By Dave Rogers2021-02-17T06:00:00+00:00
Mac Group to develop historic Jewellery Quarter site
Mac Group has won a £7.5m deal to turn a former photo processing building in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter into more than 40 flats.
The scheme for developer Hatchbury on the city’s Camden Street will involve tearing down the existing building and replacing it with a four-storey block featuring 43 apartments and five townhouses.
The development will run between 45 and 55 Camden Street
The site was occupied from the 1960s by Munn’s Brothers Photographic Processing Works, which developed films for companies such as Boots.
Mac, which has its Birmingham office in Solihull, will begin demolition work next month ahead of the job finishing in the second half of next year.
A chef has appeared in court after £300,000 worth of cannabis and thousands of suspected smuggled cigarettes were discovered by police in the university area of Belfast.
Tandragee-based Jack Zhong Chen, also known as Bin Lin, is accused of evading customs duty, possession of cannabis, possession of cannabis with intent to supply and breach of an immigration restriction barring work.
A police officer told Belfast Magistrates’ Court on Saturday morning that the 43-year-old was arrested after police stopped a black BMW 7 Series on the Donegall Road in Belfast on Thursday.
He said the car was being driven by Chen, accompanied by an unknown woman, who was on his way to a house on nearby Virginia Way.
ROCKLAND – A defense attorney specializing in cell tower litigation has been put on retainer for three members of the Rockland Planning Board caught up in a legal battle with Bay Communications, LLC.
Days after the Planning Board requested, in their one executive session with the Rockland City Council, that Rockland provide them with an independent attorney from the one used by the City in this matter, the lack of City response led Planning Board members to take matters into their own hands.
Using a small amount of personal money, along with private funds from sympathizers, for the $5,500 retainer, three of the four board members officially voted to retain Andrew Campanelli, of Long Island, New York, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021, during a Planning Board meeting.
Threats of murder, marches to DC by militia, and kidnapping plots greeted Lincoln’s first inauguration. The tense ceremony, on the eve of Civil War, was held on the east front of the Capitol in 1861, where earlier this month Trump mobs terrorized Congress, breached the building and attacked police.
Lincoln s first inauguration met with threats of kidnapping, killing and militias
Michael E. Ruane, The Washington Post
Jan. 15, 2021
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1of3Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated at the Capitol on March 4, 1861.Library of Congress.Show MoreShow Less
2of3Abraham Lincoln s first inauguration ceremony took place March 4, 1861, at the same East Portico where part of a mob incited by President Trump stormed the Capitol last week.Library of Congress.Show MoreShow Less
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WASHINGTON - Abraham Lincoln rose from his chair and walked to the speaker s table on the East Portico of the Capitol. He pulled his cut-and-paste address from the breast pocket of his coat, and slowly put on his metal-rimmed glasses.