A Minnesota developer proposesconstruction ofa 48-unit apartment building at the corner of Davenport's West 4th and Gaines streets, away from the booming rental neighborhood at the east end of downtown.

Stan Buesing, whose family owns the property, confirmed the interest in his property at that intersection. They have a tentative offer with MWF Properties of Minneapolis, pending financing. He declined to say how much the offer is.

Alderman Bill Boom, 3rd Ward, who represents the downtown, said he likes the project. It is expected to have a handful of market-rate apartments along with affordable housing options.

"I think it is the start of something," Boom said. "We are starting to see investment further and further west. It would be a great development for that corner and allow us to clean up that corner."

The building will be four stories and offer underground parking on the north half of the block. The project doesn't require rezoning but would go through the Design Review Board process for the downtown.

Alderman Gene Meeker, at large, who chairs the council's economic development committee, sees good and not so good in the project.

"It would be nice to get some of those properties cleaned up over in that area," he said. "Were always looking for investment in our community, but were getting more than our share of subsidized housing."

MWF, one of three companies the city council backed for tax credit applications earlier this month, isn't expected to hear whether it will receive those until the end of January, Buesing said. Bruce Berger, of the city's Community Planning and Economic Development Department, said he doesn't expect an answer until March.

Buesing said it was time to sell the property and it had been on the market for some time.

"We wanted to get out from under the building," Buesing said of his family. "Wed like to get the money so our kids dont have to worry about it if something happens to us.

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The proposed future site Affinity at Bellingham a four story, 154-unit apartment building for ages 55 and older, Monday, Dec. 23, 2013 at 341 Telegraph Road in Bellingham. MATTMCDONALDTHEBELLINGHAMHERALD|BuyPhoto

BELLINGHAM - Local investors are close to selling 7.8 acres off Meridian Street for construction of a 154-unit apartment building for baby boomers.

The current owner, Bayfield at Telegraph LLC, apparently will take a loss on the properties. The company, which includes more than a dozen investors primarily from Lynden, bought the properties between Telegraph and McLeod roads south of Home Depot for $4.74 million in March 2007, before the recession. The vacant land is listed on the Keller Williams Realty website at $2.95 million, with a sale pending.

"Somebody is coming in and is interested in purchasing it on the basis of that project that they just filed, I guess," said Henry Klos of Lynden, one of the minority owners. "Everything is still up in the air. They are doing their due diligence, testing the water."

The Inland Group of Spokane Valley proposes building Affinity at Bellingham, four stories of apartments for people 55 and older that would be similar to eight other projects the developer has built in Washington, Idaho and Colorado.

Bayfield at Telegraph initially hoped for a quicker turnaround and a profitable one. They ordered residents of a 22-unit mobile home park off the property in 2008, but the commercial-retail project proposed at the time fell through. The owner then put the properties on the market for $9.1 million that year. There were no buyers.

"We pulled it off the market and did a refinance so we could carry it," Klos said.

The Inland Group has filed four permit applications with the city, including an environmental review and a request to waive some of the standard requirements for improvements to Telegraph Road.

The standard environmental review includes air and water pollution, noise, light and traffic impacts. That part of Bellingham, near Bellis Fair mall, is already among the busiest in the county, and a new 99-room Oxford Suites hotel will be built a half-mile away.

"We're going to be looking closely at the review in terms of traffic impacts," city planner Steve Sundin said.

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A construction company has agreed to pay Sri Jati apartment Kuala Lumpur residents RM 200 each and a new roof for their car park.

KUALA LUMPUR:After two years KKH construction & engineering Sdn Bhd has finally agreed to compensate Sri Jati apartment Kuala Lumpur residents RM 200 and a car park roof as their construction work had damaged more then 20 cars.

KKH construction & engineering Managing Director Tan Kok Hong said in a meeting at the Sri Jati multipurpose hall with the residents that his company will bear the cost of the damages today.

The meeting was called upon after the resident lodged many complaints many times to DBKL and the company agreed to have a dialogue with the residents.

Sri Jati Building manager Gary Sritharan said this problem was on going since KKH companys started construction work 2 years ago.

Gary said he has been trying to get a solution from DBKL and the developer .

He said the residents are finally happy as the developer is willing to bear the cost and have taken responsibility for the damages.

The developer has promised to improve safety measures while the construction works goes on .

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A new five-story apartment and retail building complete with a robotic-powered parking garage may be coming to a site across the street from Kansas University's Memorial Stadium.

Plans have been filed at Lawrence City Hall for a major mixed-used development on the existing site of the Berkeley Flats apartment complex at 1101 Indiana St.

"We think it is a very strategic site in the city that is being underutilized currently," said Jim Heffernan, a principal with Chicago-based student housing developer HERE LLC.

The site is directly east of the stadium and is along the Mississippi Street gateway to campus.

Details of the proposed development include:

156 apartments totaling about 600 bedrooms would be located on three of the building's five floors. Each apartment would include an 18-foot-high great room, designed to give the units the feel of an urban loft.

Retail and restaurant uses would be located along both the Mississippi Street and Indiana Street levels of the building. In total, the plans call for about 11,000 square feet of retail shops or restaurants.

The development would have a 592-space parking garage spread out over three levels, including an underground level. The garage would use an "automated, robotic parking garage system" to park and retrieve cars.

The system involves the motorist pulling into a large elevator-like box and exiting the vehicle. The garage then uses an elevator system to place the vehicle on the appropriate floor, and a lift-and-track system that moves the vehicle to the right space.

Cars are retrieved through a sort of electronic valet system. Heffernan estimated it takes about three to five minutes to retrieve a vehicle.

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At its Monday, Dec. 9 meeting, the Osseo City Council discussed several items relating to the current phase and future phase of the Five Central project.

The project consists of a three-story apartment building with 71 units and underground parking for phase one. The project will be located on the Block 6 redevelopment site (block just north of Osseo City Hall, between First Avenue N.W. and Central Avenue, and Fifth Street N.W. and Sixth Street N.W.).

Developer Bill Beard said the current phase one portion of the project is two months ahead of schedule. This first phase could open earlier than expected as well.

You have before you tonight approvals on some plats that we dont intend to actually be the final ones, Beard said. The plats you have before you were contemplated to before a 45-unit (second phase) project. As weve gone through the process of exploring options with the police station and looking at things, weve moved forward with the idea of acquiring the plumbing building and including that in the project and moving that project, phase two, from being 45 units to 69 units.

He added that the council members would shortly have before them a replacement amendment taking into account the unit number change.

The second phase of Five Central would include a 64,363-square-foot apartment building with the continuation of underground parking from phase one. Construction would begin in April 2014.

City Planner Riley Grams said the building for phase two would all be residential units, including on the ground level. The developer crunched the numbers and looked at several different concepts and designs, and decided to ask the city if an all-residential concept would be workable, he said. Staff spent some time reviewing and looking into and decided ultimately that would be an allowable concept plan for us. One of the reasons for this is we do have a lot of available commercial space as it is in the city.

The council approved the preliminary planned unit development for Five Central phase two.

In a related matter the council approved the preliminary site plan for Five Central phase two.

Also, the council approved the preliminary plat for Five Central phase two. This action involves the re-plat for the project, combining four parcels of land. State building code prohibits the building of one continuous building over a property line, which is why the parcels needed to be combined into one parcel.

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Pyongyang, December 18 (KCNA) -- The Sogu Public Building Construction Company and the Namgu Housing Construction Company in Pyongyang have made big contributions to building a number of edifices and streets in the city for scores of years.

The Sogu Public Building Construction Company began its work with the building of Kim Il Sung University soon after the country's liberation from the Japanese colonial rule.

During the periods of the Fatherland Liberation War (1950-1953) and postwar reconstruction, it played a big role in building several big projects like Moranbong Theatre, Kim Il Sung Stadium and Pyongyang Railway Station.

In the days of the great Chollima upsurge, the company successfully carried into practice the policy of the Workers' Party of Korea on prefabricating apartment houses, thus making an innovation of assembling a flat only in 14 minutes.

In the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, it took part in building Pyongyang Indoor Stadium, People's Palace of Culture and International Friendship Exhibition House as well as Munsu, An Sang Thaek, Kwangbok and Thongil streets.

The Namgu Housing Construction Company, too, played an important role in building scores of projects in the city, including the Mangyongdae Chicken Farm, Phyongchon District People's Hospital, Pyongyang Shoes Factory and other public and dwelling buildings.

In the period of the Arduous March, the forced march, when the country was in hard time, it successfully finished more than 30 projects, including the updating of the Ryongsong Chicken Farm.

The two companies are considered powerful builders in the city.

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December 18, 2013 Updated Dec 18, 2013 at 6:47 PM EST

Binghamton, NY (WBNG Binghamton) December marks the third anniversary of the Midtown Mall fire in downtown Binghamton.

Flames destroyed two 200-year-old buildings and put the plans on hold to develop space into student housing.

Three years later, the Midtown Mall is ready for new life.

Larry Gladstone bought 83 Court St. and 517 Chenango St. in 2008 in hopes to build apartments. The fire provided a roadblock.

"We had to do this project twice," said Gladstone. "It came out better the second time than it did the first."

With construction on the building at Court Street nearing it's end, all that's left to do is fill the rooms with appliances and furniture.

"I think it's going to be an amazing project when it's done and I'd also like to thank all of the people who believed in this project," said Binghamton Mayor Matt Ryan.

Both buildings are steps away from Binghamton nightlife.

"Because the location where it is, you have other shops, restaurants right here as part of the location," said Gladstone.

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Local developer wants to construct three-storey apartment building in behind former SGCI building

Pictured above is an artists rendering of the proposed new apartment development at the former SGCI property.

SACKVILLE, N.B. A new apartment building development being proposed for a heritage property in town has drawn criticism from a number of local residents, who say they are concerned over whether the new multi-unit structure will fit in with the neighbourhood.

Sackville resident Peter Manchester says he is concerned the town is moving too quickly on approving multi-unit developments in the community without enough consideration for the architectural characteristics of the surrounding area.

I think that Sackville has perhaps lost its way when it comes to the heritage landscape it once had, Manchester told members of town council during the public hearing for the proposal last week.

Sackville has, over the past couple of years, experienced significant growth when it comes to high-density housing but Manchester said hes disappointed there doesnt seem to be a comprehensive planning process in place for the approach council and staff want to take when it comes to the look you want.

We want architecture that people can be proud of, said Manchester.

Last weeks public hearing gave residents and members of council an opportunity to hear more about the proposed rezoning for the former SGCI property at 131 Main Street, on which local developer Gordon Beal is asking to build a three-storey, 18-unit building.

This is Beals second attempt at rezoning a parcel of land at the rear of the property from Residential Historic Commercial to Urban Residential 3 (R3). Beals previous rezoning request back in 2010 was denied, with town council citing the design of the proposed building as the main reason behind the rejection.

The initial building, which was said to be targeted toward professionals and seniors, featured two storeys that would have included about a dozen two-bedroom apartment-style units.

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The Kennedy-Warren is a historic eleven-story apartment house in Washington, D.C. It is located at 3131-3133 Connecticut Avenue, N.W. between the Cleveland Park and Woodley Park neighborhoods. The Art Deco building, which was constructed from 1931, overlooks the National Zoological Park and Klingle Valley Park, which is near the Art Deco Kingle Valley Bridge. The original main building was built between 1930 and 1931 with 210 apartments.

The plans of its architect called for a northeast wing and a south wing as well, but construction was delayed because of the onset of the Great Depression. The northeast wing was added in 1935 with 107 additional apartments as economic conditions improved in Washington. The B. F. Saul Company, owner of the building since 1935, added the south wing between 2002 and 2004. The architect of the northeast wing was A. H. Sonneman and of the south wing was Hartman-Cox. The current total number of apartments, ranging from efficiencies to three-bedroom units, is 425.

The Kennedy-Warren is considered the largest and best example of an Art Deco building in Washington, D.C. In 1989, the building was listed as a District of Columbia Historic Landmark, and in 1994 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. The south wing has won numerous awards for the quality of its architecture and attention to historical detail, including the 2005 award of excellence for historic resources by the American Institute of Architects.[1][2]

In 1929, Monroe Warren, Sr. approached Edgar S. Kennedy about the possibility of constructing a large apartment house on a tract that Kennedy owned on Connecticut Avenue. Kennedy was a partner with two brothers, William and Gordon, in Kennedy Brothers Company, a real estate development firm that had built a number of apartment houses in Washington,D.C., including 2400 16th Street, N.W., facing Meridian Hill Park. Warren owned a construction firm, Monroe and R. B. Warren, Inc., that built co-operative apartment houses, including Tilden Gardens.

Kennedy and Warren hired the architect Joseph Younger (18921932) to design the building. Younger was a native of Washington, D.C., and was graduated in 1912 from the architecture school at George Washington University. Kennedy and Warren obtained $1.75 million in financing from the B. F. Saul Company, American Security Bank, and the Union Trust Company. They started work on the central section and the northwest wing (both facing Connecticut Avenue) in October 1930, and the building opened in October of the following year. Kennedy and Warren had been promised a loan by the Integrity Trust Company in Philadelphia to build the northeast and south wings, but it fell through with the worsening economic depression. In 1932, they filed for bankruptcy. The B. F. Saul Company, as the principal creditor, obtained title to the building in 1935.[3]

Since the site of the Kennedy-Warren slopes steeply from Connecticut Avenue down to the National Zoo, the lobby level is designated as the third floor. The two residential levels below that have apartments that face the zoo. Below those are four basement levels, including a large parking garage. The building is an imposing sight on Connecticut Avenue because of its massive size and fine detailing, which includes tan and orange variegated brick, limestone carvings, and the extensive use of aluminum. The Kennedy-Warren was the first building in Washington, D.C., to use aluminum extensively; applications include the entrance porch, spandrels between the windows on the faade, balustrades in the lobby, and even an aluminum-leaf arched ceiling in the ground-floor corridors, unique in Washington, D.C. The stone carvings are in the Aztec Deco style, influenced by the carved stonework of ancient Mexico, and include griffins, eagles, and a frieze of elephants and starbursts and they rise three floors above street level.

An unusual feature of the Kennedy-Warren when it opened in 1931 was its air-cooling system. Three enormous fans drew cool air from Klingle Park at the back of the building and forced it through the public corridors. Residents could then open metal louvers above their hallway doors to cool individual apartments. Cross-ventilation during temperate weather was so effective that doorstops were required to prevent doors from slamming closed if left ajar. Advertisements for the Kennedy-Warren showed that the air was at least ten degrees cooler than on Connecticut Avenue. The fans were removed during the 200911 renovation after central air conditioning was installed.[4]

In 2002, the B. F. Saul Company undertook construction of the uncompleted south wing. Obtaining the necessary permits and approvals had taken five years. The architect was Hartman-Cox of Washington, D.C. The plans followed Joseph Youngers 1931 design very closely for the exterior. The Belden Brick Company of Ohio made the variegated brick to match exactly the brick of the historic building. New carvings of Indiana limestone match those in the original building as well. The Boose Aluminum Foundry Company of Reamstown, Pennsylvania, cast the spandrels for the south wing. (ALCOA had cast the originals on the historic main building.) Hartman-Cox diverged from Youngers plans for the exterior in one respect, by adding balconies to the south and east sides where the south wing faces the National Zoo.

Joseph Youngers plan for the interior called for long corridors running through each floor. Hartman-Cox consulted with Robert M. Swedroe Architects and Planners of Miami, Florida, who are experts in apartment floor plans. They proposed replacing the long corridors with two widely spaced elevators, which in some cases open directly into the apartments. Eliminating the corridors saved space, increased privacy, and allowed for much larger apartments, some of which are unusual pass-through apartments. They have windows on both the front and the back of the building. Only the corridor on the ground floor connects to the 1931 building. The layout of the apartments is traditional, with enclosed kitchens and formal dining rooms. The largest, with two bedrooms, two baths, and a den, is 2300 square feet. The south wing was completed in 2004. The amenities include a fitness club with steam rooms and a swimming pool facing the zoo. There is a large parking garage as well.[5]

In 2009, the B. F. Saul Company, undertook the restoration and renovation of the historic main building, a project that was expected to cost $60 million. Contractors installed new double-hung mahogany windows, built a new roof and roof deck, and carefully cleaned the brick faade and aluminum spandrels following preservation standards. After discussions with the Art Deco Society of Washington, D.C. as well as the residents, the B. F. Saul Company decided to preserve the original floor plans of most apartments. As the contractors renovated each apartment, they kept the original hardware, including the glass doorknobs and brass hinges, as well as the kitchen cabinets and apartment doors, and they sanded and stained the original wood floors. To bring the building up to current standards, they replaced the wiring and plumbing, and installed a sprinkler system and central air-conditioning in the apartments and public areas. The central air-conditioning replaced the huge basement fans, which had been in use since 1931, as well as window units. The company put new stoves and refrigerators in the apartments and, for the first time, washers and dryers. Shops and businesses on the lobby floor supplied such services for the residents.

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