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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information, please contact: Alison Bibb-Carson, External Affairs Manager alison .bibb-carson@amwater.com 703-706-3871 Virginia American Water Extends Water Line in South Old Town Alexandria Extension represents $350,000 investment in city's aging infrastructure ALEXANDRIA, Va. (August 16, 2017) - Virginia American Water is extending a water line at S. Washington and Church Streets in the City of Alexandria. The company will install 750 feet of new 12- inch water main to improve water reliability and fire hydrant flow capacity to Bridgeyard Apartments (formerly Hunting Point on the Potomac) and Porto Vecchio Condominiums . Currently, only one existing 12- inch water main supplies water to these complexes. The water line extension will help to ensure that the apartment and condominium homes do not lose water in the event of a main break or fire. "The $350,000 investment the company is making will allow us to help ensure that the thousa...

Susan Mall of San Francisco recalls how her late mother, Alyne Salstone, came to choose her oceanview Sloan’s Curve condominium. Her parents had previously resided at another South End apartment down the coastal road at The Ambassador. “When my parents first came to Palm Beach from Chicago, they lived at The Ambassador, and then the Sloan’s Curve (development) was built, and, my mother loved that location,” Mall recalls. >> PHOTOS: Oceanview Sloan’s Curve condominium at 2100 S. Ocean Blvd. After her husband, Milton, died in 1980, Salstone decided to make Florida her primary home. She bought an apartment in Sloan’s Curve. She ultimately sold it, and later bought the one that was her home until her death a year ago. “Over the years, she made many friends, and played lots of bridge games,” her daughter recalls. Mall and one of her brothers are now in possession of the condo at No. 307-S at 2100 S. Ocean Blvd. It has been put up for sale, priced at $1.345 million by agent Cristina ...

Cathy Czerniak, community development director for Lake Forest, has proposed calling 2017 "the year of the crane." "One morning when I looked at the skyline, I saw four different cranes piercing the skyline from the central business district ," Czerniak said. The Lake Forester recently spoke with Czerniak about the state of various ongoing construction projects in town. Lake Forest Hospital The hospital is still on target to open its outpatient clinics this fall with the rest of the almost $400 million hospital to open in the first quarter of 2018. Final work on the interior of the buildings is being completed, a temporary parking lot is being removed and the height of a berm on the south side of the property is being increased. Kelmscott Park (formerly Laurel and Western) Three apartment buildings with a total of 111 units are expected to open in January, February and March 2018. Pre-leasing of apartments is scheduled to start this October. One single family ho...

CBRE SL Green sells suburban office property for $97M SL Green and TH Real Estate have sold Stamford Towers in Stamford, CT for $97 million. Jeffrey Dunne, David Gavin and Travis Langer of CBRE’s Institutional Properties represented the sellers. CBRE Global Investors purchased the Property. Stamford Towers is comprised of two adjacent Class A office buildings located in the Stamford CBD, one block from the Stamford Transportation Center . The property is also near the 722,000 s/f Stamford Town Center Mall (anchored by Macy’s, Barnes & Noble, H&M, and Saks Off 5th) as well as dozens of restaurants and retails options. Stamford Towers is currently leased to institutional and high credit tenants , including Citigroup, UBS Financial Services , H/ 2 Credit Manager , Titan Advisors, Gerald Metals, Bank of Ireland, Oaktree Capital, Oppenheimer, CoreCommodity and Newmark, among others. Recent capital improvements include the addition of a fitness center and basketball court, c...

Take a walk east from the gold-plated cupola of San Francisco City Hall and the landscape transforms into the Tenderloin, a patchwork of residential hotels, small delis and social service clinics that cater to the poor. It winds into the city’s main tourist corridor , and, farther along, a glossy cluster of condominium towers where upper- story penthouses cost millions . These symbols of extreme poverty and prosperity are wedged together in District Six, which serves both as a portal for visitors and a cauldron where San Francisco ’s most pressing political issues simmer . For 20 years, District Six voters have reliably concluded that the solutions to those issues come from the progressive viewpoint. And while it’s more than a year until the next election for supervisor, the contest is already shaping up as a test of whether that is still true. From the Tenderloin to the Mission Bay waterfront , District Six has seen a rush of development over the past two decades, and residents are ...