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Despite delays, Union Station construction marks another milestone as new food hall opens Commuters heading through Union Station will get a new experience on Monday when the food hall in the York Concourse officially opens.  It marks a major milestone for the redevelopment of the iconic train station, a project that is years behind schedule and considerably over budget. The projected cost has ballooned from $640 million to $823 million over the course of construction.  "We've worked really hard to have a retail experience that is unique and really represents the best of Toronto," said Vanessa McDonald, who manages partnerships for the station.  The lower...

Dozens of construction workers came to the closed town of Vilyuchinsk to build military facilities. Now they aren’t being paid, and they’re not allowed to leave. In September 2018, an electrician living in Kazan named Ruslan Shamsutdinov came across an online job posting from a company called “Buildings and Structures Construction Management” (SUZS) looking for electricians to work on a project in the town of Vilyuchinsk in Kamchatka, offering 80,000 rubles ($1,180) a month. Shamsutdinov applied for the job and got it. He arrived in Kamchatka on October 12. Situated on the Krasheninnikov Cove, Vilyuchinsk is restricted-access territory and homebase...

Construction of new homes rises but still lags behind demand The volume of new homes built in the Republic is continuing to increase but still remains far below the level of demand, figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) show. So far this year 12,582 new properties have been built, an increase of 27.7 per cent on the first nine months of 2017 when 9,856 properties were completed. Although the trend is positive, the total is considerably lower than the estimated 30,000 homes needed every year to service demand in the property market. However, Davy economist Conall Mac Coille estimates...

US judge halts construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline  A federal judge in Montana halted construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline. The judgment was on the grounds that the U.S. government did not complete a full analysis of the environmental impact of the TransCanada project. The ruling deals a major setback for TransCanada and could possibly delay the construction of the $8 billion, 1,180 mile pipeline. A federal judge in Montana halted construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline on Thursday on the grounds that the U.S. government did not complete a full analysis of the environmental impact...

The New Moscone Center: Upgraded, Expanded and Improved The Moscone Center has been hosting events for decades, and the nearly-complete expansion and renovations will keep it globally competitive for decades to come. Lynn Farzaroli, senior director of the Moscone expansion for San Francisco Travel, says, “Our two main goals have been to create contiguous space and flexibility” for The Moscone Center. To that end, “we had multiple workshops with local clients, in Washington, D.C., and in Chicago,” she says. These goals have resulted in a wide variety of changes and upgrades. The Moscone Center has undergone an ambitious project that...