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Wondering what buildings are coming down or going up in Phoenix? Local building permit data can shine a light on what's under construction near you.

In the past week, the city issued 108 building permits, according to data from BuildZoom, a platform that helps homeowners and businesses with new construction and remodels.

Eleven of those permits were for new building construction, two were for demolition projects and the remainder were for repairs and renovations.

Read on for a selection of the most noteworthy new permits.

A permit was issued for new construction of a residential structure at 15602 N 38th St. In the permit, the work scope is described as: "Custom single family residence."

Applicant C&J Custom Construction LLC received a permit for new construction of a structure at 23450 N 19th Ave. In the permit, the work scope is described as: "New restaurant."

A permit was issued for new construction of a residential structure at 3831 N 43rd St. In the permit, the work scope is described as: "New custom home."

Applicant Bjerk Builders received a permit for new construction of a structure at 1740 E Robin Lane.

Applicant Lps Construction LLC received a permit for demolition of a commercial structure at 4214 E Marion Way. The work is described as: "Total demolish with slab to remain."

Applicant Smith Group received a permit for repair/renovation of a residential structure at 222 E Jefferson St.

Applicant Jacobsen Inc. received a permit for repair/renovation of a structure at 400 N 32nd St.

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By Florida Weekly Staff | on December 04, 2019

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Family can mean many different things to different people, but ultimately, they are the ones who we love and cherish, especially this time of year. This is the season where we gather together in each others homes, huddled around the couches catching up with one another in the living room or bustling about in the kitchen, preparing for the family meal. When its your turn to host, you want to be sure its in a home you love, located in a community you enjoy. Horse Creek offers this and more, but there are only 15 custom estate-sized lots remaining.

Creating the perfect kitchen to prepare holiday dinner, and the ideal living room to gather your guests into, can all be done within a year or less. The process of designing your dream home starts with choosing from varying floor plans in a range of styles from a modern reinterpretation of traditional Old Florida to Southern Colonial and French Country. All of them can be customized to your preferences, or you can work with the exclusive builder, Daniel Wayne Homes, to design a wholly original custom home.

Plus, your home will be located on an acre-plus lot, leaving plenty of space outside to entertain. Build an additional garage or workshop, enjoy a beautiful fire pit, set up games to keep everyone entertained, or lawn chairs to sit and enjoy the natural splendor surrounding you. Want to roam? Enjoy the nature trails or explore the 12-acre riverside park with a community fire pit, kayak and canoe storage and launch, picnic tables, and more. Take the kids in the family to get some energy out at our newly added playground. Horse Creek is the true meaning of a community, combining all the elements of ideal living. It is one of the very few elite communities in Southwest Florida with truly estate-sized home sites. Coupled with the location, surrounded by nature preserves and banked on the Orange River, it offers the right blend of seclusion and convenience to shopping, dining, and major travel routes in the area. You are given the security of living in a gated community, while also getting the benefit of views like the centuries-old live oaks draped in Spanish moss that punctuate the landscape.

Whatever your home or lifestyle dreams are, and however you envision your perfect holiday, all of it can become a reality at Horse Creek. Time is of the essence, though, as you only have 15 one-acre lots left to choose from. Explore our interactive site map online today at HorseCreekCommunity.com, or call (239) 332-7335 to set up a time to visit our model.

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Building healthy homes is "really about researching and selecting better products, ones that don't off-gas, that are formaldehyde-free and have low or no VOC content," says Kevin Mullen, president of Calgary-based Empire Homes. Supplied / Postmedia

The concept of living in a healthy and sustainable home is gaining ground, and the demand is upping the ante when it comes to design.

As a society we have become very focused on wellness and fitness, eating organically, wanting to know where our food comes from, but we have never asked any of those questions about our homes and I think that is to our detriment, says Kevin Mullen, president of Calgary-based Empire Homes.

Empire Homes is taking note, and making health a priority, putting the emphasis on homes that are healthy for both the environment and for the people living in them.

It is currently creating a collection of 19 luxurious, healthy homes in the inner-city master-planned community of Currie, developed by Canada Lands Co. All homes will be built to Built Green specifications and also Empires Reside specifications, a comprehensive grouping of initiatives designed to ensure healthy air quality.

The two-storey homes will ring Valour Park and feature contemporary lines with plenty of brick, stone, stucco and concrete, not to mention gorgeous kitchens, compliments of Empire Kitchen & Bath.

Healthy and beautiful go hand in hand, says Mullen, also noting that building a home with healthy materials costs the same.

Its really about researching and selecting better products, ones that dont off-gas, that are formaldehyde-free and have low or no VOC content, he says.

VOC is the acronym used for volatile organic compounds, compounds that can wreak havoc on our health, as we breathe in their fumes. Resins, glues, flooring, carpet, paint, particle board, dry wall, insulation it all off-gases.

We take for granted that the manufacturer and the builder are thinking about this. But often it is not true. What is the first thing that most builders do? Move the homeowner into their new home as quickly as possible, often the day after its been painted and glues and silicones and finishes have been applied. And people wonder why they are getting headaches or their kids cant breathe, he says.

Les Wold, sales and marketing manager at Effect Homes in Edmonton, agrees.

It is so important to be attentive to products, to have hard surfaces and natural floorings, he says.

Wold says that with the uptick in allergies, consumers are coming to them much more informed.

They are wanting a much more holistic approach to home building. They want a well-built, energy efficient home that will stand the test of time and provide a comfortable and healthy place for their families to live, he says.

Effect Homes has won numerous awards for its sustainable home designs, including the Canadian Home Builders Associations (CHBA) Green Home of the year the builder won at both the provincial and national level for a net-zero home in Edmontons Belgravia area. The use of passive design techniques, including window placement and materials chosen for their long-term durability and lack of off-gassing. The home features, for example, polished concrete floors throughout that kept costs comparable.

Effect Homes, a custom home builder and renovatorlike Empire Homes, is passionate about what it does and is walking the talk. It has recently renovated a duplex in need of some TLC in Edmontons up and coming Bonnie Doon community, moving the companys offices into the space.

Our offices really show case what can be done and it gets us so excited, says Wold. Healthy materials and hard surfaces combine with beautiful design and energy efficiency. The offices are off the grid, with solar generating enough power to run the lighting, and computer systems the power is stored on site in batteries.

Homes definitely can be beautiful, energy efficient and healthy, says Wold, highlighting another example, a home in Edmontons Windsor Park area. The home, which looks as if it belongs on the pages of Architectural Digest, is 68 per cent more energy efficient than a standard home, with 27 solar panels on its rooftop generating an 8.25 kilowatt solar electric system.

But it is all about supply and demand, notes Empires Mullen, relating it to consumer demand for organic foods.

As people begin to really demand this, more and more healthy products will be available in the market. When we first starting focusing on healthy homes in 2016, we couldnt source formaldehyde-free products in the local market anywhere, he says. Now they are trickling in. Empire will not build with a product unless it is stamped formaldehyde-free by a third-party inspector.

Wold notes that it is a natural progression for people to want sustainable, energy efficient and healthy homes, both for the environment and for the owner. This really is the way of the future, says Wold.

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A worker measures wood for a house under construction at the KB Home Vineyard Crossing Community in Livermore, California.

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U.S. homebuilding rebounded in October and permits for future home construction jumped to a more than 12-year high, pointing to strength in the housing market amid lower mortgage rates.

The report from the Commerce Department on Tuesday also showed an increase in home completions and the stock of homes under construction, which could help to ease a supply squeeze that has plagued the housing market.

"This is an important report for future homebuyers since one of the largest deterrents to entering the market right now is the lack of robust housing options," said Bill Banfield, executive vice president of Capital Markets at Quicken Loans in Detroit.

Housing starts increased 3.8% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.314 million units last month, with single-family construction rising for a fifth straight month and activity in the volatile multi-family sector rebounding solidly.

Data for September was revised to show homebuilding declining to a pace of 1.266 million units, instead of decreasing to a rate of 1.256 million units as previously reported. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast housing starts increasing to a pace of 1.320 million units in October.

Housing starts advanced 8.5% on a year-on-year basis in October. Building permits surged 5.0% to a rate of 1.461 million units in October, the highest level since May 2007. Permits were driven by the single-family housing segment, which increased 3.2% to the highest level since August 2007.

Building permits in the populous South region scaled their highest level in more than 12-1/2-years last month.

The housing market, the most sensitive sector to interest rates, has perked up in recent months, catching up to the Federal Reserve's easy monetary policy stance, which has pushed down mortgage rates from last year's multi-year highs.

The sector, which accounts for about 3.1% of the economy, however, continues to be hobbled by land and labor shortages.

A survey on Monday showed confidence among homebuilders hovering near a more than 1-1/2-year high in November. Builders, however, complained about "a lack of labor and regulatory constraints," adding that "lot shortages remain a serious problem, particularly among custom builders."

U.S. financial markets were little moved by the data.

Housing starts shot up to a more than 12-year high in August. But momentum could slow, with mortgage rates backing up in the last two months.

The Fed last month cut rates for the third time this year and signaled a pause in the easing cycle that started in July when it reduced borrowing costs for the first time since 2008.

While fears of a recession have ebbed in recent months amid a de-escalation in trade tensions between the United States and China, the economy is still slowing amid a deceleration in consumer spending and persistent weakness in business investment and manufacturing.

The 30-year fixed mortgage rate is currently at 3.75%, still below its peak of 4.94% in November 2018, according to data from mortgage finance agency Freddie Mac.

Residential investment rebounded in the third quarter after contracting for six straight quarters, the longest such stretch since the 2007-2009 recession.

Single-family homebuilding, which accounts for the largest share of the housing market, increased 2.0% to a rate of 936,000 units in October, the highest in nine months. Single-family housing starts rose in the West, Midwest and the South last month. They fell in the Northeast.

Starts for the volatile multi-family housing segment soared 8.6% to a rate of 378,000 units in October. Permits for the construction of multi-family homes increased 8.2% to a rate of 552,000 units last month.

Housing completions vaulted 10.3% to 1.256 million units last month. Realtors estimate that housing starts and completion rates need to be in a range of 1.5 million to 1.6 million units per month to close the inventory gap.

The stock of housing under construction gained 0.1% to 1.161 million units, the most since January.

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RALEIGH Greensboro home builder Dwight Stone is the newest member of the UNC Systems Board of Governors.

Stone was selected Friday by the N.C. Senate. His term will start Nov. 22.

It certainly is an honor and a privilege to serve the state of North Carolina and try to improve higher education, Stone said in an interview Friday afternoon. That certainly should be the goal of everyone on the BOG. I think it is.

Stone, 68, is a 1973 graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill. He has served on the universitys Board of Trustees since 2013 and was board chairman from 2015 to 2017. He was on the UNC-CH search committees that led to the hiring of athletics director Bubba Cunningham and past chancellor Carol Folt and is on the current committee charged with finding Folts successor. He also is past chairman of the board of directors of the Rams Club, the universitys athletics booster organization.

In 2018, the UNC General Alumni Association gave Stone its Distinguished Service Medal, its top honor, for outstanding service to the university.

A Greensboro resident for more than 40 years, Stone is chairman of D. Stone Builders, a custom home-building company based in the city. His local civic leadership roles include a past presidency of the Greensboro Sports Council.

Though Stone has deep connections to UNC-CH, he said he has a great affinity for Greensboros two state universities and has gotten to know the university and athletic leaders at both schools. During his time on the UNC-CH board, Stone said he has grown familiar with the other UNC System universities.

Its not going to be about Chapel Hill, Stone said of his new role on the Board of Governors. Its going to be about every school in the system.

Stone will serve the remaining two years of the term of former Board of Governors chairman Harry Smith, who announced earlier this month that he would leave the university systems governing board once state lawmakers named his replacement. Smith, who lives in Greenville, resigned as the boards chairman in September, citing the demands of a new business venture.

Stone will have to leave his current UNC-CH board positions to take his Board of Governors seat.

Stone will be one of just two Guilford County residents on the 24-member board that oversees the 17-campus UNC System. Hell join Marty Kotis, a Summerfield resident whose Greensboro company owns, develops and manages properties across North Carolina. Kotis was first appointed to the Board of Governors in 2013 and got another four-year term in 2017.

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Founded in 1993, Hammer Homes have been custom and semi-custom home builders in Colorado Springs and the Pikes Peak region for over 24 years. As we became empty nesters, we were inspired to design homes for other people who are entering a similar season of life. Were here to provide quality custom built homes with features that you will appreciatesuch as main level living, wider doors, zero entries and open floor plans. Our semi-custom homes are designed with functional spaces and layout to meet the needs of your lifestyle while still featuring beautiful interior and exterior styles.

Just because you may want to downsize your home does not mean you want to downgrade the quality and finishes. Hammer Homes are semi-custom home builders providing Colorado Springs with professional workmanship, quality materials, and great attention to detail. With our skills and expertise, we are dedicated to designing and building a home meant for you. We use a comprehensive communication schedule that minimizes mistakes and loss of time, along with great savings to our clients. We have a selective list of subcontractors that do quality work and excellent customer service.We strive to achieve the highest level of craftsmanship by using quality materials, trusted subcontractors and our impeccable attention to detail. Semi-custom homes built by Hammer Homes are already fully-loaded with high-quality features and finishes. While we are building and designing your custom built home, every detail is handled with care and wisdom. Rather than endless lists of optional upgrades, we simply build with the best materials and equipment from the start!

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Youve dreamed of one day building a mountain getaway, but it feels complicated to oversee a construction project outside of your hometown or even home state.

Your hopes of settling in beside your outdoor replace under a blanket of stars feel out of reach when you count all of the details to a construction project.

At the top of your list of details is the question: who can I trust to build my home for me?

You need a local expert who is passionate about the details of your mountain retreat.

We make the Blue Ridge Mountains our home, and the best way for us to welcome you to the community is by ensuring the home we build with you is everything youve wanted.

We know every little detail turns a construction project into the backdrop of many family vacations and weekend getaways. And, we enjoy working with homeowners like you, to design a superiorly constructed home you can enjoy for years to come.

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Having a house built to specifications means you get exactly the features you've always dreamed of owning, such as inlaid hardwood or tile floors, custom cabinetry, granite or marble countertops, an oversized Jacuzzi tub, an indoor lap pool or more. However, a custom home also requires your active participation and decision-making during each phase of the project, plus patience and money.Typical costs:

$159 living square feet by a custom home builder and a total of 5339 square feet.

2030 sqft ranch, high end finishes, fixtures, custom flooring, $31000 in hardwood flooring, custom cabinets, granite and marble, No carpet in the house. 9 ft ceilings on main floor, vaulted in family/grAte room, 9 ft tall basement. Brick exterior. This is with myself doing the hvac, landscaping,finish grading, and putting down sod. Bids from general contractors for this home ranged from $285000 to $365000. In the end do your own research on exactly what you want in your area. I never use the lowest estimates or highest. Pick the person or company you trust, after looking at at least 3 of their prior homes and talking to a few prior customers. Our contractor gives us all the receipts and tells us exactly what he will make on the home.

LOOKING FOR SOME INFORMATION ABOUT THE AMOUNT OF BUILDING A CUSTOM MADE HOME (3 STORY) IN THE LAS VEGAS NEVADA AREA

Just trying to get a idea of whatfeaturesone would expect to get. Such as wall height, closet type, energy efficiency leval, photovoltaic system installed solar water install, grade of windows and foors. LOT NOT INCLUDED HOME ONLY

Estimated 138 per sq ft at KB Homes. Energy efficient homes

Don't be under-educated by thinking you can build a custom home for $75.00 pr. sq. ft. Pricing varies greatly by region so always speak with a builder or designer in your area up front. Actual costs in the Orlando Area currently can run between $150.00 pr. sq. ft. to in excess of $400.00 depending on your finishes and all pricing is based on total area not just a/c or heated area. The $150.00 range will get you into your home with a mid finish level throughout the home but realistically the $200.00 top $225.00 range is where you want to be at. This usually gives you nice custom finishes everywhere that really counts. (i.e. kitchens and bathrooms).

Can a modest custom home be build for this amount?

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Ellis Custom Homes has been building homes in southwest Ohio for over 17 years. Our focus is on building quality custom homes, with an emphasis on establishing a close working relationship with clients in order to achieve their individual needs.

We offer design services with computer-generated models of each home. With the latest technology available, we give our clients the opportunity to visualize their home in a 3D model before we ever break ground.

We believe that communication is paramount to a successful building experience for our clients. We utilize a web-based communications program that provides our clients with 24/7 access to critical information about their home during construction. With a computer, tablet or smart phone, they can find information regarding their construction schedule and selections. If our clients are out of town, they can download pictures for their review or share with family and friends.

Our team has over 75 years of combined experience in the construction industry. Ellis Custom Homes is a member of the Home Builders Association of Dayton, and is recognized by the local, accredited better business bureau. We take pride in our work, and look forward to working with you!

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