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Tampa, Fla. --- There’s a reason the Tampa Bay Builders Association is the fastest-growing regional home builder association in Florida with more than 500 members to date.  And the Sales and Marketing Council of the TBBA has grown with it to over 230 members.

Mike Finley, vice president of sales and marketing at Ryland Homes in the Tampa Bay region, said the Tampa Bay Builders Association is actively bulking up, and it’s for a good reason.

ORLANDO, Fla. – Ashton Woods Homes has acquired 66 three and four bedroom townhome sites at Copley Square located off Michigan Street and Delaney Avenue south of Downtown Orlando. 

Michael Roche, vice president of sales and marketing for Ashton Woods Homes, said the townhomes range in size from 2,000 square feet of living space to 2,400 square feet with two car garages. 

TAMPA, Fla. --- Ashton Woods Homes recently opened three ready-to-move-in homes at The Landings in South Tampa, located off Interbay and Westshore Blvds. in the Westshore region of Tampa.

Michael Roche, vice president of sales and marketing at Ashton Woods Homes, said three, four and five bedroom homes at The Landings in South Tampa range in size from1,556 square feet of living space to 2,730 square feet priced from $229,900 with a two car garage.

Roche said only 20 home sites remain for sale in the current phase at the Landings in South Tampa.

A deal, which has seen delay after delay, has finally been announced for the Intercity express trains. A contract worth £4.5billion is to create more than 900 new jobs. The Government’s deal with Agility Trains, an organisation run by the Japanese company Hitachi, will see over 600 rail carriages constructed at the newly built factory in Newton Aycliffe, in County Durham. It is expected that the first trains will be on the tracks on the Greater Western mainline at some point in 2017, whilst the East Coast Main Line trains will not be operating until 2018.

Montreal (May 1, 2012) – VIA Rail Canada will begin serving a new menu onboard their trans-continental route, the Canadian, a journey that connects Toronto and Vancouver.  In order to select the new menu, VIA launched the Menu Creation Challenge which gathered eight VIA chefs for a two-day competition –