News Briefs – February 2008

• The New York Public Library will restore the façade of its Fifth Avenue building, according to the New York Sun. Restoration work will begin this spring, with a targeted completion in three years to meet the building's centennial in 2011. Now known as the Humanities and Social Sciences Library, the building’s exterior marble needs repair of cracks, chips, and erosion. WJE  Engineers & Architects P.C. in New York designed the $55 million restoration, most of which is already funded from city, state, and federal sources.
• Stone 3000 relocated in November to 115-10th St. in the Cold Spring Business Park in Cold Spring, Minn. The quarry-consulting business now offers a showroom to display stone-cutting equipment; the company, headed by Aleksandar Tomovic, is the North American agent for OGYU Manufacturing Equipment.