A few nice office 2010 business images I found:
Lucian
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Lucian showing his mug with Centri.ca, his consultancy business. I don't think he is taking more contracts since is 110% involved with CapturePlay now ;)
Infographic: Microsoft Office 25% More Expensive For Canadians
Image by RossDunn
An infographic showing how Microsoft is charging a ridiculous 25% more to Canadians to buy and download Microsoft Office Home and Business 2010.
2010 New Plans for Bristol's historic Redcliffe area have been unveiled
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Plans for offices, homes and a hotel as part of a major development aimed at reviving the heart of Bristol's historic Redcliffe area have been unveiled.
Developer CEREP Redcliffe Sarl wants to knock down derelict warehouses and industrial buildings in St Thomas Street and replace them with a mixed-use development including a central public square.
Bristol City Council is considering the application for the two-acre site, which is bordered by Three Queens Lane and Redcliff Street.
Under the plans, four buildings up to eight storeys high would feature two office blocks with 16,000sq ft of space, 164 one and two-bedroom flats, a 250-room hotel, student accommodation, a medical centre and shops.
They would replace old buildings formerly used as a timber storage yard, including premises previously occupied by Patterson's and Pilkington's, and would be built above a basement car park with 60 spaces, 70 cycle spaces and 10 motorbike spaces.
The developers, part of the Carlyle Group, hope the planned public square, new pedestrian routes, extra seating, street trees, narrowed streets and shops will encourage more people into the area.
A statement, submitted with the application by GVA Grimley on behalf of the applicants, says: "The proposals are ideally suited to meeting the demands and pressures of the site, local area and region in a sustainable way.
"It is a unique opportunity to deliver a high-quality mixed-use scheme, which should not be missed.
"The proposals will not only provide a sensitive and sustainable redevelopment of this site but will also facilitate improvements to the public realm, education, community facilities, and visual amenity of this part of Redcliffe."
Consultation on the plans with groups including community organisation Redcliffe Futures and the Bristol Civic Society has been under way since July 2008 and designs have been revised since then. The Carlyle Group bought the site from Persimmon Homes in 2007.
The development would be part of the "Redcliffe Village" project for offices, homes and community facilities in an area bounded by Redcliff Street, St Thomas Street, Thomas Lane and Three Queens Lane. Outline planning permission for the village was given in 2002 and lasts until 2012.
St Thomas Street, Three Queens Lane and Redcliff Street, which are used as shortcuts by commuters, will all be narrowed as part of the whole project.
Redcliffe Village, which was designed to be built in 11 phases, was expected to create more than 660 apartments, eight live-in studio workshops, offices, a creche, a health and fitness centre, shops and restaurants. It is hoped that a £750,000 footbridge linking Redcliffe with Welsh Back will be built as part of the project.
Work to build a new £25-million Bristol Civil Courts Centre in Redcliff Street is already under way.
Last year, plans from developer Midshires Estates for a five-storey block of flats on the old Gas World showroom in Redcliff Street were refused because they were too high and too large.
The decision on CEREP Redcliffe Sarl's application, which asks for detailed permission for the office buildings and outline permission for the rest of the development, is expected to be made by March.
2010 New hotel to go up near Temple Meads in Bristol
BRITAIN’S fastest-growing hotel chain is set to build a new 151-bed Travelodge in Bristol’s city centre.
The six-storey £8.5 million hotel will be built on the corner of Mitchell Lane and St Thomas Street, which is only five minutes’ walk from Temple Meads railway station. It will also be close to the new office quarter in Temple Quay and the Redcliff area, which is currently undergoing several regeneration projects.
Work on the new hotel, which is expected to create 40 jobs, is due to be completed within 12 months.
It will include a basement car park, a ground floor which has planning permission for retail, office, leisure and health care and five upper floors. Travelodge already has two hotels in the city, in Anchor Road near the docks and at Cribbs Causeway near the M5, but needs extra space due to growing demand.
Travelodge spokesman Steve Tyler said: “We are delighted to have secured a hotel in such a strong location in the heart of Bristol’s city centre, close to Temple Meads and all the first-class amenities that Bristol has to offer.”
Andrew Batchelor, a partner with Hartnell Taylor Cook independent commercial property
consultants, said: “Bristol’s economy continues to buck the national market with sustained confidence in its performance as a regional centre and destination for future business.
“This pre-let demonstrates the strength of the region and shows development remains achievable if the developer has the experience and the track record and a quality tenant can be identified.”
Richard Dean for CB Richard Ellis Investors, an international real estate investment management firm, said: “This site has been a challenge for us but we are delighted with the development deal we have concluded with Travelodge.”
The new Travelodge is the latest in a series of new hotels in Bristol.
Radisson Blu has opened a £20m hotel in the former Bristol and West tower while Future Inns has opened its Cabot Circus hotel next to the shopping centre.
Hotels are also planned for the former Hill House Hammond insurance building in Lewins Mead and York House, a disused office block at the junction of Bond Street and York Street.
This announcement is a more positive message from the hotel trade which has been in a delicate state due to the recession.
In March, occupancy rates were down 2.3 per cent from 68.5 per cent last year to 66.9 per cent this year. Average room rates dropped 4.9 per cent from £74.95 last year to £71.28 this year.
