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FRANKLIN COUNTY (WSLS) - State Police are on the scene of an accident on Brooks Mill Road (Rt. 834) near the Ponderosa campground.

FRANKLIN COUNTY (WSLS) - State Police are on the scene of an accident on Brooks Mill Road (Rt. 834) near the Ponderosa campground.

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ROANOKE (WSLS) - A man wanted for sex crimes against a minor was captured in Roanoke during a traffic stop.

ROANOKE (WSLS) - A man wanted for sex crimes against a minor was captured in Roanoke during a traffic stop.

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On July 29, 2014 at 6:08 p.m. Roanoke Police were dispatched to the 1200 block of Orange Avenue NE to investigate a shots fired call. Immediately upon arrival officers detained several subjects believed to have been involved in the incident. The preliminary investigation suggests the individuals involved were traveling in two different vehicles on Hollins Road when at least one of the occupants in one of the vehicles starting shooting at the other vehicle. The vehicles separated briefly and t...

On July 29, 2014 at 6:08 p.m. Roanoke Police were dispatched to the 1200 block of Orange Avenue NE to investigate a shots fired call. Immediately upon arrival officers detained several subjects believed to have been involved in the incident. The preliminary investigation suggests the individuals involved were traveling in two different vehicles on Hollins Road when at least one of the occupants in one of the vehicles starting shooting at the other vehicle. The vehicles separated briefly and t...

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QUINCY, Ill. (WGEM) - Quincy residents looking to find an apartment will soon have another option.

Work to transform the former Emerson School building into a high-end apartment complex is nearly finished.

Crews are hard at work putting the finishing touches on the new Emerson Garden Apartments complex at 1310 Washington Street in Quincy. Co-owner Richard Powell says he took on the project not only to provide additional renting options to residents, but also to preserve the original brick work and history of the old school building.

"Any time you can save a building such as this built in 1900, it's got a lot of character to it and a lot of things that we find here in the building has history and we like that part of it that we can save some," Powell said.

Powell says the eight unit facility has both two and three bedroom options. Rent ranges from $800 to $1095. The apartment complex is set to open in mid-August. To find out more about renting a unit, call 217-209-0926

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ATTLEBORO Land and money havent changed hands, but construction of a second apartment building downtown twice the size of one already under way, and just across the street from it, seems like a done deal.

Mayor Kevin Dumas and a lawyer for developer Marco Crugnale, whos building Renaissance Station, an 80-unit apartment building on the corner of Wall and South Main streets, were both optimistic Tuesday that a 160-unit apartment building on the south side of Wall Street will start going up next year as downtowns transit-oriented revitalization picks up speed.

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Another Attleboro apartment project in works

A plan for a large new apartment building, the second to come forward since commercial properties on City Avenue in Bala Cynwyd were rezoned two years ago, will be up for review today in Lower Merion Township.

A tentative sketch plan for a six-story, 207-unit apartment building at 150 Monument Road will be before the townships planning commission Monday, July 28.

With planners recommendation, it would move forward to the Building and Planning Committee of the board of commissioners two days later.

Also next week, an ordinance to rezone properties on Bala Avenue under a new Bala Village zoning district will get a first look. The Building and Planning Committee will be asked to consider authorizing advertisement of a public hearing on the ordinance for possible adoption on Sept. 17.

Also in Bala Cynwyd: Lower Merion School Board discusses potential bus parking in Bala

Monument KPG III LLCs plan proposes a new residential building on part of its seven-acre parcel at 150 Monument Road, to join an existing six-story office building.

A new four-story parking garage would also be constructed to serve the office building, while there will be two levels of parking, 207 spaces, in the apartment building. In all, 673 parking spaces would be provided on the parcel, exceeding the 639 required, according to the plan on file with the township.

Drawings with the plan show a center courtyard with a pool deck in the residential building. The parking garage would include about 3,900 square feet of commercial or restaurant space.

The development proposal follows by a little more than a year a first apartment project under 2012s comprehensive rezoning of the City Avenue commercial district in Lower Merion to permit redevelopment of what was seen to be an office park and retail area in need of revitalization. A goal of rezoning, while permitting greater density and building height, was to transform the district over time into a 24/7 live-work-play environment, including new residential development.

Nolen Properties plan for an 11-story, 284-unit apartment complex on five acres at 335 Righters Ferry Road was first out of the gate. It received tentative sketch plan approval in March 2013. Under that plan, which is expected to come back for more detailed preliminary plan review in coming months, the historic Miller-Bell House, a farmhouse whose core dates to 1695, would be preserved on the property. Continued...

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Brandon Henry figured the Silver Line would be up and running by the time the 404-unit apartment building he was constructing in Tysons Corner was complete.

I never thought we would beat Metro, he said. Never, ever.

But beat it he did. The Ascent, a 25-story high-rise, welcomed its first tenants in April.

Not only is the building the first of its kindwithin close proximity of a new Silver Line station, but it is a test case for one of the most central questions about the future of Tysons: Now that the area has Metro, will people choose tolive there?

Tysons already has a citys worth of office space, shopping and jobs.But it has hardly any people. In 2010, when the county passed a nearly 250-page plan calling for the urbanization of Tysons, only about 17,000 people lived there. Thats up to21,228 according to the latest estimate. Still, there are3.39 employees there for every resident more than double the ratio in Arlington.

The countys plan for aMetro-accessible, urban Tysons calls for100,000 residents, and Henrys building is the first of more than a dozen major projects and more than 10,000 apartments or condos targeted for empty parking lots and industrial properties surrounding the Metro stations.

So far Henry, a managing director at Greystar, a South Carolina firm with offices in Tysons, likes what he sees. About 30 percent of the building is leased to a mix of people, most of whom work in Tysons. The project is leasing at a pace that he says will have the building filled in another two years.

He and the company are confident enough that next month they will begin work ona second building even closer to the Spring Hill Metro Station station, on a mostly empty lot. That building, designed by R2L Architects of Georgetown, will add another 400 units.

Greystar is attracting residents with many of the amenities that are already popular in newer buildings in Arlington and the District: common areas that offer a rooftop pool, fire pits, pool tables and numerous grills and entertaining areas. It is about a quarter mile from the entrance to the Spring Hill station.

The rapid construction of new housing surprised Stuart Mendelsohn, a real estate attorney and former member of the board of supervisors who helped shaped the Tysons plan.

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OAKLAND -- A one-alarm blaze gutted an apartment and damaged five other units at a seven-story building in downtown Oakland on Friday afternoon, fire officials said.

No one was injured in the fire, which broke out about 12:25 p.m. on the first floor of the building in the 1300 block of Webster Street, where construction was taking place, said Battalion Chief Coy Justice.

The blaze quickly spread to a second-floor unit above the construction and then to other units above that, up to the seventh floor.

Justice said a handful of workers renovating the building's first floor made it safely out before fire crews arrived.

So did Chris Kahapea, 26, and his girlfriend Emmy Oto, 18, who live in an apartment on the third floor.

Kahapea said that when the fire alarm sounded, he grabbed Oto and the couple ran quickly down stairs to the first floor, not even stopping to grab a phone.

"I could smell the smoke and feel the heat on my arm as we ran," Kahapea said.

On the ground they joined about two-dozen residents who had been in the building with the blaze broke out. They watched fire crews douse the blaze using two aerial ladders and a few hoses.

The fire was under control by 12:53 p.m., and residents were allowed back inside.

A few minutes later Kahapea and Oto returned to the street, Oto clutching her phone tightly.

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Construction is still a male-dominated industry, but two women are calling the shots at some of the largest construction projects in South Florida.

Norma Pendo Knott, senior project manager for Suffolk Construction, manages construction of Sinai Residences, a $250 million continuing care community in Boca Raton for the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County.

Katie Chesney has been project manager for Palm Beach Outlets in West Palm Beach and Toll Brothers' Royal Palm Polo single-family home community in Royal Palm Beach.

Tricia Fitzgerald leads the $4 million restoration of Beach Club Tower I in Hallandale for the Fort Lauderdale office of Thornton Tomasetti, an international engineering design and analysis firm.

Lori Douvris, project manager at Stiles Corp. in Fort Lauderdale, manages a $42 million, 261-unit apartment project, Elan 16Forty in Victoria Park near downtown Fort Lauderdale, for Greystone, a developer of multifamily housing.

While there are no data showing the growth of women in top construction roles, those in the industry say they've seen a change.

"I've seen women being promoted to management positions in construction roles that were typically male-dominated," said Ayisha Gordon, incoming president of the Greater Fort Lauderdale Chapter of the National Association of Women in Construction. "Women are in those roles; they're out in the field; they're on the site; they're building,.

Those who entered the industry a decade or more ago often were relegated to office-work roles before their management skills were recognized. Newer entrants join construction firms out of college after earning a construction management or similar degree.

The job is lucrative, with construction managers making an average of $49 an hour in Palm Beach County and $42 in Broward, according to the state. On an annual basis, that's $87,000 to $100,000.

Still, women remain rare in the roles Knott and Chesney fill, managing day-to-day activities on the construction site, making decisions about supplies and working to stay on budget.

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A plan for a large new apartment building, the second to come forward since commercial properties on City Avenue in Bala Cynwyd were rezoned two years ago, will be up for review next week in Lower Merion Township.

A tentative sketch plan for a six-story, 207-unit apartment building at 150 Monument Road will be before the townships planning commission Monday, July 28.

With planners recommendation, it would move forward to the Building and Planning Committee of the board of commissioners two days later.

Also next week, an ordinance to rezone properties on Bala Avenue under a new Bala Village zoning district will get a first look. The Building and Planning Committee will be asked to consider authorizing advertisement of a public hearing on the ordinance for possible adoption on Sept. 17.

Also in Bala Cynwyd: Lower Merion School Board discusses potential bus parking in Bala

Monument KPG III LLCs plan proposes a new residential building on part of its seven-acre parcel at 150 Monument Road, to join an existing six-story office building.

A new four-story parking garage would also be constructed to serve the office building, while there will be two levels of parking, 207 spaces, in the apartment building. In all, 673 parking spaces would be provided on the parcel, exceeding the 639 required, according to the plan on file with the township.

Drawings with the plan show a center courtyard with a pool deck in the residential building. The parking garage would include about 3,900 square feet of commercial or restaurant space.

The development proposal follows by a little more than a year a first apartment project under 2012s comprehensive rezoning of the City Avenue commercial district in Lower Merion to permit redevelopment of what was seen to be an office park and retail area in need of revitalization. A goal of rezoning, while permitting greater density and building height, was to transform the district over time into a 24/7 live-work-play environment, including new residential development.

Nolen Properties plan for an 11-story, 284-unit apartment complex on five acres at 335 Righters Ferry Road was first out of the gate. It received tentative sketch plan approval in March 2013. Under that plan, which is expected to come back for more detailed preliminary plan review in coming months, the historic Miller-Bell House, a farmhouse whose core dates to 1695, would be preserved on the property. Continued...

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The project, Cathedral Manor, was sponsored by St. Johns Cathedral. The site for the building was bounded by Ashley, Church, Market and Newnan streets. The property was at the time occupied by 16 wood-frame buildings, mostly multistory rooming houses.

The 50-year loan would finance acquisition of the property and construction of the building. The loan was granted, at 3.58 percent interest, by the Senior Citizen Housing Loan Program of the Community Facilities Administration.

Monthly rental rates for the unfurnished apartments were set at $72 for the 166 efficiency units and $96 for the 70 one-bedroom units and $135 for the 11 two-bedroom units, said attorney John D. Corse, who was chairman of the building committee for St. Johns Cathedral. The rest of the apartments would be used for maintenance personnel and rental rates included utilities, he said.

Preliminary plans called for a building of reinforced concrete. Inside, the design included a hobby room, a snack bar and reading, television and lounge rooms. A laundry room also would be available and it was pointed out the building would be air-conditioned.

Cathedral Manor had been planned in Downtown, Corse said, to make shopping, recreational and church facilities convenient for the residents so theycould remain in the mainstream of the community.

By providing this housing specifically for elderly people, the church is nurturing its responsibility to the community by offering safe, convenient and economical housing.

Along with our new Sunday school building, construction of this project is an indication of our confidence in the future and vitality of Jacksonvilles downtown area, said the Very Rev. Robert R. Parks, dean of St. Johns Cathedral.

A delegation of Eighth Street business owners seeking City Commission endorsement of making the cross-town roadway part of the state primary road system so it could be improved were told by Mayor-Commissioner Haydon Burns, the Democratic Party nominee for governor, they probably wouldnt get such a state action any time soon.

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Brisk leasing of upscale apartments at the newly opened Bakery Living complex in the East End is prompting developers to push up construction of a second apartment building by about a year.

It's another signal of the appetite for apartments in Pittsburgh, where hundreds of high-end units catering largely to young professionals and empty nesters are being built from the ground up in areas including the East End, South Side and Strip District.

Demand has been better than expected, Todd Reidbord, president of Shadyside-based developer Walnut Capital, said of leasing at Bakery Living's first building along Penn Avenue.

Reidbord said about 75 percent of the building's 175 apartments are leased. It opened in June, with rents ranging from $1,150 to $3,200 a month.

Reidbord briefed the Pittsburgh Planning Commission about the proposed second building at a meeting Tuesday. Like the first, it would be U-shaped, five stories tall and have 175 apartments ranging from so-called micros to two-bedroom units.

It's essentially a twin of the other building, Reidbord said.

The second building would be accented with different colors than the first, including slate blue, gray, white and black. Reidbord said it also might offer more fitness amenities, including yoga and Pilates classes.

Planning Commissioner Lucy Spruill voiced concern that only four of the units would be fully accessible to people with disabilities meeting minimum requirements.

I would like to see you do more than the bare minimum, said Spruill, who uses a wheelchair.

Construction is expected to cost up to $25 million. Pending approvals, work could begin in November or December and be completed by June 2016, Reidbord said.

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