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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...

In January 2015, a massive fire in Edgewater, N.J., demonstrated that buildings with sprinkler systems are not always protected against fire. The blaze destroyed 240 residential apartments and displaced 500 people from the Edgewater Avalon apartment building . The fire began when a maintenance worker’s plumbing torch accidentally ignited wooden wall studs , and flames quickly spread throughout the structure. Fifteen minutes passed before workers called the fire department . In that time, the fire spread throughout combustible void spaces (between walls and floors) and soon engulfed the building. Emergency personnel from 35 different cities and towns ultimately responded to the incident. Thankfully, there were no fatalities. Immediately after the blaze, people asked why the fire was so devastating. The building had sprinklers, after all. Shouldn’t the sprinkler system have extinguished the fire? To make matters worse , this building had already burned down 15 years prior during i...

B est for: Families with pre- school children , families with special access needs Worst for: luxury seekers A sunny morning in July and the sea was glistening gently beyond the rooftops. I was drinking my coffee on the balcony when my eldest daughter, Maya, arrived to survey the scene. “I feel,” she observed, ever the aesthete, “like we’re in France.” But this was not Biarritz. Welcome to Butlin’s, Bognor-sur-mer. With the plummeting pound forcing European villa holidays out of our budget this year, we have turned to a British holiday village to bridge the post-Brexit-vote gap. For a generation raised on low-cost flights and multi-lingual instructors at the kids club, it’s a change of pace. Butlin's marked its 80th anniversary last year, and its aesthetic and activities have changed significantly over the years Credit: © Chronicle / Alamy Stock Photo/Chronicle / Alamy Stock Photo For me, however, a mid- week break offered an airport-free, off-peak-value escape, plus a chanc...

Published 12:05 pm, Friday, August 4, 2017 Image 1 of / 1 Caption Close Image 1 of 1 Houston Apartment Association : Apartment pools can be hazardous Back to Gallery One of the greatest things about apartment living in Houston is the swimming pool. Apartment properties take great pride in their pools. For many, it's the most visible amenity. It's how they lease apartments. Prospective residents picture themselves relaxing at that beautiful pool on a hot summer day and can't wait to move in. Apartment pools can also be a hazard - especially for small children. Here are a few things to keep in mind when you live at a property with a swimming pool. No lifeguards – An apartment property isn 't the YMCA. There are no lifeguards. Even at a public pool with a lifeguard, there's no substitute for taking control of your own safety and that of your kids. Always swim with a buddy and watch your children at all times. If you are having a pool party, assign a dedicated per...

The first coast-to- coast solar eclipse in almost 100 years moved across the U.S. at 2,000 mph on Aug. 21. Here are some highlights. (Erin Patrick O'Connor/The Washington Post) CARBONDALE, Ill. — At first, Bob Baer thought it had to be a hoax. A man identifying himself as an astronomer had emailed to let him know about two eclipses that would cross the United States — one in 2017, the next in 2024. Carbondale, the small southern Illinois city where Baer was a physics professor, would be the only city at the center of both. Disbelieving, Baer pulled up a NASA projection of future paths of totality — the places where the moon completely covers the sun during an eclipse. The lines crossed right over his city, like an X on a treasure map, marked by the shadow of the moon. Three years later, Carbondale residents are still incredulous at their cosmic good fortune . The city has been badly in need of a break, ever since the recession and state budget crises cut enrollment at the ...

Fans of best-selling crime novelist  Laura Lippman  will want to be sitting down for this announcement. Lippman’s next book, Sunburn ( William Morrow ), may come out in February 2018, but you can start reading it now. That’s right—Lippman, author of the acclaimed Tess Monaghan series , has exclusively shared the jaw-dropping cover of Sunburn for the very first time with  Parade , and she’s also giving us a sneak peek at the first few chapters. (Spoiler alert: We’re already hooked on Lippman’s newest characters, and you will be too.) When you’re done staring at the gorgeous cover, read on for an excerpt from  Sunburn . OneJune 11, 1995Belleville, Delaware It’s the sunburned shoulders that get him. Pink, peeling. The burn is two days old, he gauges. Earned on Friday, painful to the touch yesterday, today an itchy soreness that’s hard not to keep fingering, probing, as she’s doing right now in an absentminded way. The skin has started sloughing off, soon those narrow shoulders won ’t b...

More prosaically, co-living can simply mean roommates and common rooms, like a dorm. For some developers, it’s a form of adaptive reuse: many co-living sites, like WeLive at 110 Wall Street , are leased, in this case from the landlord of what once was an office building, drained of its tenants by Hurricane Sandy. Slide Show Adventures in Co-Living Credit Photographs by Andrew White for The New York Times There are still co-living evangelists, like Brad Hargreaves of Common, who has promised that “the genuine and organic relationships our members build with each other,” as he wrote in a post for Medium, would not be tainted by allowing journalists to sleep over at Common properties (though they were welcome to tour). With over $23 million in financing, Common now operates in five cities, including out of eight houses in New York City. Some co-living ventures have collapsed under the weight of their ideals, like the utopian Pure House , started by Ryan Fix, now 42, in his Williamsburg l...