Placement company moves with Stamford

Placement company relocates within Stamford

Resources Global Professionals is moving from Stamford Harbor Park to 300 Atlantic St. in the city.

The Irvine, Calif.-based provider of temporary executive placement is moving to a 5,800-square-foot space on the fifth floor of the building. The company is set to move in June 1, having signed a six-year lease with RFR Realty, owner and manager of the building.

Resources Global Professionals is among eight businesses vacating the Stamford Harbor Park location to make room for Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide, which plans to move into the building with its 800 employees from White Plains, N.Y., by January. Starwood will occupy the first eight floors in the north tower and floors three, four and five in the south tower of the building, owned by Building and Land Technology.

The other seven tenants were relocated within the complex or to other buildings owned by Building and Land Technology.

 

Executive moves at Priceline.com

Norwalk-based Priceline.com recently announced changes to its executive team.

Christopher Soder, Priceline.com”™s president of North American travel, was recently named CEO of Priceline.com North America. The change is effective June 2 and Soder will continue to report to The Priceline Group”™s president and CEO Jeffery Boyd. Soder will be responsible for Priceline.com”™s North American operations, supplier relations, website and marketing. He also will continue as a member of the company”™s Group Management Board, which oversees performance and strategy of The Priceline Group of Companies worldwide.

The Priceline Group has also transitioned Kees Koolen from CEO of Netherlands-based Booking.com to chairman of the company, which he founded. Priceline is seeking a replacement for Koolen.

 

Medical garden

Stamford Hospital has collaborated with the Bartlett Arboretum and Stamford High School to plant a medicinal herb and aroma garden at the hospital”™s Tully Health Center.

The garden, planned to be open to the public, will provide access to and education about natural-approach healing methods.

The garden is being designed by Ganga Duleep, master gardener and preceptor at the University of Connecticut Bartlett Arboretum Master Gardener program. In addition to Ganga, 10 master gardeners will work with the schools to plant the garden.

Marc Brodsky, director of Stamford Hospital”™s Center for Integrative Medicine and Wellness, said he is hopeful the garden will create a greater awareness about the healing power of natural and integrative medicine.

 

More delays with Kawasaki trains

Kawasaki Rail Car”™s work on the Metro-North New Haven Line trains will have an additional delay.

According to Metro-North officials, Tokyo-based Kawasaki”™s work on the new Connecticut M-8 trains was recently brought to a stop due to a manufacturing error. It is the latest issue to delay the rollout of the new trains, which are more than a year behind schedule.

Kawasaki also laid off 115 workers in March who were working on the state”™s $866 million investment.

The delay of the fleet of 380 rail cars for Metro-North is the result of a mistake in the metal weld of the brackets used to secure machinery to the underside of the cars. If not corrected, the defect would result in premature maintenance problems.

The production holdup is expected to affect Kawasaki”™s ability to deliver 70 railcars it promised by the end of the year.