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Axios
28-07-2025
- Business
- Axios
Construction set to begin on Raleigh's next tallest residential tower
Construction is set to begin soon on what will be Raleigh's largest residential tower — a development that will add to the city's changing downtown skyline. Why it matters: When completed, the Highline Glenwood tower will be 37 stories tall on the site of the historic Pine State Creamery building — edging The Eastern apartment tower in North Hills by one floor. The Highline's construction is also a sign that developers and lenders are still confident that downtown Raleigh's blistering growth will continue into the end of the decade. Driving the news: The building's developer, Turnbridge Equities, said it will begin work on the $200 million project next month after finalizing financing for the project from Axos Bank and the managed accounts of Manulife Investment. Zoom in: The building, expected to be finished in 2028, will have more than 300 apartments, a sky lounge, retail space on the first floor and a range of amenities, from a pool and padel court to a golf simulator room and sauna. The project will also preserve the historic Creamery building, which is set to be the future home of BuildOps 290-person office, according to Turnbridge. Between the lines: Turnbridge, which also owns the Mutual Tower in Durham, is betting that Raleigh will enter the latter part of this decade still hungry for new apartments. The area, especially downtown, has seen a record number of apartments built in the past few years. But plans for future construction have already begun to slow, with interest rates remaining high and newly opened buildings competing for tenants. Turnbridge said in a statement that Raleigh's apartment construction pipeline has already declined by 70% since 2022. It believes it will continue to decline, despite the city's population growth continuing. What they're saying: "Highline Glenwood will deliver into an ideal environment amid very limited new supply and continued population growth," Jason Davis, managing director of Turnbridge, said in the statement. In 2028, this tower "represents one of Raleigh's first projects in the next cycle of development, and by launching before the broader recovery, we have been able to lock in attractive construction costs that will be hard to replicate when activity picks back up," Davis added. What's next: Turnbridge has room on the site for more construction, but what that will be remains unclear.
CTV News
09-07-2025
- General
- CTV News
‘It's really a systematic failure': Parents, educators raise concerns over lack of childcare spaces in Stratford, Ont.
FILE - A young boy plays at a daycare on Tuesday May 29, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck Jason Davis and Larhya Miller registered their son Zander on the Stratford, Ont., childcare waitlist the day he was born. 'He turned four June 4, and he goes to school in September,' Davis said. 'And he's still on the waitlist.' They said they applied for every licensed childcare program Zander was eligible for. They also looked at unlicensed home care options. 'The first one we put Zander in, he was starting to come home with unexplained bruises,' said Davis. Zander's parents pulled him out and Miller said the facility was later shut down by the ministry. Eventually, they found a new space with a hefty price tag. 'That spot, for four days a week, we're looking at about $800 to $1,000 a month,' Davis said. To help with costs and cover care needs, Miller, a student, cut back on classes at the University of Waterloo and Davis quit his job in Kitchener. 'I only work three days a week, but I work 14-hour shifts, sleep in the back of the truck, and work the next shift,' said Davis. 'I don't get to see my family three days a week, but this way here … I'm at least available.' Zander's family isn't alone. According to the City of Stratford, around 855 kids are on the waitlist for the Anne Hathaway Day Care Centre alone – the only facility run by the city. But the overall waitlist is much longer. 'The number including (Perth) County and the City of Stratford is over 3,000 (children),' said Mandy Koroniak, the city's children's services manager. 'It's really a systematic failure,' said licensed child care provider Jamie-Lee Wagler. Wagler runs her own half-day nursery school and has two kids of her own. She said before the $10-a-day childcare program took effect, she couldn't afford to put her children into licensed care. 'It's really disheartening as a parent to be working and taking care of other people's children, then having to send your kid to unlicensed childcare and they're not being treated they way that they would be in a licensed childcare centre,' said Wagler. Wagler also said once the new program was introduced by the federal government, demand skyrocketed. 'They promised all these spaces but the educators aren't treated as fairly as they should be,' she said. 'The spaces aren't opening up and the funding is lacking so much that we can't open spaces.' She added parents and educators need to take matters into their own hands and speak up. 'This isn't just a family crisis,' Wagler noted. 'The whole economic field relies on childcare to keep that going.' Koroniak said the city feels parents' pain. 'The good news is we do have spaces that are projected to open this year, including 98 spaces in the City of Stratford,' she said. Koroniak said the increase in spaces aims to meet the province's goal of reaching 37 per cent of access to childcare. However, she also acknowledged that means most children will still be without care. 'We don't deserve to have to make these sacrifices, whether they're personal or financial,' Miller said. 'But unfortunately, it's just what we have to do as parents.' CTV News reached out to Ontario's Ministry of Education for comment but hasn't heard back.
Martechvibe
30-06-2025
- Business
- Martechvibe
Simon Data Launches Composable AI Agents for Marketers
Simon Data, the AI-first composable CDP built for modern marketing teams, has announced the launch of Composable AI Agents for marketers. Simon's Composable AI Agents, built natively on Snowflake Cortex AI and powered by Claude from Anthropic, introduce a new operating model that provides marketers with direct, governed access to explore, identify, and activate data for personalisation without requiring code or relying on data teams. Despite significant investments in analytics resources and marketing clouds with integrated data platforms, most marketers still lack visibility into what data is missing, let alone how to act on it. They lack the insight into subtle behavioural patterns, emotional cues in support conversations, and real-world contextual triggers. Simon's agents help by uncovering data that marketers already have but can't easily access, along with new contextual signals they couldn't reach before. These insights are then put to work instantly across campaigns. This streamlines marketing workflows, closes the gap between planning and doing, and makes it easier to deliver personalised, timely marketing at scale. ALSO READ: 'Marketers have been told for years that personalisation was solved, but the reality has been static segments, brittle workflows, and missed customer moments,' said Jason Davis, CEO and Co-Founder of Simon Data. 'Composable AI Agents shift that reality, giving marketers direct access to context, decisioning, and execution. It's a new foundation for modern marketing that is faster, more insightful, and finally in the marketer's control.' Composable AI Agents are modular, task-specific software components powered by AI. Each one performs a discrete function to automate complex marketing workflows: analysing sentiment, identifying high-intent behaviours, modelling micro-audiences, or triggering personalised campaigns based on real-time context. They can be reused, combined, and adapted to support different goals. This creates a dynamic, AI-powered marketing system that works like a virtual, always-on data and ops team, helping marketers move from insight to execution with minimal lift. Simon's agents run entirely inside the Snowflake environment. That means data, prompts, and activation all happen in place, under full enterprise governance, observability, and control. There's no data movement, no black-box logic, and no compromise on speed or scale. With Composable AI Agents, marketers gain hands-on control over signals and execution logic. Even small teams that once waited weeks for data pulls or SQL queries can now operate with the speed and precision of organisations with far more resources. ALSO READ: 'Past systems weren't built for real-time insight or activation, which made personalisation hard to scale,' said Matt Walker, CTO and Co-Founder at Simon Data. 'Simon has changed that by bringing reasoning, context, and execution directly into the data layer for marketing to use. It's a fundamental technical shift that enables a new operating model.' Simon's implementation demonstrates the benefits of using Snowflake AI Data Cloud architecture to compose a data and AI stack, paired with Anthropic's advanced AI models. Simon's agents align directly with a shared vision for secure, governed AI in the enterprise. 'Simon's implementation of Composable AI Agents is a strong example of what's possible when applications are built natively in the Snowflake AI Data Cloud,' said Jeff Hollan, Head of Cortex AI Agents & Apps, Snowflake. 'By combining real-time data access with the flexibility of Snowflake Cortex, Simon empowers marketers to discover and activate data, while giving data teams confidence that everything runs within their governance and observability frameworks.' Three Types of Composable AI Agents: Insights Agents analyse all customer interactions to find valuable campaign opportunities using Claude's advanced reasoning capabilities Data Agents use AI-generated 'Smart Fields' technology to transform contextual data into actionable customer attributes Automation Agents execute campaigns using this deep contextual understanding, automatically creating and optimising hundreds of adaptive micro-targeted campaigns. Once Simon's Composable AI Agents surface the right signals and create the audience logic, they automate the flow directly into customer engagement platforms, such as Braze, Attentive, Iterable, and others. The output is campaigns enhanced with intelligence far beyond traditional audience segmentation. Rather than pre-scheduled blasts or static journeys, Simon enables message delivery that aligns with the behaviours, sentiment, and context driving each customer's decision. These rapid, high-impact campaigns result in critical business outcomes like winbacks, upsells, cross-sells, and repeat purchases. ALSO READ: Simon Data, Snowflake Partner To Aid Marketers With Data Capabilities The Martechvibe team works with a staff of in-house writers and industry experts. View More
Yahoo
13-06-2025
- Yahoo
2 men sentenced for drug trafficking in Monongalia County
MORGANTOWN, (WBOY) — Two men will spend several years behind bars after they were found guilty of their roles in a Morgantown drug operation. According to a release from the U.S. Department of Justice, Jason Davis, 35, of Youngstown, Ohio, will spend 11 years, 3 months in prison after court documents said he and James Peoples II, 28, of Pennsauken Township, New Jersey, worked to distribute drugs in Morgantown. Peoples will serve six years in prison. Former Buckhannon mayor sentenced on child porn charge Both Davis and Peoples were indicted in February 2024 alongside 23 others for their roles in a Philadelphia-based drug ring that operated in Morgantown. The case was investigated by the Mon Metro Drug Task Force, which is made up of members of the FBI; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives; the Drug Enforcement Administration; the West Virginia State Police; the Monongalia County Sheriff's Office; the Monongalia County Prosecuting Attorney's Office; the Morgantown Police Department; the WVU Police Department; the Granville Police Department; and the Star City Police Department. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
04-06-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Former sheriff's deputy says he was discriminated against while attending event at Nutter Center
A man who claims he was discriminated against while trying to get into an event at the Nutter Center has contacted the Department of Justice. [DOWNLOAD: Free WHIO-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] As reported on News Center 7 at 6:00, Jason Davis was trying to find a parking spot when he ran into some problems. TRENDING STORIES: Bodies of 3 missing sisters found after visit with their father Police recover 7 firearms on 'proactive patrol' at former nightclub Escaped zebra remains at large after 'wreaking havoc' on busy interstate Davis was a deputy for 20 years in Greene County. He was hurt on the job and now struggles to walk up steps. When he showed up to the WWE SmackDown event at the Nutter Center, he was hoping to park in one of the handicapped parking spots in lot 9, but he says a security guard wouldn't let him. 'I had a handicap placard visible, which is what we've always been told to do is make sure it's visible, so we have no issues getting in or out. So, we had to go around to the front of the Nutter Center and into the far side of it where we were able to find a couple spots up there,' Davis said. Davis was flustered but still determined to get into the event with his daughter and her boyfriend. He quickly found a different security guard and asked her where to enter with handicapped tickets. 'And she looks at me and she's like, 'Well, you don't look handicapped. So, you're not coming in this entrance.' And I said, excuse me? What do you mean I don't look handicapped? And she's like, 'You're getting around just fine,'' Davis said. Davis was hurt three years ago while on patrol. He was trying to get a tree limb out of the road after a windstorm. 'The tree snapped, and it threw me across the road. And when I landed, I landed on my gun belt and my flashlight, and it basically blew my femur apart in four different spots,' Davis said. Davis had surgery and now has pins and rods in his leg, making it hard for him to walk up and down stairs. 'I waited a few days, and I gave the director of operations at the Nutter Center a phone call and he absolutely sounded like he was angry, but again, I haven't heard any more from him,' Davis said. A spokesperson for the Nutter Center told News Center 7 that they bring in contractors for things like parking and security when big events happen. Wright State University said the contractor working at that event is Ohio Entertainment Security. News Center 7 reached out to the company, but they said they didn't work the event. The university added that they're taking this seriously and looking into the allegations. Davis said he's waiting to hear back from the Department of Justice. 'My only thought was how many other people she talks to, or you know, what was the rationale behind saying something like that,' Davis said. News Center 7 will continue to follow this story. [SIGN UP: WHIO-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter]
