TWSS?Greatest St. Louis wrote:I won't believe it until I'm literally sitting in the cafeteria with Swedish meatballs in my mouth.
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I can't stand these stupid baby shaking, hand kissing groundbreakings. For one it's pointless and the people who did all the leg work are not even there
dbInSouthCity wrote:I can't stand these stupid baby shaking, hand kissing groundbreakings. For one it's pointless and the people who did all the leg work are not even there
Ikea lifting minimum wage to nearly $11 an hour
http://money.cnn.com/2014/06/26/news/co ... ?hpt=hp_t2
Though it depends on location.
http://money.cnn.com/2014/06/26/news/co ... ?hpt=hp_t2
Though it depends on location.
Ikea just announced store for Las Vegas.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2014/ju ... rea-store/
Suburban design store waaay out on the southwest edge of the area. Kind of surprised they went that direction instead of towards Henderson.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2014/ju ... rea-store/
Suburban design store waaay out on the southwest edge of the area. Kind of surprised they went that direction instead of towards Henderson.
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^ I can see a New Yorker cartoon of two scorched guys crawling in the Nevada desert and seeing an IKEA in the distance (or is it a mirage?). Too bad I can't come up with a caption... or draw worth a lick; I might have had a couple hundred bucks!
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^ gotta wonder how many environmental refugees we'll see out of the west/southwest in the coming decades. Isn't the Colorado River about dead?
St. Louis' aquifer is in much better condition than Phoenix's or Las Vegas'. Perhaps we will get the density we desired because of drought in the Colorado River. Thanks global warming!
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There's lots of money in Vegas, they'll probably just pump the plains dry and ship the water west.
Yes, they are running out of water. Of course it would be just too cruel to expect people to pack up and move to places with water. It's so horrible in St. Louis, etc. There's not even a mountain to look at! They'll get whatever extraordinary infrastructure it'll take to get water out of another aquifer or take ours out of the Missouri or whatever. And we'll get to pay for it with Federal dollars to boot.
The Telegraph - The race to stop Las Vegas from running dry
Slate - Welcome to the Thirsty West
http://www.slate.com/articles/technolog ... uture.html
The Thirsty West: What Happens in Vegas Doesn’t Stay in Vegas
http://www.slate.com/articles/technolog ... irage.html
The Telegraph - The race to stop Las Vegas from running dry
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... g-dry.html“The situation is as bad as you can imagine,” said Tim Barnett, a climate scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. “It’s just going to be screwed. And relatively quickly. Unless it can find a way to get more water from somewhere Las Vegas is out of business. Yet they’re still building, which is stupid.”
Slate - Welcome to the Thirsty West
http://www.slate.com/articles/technolog ... uture.html
The Thirsty West: What Happens in Vegas Doesn’t Stay in Vegas
http://www.slate.com/articles/technolog ... irage.html
Its all about the money. I believe Plan B is too build a big straw to suck a northern Nevada aquifer dry but it buys several years for Las Vegas
That is how it is playing out in the California Central Valley at the moment. Farmers are going deeper and deeper with the wells because California doesn't regulate on the state level and the locals are worried about the now. In the meantime, the state dithers on a plan to deal with the ever inconsistent climate pattern, wide swings between dry and wet years. Since we moved out here about 4 years ago we have witnessed the biggest snowpack recorded in the Sierra's and the smallest being last winter. In the meantime, one of largest dam projects going on was all about flood control with smaller ones focus on earthquake retrofits
That is how it is playing out in the California Central Valley at the moment. Farmers are going deeper and deeper with the wells because California doesn't regulate on the state level and the locals are worried about the now. In the meantime, the state dithers on a plan to deal with the ever inconsistent climate pattern, wide swings between dry and wet years. Since we moved out here about 4 years ago we have witnessed the biggest snowpack recorded in the Sierra's and the smallest being last winter. In the meantime, one of largest dam projects going on was all about flood control with smaller ones focus on earthquake retrofits
I keep waiting for California to split into 2 states simply over water rights battles.dredger wrote:Its all about the money. I believe Plan B is too build a big straw to suck a northern Nevada aquifer dry but it buys several years for Las Vegas
That is how it is playing out in the California Central Valley at the moment. Farmers are going deeper and deeper with the wells because California doesn't regulate on the state level and the locals are worried about the now. In the meantime, the state dithers on a plan to deal with the ever inconsistent climate pattern, wide swings between dry and wet years. Since we moved out here about 4 years ago we have witnessed the biggest snowpack recorded in the Sierra's and the smallest being last winter. In the meantime, one of largest dam projects going on was all about flood control with smaller ones focus on earthquake retrofits
Or this guy wants to go all the way to a 6 way split.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the ... look-like/
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Recently saw on NBC or CBS one or the other that the Colorado River is flowing into the gulf of California.
It's crossed my mind about people who live out in the desert sw would begin to move beck east but i doubt that will happen anytime soon.
I say if you choose to move out west knowing they have strict water problems & a ever ongoing drought then you suffer the consequences.
It's crossed my mind about people who live out in the desert sw would begin to move beck east but i doubt that will happen anytime soon.
I say if you choose to move out west knowing they have strict water problems & a ever ongoing drought then you suffer the consequences.
Looks like they started construction on the south wall in the last day or two: the very first segment is up.
The entire site is very active with lots of infrastructure work going on in the other areas.
The entire site is very active with lots of infrastructure work going on in the other areas.
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I suspect those houses are not long for this world, despite McGowans' claim of reuse.matguy70 wrote:McGowans buy property near future Ikea, SLU
http://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/morn ... a-slu.html
The Kansas City KANSAS store opened this week.
http://www.kansascity.com/news/business ... 49323.html
http://www.kansascity.com/news/business ... 58434.html
http://www.kansascity.com/news/business ... 49323.html
http://www.kansascity.com/news/business ... 58434.html
I know his kind of duplicates the "crane" thread. But as of this week they're up to 3 full size mobile cranes and 1 medium sized crane. My guess is they're trying to get as much of the superstructure up before winter really hits.
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This thing will be open in no time. Will be an exciting time in St.Louis once the doors open 
The top of the steel I-beams are now even with the upper level roadway of 40/64.
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^ It is kind of sad right now with the Laclede Gas building still there.... gives one kind of an idea of how much more awesome the site would be if it had retail storefronts fronting FPP.