Austin Real Estate Agent Kenn Renner helps his clients take advantage of the real estate market in Austin, Texas, helping his last 3 home buying clients save $127,500 in the past 30 days. Austin home sales picked up 38% over 2008 (as reported by the Austin American Statesman). “Homebuyers are obviously taking advantage of builder incentives and home sellers seeking to cash out and move-up,” says Kenn Renner with www.BuyAustin.com. With the recent extension and expansion of the Federal Tax Credit, now even more homebuyers are able to take advantage of Uncle Sam’s free giveaway. Although the Austin area has been relatively sheltered from the recent economic housing downturn, there are still fantastic housing deals available to first time and move up homebuyers. Real estate broker Kenn Renner with Keller Williams Realty has been busy helping homebuyers cash in on not only the tax credit, but also builder discounts and seller concessions being offered in today’s market.

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Realty Executives Phoenix, the 14th largest broker in the U.S. for transactions, announces the addition of The Walt Danley Group, one of Coldwell Banker’s most productive and top producing teams in the world since 2000, to their team of 1,300 productive Realtors in the Greater Phoenix area. Walt Danley officially transferred his license to Realty Executives Phoenix on May 5, and his team of seven real estate agents is in various stages of license transfer. Danley started his career with Realty Executives Phoenix in 1977 and then moved to another prominent brand in 1987.

Danley has 34 years of luxury home market experience, remaining in the top one percent of Realtors nationwide every year for the past 30 years and has consistently ranked No. 1 in Arizona for luxury home sales. He has been named the top selling agent in Arizona by his former affiliate for 7 consecutive years.

Design teams from around the world are expected to create powerful visual renderings of truly sustainable cities based explicitly on the Imperatives of the Living Building Challenge 2.0.

The Living City Design Competition (ilbi.org/livingcity) requires participants to select an existing city anywhere in the world and conceptually transform it through photo-realistic three-dimensional modeling and renderings. Leveraging the Living Building Challenge’s already substantial impact on the green building industry, the competition is expected to draw contributions from multi-disciplinary teams composed of the world’s most talented and daring designers, planners, artists and animators. The International Living Building Institute created the competition in partnership with the National Trust for Historic Preservation, with generous funding from the Kendeda Fund and the Summit Foundation and media support provided by Metropolis Magazine.

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Palm Harbor Homes today announced that the season finale of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition will air on Sunday evening, May 16, 2010, on ABC at 8:00 p.m. Eastern/7:00 p.m. Central time. This episode will feature the Williams family and the show’s first modular home, built by Palm Harbor Homes, Inc. and its wholly-owned modular subsidiary, Nationwide Homes, Inc., in Pine Mountain Valley, Georgia.

Jeremy Williams, the young father in this episode, is a successful local high school football coach who was diagnosed with ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease in 2008. This fatal, progressive disease affects nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord which interferes with the brain’s ability to control muscle movement. More than half of those affected with ALS live 3 to 5 years after their diagnosis. The timing of this particular episode, however, is serendipitous in that May is also ALS Awareness Month. Its airing on May 16 will draw national attention to Jeremy’s story and the need to find a cure for this disease.

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The Floodgate Fund, a leading Menlo Park angel investment firm founded by Mike Maples, Jr., used an innovative socially interactive wall created by Snibbe Interactive to launch their new brand at the historic Flood Mansion in San Francisco last month.

“We wanted to celebrate our launch by showcasing the world class entrepreneurs we have had the privilege of working with. It was important to put forth this brand message to the high profile entrepreneurs and investors who came to our event. Given our involvement in digital media and high tech entrepreneurship, making this a visual and interactive experience was critical,” says Ann Miura-Ko, Partner in Floodgate.

Floodgate commissioned Snibbe Interactive to create a customized InfoTiles SocialScreen interactive projection for attendees to browse information, turning Floodgate’s branding message into a social interactive game. When people flip over virtual tiles they learn about Floodgate’s investments in companies such as Twitter and Digg, as well as learning about Floodgate’s team and philosophy. And because of the large scale of the interactive display, many people could interact with the screen at once.

Worthington Industries, Inc. (NYSE:WOR) today announced that it has priced its $150 million aggregate principal amount of senior notes due 2020. The notes will bear interest at a rate of 6.50%. The notes are being sold to the public at 99.890% of the principal amount thereof, to yield 6.515% to maturity. The Company intends to use the net proceeds from the offering to repay a portion of the outstanding borrowings under its revolving credit facility and amounts outstanding under its revolving trade accounts receivable securitization facility.

The notes will mature on April 15, 2020. The offering is expected to close on April 13, 2010, subject to customary closing conditions.

The joint book-running managers for the offering were Credit Suisse (USA) LLC and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC. The offering is being made only by means of a prospectus and related prospectus supplement.

Copies of the prospectus and the prospectus supplement relating to the offering may be obtained by contacting (i) the Credit Suisse Prospectus Department, One Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10010 or by calling 1-800-221-1037; or (ii) Wells Fargo Securities, LLC Attn: Syndicate Operations, 1525 West W.T. Harris Blvd., Charlotte, NC 28262-0675 or by calling 1-800-326-5897. The prospectus and the prospectus supplement may also be obtained from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s web site at http://www.sec.gov.

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