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September 22, 2010

The Biz Ethan Forman The Salem News Wed Sep 22, 2010, 05:45 AM EDT

Bioengineering Group of Salem has been awarded a $30 million federal contract for conservation planning services in the United States, Saipan, Guam and the Caribbean, the company says.

How did that happen?

"We are starting a project now with designing improvements to a currently unsafe dam in Pennsylvania," said Wendi Goldsmith, Bioengineering Group's CEO. That work, Goldsmith said, led to discussions with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service about doing work elsewhere.

Bioengineering Group is one of the most successful women-owned firms in the nation, Goldsmith said. The company's ecologists, scientists, engineers and landscape designers are based in Salem, at 18 Commercial St., with regional offices in New Orleans and Baton Rouge, La.; Philadelphia; Birmingham, Ala.; Raleigh-Durham, N.C.; and San Diego.

The company also serves as a managing member of a joint venture doing design and construction management services with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to protect New Orleans from future hurricanes and floods.

"We have been recognized for our growth and profitability during this downturn," Goldsmith said. "We attribute this success to our position of sustainable design leadership."

Costco primes pump of 'members only' gas

Sterling, Va.-based Costco Wholesale Corp. has won approval from Danvers officials to open a "members only" gas station at its warehouse store at 11 Newbury St.

It's a plan similar to one Costco floated last year, but which the company withdrew from consideration by the Zoning Board of Appeals in September 2009.

This year, Costco won the necessary variances to allow the filling station and signs on a portion of its expansive parking lot. Costco also sells gas at some of its other warehouse stores.

The gas station would consist of three pumping islands and would be covered by a canopy. It would also have an attendant kiosk.

The station would not service cars or sell anything other than fuel.

Danvers selectmen recently approved Costco's application to store 90,000 gallons of gasoline at the station.

Acting fire Chief Kevin Farrell said he had no problem with the storage plans.

The nearly 128,000-square-foot warehouse store sprouted in the early 1990s on the former location of Thomson's Garden Center.

Analogic appoints Bailey to its board

Peabody-based Analogic Corp., a medical imaging and aviation security technology company, has appointed Bernard Bailey to its board effective Sept. 1. Bailey serves as president, CEO and founder of Paraquis Solutions LLC of Gaithersburg, Md., a consulting firm for small to midsize companies in "areas of strategy, change transformation, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate governance," the company said.

Bailey plans to serve on the board's nominating and governance and audit committees.

Analogic also announced last week that Lars Shaw has joined the company as vice president of global marketing for its BK Medical ultrasound business. Shaw, who has held key positions in the ultrasound industry, came to Analogic from Zonare Medical Systems, a privately held company in California.

In other Analogic news, today at 10:30 a.m., Vice President and CFO Michael Levitz will present at the UBS Global Life Sciences Conference being held at the Grand Hyatt New York in New York City. You can catch the presentation live or archived at www.analogic.com.

Hyundai Village to move across Danvers

Hyundai Village of Danvers plans to move five miles and 10 minutes away to the former home of Colonial Cadillac and Saturn of Danvers at 24 Commonwealth Ave. on Oct. 1, according to the dealership's website and a sign on the store.

"While Route 1 has been a good home for us, in order to serve our customers better, we needed a larger facility with expanded parking, as well as a more convenient location," Hyundai Village's website says.

The facility has better parking, is larger, and customers and staff will not have the stress of having to accelerate onto Route 1, according to Hyundai Village's website. The dealership is moving from 181 Newbury St.

NSCC leads grant for early care providers

If you care for or teach young kids, you may be interested to know North Shore Community College is part of a regional partnership that has won $711,000 a year for three years to address the educational and professional development needs of early childhood educators and child care workers, the college said in a recent press release.

The money comes by way of a state Department of Early Education and Care's Educator and Provider Support grant. The college, with campuses in Danvers and Lynn, is part of a regional partnership with Middlesex and Northern Essex Community colleges, Merrimack College, Salem State, Lowell schools, Greater Lawrence Community Action Council, MassAEYC, Child Care Circuit, Compass for Kids, the Institute for Education and Professional Development, Mass After School Partnership, Build the Out of School Time Network, and Community Teamwork.

The partnership will collaborate with the Northeast Regional Readiness Center at Salem State.

Seminar offers ways to plug your business into the state

To learn more about how your small business can sell your products and services to the state, you can attend a free training seminar sponsored by the Salem-based North Shore Alliance for Economic Development, the Lynn Area Chamber of Commerce, and the Massachusetts Operational Services Division's Supplier Diversity Office and Program.

The seminar will help you find opportunities to bid for state work, will outline the bidding process for state and departmental contracts, and will help you locate federal stimulus procurement and grant opportunities, among other things.

"A number of Alliance members and participants have asked for information on how to sell their product to the state," said Bill Luster, executive director of the North Shore Alliance for Economic Development, "so we asked for a North Shore training program, and the state was happy to oblige."

"Connecting Your Business to the Commonwealth" will be held in Lynn at the Eastern Bank Conference Room, 195 Market St., Oct. 1, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Registration starts at 8:30 a.m. You must register to attend. Go to the website of the State Office of Minority and Women Business Assistance, www.somwba.state.ma.us/WorkShop/xss_main.aspx?workshopid=27, to register.

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Staff writer Ethan Forman can be reached at 978-338-2673 or by e-mail at eforman@salemnews.com.

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