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HARRIS COUNTY, Texas - Officials at Harris County Emergency Management are watching the radar and monitoring updates on Harvey as they come in from the National Weather Service . Harris County Judge Ed Emmett said they're expecting flooding in the area. The county is expecting a major rain event , meaning we'll likely see steady rain that hangs around. Emmett said Harvey is expected to sit on our area until Monday, which means flooding is likely. Officials anticipate 12-15 inches of rain in Harris County. Emmett said the weather we've had of late proves helpful as we gear up for Harvey. "There's good news in that we haven't had any rain in a while, so the reservoirs are empty. The watersheds are all in good shape, but if we get that amount of rain, over a very sustained period of time, then we're on the Gulf Coast and people are going to experience flooding," Emmett said. The Harris County Flood Control District said crews are working to make sure...

Ascent Med Center apartment project next to a 357-room hotel. Ascent will offer units from 339 square feet, with students in mind, to large three-bedrooms aimed at higher-income renters. Photo: Medistar Corp." /> Photo: Medistar Corp. A rendering shows the Ascent Med Center apartment project next to a 357-room hotel. Ascent will offer units from 339 square feet, with students in mind, to large three-bedrooms aimed at higher-income renters. Oil's going for less than $30 a barrel. The high- end housing market is on the skids. And companies are unloading gobs of office space they no longer need. Yet some developers want to keep building. Greystar, an apartment developer with multiple projects under construction here, recently said it would move forward with a plan to build another one: a soaring glass and brick tower of 375 luxury units on a 1.3- acre parking lot next to the Texas Medical Center . "It is a little contrarian, isn't it?" Greystar's David ...

FLINT, MI -- Hurley Medical Center will celebrate its continued partnership with Oak Street Senior Apartments by unveiling the new wellness exercise room . Hurley and Communities First, Inc. will host a ribbon cutting ceremony for the new wellness room at 10 a.m. Tuesday, July 28 at Oak Street Senior Apartments located at 1000 Oak Street in Flint.  The room will be filled with space for activities, exercise equipment and much more. The partnership between Hurley and Oak Street Senior Apartments  started nearly a year ago when the apartment building for low- income seniors opened . Hurley helped outfit their Health Services Room with an exam table, medical supplies and health literature. Hurley staff help with routine health screenings and onsite nursing hours for one-on-one health and wellness coaching . This is just another way hospitals in the Flint area are preparing to take care of the county's aging population .  Even though Genesee County 's overall population h...

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...

Consumers found empty shelves Thursday in the bottled water section at the Kroger on Buffalo Speedway. The store is expecting truckloads of water today before Harvey reaches landfall . Photo: Godofredo A. Vasquez, TSHarveyPrep / Houston Chronicle" class="landscape" /> Consumers found empty shelves Thursday in the bottled water section at the Kroger on Buffalo Speedway. The store is expecting truckloads of water today before Harvey reaches landfall ." src="src" /> Photo: Godofredo A. Vasquez, TSHarveyPrep Image 1 of / 1 Caption Close Image 1 of 1 Consumers found empty shelves Thursday in the bottled water section at the Kroger on Buffalo Speedway. The store is expecting truckloads of water today before Harvey reaches landfall . Consumers found empty shelves Thursday in the bottled water section at the Kroger on Buffalo Speedway. The store is expecting truckloads of water today before Harvey reaches landfall . Photo: Godofredo A. Vasquez, ...

Greenhouse gases have declined in Washington, D.C., in part thanks to the city’s Climate Action Plan . This action plan hopes to reduce carbon emissions to 50 percent of 2006 levels by 2032, and 80 percent by 2050. Between 2011 and 2013, greenhouse gases fell 23 percent citywide , according to the D.C. Policy Center . In order to further track the progress of the action plan, the city initiated a greenhouse gas inventory that currently compiles 1,054 out of the city’s 161,500 buildings. The buildings chosen are private residential and commercial buildings that are 50,000 square feet and larger and public buildings that are 10,000 square feet and larger. In an effort to track which buildings emit the highest gas emissions in the city’s inventory, the D.C. Policy Center created a list as well as an interactive map, found below. The Buildings That Have the Most Greenhouse Gas Emissions in D.C. Property Total CO2 Emissions (Metric Tons) CO2 Emissions by Area (kg/ft2) Property Total C...

Integrace, announced last week that Karen Moiles, R.N. has been hired as Community Nurse Liaison for the Fairhaven and Copper Ridge communities in Sykesville. In this role, she will foster relationships and communications with local hospitals and other referral sources to ensure the best possible experience for guests transitioning from a hospital setting to Integrace Fairhaven and Integrace Copper Ridge . Moiles possesses more than 30 years of clinical experience across multiple healthcare settings . Most recently, she was the community nurse liaison for the University of Maryland Medical System . She has also held previous positions at Levindale Hebrew Geriatric Center and Hospital, Johns Hopkins Hospital , and Genesis HealthCare. Integrace Fairhaven is a not-for- profit life plan community that affords residents a lifestyle of flexibility and choice to live life on their own terms. Fairhaven offers independent living options in its villas, cottages and apartment homes, as w...

Sandy Springs, Ga. — Crescent Communities has secured financing for a multifamily rental community now underway in metro Atlanta’s Perimeter neighborhood. The property, Crescent Perimeter , will consist of 320 apartments, ranging from one to three bedrooms. Located at 5755 Glenridge Road in Sandy Springs, Ga., Crescent Perimeter will be four and five stories surrounding a parking deck within the 26- acre Lakeside office park just north of I-285. Crescent Communities expects the first residents to move into Crescent Perimeter in the third quarter of 2018. The Central Perimeter business district is a major regional center that’s recently attracted a number of major companies, including the headquarters of Mercedes-Benz USA, State Farm and The Weather Channel. Crescent’s new apartments will also serve employees of metro Atlanta’s largest concentration of hospitals and medical offices, known as Pill Hill. “The job growth in Atlanta, especially in Central Perimeter , has created str...

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