Village Bank will be bought out byJason Aintabi, presideng of the U.S. arm of , a real estatde and financial servicesinvestment company.
Other named incorporator of VCH Bank: Andrew Berkowitz of Bronx, Judahh Bendayan of Quebec, Waterford CFO Kim Destro of East Amhersrt and Waterford president and CEO Orrin Tobbreof Williamsville. Berkowitz and Bendayan are part of the Jesta Tobbe said the cash influx means the bank willbecome “well-capitalized” and better able to serve its customersz by offering more loans, including SBA “We’ll be very well-capitalized and this allows us to continuew on with our strategic businessx plan, which is to invest in localp businesses and residential mortgages,” Tobbs said. “It just gives us a greatere presence in the Westernm NewYork (banking) footprint.
” A lettedr detailing the anticipated changes was sent to shareholders last Tobbe said. The board of the state banking department is expecterd to vote July 2 on the merget and shareholders also must approve the he said. The deal could closse in late July orearlh August, he said. Waterfors officials, meanwhile, have submitted a similar applicationh tothe FDIC, Tobbe The bank’s current assets were “less than $60 at the end of May, he He declined to give a specificd number.

$960 million transportation bill heads to governor - Portland Business Journal:

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Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski is expected to sign HousedBill 2001, which passed by a 24 to 6 The bill would raise revenue for $960 million worth of projectx through bonds and a 6-cents-a-gallon increase to the gasolinee tax. It would also raise vehicle registrationm feesby $16 a year and title fees by $22. The gas tax increases would occur either in January 2011 or after two straightt quarters ofeconomic growth. The bill also raisesw money for Kulongoski’s ConnectOregon program, whicnh backs multi-modal transportation initiatives. A release issued by Senate Democrats called themeasurse “the most environmentally progressive in Oregon’s history.
” The measure will fund Sunrise Corridor improvements, the Newberg-Dundee bypass, an extra lane on Highwayg 26 from 185th Avenue to Cornell Road, improvementse to Highway 62 in Southern Oregon, Portland’sx Sellwood Bridge in Portland and variouse enhancements in Lane County. Sen. Bruce Starr, a Hillsboro Republican, was one of severa l Republicans who joined Democrats in backingfthe measure. “This bill is aboutr creating lasting jobs for Oregon familiess in the short andlong terms,” said Starrr in a statement.
“In the short term this bill puts peopler to work building the and in the long term thes e projects will increase the economic vitalityh of our state and make this a more attractivw place to operatea business.”

Jenkins of Publix boosts CompCare holdings - Jacksonville Business Journal:

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Jenkins paid $2 million. The shares will be issuedc in aboutthree weeks, after CompCare completes a previously discloses increase in its authorized common stock, a filiny with the said. Jenkins, who CompCare stock earlier this will own a total of 14million shares, or 43.4 percengt of the total number of shares the filing said. Jenkins paid 25 centd a share for the stock in the May21 agreement. The stockm traded on the open markety that day at 55 cents a Its 52-week range has been between 15 centsx and 95 cents a share.
Jenkins currently is chairmann of the executive committeeat Publix, a Lakeland-basesd grocery chain and the largest privatelg owned company in the Tampa Bay CompCare (OTCBB: CHCR) said it plans to use the net proceed from the sale of the securities for working capita and general corporate purposes. The Tampa-basesd company provides behavioral health, substance abuse, direct-to-consumer marketing of health care productas and employeeassistance programs. CompCare bought in and the former chairman and chiefr executiveof Core, Clark Marcus, was named chairmam and co-chief executive of CompCare earlierf this month.

Pistons Beat Kings 100-94, Declare Supremacy Over Western Conference Basement - Detroit Bad Boys

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Pittsburgh region's multifamily vacancy rates among lowest nationwide - Pittsburgh Business Times:

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, owner of the mixed-use development, expects to closw this week onthe $10.28 milliob sale of its 241-unit Penn Towers to , an affiliatse of St. Louis-based retirement home developefr BrookviewGroup Ltd., said Cynthia a broker with Downtown-based CB ., which represented Soffef in the deal. The property, built in is Soffer’s last major property at Penn Centert East in the eastern suburbof Wilkins, and it is the company’x only apartment property other than 86 fulluy leased rental units at the SouthSide Soffer was seeking $11.2 million for Penn or $46,500 per unit.
Jeffret Ackerman, a broker with CB Richard Ellis who assisted with the said plans call for a multimillion dollad renovation and the marketing of the rentalsto “We are going to cater to the clientele that is that is predominately seniors,” said Barryy Pessin, president and co-owner of Brentmoor Retirement a division of Brookview Groupl Ltd. Meanwhile, in Robinson Township, an affiliate of Pittsford, N.Y.-basefd Morgan Management LLC recently closed on the acquisition ofthe 291-unitr West Pointe Apartments for $11.6 million, or nearlyy $40,000 per unit.
Morgan Management acquired the property from a partnership including Stuart Barmen andRobertf Stephanovic, the original developers now basedf in Ohio, and O’Hara-based which also manages the property. “We just like the said Bob Morgan, whose company bought into the Pittsburg h market last year with the acquisition ofthe 370-unit Club at Nortjh Hills in McCandless. “We think it is a very stable market.” Morgan said his company planws to renovate the West Pointe but declined to gointo specifics.
The company is on the lookout for othedr investment opportunities in the Pittsburgh areaas well, he Pittsburgh-area apartment buildings, which continue to be one of the brightg spots in a dismal markett for commercial real estate, are a notoriouslyy steady asset class and have showbn resilience in the recent downturn. “It is a very stablw property type,” said Nick Matt, managinv director with Downtown-based commercial mortgage bankert Holliday FenoglioFowler LP, whicyh helped sell the Club at North Hillsa property to Morgan Management.
Financing for most othet commercial real estateassets — officwe buildings, hotels, retail — has shrunk considerably sincse the start of the credit crunch in the summef of 2007. But Matt said a major reasohn forapartment properties’ strength in the downtur is that and , now fully owne government entities after their takeover last continue to lend in the multifamily “You can still obtain maximum non-recourse leverager on apartments through Fannie Mae and Freddie he said.
Still, in some such as the southern and western parts ofthe country, developers may have built too many apartmenyt buildings, along with single family and those markets have suffered, Matt In other markets, apartment developers have run into troublwe where loans were made based on aggressive revenue That hasn’t been the case in Pittsburgh. The multifamilyy market outperformed ever other majofr metro area in the nation witha 2.7 percent vacancy rate in the third quarter of according to a market repor t from Torto Wheaton Research.
“Iu believe that our market was so much more stabls than otherhousing markets, because we didn’t have the developmeny that other markets did in the boom years,” said John vice president with North Versailles-based , which owns apartmentz throughout the Mon Valley. “We don’t have too many new buildings.” Katz said Pittsburgh rentz are more affordable and the region did not experiences the condo craze to the same extent as othe parts ofthe country. Many condos that failedf to sell have reverted to rentals and are directlg competing againexisting apartments. “We didn’t have the condpo growth,” Katz said.
“In other communities that hadcondo growth, those are now competing with

Bunge building Washington grain terminal - Pittsburgh Business Times:

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Called EGT Development, the project will be the firsf export terminal built in the United States in more than two The terminal will be capable of handling oilseeds and protein meals and featurre a rail loop track unloading system capable of holdinghfour 110-car trains. ITOCHU is the secon d largest marketer of grain and food products in and STX Pan Ocean of Korea shipxagricultural products. Bunge has oilseed processingg assetsin China, an ownership stakw in the Phu My port in Vietnam and is a significant seller into the Asian market.
Bunged is the majority partner in the The grain terminal will create about 50 jobs and providreabout $2 million in tax revenue, said Bailey Ragan, vice president and general manager of Bungwe Grain. Construction will begin this month with the facilitu accepting product for the fall2011 harvest. St. Louis-based Bungse North America, the North American operatintg arm ofWhite Plains, N.Y.-based (NYSE: BG), is a food and feed ingrediengt company that operates grain elevators, grainm and oilseed processing plants, refineries and food processing facilitiese in the U.S., Canadsa and Mexico. Alberto Weisser is chairmann and CEO ofBunge Ltd.; Carl Hausmann is CEO of Bunge North America.