Warehouse

You can expect plenty of "fi" but very little "sci" from "Warehouse 13," a drama series about the mystical, the occult, the paranormal and the just plain annoying. It premieres tonight at 9 with a two-hour pilot on the Sci Fi Channel, except that as of today the channel has a new name: Not Sci Fi but Syfy. Seriously. "Syfy" looks as if it could be pronounced "See-Fee," which sounds like a pay-TV operation, but the folks at Syfy and its wacky owner, NBC, seem to think that, however dumb it may look in type, Syfy is catchier.

If you are searching for a 19th-century curly maple chest, your andirons need polishing, your car is due for a tuneup and your club chair needs a slipcover, head over to the west side of Howard Avenue in Kensington. Kensington's warehouse district has been known for decades for its cavernous antique emporiums and gritty auto body shops. Tucked inside is an international community of craftspeople who can rewire a chandelier or restore a cabriole leg. Although curbside charm is not the calling...

An estimated 125 rescue workers dug methodically through a three-story jumble of paper in Cheverly on Saturday, racing to locate a warehouse worker believed trapped in a freakish accident two days earlier. Prince George's County rescue crews, aided by teams of dogs and five construction cranes, vowed to labor round-the-clock if necessary. They stressed that the triple-digit heat and the scale of the collapse made speed essential. "It's important for all the rescue workers to keep the thought process that we are attempting...

"Nowhere in the Washington, D.C., region will you find properties with more exciting potential than Robinson Terminal North and South," touts Studley, the real estate broker hired to sell the two warehouses in Alexandria. The warehouses, nearly a half mile apart on the Potomac River, are owned by a subsidiary of the Washington Post Co., but are no longer needed as the Post consolidates operations around its Springfield printing presses. In marketing materials produced by Studley, which Capital Business obtained from a...

WASHINGTON -- Jack Sarf of District-based Franklin & Rocky Properties bought a 17,500-square-foot industrial building for $1.2 million. The building is at 2400-2410 T St. NE and was built by Myron Loewinger in the mid-1960s to house his National Coin Machine Co. and other businesses. Loewinger died in 1983 and the company was sold in the late 1980s, but the building remained owned by Loewinger's family. "It is not uncommon for D.C. properties to remain in families for over a half century," said Langdon Hample, of Congressional Commercial,...

Flames tore through a market in the warehouse district off Florida Avenue NE late Wednesday, forcing firefighters to battle the blaze from outside the building. The fire, whose origin was not immediately known, broke out about 10 p.m. and continued to burn shortly before midnight. The warehouse, at Fourth and Morse Street NE, appeared to be a wholesale market that sells to small businesses in the region. It is adjacent to Union Market, a recently opened specialty-food market that features about 40 local artisans,...

Workers at a Giant Food warehouse in Maryland ratified an agreement with the operator that eliminates nearly half of the staff, ending months of contentious negotiations in which the union feared that the site would be shuttered. Teamsters Local 730, which represents 430 workers at the dry-groceries warehouse in Jessup, accepted a 40 percent reduction in staff, with the assurance that employees would be offered jobs in other parts of the company or buyouts. The vote was 241 to 19. "You can never...

Prince George's County rescue crews worked feverishly Friday clearing debris at a Cheverly warehouse where a roof collapsed, leaving a worker missing and believed buried beneath several stories of boxes, papers and building materials, authorities said. Mark Brady, a spokesman for the fire department, said workers would treat their job as a "rescue mission" until they found the man or his body. Even optimistically, though, Brady said that would not happen until late Friday...

"That's about a million books on those shelves," Chuck Roberts says proudly. The owner of Wonder Book and Video is standing in a 54,000-square-foot warehouse in Frederick, waving an arm toward what looks like a combination of the world's biggest bookstore and a grungy aircraft hangar. Eight-foot metal and wooden shelves, housing the used books Roberts sells on the Internet, stretch as far as a dust-filled eye can see. Taller, Costco-scale units hold massive, book-filled boxes not yet unpacked.

This Friday and Saturday is Bratt Decor 's annual warehouse sale. New and gently used children's furniture still in boxes, slightly battered in the warehouse or used in photo shoots will be discounted up to 70 percent. In addition to Bratt Decor cribs, dressers, daybeds and desks, shoppers will find accessories from Serena & Lily, Caden Lane, Oopsy Daisy, Dwell and more to outfit a nursery or kid's room. A lot of items will be available because the warehouse didn't have its annual sale last year and because the company closed one of its Baltimore...

A subsidiary of The Washington Post Co. plans to sell two shipping terminals in Old Town Alexandria that city officials consider key to the redevelopment of the waterfront. The warehouses, nearly half a mile apart along the Potomac River, served for decades as receiving locations for pulp and newsprint. Today, Robinson Terminal Warehouse Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of The Post Co., uses the 600,000 square feet largely for storage. "We have decided that the time is right to market the North and...

In 2012, shifts in retail and technology-oriented businesses generated solid demand for flex-industrial space in the Washington region, driven in part by retailers snapping up industrial space to house online operations and data centers expanding their footprint. Flex properties are typically part office and part warehouse, while industrial properties are typically warehouses, manufacturing facilities, data centers or distribution centers. Net absorption (the...

NEWTOWN, Conn. — Christmas is gone, and with it the satellite trucks, and now the residents of this most famous small town in America are left with tens of thousands of teddy bears that they don't know what to do with. Mountains of plush stuffed animals — some the size of grizzlies — await itemizing and boxing in a warehouse just east of Main Street, where the highest flag in town now flies at full-staff. Two weeks after the shooting at nearby Sandy Hook Elementary School, nearly a week after the...

Founder and President, ATC International Amy's interest in export began with a Bachelors degree in International Relations and Economics from the University of Delaware and a Master's degree from Georgetown University.  While attending Georgetown's Public Policy program, Amy specialized in Export Promotion Policy.  In the early part of her career, Amy worked in Melbourne, Australia as an Export Advisor to the State Government of Victoria.  During that time, she assisted small and medium sized Australian companies to identify export sales...

Flames tore through a market in the warehouse district off Florida Avenue NE late Wednesday, forcing firefighters to battle the blaze from outside the building. The fire, whose origin was not immediately known, broke out about 10 p.m. and continued to burn shortly before midnight. The warehouse, at Fourth and Morse Street NE, appeared to be a wholesale market that sells to small businesses in the region. It is adjacent to Union Market, a recently opened specialty-food market that features about 40 local artisans,...

In May 2004, burglars set fire to a warehouse in east London. They wanted to cover their tracks after stealing electronics equipment. They probably didn't know — and I doubt they would have cared — that the warehouse also happened to contain artwork stored by a company named Momart, primarily works by acclaimed British artists such as Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin . Up it all went, consumed by the flames. I thought of that conflagration — known in the art world as the Momart warehouse fire — when our...

The head of a local union representing workers at a Giant Food warehouse in Maryland said the operator gave verbal notice of plans to close the site, a move that endangers more than 400 jobs. The area's largest supermarket chain agreed in April to have Jessup Logistics, an affiliate of C&S Wholesale Grocers, assume operations of its dry-groceries warehouse in Jessup starting Sunday. This month, the operator began meeting with Teamsters Local 730, representing 430 workers there, to negotiate the contract set to expire May 14. Union...

The H Street Playhouse is relocating to 2020 Shannon Place SE in Anacostia . In the face of escalating rent, H Street founder Adele Robey was forced out of the Northeast neighborhood she (and her husband, who died in 2009) had helped to revitalize. Robey said she felt positive about the move before a news conference Monday, around the corner from the soon-to-be theater, which is now a warehouse. "For many reasons, it feels right," she said, not the least of which is the serendipity of moving to the neighborhood where her husband,...

A Baltimore firefighter has been charged with running an online prostitution ring and an unlicensed after-hours club in a city warehouse, less than two years after he received probation in Baltimore County in a similar sex trafficking case. The prior arrest didn't end the city employment of Jamar Marvin Simmons, 29, who continued to work as a firefighter/paramedic out of a firehouse in the Roland Park neighborhood. Fire officials said Simmons has been suspended without pay pending the outcome of the...