San Benito to build $7.8M ‘green' elementary
June 13, 2010 1:00 AM
By FERNANDO DEL VALLE/Valley Morning Star
LA PALOMA — School’s going green in the fastest growing part of the San Benito school district, officials said.
The district will build a $7.8 million elementary school whose solar panels and “green” design will make it a model campus in the Rio Grande Valley, said Oscar Medrano, the school board’s president.
“This is a first for us,” Medrano said. “It will be a magnet for other districts in the Valley.”
A $37 million bond issue passed in 2007 will pay for construction of the school to be built on FM 732, about three miles north of La Paloma, officials said.
The 70,000-square-foot school will relieve overcrowding at La Paloma Elementary School in the district’s fastest growing area, Medrano said.
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H.E.B. to open new store in San Benito, renovate other Valley stores
H.E.B. to open new store in San Benito, renovate other Valley stores
January 06, 2010 6:36 PM
Sean Gaffney
The Monitor
Photo:Nathan Lambrecht
SAN BENITO — Supermarket giant H.E.B. plans to launch a new San Benito store in 2010 as part of a statewide expansion that includes 13 new stores, the San Antonio-based grocer said Wednesday.
H.E. Butt Grocery Co. also expects to renovate 60 existing stores and to build a new distribution center in Temple. The nation’s 12th-largest grocery chain said the expansion and remodeling would create 5,000 jobs across Texas.
While H.E.B. would not disclose a location for its new San Benito store, the grocery company in 2005 bought the 14-acre site of the Resaca Gardens housing project, Arnold Padilla, executive director of the San Benito Public Housing Authority, said Wednesday.
Of the 60 stores to be renovated, some will be in the Rio Grande Valley, but H.E.B. said it’s not certain yet which locations will get makeovers.
H.E.B. has also dropped prices on more than 5,000 items its stores stock. Bruce Courtney, director of research for Kantar Retail, a consulting firm, said grocers like H.E.B. are cutting prices on popular products to...
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Sean Gaffney
The Monitor
Photo:Nathan Lambrecht
SAN BENITO — Supermarket giant H.E.B. plans to launch a new San Benito store in 2010 as part of a statewide expansion that includes 13 new stores, the San Antonio-based grocer said Wednesday.
H.E. Butt Grocery Co. also expects to renovate 60 existing stores and to build a new distribution center in Temple. The nation’s 12th-largest grocery chain said the expansion and remodeling would create 5,000 jobs across Texas.
While H.E.B. would not disclose a location for its new San Benito store, the grocery company in 2005 bought the 14-acre site of the Resaca Gardens housing project, Arnold Padilla, executive director of the San Benito Public Housing Authority, said Wednesday.
Of the 60 stores to be renovated, some will be in the Rio Grande Valley, but H.E.B. said it’s not certain yet which locations will get makeovers.
H.E.B. has also dropped prices on more than 5,000 items its stores stock. Bruce Courtney, director of research for Kantar Retail, a consulting firm, said grocers like H.E.B. are cutting prices on popular products to...
Click Here to Read Full Article
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