Eighth StepTrek will feature veterans memorial and new scrim. Two parks - one a memorial to war veterans and the other featuring a signature representation of the South Side Slopes neighborhood in the fabricated canvas of a COR-TEN steel plate - are featured in the Eighth..

HOK Sport Is a Free Agent. Practice responsible for more than 825 sports and event facilities becomes fully autonomous.

Zacks Analyst Interview Highlights: Boeing, Fluor, KBR and URS Corp. Today's interview is with senior analyst John Nelson Simon, who talks about Boeing, Fluor, KBR, Inc.

Rick Engineering garners awards. Rick Engineering Co., a San Diego-based planning, engineering and surveying company, has been honored recently by two professional organizations for excellence.

Several options for Burlingame Safeway parking to be studied Monday. City officials are going to be presented with multiple parking options for the Safeway project at Monday's study session.

Control4, HTSA Announce Partnership. Control4 on Monday announced a "strategic relationship" with the Home Theater Specialists of America.

OpenRemote Debuts First Open Database for Home Automation. The open source OpenRemote project today announced the first public release of its Beehive database, a web-based open source application to collect, format, and distribute home automation codes.

Schuff Steel-Midwest Division Expands with New Chicago Office and Recent Hospital Contract. Schuff Steel-Midwest Division expands its operations and opens a new office in Chicago, IL.

Tesoro Tries to Block California Rules Mandating More Ethanol in Gasoline. Tesoro Corp., the largest oil refiner in the U.S. West, said it filed a lawsuit against the California Air Resources Board to block a regulation that would raise the ethanol content in gasoline to as much as..

Buffett's $230M Chinese Investment. MidAmerican Energy Holdings Co., a subsidiary of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc.

Coos Bay gives LNG project an extra year. A proposed liquefied natural gas terminal in Coos Bay has an extra year for development.

US shares drop on credit woes. US stocks fell as tight credit markets and bleak economic data kept investors on edge before the Senate votes on a revamped financial sector rescue plan that was initially rejected by lawmakers.

Constellation Energy up as MidAmerican clears hurdle. Constellation Energy Group managed to hammer out a healthy gain Thursday, one of the few stocks on the plus side, as the parent company of Baltimore Gas & Electric moved closer to being bought by Warren..

Credit crisis hits global farming sector. Wall Street woes have washed down Main Street and yesterday plowed their way through farm country, leaving big companies that buy and sell to farmers with plummeting share prices and shaken outlooks.

Silver Wheaton acquires quarter of silver output From Alexco's Keno Hill project. Silver Wheaton Corp. has agreed to pay US$50 million to acquire 25 per cent of the silver produced at the Keno Hill project from Alexco Resource Corp.

Warren Buffett likes the Wells-Wachovia combination. In this May 3, 2008 file photo, billionaire investor Warren Buffett speaks to a reporter during the annual Berkshire Hathaway shareholders meeting, in Omaha, Neb.

Mailbox: Condo Coercions, Short Shrift on Short Sales and Testing the Bath. My mailbox has been full of comments on recent columns about life in homeowners associations, uncertainty with short sales and deciding how much money to invest in a bathroom.

A Break From the Yard In Suburban Maple Lawn. When Prassad Karunakaran lived on a half-acre in Sykesville, northwest of Baltimore, tending to his spread came with the mortgage. Over time, the novelty of mowing turned into plain drudgery.

They're Townhouses, But 'This Isn't a Townhouse Feeling'. In 1974, when the King Charles Commons townhouse development opened in Columbia, a sales brochure described the Colonial-inspired community as recapturing "a bright page in American history" when "the easy and gracious living style afforded leisure time for politics and the arts.".

A Throwback To the McLean Before the Bustle. Before Tysons Corner boomed and the CIA's Langley headquarters was built, an ad for Broyhill McLean Estates urged folks to get in on a locale that was sure to escalate in value because of the coming "Chantilly airport" and "Circumferential Highway".