A Post Falls man died Tuesday when he fell while measuring for rain gutters on the roof of an apartment building that was under construction. Larry G. Jones, 67, was working in Coeur dAlene as a sub-contractor for Copper Basin Construction. Coeur dAlene police officers responded at 3:30 p.m. to the trauma call at North Grand Mill Lane and Seltice Way, a police department news release said. Witnesses who saw Jones fall said he was not wearing a safety harness, the release said. Jones died at the scene. This appears to be a tragic accident, said

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A Post Falls man died Tuesday when he fell while measuring for rain gutters on the roof of an apartment building that was under construction.

Larry G. Jones, 67, was working in Coeur dAlene as a sub-contractor for Copper Basin Construction.

Coeur dAlene police officers responded at 3:30 p.m. to the trauma call at North Grand Mill Lane and Seltice Way, a police department news release said.

Witnesses who saw Jones fall said he was not wearing a safety harness, the release said. Jones died at the scene.

This appears to be a tragic accident, said Coeur dAlene Police Chief Ron Clark. We extended our deepest sympathy to the family of LarryJones.

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Published: Tuesday, 1/14/2014

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Toledo City Council today approved a zoning change to clear the way for a new apartment building to house college students on West Bancroft Street near the University of Toledo

Council voted 9-2 in favor of the change for 2565 to 2661 Bancroft. Councilmen Tyrone Riley and Jack Ford voted against. Councilman Matt Cherry was not present for the meeting.

Developers plan to demolish a former night club, coffee shop, and other buildings on Bancroft near campus for the $27 million construction project to put up a 143-unit building designed to appeal to college students.

The developer needed a special-use permit and zoning of mixed commercial-residential on the 6-acres at the southeast corner of Bancroft and Westwood Avenue. The plans won approval from the city plan commission and from councils own zoning and planning committee, where it was the subject of about 90 minutes of discussion.

Mr. Riley said complaints from some neighbors in the adjacent Bancroft Hills subdivision gave him reservations about the project.

The builder, Guy Totino, of Cleveland, refused to answer questions about the project.

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Construction worker Hector Prieto insulates the sliding glass door Friday, Jan. 10, 2014, in an apartment on the fifth floor of The Gallery Flats building in downtown Loveland. Crews are set to finish construction at the end of May on the 66-unit complex. ( Jenny Sparks )

Loveland's latest offering in loft living -- The Gallery Flats apartment building -- will open its doors to its first residents in less than five months.

The five-story project under construction at the southwest corner of Sixth Street and Lincoln Avenue is scheduled for completion May 30.

"We're really excited about it and really proud of it," said Kevin Brinkman, president of Fort Collins-based Brinkman Partners, which is building and will manage the apartments.

"We think it's going to be a great addition to downtown Loveland," he said.

The building will contain 66 upscale apartments -- four two-bedroom live-work units on the ground floor along Lincoln, four studio apartments, 27 one-bedroom units, 27 two-bedroom units and four three-bedroom units.

This architectural rendering of The Gallery Flats building under construction in downtown Loveland depicts the view from Sixth Street and Lincoln Avenue, looking southwest. The building is scheduled for completion May 30, 2014. (Illustration courtesy of Oz Architecture) ( Special to the Reporter-Herald )

Brinkman said rents will be in the range of $850 a month for a studio, $875 for one bedroom, $1,150 for two bedrooms and $1,500 for three bedrooms. The live-work units will cost $1,100, he said.

Luxury Amenities

He said the units will fit the description of "luxury" apartments. As construction progressed, the company made decisions to upgrade the cabinetry, carpets and countertops, he said.

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The 23-unit Gillham Park Row development is planned for a site across from Hyde Park once occupied by the Outrigger apartments, a bland building dating from the 1960s that was demolished in 2011. Hoffman said the project would be the first new development in the Old Hyde Park neighborhood in 30 years.

The major thrust is to give renters and alternative that doesnt exist, a smaller building with modern, clean, loftlike space, Hoffman said.

The project is close to Armour, where about two dozen historic apartment-hotel buildings have been converted to market-rate apartments. Because of preservation standards, those buildings do not have the balconies and other amenities that a new-built structure allows.

Hoffman, who is developing the project with Lance Carlton, hired Draw Architecture + Urban Design of Kansas City to design a three-story building that was intended to complement the nearby historic apartments and homes, and offers views of the park. Many units also would have balconies or patios.

The redevelopment plan also calls for restoring an adjoining home at 3614 Gillham Road that dates to 1897.

Although Hoffman has the support of several neighboring property owners, the Gillham Park Row design is opposed by the board of the Old Hyde Park Historic District.

Martin Phillips, president of the district, said his board wanted the new building to more closely resemble its early 20th-century neighboring structures.

Its a nice design for maybe the suburbs, he said, but we wanted them to use more design features of the early 1900s. We feel in a historic neighborhood, we need to keep that look and feel.

Hoffman said his architect responded to requests from the neighborhood to incorporate more brick and other modifications to respect the context of the historic area, but were not rebuilding a 1910 colonnade apartment building, referring to an old architectural style.

Im a former head of the Historic Kansas City Foundation, and I support historic preservation, Hoffman said, but were dealing with an empty lot.

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MADISON, Wis. -

A local organization tore fixtures and cabinets out of a Victorian-era home in a near west side neighborhood, which will be replaced by a new apartment building.

The Greenbush Neighborhood in Madison will soon see a new neighbor in the way of a four-story apartment building.

The building will feature one- and two-bedroom units in the former spot of a Victorian-era home on Mound Street.

If someone bought the Victorian-era building that went up for sale last fall, the new owners would have had to move the building to another lot, but nobody bought it.

Monday, volunteers with Habitat Restore tore out items like metal, pipes and cabinetry, so instead of going into a landfill, theyre go up for resale or recycling.

Theres less material to take to the landfill, it helps us to sell this material to fund new construction. So its a win, win for everybody, Habitat Restore Deconstruction Manager Frank Byrne said. "There is material we are able to offer the public at the Habitat restores."

Proceeds from items sold at the Restore help to build Habitat for Humanity homes. There are two locations, one at 208 Cottage Grove Rd. and another at 5706 Odana Rd.

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Construction of The Metropolitan a proposed large, mixed-use building at the intersection of College Avenue and Atherton Street could begin toward the summer of this year, Ara Kervandjian managing director of PennTrust Properties, LLC, said via email.

The project is now in the final design and submitting phase with various governing bodies, Kervandjian said. PennTrust Properties, LLC is responsible for developing the building.

The building will be built at 106 S. Atherton Street, formerly an Arbys restaurant, and will also take up neighboring lots at 412 and 418 W. College Ave., according to State College senior Planner and Zoning Officer Anne Messner. The building is proposed to have 12 floors with a height of 145 feet, Messner said.

We hope that the project will redefine downtown State College as a destination for apartment living, retail and dining, Kervandjian said.

The ground floor will contain a mix of retail and restaurant space, with office space on the second and rooftop levels, Kervandjian said.

The building will also include a sky deck on the penthouse level, a terrace area on the third floor and nine floors of residential housing, Kervandjian said.

Seven of the residential floors will be student housing while the remaining two will be market rate housing for non-students, Messner said. The number of apartments is still being determined, according to Matt Lee , project director for The Metropolitan for Niles Bolton Associates.

Lee also said construction could start this summer for a fall 2016 opening.

Niles Bolton Associates, an Atlanta-based firm, is the architect for The Metropolitan, Kervandjian said.

The residential units will not have balconies based on the design presented to the borough, although the zoning code does allow for balconies, State College Borough Manager Tom Fountaine said.

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A drawing shows a conceptual site plan at Blue Springs Crossing in Island City. The 38 units at the development would add to the approximately 210 units the Northeast Oregon Housing Authority owns and manages in Union, Wallowa and Baker counties. (Myhre Group Architects illustration)

We fully expect to begin construction (in 2014), said J. Daniel Steffey of Guardian Real Estate Services.

Steffey is the senior vice president for development with Guardian Real Estate, a Portland firm set to oversee the construction of the 38-unit Blue Springs Crossing apartment complex that would be located on Walton Road.

Guardian Real Estate may submit a development plan to the City of Island City later this month.

We hope to submit the development plan to Island City by the end of January, said Jessy Olson, the development project project manager for Guardian Real Estate Services.

Dale De Long, the mayorof Island City, said that once the development plan is submitted, the city will determine if its plans conform with all zoning ordinances and codes.

We will look extensively to make sure there are no development code violations, De Long said.

Should any portion of the plan not meet requirements of the development code the city would have to grant variances before the building project could proceed. Steffey anticipates that the plan submitted will meet all requirements of Island Citys building code.

That is fully our intent, Steffey said.

Should Guardian Real Estates development plan be approved the firm would then be able to apply for building permits from the city.

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The long-hoped-for recovery in Australia's residential construction sector may finally be underway, with low interest rates driving the fastest expansion in new home building since 2005.

Strong growth in house building has helped drive the broader construction sector to its third consecutive month of expansion in in December, after several years of decline.

According to Australian Industry Group (Ai) figures, there were also solid gains from the commercial construction and apartment building sub-sectors during the month.

Growth across the entire sector was a little slower than in the previous two months but Ai Group public policy director Dr Peter Burn said the figures were good news after a long period of weakness.

He said low interest rates were finally having a positive impact on residential and commercial construction.

'Low interest rates are clearly having their long-awaited impact,' he said.

Dr Burn said the figures suggested 2014 would be a better year for the construction industry.

'The continued growth of new orders means that builders and the manufacturing and service industries that are linked to the commercial and residential construction sectors - can look forward to 2014 with a greater degree of confidence than prevailed only a few months ago,' he said.

The Ai Group's Performance of Construction Index fell 4.2 points to 50.8 in December, putting it in mildly positive territory, while the house building sub-sector rose 1.5 points to 63.5.

A reading of above 50 indicates the sector is expanding and the greater the reading above that level the faster the rate of expansion.

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The new eight-story apartment building at the corner of Market and Dolores streets hints at what we'll see across San Francisco as construction cranes make way for finished structures: an abundance of careful planning and a shortage of architectural nerve.

On the ground there's a high-ceilinged Whole Foods Market and a wide sidewalk that doubles as an urbane mini-park. But the building above is a procession of compromises, an earnest collage of scales and skins rather than a distinctive work of architecture that stands on its own.

The result is a plus for a corner that's a gateway to the Castro to the west and the Mission to the south. What's missing is that hard-to-define extra spark - the comfortable confidence that once defined Bay Area urban neighborhoods and now is frowned on more often than not.

If nothing else, the finished product dubbed 38 Dolores emerged relatively coherent from a process that included meetings between the developer, Prado Group, and an array of neighborhood groups after a plan for the larger Upper Market area was approved in 2007. There now are a dozen mixed-use buildings along Market Street west of Van Ness Avenue that are recently finished, under construction or in the works.

This one commands notice because of the prominence of the block-long site, at the crest where Dolores Street's march of palm trees concludes and Market begins its long descent to the Ferry Building.

With no shortage of design cues to choose from, Prado Group and BAR Architects chose a contemporary look and then adapted it to the existing contexts on each side.

The building is eight stories tall along Market, while on Dolores the top two stories are pulled back to reduce the building's heft. The south wing along 14th Street drops to four stories, an abrupt transition to the older residential buildings across the way.

At each turn, the architectural details of 38 Dolores are tweaked as well. The Market Street facade has glassy, right-angled bays that are detailed in crisp metal. The stretch along Dolores has thinner bays and a coat of medium-brown brick. The 14th Street wing wears bricks of a light brown hue and adds a skin of faux wooden slats.

"We really felt the character should be different on Market Street than it was on Dolores, and different again on 14th Street," said David Israel, a principal at BAR, the design architect. William McDonough + Partners was involved in earlier schematic designs for the project. "Each context is somewhat different."

The most memorable move, though, is the one that breaks free of context - a sharp prow that extends 25 feet above the Whole Foods entrance where Market and Dolores meet.

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Life is about to return to normal on Londons RichmondSt.N., where construction of a $55-million apartment building has impeded drivers and pedestrians for half a year.

Construction of the 19-storey apartment tower, on a narrow site, saw the contractor close and use the westerly, southbound lanes since early last summer.

The roadway occupation was expected to end in November, before the snow flew, but that was extended because of delays.

The road should be reopened to four lanes by the end of next week as long as the weather co-operates, said Doug MacRae, the citys manager of transportation planning.

Occupying city roadways doesnt come without cost for developers: Depriving drivers of the 7,000 sq. ft. of asphalt came to about $12,000.

Application and processing fees added another $400, on top of the building permit fees of more than $200,000.

Every effort is made to reduce and minimize impacts and disruption to the public, said Lou Pompilii, of city halls building compliance division.

The nature of this development and site restricts construction access to the front.

The developer, he noted, also had to:

London Hydro will be able to remove old utility poles to allow the closed portion of the road to reopen after Rogers moves cables from the old poles to new ones Jan.15, said Hydro spokesperson Nancy Hutton.

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