KONE OPENS SHOWROOM/TRAINING CENTER IN JAKARTA
KONE has opened its People Flow Intelligence and Training Center in Jakarta, Indonesia. The intelligence center is the first of its kind in Asia, and the training center is the second. The facility includes an interactive showroom where customers can experience KONE solutions firsthand. The training center houses computer rooms and equipment simulators that facilitate hand-on learning about installation, maintenance, testing, commissioning and dismantling. KONE aims to train up to 150 employees at the center in 2016 to support its growing workload in Indonesia.
NASHVILLE TOWER WOULD BE AMONG CITY’S TALLEST
Developers are proposing a US$325-million development that includes a 40-story hotel/condominium tower, the Nashville Business Journal reports. If built, it would be among the tallest buildings in Nashville, Tennessee, which is undergoing a construction boom. Including a slightly shorter tower housing a 250-room hotel, approximately 420 residences and ground-level retail and restaurants, the development was designed by Solomon Cordwell Buenz of Chicago and is being backed by Northern Capital Investments and The Congress Group. It is located at 151 First Avenue South in an area known as South of Broadway, or SoBro.
IN MEMORIAM: ETTA FROHLINGER
Etta Frohlinger passed away on January 7 at the age of 89. She was well-known in the industry from her active involvement with the National Association of Elevator Contractors (NAEC) at many of its conventions, beginning with the inaugural event at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City in the early 1960s. She and her husband, Gene, were NAEC convention hosts in 1985, when the then-largest iteration was held at the Diplomat Hotel in Hollywood, Florida. She also chaired the association's Ladies Program in the mid 1980s. She worked with Gene at Able Elevator from 1944 until 1978. She also helped organize the long-running, extant annual "Pop" Frohlinger/Joe Marchese Annual Memorial Invitational Outing for 43 years. She is survived by children, Joel and Linda; three grandchildren; and a great-granddaughter.
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