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Remember the Tom’s Diner saga?

Denver’s protocol for allowing people to nominate buildings as city landmarks against a property owner’s wishes has been controversial for years. The City Council is now poised to tweak its process for reviewing landmark applications with equal treatment in mind.

“What we keep hearing is it feels unfair to people who are owners of property that might be designated for some reason or another,” Councilwoman Amanda Sawyer said at a committee meeting covering the rule changes last month, adding the tweaks will help level the playing field.

The council on Monday approved a bill that grants building owners “a reasonable opportunity to present their case regarding the proposed designation” as part of the public hearing process. That “reasonable opportunity” applies to landmark designations for specific buildings where the owner did not consent to the application and to applications to create historic districts that contain properties where one or more owners ..

The Greater Birmingham Association of Home Builders is coming to Hoover.

The move comes about a year after the city OK'd a previous project.

The project would total over 240,000 square feet.

An early rendering depicts four-story buildings.

Royal Stone & Tile is a direct importer of marble, porcelain tiles and slabs from Western Europe, Brazil, Israel, Turkey and China, with a showroom at 2300 S. Sepulveda Blvd.

The lessee is a new Dallas-based company founded by two former Goldman Sachs executives.

The property includes 2.51 acres of land and a 96,000-square-foot warehouse.

Minneapolis-based Launch Properties is the developer behind the project that could encompass over 115 acres of farmland and vacant property. The city of Lakeville will consider an environmental review of the project during its meeting Monday.

It's been a year now since a temporary facility debuted at the site of the planned Catawba Two Kings Casino in Kings Mountain, and it is still unclear when construction might begin on the full resort.