Saturday, July 10, 2010

“Job search workshop to be held” plus 2 more

“Job search workshop to be held” plus 2 more

Job search workshop to be held

Posted: 09 Jul 2010 10:23 PM PDT

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Search Continues For Missing Lenexa Man

Posted: 10 Jul 2010 10:18 AM PDT

SHAWNEE, Kan. -- The search continued Saturday for a Lenexa man who disappeared earlier in the week.

The family of Lawrence Shnakenberg Jr. said they last saw him Thursday around noon. Police found his car abandoned at Shawnee Mission Park on Thursday night. Detectives said they found his wallet, identification and cell phone in the car.

Family and friends said he didn't suffer from any medical or mental conditions.

"Nothing about him could have suggested wrongdoing on his part," said neighbor Jim Escheich. "(I) just hope for the best."

Among the hundreds of people who helped with the search on Friday night were Missy and Greg Smith, the parents of Kelsey Smith who was abducted from an Overland Park Target store three years ago and later killed.


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Search for firm on hold

Posted: 09 Jul 2010 11:28 PM PDT

The city of Amarillo will suspend the search for a downtown convention hotel developer while studies in the works firm up ideas for how the area around the Amarillo Civic Center might eventually change.

The city Purchasing Department mailed letters Friday temporarily suspending a process in which it had invited companies to offer proposals for constructing and operating a convention center hotel.

The 300-room hotel and the parking garage would be built on two full blocks of land the city owns across Buchanan Street from Amarillo City Hall.

Information being gathered through the studies "really would impact any proposer," said Assistant City Manager Vicki Covey. "So if we wait to do the RFP (request for proposals) until the other studies are done and ready to release, it gives everybody the bigger vision.

"The convention center hotel is still a primary goal and very important. It's simply being postponed until such time as we can unveil the larger picture."

The suspension will give Downtown Amarillo Inc. time to complete studies under way to evaluate the best use of available land, parking needs and housing demand downtown, said Melissa Dailey, executive director of DAI, a revitalization nonprofit.

The land use study, in particular, will show possibilities for future development in a 50-block area that includes the city's convention facilities and the proposed hotel site, she said.

The area under scrutiny stretches from Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway tracks north of the civic center to Southeast 11th Avenue on the south, and from Fillmore Street east to the BNSF tracks on the eastern rim of downtown.

"There's a lot of vacant land in the area," Dailey said. "All of this (study content) is important information ... to relay to the developers."

Eight firms initially expressed interest in bidding for the job of building and running a convention hotel downtown. After evaluating the companies' qualifications, the city asked four finalists and one alternate to submit proposals.

Two of the finalists, Noble Investment Group of Atlanta and Woodbine Development Corp. of Dallas, withdrew from the bidding last month.

The alternate, Journeyman Austin Holdings was then asked to join Dallas-based Garfield Traub Development and HRI Properties of New Orleans in submitting a proposal.

Garfield Traub developed Lubbock's $66 million, 303-room Overton Hotel and Conference Center, and HRI last year completed converting a historical Richmond, Va., department store into a 250-room Hilton Garden Inn and 133 condo units.

Journeyman's resume includes the 5 Fifty-Five Condominiums in Austin and three hotels in San Antonio.

DAI has engaged consulting firms to perform the studies, Dailey said.

A portion of the cost of the studies is being paid with funds from the Center City Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone board of directors. The Center City TIRZ board controls property tax funds dedicated to downtown redevelopment.

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