ADVISORY/Builders of 'Internet-in-the-Sky' to Help Renovate Daycare Center for Homeless Children.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 18, 1998-- WHAT: More than 100 employees of Kirkland-based Teledesic and the contractor of its new headquarters building are coming together Thursday to help refurbish re·fur·bish tr.v. re·fur·bished, re·fur·bish·ing, re·fur·bish·es To make clean, bright, or fresh again; renovate. re·fur the new home of Our Place Daycare, a refuge for homeless children in Seattle. Our Place Daycare is moving from a cramped 900-square-foot Central Area facility to a 3,000-square-foot building nearby. The facility needs extensive repairs and updating, and as part of an annual tradition Craig McCaw Craig McCaw (b. August 11, 1949 in Centralia, Washington) is the second of four sons of Marion and John Elroy McCaw. The Seattle-area businessman and entrepreneur achieved success as a pioneer in the cellular phone industry. began at McCaw Cellular, Teledesic has adopted Our Place Daycare as this year's community project. McCaw is Teledesic's chairman. Coordinating the construction effort for Teledesic is Foushee and Associates, the prime contractor of tenant improvements Teledesic is making to a Bellevue warehouse that will be its future home. The company and more than a dozen suppliers, including plumbers and electricians, have donated countless hours and considerable resources to prepare the new Our Place building for the arrival of the Teledesic team. On Nov. 19, the team will paint, build a deck, fences and benches, remove rubble, landscape and more. The facility is expected to be ready for move-in by early 1999. WHEN: Thursday, Nov. 19 8:30 a.m.-12 p.m. Crews at work 12 p.m.-1:30 p.m. Lunch 1:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m. Crews at work WHERE: Our Place Daycare (new facility) 13th and Spring Street(a) Seattle (a)Please do not identify the daycare location in any stories. This is a non-published address. WHO: Our Place Daycare: Our Place Daycare is a nonprofit A corporation or an association that conducts business for the benefit of the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive. Nonprofits are also called not-for-profit corporations. Nonprofit corporations are created according to state law. organization founded in 1985 to love, feed and nurture the health and well being of Seattle-area homeless children, ages 1-6. The daycare currently serves between 70-120 children annually. In addition to a stable, safe environment, the center offers medical and mental health services and supports the homeless families as a whole. Teledesic: Teledesic (pronounced "tel-eh-DEH-sic") is building a next-generation global, broadband "Internet-in-the-Sky" satellite communications system In telecommunication, a communications system is a collection of individual communications networks, transmission systems, relay stations, tributary stations, and data terminal equipment (DTE) usually capable of interconnection and interoperation to form an integrated whole. . The private company's founding investors are telecommunications pioneer Craig McCaw and Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates (person) Bill Gates - William Henry Gates III, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft, which he co-founded in 1975 with Paul Allen. In 1994 Gates is a billionaire, worth $9.35b and Microsoft is worth about $27b. . Using a constellation of low-Earth-orbit satellites, Teledesic is the first licensed satellite communications network The transmission channels interconnecting all client and server stations as well as all supporting hardware and software. that will enable affordable, worldwide access to "fiber-like" telecommunications services In telecommunication, the term telecommunications service has the following meanings: 1. Any service provided by a telecommunication provider. 2. such as broadband Internet See broadband. access, videoconferencing A real time video session between two or more users or between two or more locations. Although the first videoconferencing was done with traditional analog TV and satellites, inhouse room systems became popular in the early 1980s after Compression Labs pioneered digitized video systems and interactive multimedia. Teledesic's service is targeted to be available in 2003. Foushee and Associates: Based in Bellevue, Foushee and Associates has been managing private commercial projects for more than 20 years. With more than 50 employees, Foushee manages renovations, tenant improvements and new construction, including the development of Teledesic's new building. Foushee's subcontractors and suppliers who donated time and resources: Builders Hardware, Seattle Cascade Concrete Sawing & Drilling, Kent Dearborn Lumber lumber, term for timber that has been cut into boards for use as a building material. The major steps in producing lumber involve logging (the felling and preparation of timber for shipment to sawmills), sawing the logs into boards, grading the boards according to , Seattle Democon, Lynnwood Don Dugger/Electrician, Renton Generation Glass, Roy Holmes Electric, Renton Infrastructures, Inc., Woodinville LaRusso Concrete Co., Kent Long Painting Co., Seattle McKinstry Co., Seattle Partition Systems, Inc., Kirkland Star Rentals, Seattle |
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