Subject: Midwest Regional Digest (MWDIG)

September 2, 2003 The Plain DealerDAS Construction has been awarded the contract to convert the Chicle Building in Cleveland at 10307 Detroit Ave. into 23 apartment units. Work is expected to start next month and be completed by July 2004.

September 2, 2003 The Business Journal of MilwaukeeMilwaukee is seeking a housing and retail development for a parking lot it owns on North Cass and North Marshall streets to capitalize on the downtown housing boom. The city is seeking $1.3 ...

September 2, 2003 St. Louis Business JournalThe Federal Reserve board of governors in August gave preliminary approval to an $80 million improvement plan for the Fed's downtown St. Louis campus. The plan calls for demolishing the Federal Reserve Bank's existing ...

September 2, 2003 The Business Journal of Minneapolis/St. PaulHartford Life Insurance is seeking 120,000 square feet of office space in Plymouth, Minn. The company now leases space at 505 Waterford Park in Plymouth. Hartford Life is expected to make a ...

September 2, 2003 The Business Journal of Kansas CityAmerican International Group Inc. wants to expand in Johnson County, Kan. The insurer may need as much as 75,000 square feet. The move could add several hundred jobs to the area. The ...

September 2, 2003 Cincinnati Business CourierDaniel Schimberg of Uptown Rental Properties and Stewart Turnbull of Turnbull-Wahlert Construction Inc. have teamed up to build a five-story office building in Corryville, Ohio. The building will contain 86,000 square feet of office space. ...

August 29, 2003 Chicago TribuneThe Great Indoors, the struggling home remodeling arm of Sears, Roebuck and Co., is undertaking its own renovation. Sears said the chain will close three stores and be down to 18 by year's end. It will ...

August 29, 2003 Detroit Free PressDetroit Receiving Hospital will resume a $21 million construction project that has been on hold since April. The board of trustees of the Detroit Medical Center, which owns Receiving, approved the construction project this week ...

August 29, 2003 Kansas City StarNicholas Abnos, owner of the historic Firestone Building in downtown Kansas City, Mo., wants to turn it into lofts, a plan that would further boost an emerging neighborhood on Grand Boulevard. Abnos, owner of furniture ...

August 29, 2003 St. Louis Post-DispatcherMichael and Steven Roberts, owners of the Mayfair Hotel in St. Louis, are planning a $17 million addition to the 78-year-old, 182-room hotel. The tower's four-story base will contain additional lobby, restaurant, meeting and conference ...