Acquisition means construction at Carroll Hospital Center

LifeBridge Health’s acquisition of Carroll Hospital Center will usher in new construction projects, renovations of old facilities and new patients services to the Westminster hospital.

As part of the deal announced Friday, LifeBridge plans to invest $250 million in facility and program upgrades at Carroll. A new neonatal care unit and an ambulatory care center, which would house programs for planned surgery and other non emergency services, are among the new construction projects on tap.

Carroll…

Lawmakers eye end to state's prevailing wage laws

Republican legislators are planning to propose legislation that would eliminate an 80-year-old state of Wisconsin policy that calls for workers on state building and road projects to be paid a prevailing wage set by state standards.

Eliminating the rule will lower wages for workers and, by extension, lower the costs of such contracts to the state. Other states in the Midwest controlled by Republican legislators are considering laws that would overturn similar policies. The laws, purportedly, prevent…

8 things: Why 2 buildings are stuck in the Great Recession; GNC's mighty moves

Good morning and welcome to your Monday. Here’s some of your business:

1. AM News Talkers:

For all the talk of increasing real estate values in the Greater Washington area, there are still those left out of the recovery from the Great Recession. We only have to look toward Chantilly to see that.

Chantilly is where Washington Technology Park I and II sit. The two office buildings are part of what is known as Westfields Corporate Center.

Five years after the commercial real estate crippling Great…

Orders and barges: A big day for Alexandria's Old Town waterfront plan

Friday was a big day for Alexandria, its plans for the Old Town waterfront and the neighbors who will bear the brunt of the upcoming work.

First, the Virginia Supreme Court tossed what should be the final challenge to the city’s waterfront plan, adopted by the city council by a supermajority 6-1 vote in March 2013. The decision was challenged twice by the Friends of the Alexandria Waterfront, which argued the city’s process for approving the ambitious overhaul, and for allowing appeals of it, was…

Phoenix, Tempe get tapped for top 'hipsterhoods'

Four Phoenix neighborhoods and Tempe made it to the Unofficial Guide to Hipsterhoods of the Mountain West. The nonscientific analysis of cities across the Mountain West states was published by Panethos over the weekend.

Coronado, Melrose, Roosevelt Road and Wilo were picked by the website as being anchors of hip in Phoenix, and Tempe was the only other city on the Arizona list.

Hipster neighborhoods were touted in a 2012 Forbes magazine article – its inaugural piece on the subject – but were…