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By JAKE SHORE of WFUV The Norwood News, in partnership with WFUV and BronxNet TV, brings you a four-part series on development projects happening across the Bronx and its impact on community residents. Luxury Student Housing Rises in Bronx’s Little Italy" width="696" height="522" />CONSTRUCTION SITE FOR future luxury unit marketed for students on Hoffman Street in Belmont, a few blocks from Fordham University . Photo by Jacob Shore For Fordham University students, living off campus is a respite from on- campus housing prices and its rules. It’s worked for Brendan Batcheller, a senior at Fordham’s Gabelli School of Business. The public accounting major said living off campus is markedly cheaper than living within Fordham’s gates. “The cost of a year’s rent for us is less than nine months’ worth of living in a dorm,” Batcheller said in an email. “There is definitely a greater sense of independence living off campus–having to deal with a landlord, p...

Strike London Hotel Gold at Charming, Posh (and Shockingly Affordable ) Flemings Mayfair" />Let's talk about the drawing room. All photos courtesy of Flemings Mayfair. Can it be? A gorgeous, centrally located, family-owned hotel in Central London that's actually affordable? Contributing editor and London regular Christina Ohly strikes hotel gold at Flemings Mayfair. LONDON – Visitors to London are spoiled for choice when it comes to fantastic hotels, so I am always on the lookout for the latest, greatest, newest offering when I return to this city that I consider my second home. I tend to stay in more residential areas — Chelsea, Kensington, Notting Hill — but my latest favorite find is in the heart of Mayfair, tucked away on sweet Half Moon Street . I literally can't stop raving about this hidden gem. Originally opened in 1851, Flemings Mayfair was converted from thirteen adjoining Georgian townhouses , which gives it an intimate, smaller feel than the oth...

Blue Rock Partners , a Tampa-based firm that sold three Orlando- area apartment complexes last year, paid $16.5 million in late June to rebuild its Orlando portfolio with the 215- unit Royal Oaks Apartments on N. Pine Hills Road . Blue Rock bought the property through affiliate Rock Rose Partners Royal Oaks LP  on June 26, with the  deed recorded Friday in Orange County. The property is being renamed The Park at Collington, in line with the company’s habit of naming multifamily assets  after English towns and landmarks. The seller was Focus JCR Orlando MF Investors II LLC , an affiliate of The Focus Group , a California- based real estate investment , development and management group which previously paid $9.6 million in December 2014.  Blue Rock plans to spend $1.7 million on interior and exterior renovations at the complex, which was built in 1992. Managing Partner Reuven Oded told GrowthSpotter the firm is already talking to local contractors about rehab work at the property....