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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...

AMLI Residential, one of Austin’s — and the nation’s — largest multifamily developers , said it plans to build a $30 million, 279- unit apartment complex near the site of the planned town center at the Mueller community in Northeast Austin. AMLI expects to break ground in the first quarter of 2013, with the first units available in the third or fourth quarter of 2014, said Taylor Bowen, executive vice president of AMLI Residential. The apartment complex will be built along Simond Avenue and Mattie and McBee streets, across from Mueller’s 30- acre Lake Park and the planned home for Austin Children’s Museum. AMLI’s announcement comes amid growing demand in the region’s apartment market , where rents and occupancies have reached record levels this year, fueled by job and population growth and a relatively scarce supply of new units coming to market, though thousands are planned. The new complex will have a mix of efficiencies and one- and two-bedroom units. Some units — 15 percent...

More homes and yet more homes are going in, with new communities popping up . San Pablo The Silverfield Group of Jacksonville has purchased 21.85 acres at the north end of Pablo Point Drive , nestled in between Pablo Point to the south and Queen’s Harbour to the north. With mostly marsh to the east, it’s about the last bit of buildable land in the immediate area. There, they’re going to put Waterside at San Pablo , a single- family community zoned for up to 42 lots, a minimum of 90-100 feet wide. Home prices are expected to be in the $400s to $600s. Leed Silverfield said the project is still in design and engineering, but they hope to break ground early next year. Builders haven’t been chosen. He said it hasn’t been determined if it will be gated. Silverfield paid $1,175,000 for the property, buying it from the Hodges family. Ponte Vedra A new 23-lot, single- home community is going into Ponte Vedra Beach . EvenTide at 1044 Ponte Vedra Blvd . is being developed by GreenPointe Comm...

Maybe you used your summer vacation to relax with a nonalcoholic drink in your hand on a warm sunny beach . But back in Blacksburg, construction workers did not have that luxury. While you were sipping pina coladas and getting caught in the rain, they were working on major renovations across campus, from the Upper Quad to Sandy Hall. Demolition started in June on Thomas and Monteith halls, two aging Corps of Cadets residence halls on the Upper Quad. Several years ago, they complemented Brodie and Rasche halls to house the Corps. Brodie and Rasche were razed June 2015 and November 2013, respectively. Since then, the aging brick buildings have been replaced by two new, Hokie Stone- clad residence halls . Pearson Hall opened in November 2015 after significant construction delays , contributing to a housing crunch on campus. Its sibling building, known only as New Cadet Hall, will house cadets for the first time this fall. This summer, construction crews worked on finishing a set of n...

Two years ago, developer Mike Harrah joined a bid to purchase the Orange County Register out of bankruptcy. The effort ultimately failed . But the flamboyant local construction magnate with a ZZ Top beard still acquired the Register’s Santa Ana real estate , currently vacant after the publication decamped to Anaheim this spring. With the Register gone, Harrah is now embarking on an ambitious $1-billion plan for the 20- acre Grand Avenue site , proposing to build Orange County ’s tallest buildings, more than 1,000 residences, a 171-room hotel, offices and retail shops. In all, Harrah’s Caribou Industries envisions a 2.3-million-square- foot development known as 625IVE that serves as a gateway to historic downtown Santa Ana , where hip restaurants and shops are opening just a mile away. And he’s signed up prominent architecture firm Gensler to work on it. Harrah, himself, has been credited with helping kick-start the revitalization early last decade after he acquired buildings in t...

Work is progressing on some high profile housing developments in Terre Haute, but one project is on hold, another has been delayed and a third scaled back.. A shortage of skilled labor and rising lumber costs prompted Thompson Thrift to shelve a planned $28 million, 232- unit expansion of Sycamore Terrace apartments , off New Margaret Drive, according to Paul Thrift, company president. And, after an initial start date set for earlier this year, Carmel- based Mainstreet Student Living is now looking to begin construction in April on a $20 million, 162-unit complex near Union Hospital with completion in August 2019. Mainstreet’s project was pushed back “in an effort to ensure our partners could execute our plans and guarantee an on-time opening,” said Justin Farris, managing director. A third project involving market rate apartments on Sidenbender Road near 25th Street and Margaret Avenue has been reduced in scope with construction scheduled to begin next spring on...

OMAHA — A 40-year-old teaching hospital in Omaha is set to become a mammoth apartment building with up to 700 units, open-air atriums, a rooftop pool and an enclosed retail corridor that looks out to a new lake. NuStyle Development's plans to re-do CHI Creighton University Medical Center , adding a couple of floors, extending the midtown institution to 10 levels and 1 million square feet . The expansion would make the structure the metro-area's largest single building of market-rate apartments. NuStyle officials said the redevelopment plan will cost about $90 million. The surrounding area will include a pedestrian bridge connecting the area to the heart of the Creighton University campus , as well as trails linking to other nearby neighborhoods. NuStyle officials say these elements — along with the 2.5-acre lake, fountain and sandy recreational area on the apartment complex site — are intended to help restore the neighborhood feel that was lost partly by Interstate constr...

Lebanon— The apartment complex to be built behind the Element hotel on Route 120 in Lebanon moved has moved a step closer to reality as the developer has filed his plans and sought permission from the city to begin construction. Manchester developer Dick Anagnost filed a permit application with the Lebanon’s city planning department to begin construction on a $4 million, three- story apartment building . He hopes to be able to break ground on the project this fall and have it ready for occupancy next summer, according to Anagnost. The apartment building is the first in a planned 153- unit residential complex in Altaria Lebanon Park , a mixed commercial and residential development spanning 65 acres of which the 4-year-old Element hotel was the first phase. Anagnost expects the entire five- building apartment project to be completed by 2019 at a cost “all-in, probably $20 million to $30 million,” he said in an interview. And even though construction on the project has not yet beg...

Construction Of Towers Into Historic Six-Acre Site Seen By Activists As Giving Area And Denver Another Black Eye by Glen Richardson Country Club Gardens — the historic 1940s five-building three- story apartment complex located in a six- acre landscaped garden environment adjacent to the Downing Street Parkway — is about to get hit with a pair of huge apartment houses as densification of the Cherry Creek and Country Club areas continues on unabated. The Broe Group is demolishing two existing garden apartments and replacing them with two overwhelming 30-story towers near the intersection of Downing St. and Ellsworth Ave. The twin skyscrapers will be the tallest buildings outside of downtown Denver and will be equal in height to the One Tower Center on 17th Street, the 15th tallest building in Denver. By comparison, Plaza Tower One — one of the tallest towers in the Denver Tech Center — is only a 22- story building . The two towers will contain a total of 533 apart ment units ...

Monthly rents at Monterra Apartment Homes to range from $1,195 to $1,700 An aerial view of the 250- unit apartment complex that's planned for 15201 Old Hickory Blvd. (Photo: Submitted) Story Highlights Monterra Apartment Homes will cost roughly $55 million to build at 15201 Old Hickory Blvd. "We have plans to do over 1,000 units in Nashville before we're done," Buffalo, N.Y.- based developer Anthony Cutaia said. Amenities will include a dog park and a resort- style community center with a fitness center. The Maddox Foundation, which offers grants in Northwest Mississippi, was the seller of the property. A New York-based entity has paid $2.5 million for 15.27 acres in the Valley Brook neighborhood in south Nashville with plans for a roughly 250- unit apartment project . Buffalo area-based suburban developer Anthony Cutaia is behind plans for the roughly $55 million Monterra Apartment Homes , which will rise at least three stories on the vacant, multifamily zoned ...

If you’ve driven by Gumwood and State Road 23, you have likely spotted the orange barrels and construction equipment. But, there is more planned for that area than just changes to the roadway. More than 200 apartment units are planned for one side of Gumwood and two drive-thru restaurants could soon be added to Toscana Park. The proposed projects were discussed at a Mishawaka Plan Commission meeting Tuesday night . Some residents in attendance are not too happy about seeing more commercial properties in their neighborhood. Several people took to the podium to share their disapproval of some of the plans. “Now you want to add even more commercial property along a strip of residential people ,” said Jayne Schellinger, who lives nearby. “I didn’t buy this house to have a walkway to dining. I bought it because it was in a nice neighborhood.” A representative for Gumwood Acquisitions shared more details about the 206 residential units planned for the northwest corne...

PEARLAND, Texas — McCann Realty Partners, LLC has started construction on the 350-unit Radius at Shadow Creek Ranch Apartments in the Pearland submarket of Houston. Within a half-mile of the site, two hospitals  – HCA Pearland Medical Center and Memorial Hermann – are under construction along with a medical professional building by AMD Asset Holdings . Located west of Highway 288, the  McCann apartments will be built at the southwest corner of Business Center Drive and Discovery Bay Drive , in the Shadow Creek Ranch development . Shadow Creek Ranch is a 3,500- acre master planned community with more than 5,000 existing homes, town center shopping and dining, 700 acres of open space, 300 acres of lakes and 22 miles of hike and bike paths, six new schools and offices, hospitals and community facilities . The Class A apartment project will include 3 story stone and stucco exteriors with attached and detached garages.  Amenities will include a large clubhouse with a state of the a...

HUMBLE, TX — Nestled along the growing area outside Humble, Texas, and along a stretch of East Beltway 8, is one of the fastest growing communities in the Houston area. Generation Park is quietly becoming home to large companies such as TechnipFMC, which opened their new campus there in 2016. And now, McCord Development Inc., which owns Generation Park , is building its own headquarters across the street from TechnipFMC. McCord Development has been acquiring land in North Houston since 1985. In 1995, McCord was the original developer of Summerwood, a thriving 1,541-acre master- planned community that is adjacent to the north of Generation Park. Since then, Generation Park has seen a flurry or retail development in the northern segments of the 4,000 acre campus, as well as plans from San Jacinto College and Lone Star College to develop work force education facilities there. In July 2016, McCord Development broke ground on Redemption Square, a mixed-used development, and its hea...