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In the market for a mansion? Tucson has one available for $6.5M | Business News

The historic foothills estate Eleven Arches, also known as the Grace Mansion, is on the market for $6.5 million.

The 15,502-square-foot estate sits on more than 4 acres with a main home and detached guest quarter casitas.



The historic Eleven Arches estate, or Grace Mansion, is on the market in the Catalina Foothills for $6.5 million. The 15,502-square-foot estate was originally built in 1937 by architect Josias Joesler. 








Built in 1937 by architect Josias Joesler, the property underwent a five-year restoration process and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

“An enclave of this magnitude in one of the most coveted locations in the Catalina Foothills is unparalleled,” said Thalia Kyriakis, a broker associate for Russ Lyon Sotheby’s International Realty, who is listing the property.

She said the staircase in the grand entry hall leads to the second level, which can also

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Amos Vanbrocklin by — June 28, 2021 in Tucson News
Chicago Police Officer Arrested For Allegedly Storming The Capitol, Breaking Into Senator’s Business

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A Chicago law enforcement officer was arrested Friday for allegedly using portion in the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot, the place prosecutors stated he broke into Democratic U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley’s business office and took a selfie that confirmed him donning a sweatshirt that experienced a Chicago police emblem on it.

Vital Details

Karol Chwiesiuk, 29, now faces five misdemeanor costs, together with disorderly perform on Capitol grounds with the intent to impede a congressional continuing.

According to the Chicago Tribune, Chwiesiuk, who joined the Chicago Law enforcement Office in 2018, was assigned to desk responsibility previously this week.

He designed his to start with courtroom appearance in advance of U.S. Magistrate Choose Gabriel Fuentes on Friday, and was released on bond, the newspaper documented.

Chwiesiuk’s lawyer did not quickly react to a ask for for comment from Forbes.

Important Quotation

Chwiesiuk texted a mate although he was in the Capitol, and explained he was  “occupied planning how to (expletive) up commies,” according to prosecutors.

Chief Critic

At a news meeting Friday, Chicago police Superintendent David Brown remarked, “The truth that a Chicago police officer has been billed in that assault on American democracy will make my blood boil.”

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Arrests continue on to be made extra than 5 months just after the Capitol was stormed, as a

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Amos Vanbrocklin by — June 21, 2021 in Chicago Breaking News
SmartStream Technologies opens Jacksonville business | Jax Each day File | Jacksonville Day-to-day Report

London-based mostly SmartStream Technologies, a money answers and managed expert services company, declared June 15 it opened its Jacksonville workplace and is on the lookout for workers.

Its business office is at 4190 Belfort Highway, Suite 200, in Business Park. The place of work building is at Interstate 95 and Butler Boulevard.

SmartStream explained it will commence with 20 personnel, focusing on giving technologies and enterprise support products and services, customer onboarding, expert products and services and solution presales.

The enterprise mentioned that when some executives and workers will be relocating, most of the employees will be hired from the location.

“The opening of this Middle marks a milestone in the growth of our remedies and managed companies choices,” Haytham Kaddoura, CEO of SmartStream, mentioned in a news launch. 

“Dedicated to the advancement and assistance of our expert services we preferred a site that was near customers, provided a pool of available talent and was located in an place that was conducive to carrying out business. After investigating prospective locations Jacksonville was a logical selection and at the time we fulfilled with Enhancement Officials we ended up particular we experienced created the suitable decision.”

The corporation suggests it has much more than 1,000 workers in 25 world-wide places of work, with Jacksonville its third in the U.S. It also has offices in New York Town and Philadelphia, in accordance to its internet site.

“SmartStream is the most recent in a prolonged line of corporations that are recognizing Jacksonville’s rising prominence

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Amos Vanbrocklin by — June 21, 2021 in Jacksonville Daily News
Last call: Longtime Tucson biker bar Bashful Bandit closes | Business News





The Bashful Bandit, on East Speedway at North Dodge Boulevard, closed for good Sunday but is inviting its fans for one last hurrah today from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Above, a patron named Rebel, left, planted a kiss on Bkay Welch at the Bandit’s L-shaped bar in 2008.



Jill Torrance, Arizona Daily Star 2008


In the good old days of not long ago, tricked out motorcycles with gleaming chrome and leather saddlebags lined the front of the Bashful Bandit, Tucson’s storied, rough-around-the-edges biker bar on East Speedway at North Dodge Boulevard.

For more than 40 years, the bar, with its memorial wall devoted to longtime customers, bras hanging from a ceiling pipe and reputation for a bar fight or two, was Tucson’s unofficial biker headquarters, a watering hole and gathering spot for those who rode on weekends and those who rode for life.

But all that ended on Sunday, June 13, when the Bandit closed for good.

In the fall, Toby Kyte, who bought the bar this week, will open a barbecue restaurant that will incorporate the Bashful Bandit name in some form, he said.

But before he begins a $250,000-plus buildout of the space that will include keeping the wraparound wooden bar and stools, creating an outdoor kitchen, enlarging the restrooms and repaving the parking lot, Kyte is opening the Bandit for one last hurrah on Friday, June 18.

The bar will open at 11 a.m. for a final last call and to give customers who have photos

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Amos Vanbrocklin by — June 21, 2021 in Tucson News