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SHANKAR HEAD OF DRIVE SALES AT ZIEHL-ABEGG MIDDLE EAST
Sundara Rajan Shankar has been named head of Drive Sales at Ziehl-Abegg Middle East (ZAME). Shankar has 25 years of elevator experience in the Middle East and "understands the needs of our customers," states ZAME Managing Director David Miller. After completing his electrical and engineering studies in India, Shankar worked for international companies in Bahrain, India and the U.A.E. Praising ZAME's ZAlift software for the selection of drive motors and frequency inverters, he said the company "offers customer-specific solutions for individual requirements in the area of elevator technology that are efficient, energy saving, quiet and economical."
PROPOSED TORONTO TOWER WOULD BE CANADA’S TALLEST
Cresford Developments has proposed a 98-story mixed-use tower designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF) at Young and Gerrard streets in downtown Toronto that would be the tallest in Canada at 343.9 m, Urban Toronto reports. The project is called YSL Residences, but would also have office and retail space. The building has a sleek profile without balconies that indents slightly at the midway point. The project would be diagonally across from Canada's current tallest building, Aurora at College Park, and include preservation of a low-rise heritage building.
53-STORY CONVENTION CENTER HOTEL PROPOSED IN L.A.
TriCal Construction Inc. hopes to build a 53-story hotel across from the Los Angeles Convention Center's South Hall at 1300 S. Figueroa Street, the Los Angeles Times reports. TriCal would demolish a 12-year-old low-rise apartment building on the site to make way for the hotel, which would also have restaurants, meeting rooms, parking and other amenities. With more than 1,000 rooms, the structure would help address what experts say is a hotel-room shortage in L.A., which, as of September 2016, had 3,172 rooms with another 2,000 under construction. City officials have set an 8,000-room goal to help fill a void in what is "one of the top hotel markets in the country."
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