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We offer our predictions on communities that will rank among the city's most desirable in 2026. Plus a look at developers who are working to make those visions a reality. February 18, 2016 (page 7 of 7) 8 developers with insight who are rethinking our urban neighborhoods   BY DEBRA SMIT G reat neighborhoods — with ample green space , commerce and good housing stock — empower their residents to grow and prosper. Developers are key when it comes to weaving together the physical threads of a community, particularly in urban neighborhoods frayed by years of blight and decay. These are among the developers who are working to revitalize some of the city’s most challenged neighborhoods, striving to be restorers of streets in which to dwell. All have one eye, certainly, on the bottom line. Still, they are well aware of expectations that they give measured consideration to quality of life in the neighborhoods in which they build.   Wi...

CHICAGO , Aug. 9, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The AFL- CIO Housing Investment Trust (HIT) today celebrated the grand re-opening of the Kenmore Plaza Apartments , which recently completed an extensive $61 million rehabilitation. The 28-story, 324-unit building provides affordable housing exclusively to the elderly. The rehabilitation work included reducing the operating costs of the building by installing durable and easy to maintain materials and energy efficient equipment , improving energy and water efficiency over the long term, as well as upgrading the current residential units , floor hallways, interior ground floor , and building exteriors and the construction of a small addition to the existing structure. The HIT provided $22.9 million of financing through the purchase of Ginnie Mae construction loan certificates and a permanent loan certificate . "The HIT investment is helping preserve a historically significant building that has been a major source of afforda...

Project: Woodland Apartments - Newton, MA For more information Contact Gregg Shupe 508 -877-7700 www.Shupestudios.com" /> Client: The Hamilton Company 39 Brighton Ave/ Boston MA 02134 (617) 783-0039 Project: Woodland Apartments - Newton, MA For more information Contact Gregg Shupe 508 -877-7700 www.Shupestudios.com The Hamilton Co. has acquired Woodland Park , a 126- unit apartment complex in Newton. The company purchased the property at 264-290 Grove St. for $45 million. The property abuts LaSalle College and Woodland Country Club , is walking distance to the Charles River and is close to the Riverside Green Line Commuter Stop . The complex was purchased by Hamilton’s closely- held public entity , New England Realty Assoc . (NERA), from the original developer MJ Realty Trust for $45 million in a cash transaction. NERA was represented by Sally Michael, managing partner of Saul Ewing. The purchase of Woodland Park follows on the heels of Hamilton’s recent purchase of a pa...

Regeni was undeterred. Proficient in five languages, he was insatiably curious and exuded a low-intensity charm that attracted a wide circle of friends. From 12 to 14, he served as youth mayor of his hometown, Fiumicello. He prided himself on his ability to navigate different cultures, and he relished Cairo ’s unruly street life : the smoky cafes, the endless hustle, the candy- colored party boats that plied the Nile at night. He registered as a visiting scholar at American University in Cairo and found a room in Dokki, a traffic-choked neighborhood between the Pyramids and the Nile, where he shared an apartment with two young professionals : Juliane Schoki, who taught German, and Mohamed El Sayad , a lawyer at one of Cairo’s oldest law firms . Dokki was an unfashionable address, but it was just two subway stops from downtown Cairo with its maze of cheap hotels, dive bars and crumbling apartment blocks encircling Tahrir Square . Regeni soon befriended writers and artists and practi...