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Date: Thursday Jun. 21, 2012 10:46 AM ET

The province has strengthened the rules behind balcony glass used in new building construction after a spate of glass panes fell and shattered in downtown Toronto.

The Ontario government said on Thursday that it had changed the Building Code to require construction companies to use heat-strengthened laminated glass near the edges of a balcony.

It is the same kind of glass used in windshields and is less prone to shatter than the type most commonly currently used.

Construction companies will also need to use heat-strengthened laminated glass or heat-soaked tempered glass when glass balcony guards are inset from the balcony edge.

The change was a recommendation made by an advisory council and comes after several glass panes fell from Toronto high rises. The new rule with be enforced on any construction beginning as of July 1.

"This amendment will help protect the public and offer clarity and certainty to the building industry," Kathleen Kynne, Ontario's municipal affairs and housing minister, said in a statement.

"I'm thankful to the members of the expert advisory panel for their contributions and sound advice."

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NEWPORT The group that built the SouthShore condominiums tower will begin construction on a new building with more than 90 upscale apartments.

A ground-breaking ceremony is set for 9 a.m. Thursday for the Vu 180 building, which will house 93 high-end rental apartments. The building will be located between the I-471 Big Mac bridge and the existing SouthShore tower on the riverfront in Newport, said David Bastos, a partner with the Capital Investment Group, Inc.

The building will be four stories of one- and two-bedroom apartments above a parking area. Rent for a one-bedrooms apartment will be about $800 per month and a unit with two bedrooms will be about $1,400 per month, Bastos said.

The construction of the building is estimated to take a year and will cost $15.8 million, he said.

Vu 180 is the second phase of the SouthShore development project, said Adam Caswell, president of the Campbell County Economic Progress Authority. Caswell said the expansion to SouthShore will benefit the demand for rentals in the area.

With the difficult economy, owning is not a viable option for everyone, and having the opportunity to rent high-end apartments is in demand, Caswell said.

The new building is the first major development to SouthShore since 2007. Capital Investment waited for the condos in the SouthShore tower to sell out before starting construction on the Vu 180 building, Bastos said.

The third phase of the project will be another condominium tower on the other side of the SouthShore tower, he said. Construction will begin on that tower after all of the apartments in Vu 180 are rented. Bastos estimates it will take five to six years to fill the building, adding that about 10 condos in the SouthShore tower are sold each year.

The project is part of a continuing demand for downtown living for people who want the close proximity of downtown Cincinnati, Newport and Bellevue, Bastos said.

For the past 10 years, he said, Capital Investment Group has been focusing on the niche market of young professionals taking part in Newports urban migration.

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News 12 at 11 O'Clock / Tuesday, June 19, 2012

AUGUSTA, Ga -- Neighbors from West Augusta packed the commission chambers Tuesday to fight against a proposed apartment complex.

"We'd rather see some houses go back there instead of apartments," Kevin Wilson said. He lives in the Hillcreek neighborhood.

People in the quiet neighborhood off Augusta West Parkway say they want their neighborhood to stay quiet, and building an apartment complex would bring concerns.

"The crime element, the noise level, the traffic," Jeanne Corley said. She also lives nearby.

Right now, the land near the neighborhood is zoned for commercial offices, but developers want to put more than 200 apartments there instead. They say the apartments would actually cause less traffic than offices would.

"[Here is a] full traffic study showing that current zoning will generate between 2,100 and 7,000 daily trips," Jim Trotter said on behalf of potential developers.

"That traffic leaves in the afternoon and night time and weekends." Jeanne rebutted. "We're not constantly bombarded with constant flow of traffic."

Commissioners sided with neighbors as they voted unanimously to deny rezoning the land that would allow apartment construction.

"It's nice to have the consensus there," Commissioner Joe Bowles said.

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The city of Rapid City issued permits for $32.5 million in construction work in May, pushing the total so far this year to more $100 million.

Two large apartment projects were among the biggest projects, city officials said. A full list of projects permitted in May was not available at news deadline because the city is implementing a new electronic permit-tracking system and was not able to generate the full report at the time of the Journal's request.

May permits include the $11 million Village at Founders Park apartment complex, with 126 upscale units, as well as the $3.5 million, 34-unit Rocker Square student apartment building near South Dakota School of Mines & Technology.

The projects are part of a total of 266 new residential permits permitted through May in the city, including 71 single-family homes. That is more total units than were built in each of the last three years.

Crews on Monday placed the final precast concrete panel on the Rocker Square building. Project manager Brandon Moore of J. Scull Construction Services said the project is on track for its Aug. 15 completion date. The roof is going on this week, and inside, workers are on different floors finishing framing, mechanical systems and drywall.

Everybodys kind of chasing each other up, Moore said, referring to how different tradesmen are progressing up the floors of the six-story building.

Construction on a second Rocker Square student apartment building is expected to begin within 30 to 40 days, Moore said.

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Apartment projects boost May building permits

Builders broke ground on fewer homes in May, due mostly to plummeting apartment construction, but requested the most permits since September 2008.

Overall housing starts last month dropped 4.8% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 708,000, but thats compared with Aprils 744,000 figure, which was revised up.

Compared with May 2011, new construction is up 28.5%, according to the Commerce Department report.

Initial work on multi-family housing, an erratic gauge which plunged 21.3% last month, was a drag on the overall measure. Housing starts for single-family homes rose 3.2% in their third straight monthly increase.

Builders also seem to be looking forward to the next 12 months, requesting the most permits in more than three years.

Permits were at a seasonally adjusted rate of 780,000, a 7.9% increase from April and 25% above last May.

The new data raises the question du jour: Is the housing market making a gradual recovery?

Both the housing starts and building permits measures are at about half the 1.5-million level usually considered healthy. A report Monday found home-builder confidence still weak, despite being at a five-year high.

But home prices, while low, seem to be turning around. Record-low mortgage rates may be attracting more buyers, causing home sales to surge in California. Inventories seem to be shrinking, according to some studies.

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Building permits at 4-year high, single-family housing starts up

By Maura Webber Sadovi

After slowing to a crawl following the recession, the pace of apartment construction is coming back in downtown Los Angeles.

In downtown Los Angeles a number of new projects are getting under way following a pause that ended last year, according to Carol Schatz, president of the Central City Association of Los Angeles, an organization that advocates for Los Angeless businesses. (The Journal wrote last month about the downtown L.A. office market, which is also rebounding, albeit slowly.)

Some 1,526 new apartments and condos are under construction in downtown L.A. Thats still far below the 8,224 units under way at the peak of the market in 2007, but Ms. Schatz says its a positive sign that an increasing number of developers are once again confident enough to build. Its anyones guess when we get back to the ferocity we experienced before the crash, but its good news, Ms. Schatz says.

Most of the units being built downtown are rentals, which is not surprising given the still troubled for-sale market. Prices for condos and town homes in L.A. have yet to stabilize. The median price of condos and town homes in Los Angeles County fell 8.4% in the first quarter to $214,458 from $234,185 in the year-earlier period, according to a sample of sales by the California Association of Realtors.

By contrast, apartment rents have been rising since last year and the first quarter average asking rent stood at $1,425, just below the recent annual peak of $1,464 hit in 2008, according to Reis Inc, a real-estate research firm.

Related Cos., one of the developers whose delivery pipeline is gearing back up in the Los Angeles area, says only select locations like the tony beachfront city of Santa Monica have recovered enough to warrant condos. L.A.s rental market is strong, says William Witte, president of Related California. Except for a few niche locations, the condo market is still a work in progress.

Later this year Related will begin building a 271-unit high-end rental apartment in downtown L.A. near the new Broad art museum being built on Grand Avenue. Rents in most units are expected to start at $2,200 a month. In January, Related began building a 158-unit luxury condominium project in Santa Monica, where the asking prices will start at $800,000.

But some analysts are keeping a wary eye on the uptick in construction because it is coming even as L.A.s apartment markets recovery is relatively new.

For landlords to have pricing power they need, one rule of thumb is that rents should rise about 5% annually for at least 12 to 18 months before new supply is added, says Hessam Nadji, managing director of research and advisory services at Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Services.

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The developer of the $34 million 16 Park housing project said it will begin rebuilding as soon as possible after a building was destroyed by fire Friday night.

The Indianapolis Housing Agency is developing 16 Park, an 11-building project that was set to open in October along 16th Street between Central and College avenues. The blaze engulfed a four-story, 28-unit apartment building due to open this fall. Four occupied buildings in the complex were not damaged.

IHA Executive Director Bud Myers and Bruce Baird, its director of strategic planning and development, watched the building burn.

It was heartbreaking, Baird said. We put our heart and soul into the redevelopment of Caravelle Commons, so it was discouraging.

Caravelle Commons was a 65-unit, low-income housing property built in 1975. The seven-acre property had become a magnet for crime, with dead-end streets and fenced-in apartment homes surrounding crowded parking lots. But the Indianapolis Housing Agency was betting the new project would jump-start interest in the area.

IHA will begin the process of rebuilding as soon as the Indianapolis Fire Department finishes its investigation and gives the agency control of the site, Baird said.

IFD Lt. Larry Tracy said Monday morning that the probe is ongoing; he was unsure how long it might last. IFD estimated damage to the building at $3.5 million.

The destroyed building was insured, Baird said.

Four of 16 Parks 11 buildings are complete and occupied. When finished, the entire project will consist of 155 housing units.

Baird said he has no idea when the project might be completed.

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Published: Monday, June 18, 2012 at 6:45 a.m. Last Modified: Monday, June 18, 2012 at 6:45 a.m.

BARTOW -- The city has halted construction on a garage apartment on Bartow's south side because it's nearly 5 feet taller than the zoning codes allow.

Now the owner, Darlene Patrick, is seeking a second variance to allow for the additional height, and the Zoning Board of Adjustment has to decide what to do about it.

Patrick already had secured one variance from the board in February to expand the garage behind her house at 1265 Lightsey Ave. The board gave her a 4-foot variance, which allowed her to build the garage to 34 feet in height, according to city records.

But once construction got under way, Planning Director Bob Wiegers told the city's building inspectors that something didn't look right.

"It hadn't gotten far enough along where we were called to do a framing inspection on the structure," Building Official Gregg Lamb told the board during a recent meeting, "But Bob had mentioned the height, so we went out and measured, and it was 38.8 feet."

Lamb said he also recognized the construction didn't reflect the plans the city had on file for the project.

"It went from a loft on one end to a loft on both ends with a walkway in between. The plans didn't reflect that."

Patrick told members of the board last month that changes in the design created the additional height.

Wiegers said none of Patrick's neighbors has voiced concerns about the project.

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Investigators are trying to determine what caused a three-alarm fire that destroyed a newly built apartment apartment building downtown Friday night.

Indianapolis Fire Capt. Rita Burris said investigators remained on the scene Saturday and had not determined the cause or the origin of the blaze that caused $3.5 million in damage and sent black smoke wafting into the sky.

The fire destroyed a four-story, 60-apartment building under construction in the 16 Park development by the Indianapolis Housing Agency. The building was due to open this fall.

16 Park, which was expected to cost a total of $34 million, is replacing the former Caravelle Commons housing development north of East 16th Street between Central and College avenues.

Lt. Larry Tracy says one firefighter was injured and was treated for a possible broken wrist.

Caravelle Commons was a 65-unit, low-income-housing property built in 1975. The seven-acre property had become a magnet for crime, with dead-end streets and fenced-in apartment homes surrounding crowded parking lots. But the Indianapolis Housing Agency was betting the new project would jump-start more interest in the area.

We really think this is a transformational development thats really going to change that part of the neighborhood and that part of the city, said Bruce Baird, IHAs director of strategic planning and development, told IBJ last year.

IHA bought the complex in March 2009 from the Near North Development Corp., which took over the Caravelle not-for-profit complex in 2003. Near North stepped in to refinance, renovate and stabilize the property with an eye toward eventually selling it to a more appropriate owner.

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