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Spokane Valley - based Central Valley School District has bought for $2.3 million the Broadway Square Apartments complex at 11910 E. Broadway, in Spokane Valley , and plans to demolish it to make room for the envisioned replacement of North Pines Middle School , says Ben Small, district superintendent . North Pines Middle School , which serves about 500 students, is located on 14.5 acres of adjacent land at 607 N. Pines Road. Small says the district bought the 2.4-acre, 50- unit apartment complex with funds from a $ 113 million bond measure , which voters approved in February 2015. The district anticipates including construction funding for the planned middle school relocation project in a future ballot measure that would go before voters in the spring of 2018, he says. Small says a district facilities assessment conducted in 2010 concluded North Pines Middle School should be replaced. “Its systems and structures...

Geoff Lee in front of the Confucius statue, listening to the audio from the Talking Statues project . Photos by Bill Weinberg BY BILL WEINBERG | Confucius is talking now. The statue of the ancient sage stands at Chinatown’s Confucius Plaza — where Division St. meets Bowery — just outside the housing complex of the same name, built in the 1970s for the neighborhood’s booming population. Now there’s a sign standing beside him with a scannable code that brings his voice to life on your smart phone — or an impersonation of it across the centuries. This is part of the Talking Statues project , now in New York after setting up at such landmarks in several European cities. Thirty-five statues in all five boroughs are thusly brought to life — including George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Mohandas Gandhi in Union Square. Confucius urges his modern tech-savvy listeners to “study the past if you would divine the future,” and espouses his ethics of perseverance, filial piety and self-cultiva...

Offices, a grocery store and “micro-condominiums” might soon rise out of the ground on a prime piece of land in West Palm Beach west of Northwood Village. These are the first projects that Boca Raton-developer Mario Caprini wants to build as part of an ambitious $70 million complex dubbed Northwood Common s, on a 3.5- acre parcel owned by the West Palm Beach Community Redevelopment Agency . Can Caprini get the job done? His company’s website lists his prior development work in Canada and Ohio, including 1,000 residential units, 5 million square feet of industrial parks and “hundreds of thousands” of square feet of office, retail and medical buildings. In South Florida, Caprini recently completed construction of a “green” home in Pompano Beach at 4620 N.W. 18th Ave. The project, dubbed Modernista, was recognized by the mayor of Pompano Beach in March and won a national award in February from the Structural Insulated Panel Association , earning first place in the affordable housing...

CONCORD — Carlton Senior Living, which plans to expand its Concord housing complex , recently bought from the city a vacant lot that sits behind the Park & Shop shopping center . The Concord- based firm agreed to pay the city $380,000 — the full appraised fair market value — for a 9,600-square-foot parcel at the corner of Sutter and Harrison streets. The property is adjacent to Carlton’s 152- unit independent living apartment building at 1700 Broadway. Carlton owns 11 senior housing communities in Concord, Pleasant Hill, Davis, San Leandro, San Jose, Fremont, Sacramento and Elk Grove. The Concord complex is the only one without a memory care or assisted living component , said Todd Kemerly, senior vice president of sales and marketing. Combining the city’s parcel with a second property Carlton plans to buy at 2051 Harrison St., will provide space for the company to build approximately 30 units for seniors with Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia. “The intent is ...

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