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For Immediate Release- March 16, 2021
Illinois Capital Development Board Selects Design Firm for Renovations at Quincy Veteransâ Home
QUINCY â The Illinois Capital Development Board (CDB) and the Illinois Department of Veteransâ Affairs (IDVA) today announced Veterans United Constructors, a joint venture between Alberici Constructors, Inc. and River City Construction, LLC, has been selected as the preferred architectural design and construction firms for the design and construction of the new nursing home and domiciliary at the Quincy Veteransâ Home. The $230 million project, funded by Governor Pritzkerâs bipartisan Rebuild Illinois capital plan, will provide high-quality, skilled care to Illinois veterans and their spouses. CDB will oversee the projectâs design and construction in accordance with the protocol for state-appropriated capital projects.
Co-op dealings in a virtual world
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Government policy
When South Country Co-op members were presented with the possibility of online voting and remote attendance at its 2019 AGM, it was the start of a long confusing night at the Chinook Village ballroom.
It was explained as a way to better connect the expanding entity and bolster participation in the entire southern Alberta trading area.
Many shrugged their shoulders and wondered, “What’s the big hairy deal?”
Now, it is and isn’t a surprise to learn that virtual meetings are the only game it town as the 2021 annual general meeting approaches in two weeks time.
Construction activity holds steady through pandemic
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Will you visit a business if they open in spite of health restrictions that say they can’t?
Yes
Construction activity could have sunk in 2020 but instead wound up treading water, and observers are expecting better flow in the year ahead.
New figures for building and development in Medicine Hat during the pandemic year show that while no new major projects were approved, several were completed, and residential activity shifted from new home building to an “astronomical” increase in renovation projects.
“It’s something we tracked early on,” said Kent Snyder, the city’s manager of building and planning services.
An overview of a “Waterfront District” headlined the annual State of the City address by Mayor Ted Clugston on Tuesday as a video showed administrators calling the city-led development a “billion-dollar opportunity.”
The potential transformation of most of River Road into a pedestrian mall, Finlay Bridge, a focus on higher density housing, and changes to Riverside Veterans Memorial Park over the next 10 to 15 years were shown in the online speech that usually involves an outlaying of civic accomplishments and priority projects.
“For many years we’ve feared the river due to flooding, but now it is time to celebrate it,” said Clugston while introducing a video of staff walking through the proposal.
The City of Medicine Hat should have “minimal” problems aligning its development guidelines with new “Red Tape Reduction” legislation from the province, local officials said Wednesday.
Many of the measures in the updated Municipal Government act regarding development timelines are already in compliance with city practice, said planning general manager Kent Snyder.
But, the city will will have to publish an annual report on how it has determined development fees and scheduled projects that are paid in part by developers that pay off-site levies on their projects.
Those charges have also been the source of vigorous debate over the last eight years, after the city revamped the system administrators say costs taxpayers $30 million more than expected over the previous decade.