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Downtown Parking Garage Gains Council Approval

Monday, February 4, 2008 11:09 PM

By Dean Narciso
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

Additional parking is essential to keep business Downtown, and plans will move ahead to build it, Columbus City Council concluded tonight.
Council’s unanimous vote came a week after charges that an eight-story, 773-space parking garage at Front and Rich streets would depreciate adjacent commercial property owned by Ohio House Minority Leader Joyce Beatty and her husband, Otto Beatty Jr., a Downtown Commission member.
The couple didn’t attend tonight’s meeting. But council was responding to objections that the Beattys had raised at a Jan. 28 council meeting, which prompted the tabling last week of legislation to move ahead on the project.
The couple had said that city officials have been unwilling to listen to their concerns that the garage would decimate business at Mrs. Beatty’s clothing shop and drive other tenants away....
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How to Sell a Home in 2008

How to SellA Home in 2008
By Amy Hoak From MarketWatch

If you're planning to sell a home in 2008, it's time to start thinking about how to make that home stand out from the rest.
But beware: Homeowners aren't able to recoup as many improvement costs as they did in recent years, according to a recent study by Remodeling magazine. In selling a home, "it's more important that it's neat, it's clean and it looks spacious, rather than making sure it's the top of the line," says Cheri Kuhn, owner of Waters Realty in Minnetonka, Minn.
"The thing I find with sellers -- if they do a lot of remodeling -- they will take the cost of the remodeling and add it to the cost of the home and ask the buyer to pay for it," she says. But often they're not going to get that higher price.....(click link for rest of story)