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Determining to acquire a home mortgage refinancing would be one in the most critical decisions you make which will significantly affect your financial condition inside future. There are several varieties of bank loan and house loans out there from the marketplace to consider. It really is particularly crucial to comprehensively comprehend the possibilities on this sort of mortgage loan refinancing you select. To your very best deal it truly is superior for an individual to ask for advices from an expert or fiscal advisor to grant you with an overview in the offered kinds of mortgage loan.

Probably the most widespread style of home mortgage refinancing refers on the charge and expression refinance. Obtaining a fixed bank loan price for the home mortgage refinancing would be safer than taking any other style. Those who would want to lessen their awareness charge about the existing fixed rate mortgage fee can apply for the shorter name. Individuals who would like to lower their monthly bills are in a position to require the home mortgage refinancing using the longer phrase of bills.

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Specialty Glass has renewed its lease for 14,520 square feet at Nonconnah Corporate Center.

Specialty Glass is a wholesale distributor for decorative inserts.

Phil Dagastino Jr. of Commercial Alliance Management represented the landlord, Hampshire Properties.

– FedEx Office has renewed its lease for 10,167 square feet at Union Terrace.

Conner Walker of Commercial Alliance Management brokered the deal.

– Winchester Market has signed a new lease for 53,700 square feet at 6616 Winchester.

Kemp Conrad of Commercial Advisors represented the tenant.

McLeans buy building

Charles and Maryann McLean purchased a 2,400-square-foot office building at 3211 Kirby Parkway, and he plans to move his accounting practice there. They bought the building for $230,000 from Leslie and Rita Brueck of Brueck Advertising and Design.

John Waddell with Crye-Leike’s Arlington office facilitated the sale.

You could say the British are coming to provide school bus transportation for Memphis City Schools with a new contract approved by the school board this week.

But then, you could also say the Scottish are leaving.

The parent companies of the school bus firms that won and lost the city schools’ business are both based in the United Kingdom. Privatization of government-owned bus and rail systems there beginning in 1988 led to the firms’ birth and growth.

The company that won the contract to bus public school students in Memphis next fall is Durham School Services, based in the Chicago suburb of Downers Grove. Its parent is National Express Group, headquartered in Birmingham, England.

The firm now providing the service, and which lost the bid, is First Student, based in Cincinnati, Ohio. Its parent is FirstGroup, headquartered in Aberdeen, Scotland.

First Student is the giant among school bus companies this side of the big pond.

With its purchase in 2007 of Laidlaw, the leading North American firm, First Student captured more than half of the school bus market, according to a 2009 report on the industry by IBISWorld, a market research firm.

First Student operated about 60,000 buses in 2009, while National Express, the No.

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Kevin Brewer knows what’s great about Memphis.

As co-founder and chief operating officer of Destination King, Brewer works to showcase the city and its wealth of opportunities and attractions to groups and corporations that meet in Memphis.

“The worst thing a city can be is a best-kept secret,” Brewer said. “There are so many great things going on here — so many attractions, events and unique cultural experiences that make this a great place to meet.”

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Kevin Brewer, co-founder of Destination King, knows well what Memphis has to offer and has made a career from it.

“People come back to Memphis, whether they’re visitors or natives.

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Forget the cheesy publicity stunts — we’re not gonna rename the city or ask the mayor to jump into the Mississippi River — but be sure to check out the compelling video message, at hookmemphisup.com, urging Google to select Memphis as the site of its proposed fiber network experiment.

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Created by the folks at Lokion and spearheaded by the company’s senior software architect Meka Egwuekwe (he’s the guy who persuaded Spike Lee to record a message plugging Memphis), the brief bit blends humor and sincerity in courting Google.

So far plenty of folks have jumped on the Memphis bandwagon, but there is always room for more.

To add your support, go to hookmemphisup.com or drop by the city’s YouTube channel at youtube.com/mcan901.

Deadline to add your voice is Friday. And who knows? It just might work. It’s worth a shot, right?

Google, are you listening? Hook Memphis Up!

– James Dowd: 529-2737

Planned Parenthood of Greater Memphis Region will have a new $2.8 million home at 2430 Poplar pending state approval in April.

The clinic purchased the three-story office building previously occupied by Family Services and it will be Planned Parenthood’s health center and administrative offices.

The clinic will completely renovate the first two floors of the 30,000-square-foot building before it moves in this summer from its prior location at 1407 Union.

Planned Parenthood is launching a $1 million building fund campaign, which it hopes to complete by June 30.

The new site will offer an array of services from contraception, well-woman exams, STD testing and treatment and pregnancy termination.

For more information about the building or the fundraising campaign, go to ppgmr.org.

Auction for Elvis items

A bit of Elvis’ real estate history will go on sale in April.

The highest bidder with Phillip Weiss Auctions can walk away with the 1957 real estate contract for Graceland, which is signed by Elvis and his parents.

Also up for bids are the Graceland settlement sheet, a document from Elvis’ first Memphis home on Audubon Drive and the signed 1967 real estate document for the Circle G Ranch in Mississippi.

Those interested can either bid live online at pwauctions.com, or bid in person at the Long Island, N.Y., auction house.

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