| Greggs cooking up jobs
A NEW bakery for Greggs is to be built in Openshaw in a £16m deal announced by regeneration company New East Manchester which will also bring over 400 new family homes in Clayton. Greggs is to build a new 75,000 sq ft bakery in Parkhouse Street in Openshaw, moving from its existing east Manchester site in the Eccleshall Street area of Clayton. Under the deal between Manchester city council, New East Manchester and Greggs, assisted by a £7m grant from the North West Regional Development Agency, the new houses will be built in an area including the former bakery site, alongside the proposed extension of Metrolink and the Ashton Canal, off Ashton New Road. Greggs already employs around 150 staff at its Clayton bakery in manufacturing, and around the same number in its Manchester-based offices and distribution, and plans to expand jobs in the new bakery and local shops supplied from it.
Rezoning of trailer park goes forward
PATTON TOWNSHIP -- Supervisors Wednesday advanced a proposed new zoning district that would allow a landowner to make commercial use of what is now low-income residential property. The plan also gives the landowner incentives to donate part of his land for affordable housing. The net result of the proposed commercial-transitional zoning district could mean that the Mellott Mobile Home Park, 1857 N. Atherton St. -- now the site of 87 trailer home sites, many of them lately vacated -- will become a retail center for the most part, with about 16 small homes on it owned by a county land trust and occupied by families paying mortgages of $350 to $400 a month. The 10-acre Mellott trailer park lies between the Woodycrest residential neighborhood and the Colonnade shopping center, and the commercial-transitional zoning district is intended for property "between established residential neighborhoods and major commercial corridors," according to a township description.
Wednesday Lunchtime Market: FTSE slumps further on interest rate fears
But above it on the loser board were Vedanta, BHP Billiton, Xstrata and Antofagasta with falls of 21p, 19p, 40p and 8p to £14.16, £11.58, £27.45 and 523.25p respectively. The ex-dividend stocks dominating the top of the loser board included BAE Systems, down 12.625p to 452.375p; British Land, down 36p to £14.84; ITV, 1.5p lower at 112.4p; Legal & General, down 3.1p to 160.7p and Reed Elsevier, 7.75p lower at 618.25p. Other ex-dividends included Slough Estates, down 16.75p to 748.25p and Smith & Nephew, down 1.75p to 635.25p. next page... .
REGION: MOBILE HOME CONVERSION BILL PASSES STATE ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE
A bill to regulate the conversion of mobile home parks to resident ownership passed the state Assembly's Committee on Housing and Community Development 5-2 on Tuesday, the bill's sponsor, Assemblywoman Noreen Evans, said today. Evans, D-Santa Rosa, said AB 1542 is supported by the city of Santa Rosa, by the League of California Cities and other groups. The bill now moves to the Assembly's Committee on Local Government for review on April 25. Evans said her bill closes a loophole in the current law allowing mobile home park owners to use conversion as a strategy to avoid local rent control ordinances. The bill permits conversions but allows local governments to protect their affordable housing stock, Evans said. Current law allows a mobile home park to be subdivided into residential ownership.
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