Category: Business Features

Avoid Event-Planning Blues

Posted on April 12, 2010 by Kathy McKimmie

Northwest Indiana offers a wide variety of meeting venues, from historic buildings to convention facilities to college campuses, to handle all types and sizes of events. But beyond choosing the right space, it’s essential to focus on the nitty-gritty details to avoid problems on the big day.

Open just one year, the new Harre Union in the heart of Valparaiso University’s campus replaced an aging …

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Posted in Business Features, Professional & Legal Advice, Winter 2010 | Leave a comment

The Meaning of Green

Posted on March 12, 2010 by Rick A. Richards

For cleanup specialists, architects and builders, the buzzword of the moment is “green.” But what exactly does that mean?

Architect Thomas E. Kuhn, vice president, secretary and treasurer of Carras-Szany-Kuhn & Associates in Schererville, says there is no uniform definition of what it means to be “green.”

CSK has been around for more than 50 years, and in that time has designed hundreds of municipal …

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Recession = Rehab, Reuse, Renew

Posted on March 12, 2010 by Michael Puente

While some worry, scurry or otherwise run away during a recession, Pearl Mort views it as high tide.

“Anytime there’s a recession, we do best because the price of land goes down, the prices for houses go down. We can buy more houses for rent. At these times, prices go down. This is a bad economic downturn, so investors who don’t need their building need …

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Meet the Global Green Pals

Posted on March 12, 2010 by Michael Puente

Just a few weeks past Christmas, landfills are probably filling up with plastic boxes, wrapping paper, containers and parts from discarded and forgotten toys.

Malini Goel doesn’t believe that will happen with her dolls, the Global Green Pals, designed with environmentally safe materials—along with a message.

“The whole idea is conveying a message to the next generation through play. If people can learn small messages …

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