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Roger B. Kennedy Construction Ranks as 12th Largest Florida - Based General Building Contractor , 81st Among Southeast's Top Contractors Orlando Area Construction Management Firm Ranked in National Contractor Survey . Orlando, FL, August 25, 2017 --(PR.com)-- Altamonte Springs-based Roger B. Kennedy Construction has been ranked as the 12th largest Florida - based General Building Contractor according to ENR Southeast ’s annual Top Contractors survey published on July 10, 2017. Kennedy ranks 81st largest overall among The Southeast’s Top Contractors according to the nationally respected survey . Its Southeast region includes Florida , Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee and Puerto Rico. The Kennedy organization has been in continuous operation as a family- owned construction business for 147 years, and opened its Florida office in Orlando in 1972. Headed by Roger B. Kennedy, Jr., President, Roger B. Kennedy Construction ranks among Florida’s largest ...

Crescent Construction of Columbia, SC, has received GAF’s 2017 President’s Club Award. A GAF Master Elite (R) contractor since 2013, it serves Columbia and the surrounding areas as a full- service roofing and renovation contractor . Columbia, SC - August 24, 2017 - Crescent Construction LLC of Columbia, South Carolina, has received the most prestigious contractor award GAF offers : The GAF President ’s Club Award. This highly coveted award recognizes Crescent Construction as one of the “elite of the elite” residential roofing contractor s in the United States. GAF is North America’s largest roofing manufacturer , and only GAF Master Elite (R) Contractors can compete for its residential President’s Club Award. To qualify for this award, a residential roofing contractor must meet specific criteria in at least one out of three different pathways: the Performance pathway, where contractors focus on giving their property owners the best possible service, quality, and protection; the...

Thousands of students will be returning to UConn campuses over the coming few days, including about 12,400 moving into Storrs residence halls and about 260 who will be the first occupants of UConn Stamford ’s new student housing. Early arrivals for the 2017- 18 academic year began last weekend at Storrs. Freshmen start moving in to residence halls at 7 a.m. Friday, followed by upperclassmen and transfer students over the weekend. Overall, about 23,000 undergraduate students will start classes Monday at Storrs and the regional campuses. Many thousands of additional students are also enrolled at other locations in UConn’s schools of law, medicine, and dental medicine. The logistics of this year’s move-in weekend on the Storrs campus are expected to be more challenging than usual due to road construction. (Peter Morenus/UConn File Photo) Logistics of the move-in weekend on the Storrs campus are expected to be more challenging than usual due to road construction, notably the closure ...

STORRS, CT — Massive construction projects on the main University of Connecticut campus mean students returning to campus this week will be facing a move-in weekend like never before. Some students who arranged early move -in are already on campus, but the bulk of the 12,400 who live in Storrs residence halls will be descending on the campus beginning at 7 a.m. Friday. Freshmen are up first Friday, followed by upperclassmen and transfer students over the weekend. The biggest piece of advice for far from administrators for Friday has been to go old school while driving to the new school. That means plugging the dorm addresses into GPS units is essentially useless because of North Campus closures and traffic restrictions along North Eagleville Road from Route 195 and its side streets . Movers should also note that all traffic is one-way on Alumni Drive between Hillside Road and Hilltop Apartments this week. "The best thing to do is to watch the signs as you start to approach the ...

After two-and-a-half years of construction, Gurner has officially unveiled the first two towers of its $ 600 million Brisbane development . The launch of FV comes a week after BIS Economics forecast high - rise apartment construction will halve over the next three years. In its residential property forecast 2017 -2020 report, BIS indicated that the resurgence in prices in the current financial year is likely to be short-lived as a looming oversupply of apartments in our major cities will dampen price growth . Gurner rebuffed claims that the local market was oversupplied, “With so much pressure on house prices in Australia, Brisbane provides an incredibly affordable option for first home buyers and owners. Brisbane is 50% more affordable than Melbourne and 60-70% [more affordable] than Sydney – it is now something people just cannot ignore.” Notwithstanding concerns of an oversupply or weakening markets, Gurner has sold all apartments of the FV development , “People have been saying...

Nearly 1,100 new apartment units could be coming to Pentagon City as part of a major planned development of the 37- acre RiverHouse apartment complex . RiverHouse owner Vornado presented the initial development plans to largely skeptical members of the Arlington Ridge Civic Association last night. The plans call for 934 new market rate apartment units , to be added to the existing 1,670 units on the site across three buildings, which date back to the 1950s and 60s. Vornado is also proposing a 150 unit, stand-alone affordable apartment building , to be developed with a nonprofit affordable housing partner . The new market rate units will be built across three buildings, each about seven stories tall — half the height of the existing buildings — to preserve the views of condominium residents on Arlington Ridge . The first two buildings are to be built on what is currently a surface parking lot across from the Pentagon Row courtyard . Between the buildings will run a pedestrian co...

Construction of a new park in the Kenmount Terrace area of St. John's began on Friday with a ceremonial sod turning , and while most residents in the area are elated, not everyone is quite as enthusiastic. 'Now we can be out and be active, and be safe.' - Brittany Tibbo The $10-million Kenmount Terrace Community Park comes after years of complaints from residents who felt the relatively new neighbourhood lacked the green space and walking trails they were promised during the early years of development. But following a two- year engagement process and the creation of a steering committed made up of residents, the park is now set to become a reality. The cost for the new park is being shared equally between the provincial government and the city of St. John's. Brittany Tibbo kenmount terrace" width="100%" /> Brittany Tibbo lives in the Kenmount Terrace area and was on the steering committee for the new park. (CBC) Kenmount Terrace resident Brittan...

There’s a big demand for more affordable housing in Charlotte, where rents and home prices have shot up much faster than wages over the past few years. Many of the apartments being built now target more affluent renters, waitlists for housing vouchers are long and starter homes are snapped up almost immediately. So why aren’t developers building more affordable housing ? That was one of the main questions at a candidate education panel hosted by the Greater Charlotte Apartment Association on Friday, where about two dozen candidates for Charlotte City Council turned out to learn some of the basics on a complicated subject. “ Affordable housing is one of the topics you’ll talk about a lot,” Bryan Holladay, who supervises the group’s government affairs outreach , told the candidates. The subject is an alphabet soup of acronyms (like NOAH, or “ Naturally Occurring Affordable Housing ”) and overlapping terms and definitions. Sometimes when people say “ affordable housing ” they mean go...

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...

"We currently have more than 90 projects in the pipeline at various stages in the relocation or expansion process," said Beth Bowman, president of the Greater Irving - Las Colinas Chamber of Commerce. Cognizant Technology Solutions U.S. Corp., a New Jersey-based provider of information technology, consulting and business process services , plans to shift more than 1,000 jobs to an office building in Las Colinas. And, tech-research firm, Gartner Inc., is looking to move up to 800 workers to an office building Goldman Sachs plans to vacate in a move to downtown Dallas . Gartner will occupy at least 100,000 square feet in the building. And nationwide restaurant chain Pei Wei Asian Diner has put Las Colinas on its menu of locations for a headquarters move. Pei Wei is looking at an office lease in a building on State Highway 161. Business tenants cite Las Colinas ' proximity to Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, the development of thousands of new apartments and ac...

House-flipping hit its highest levels last year since before the recession as investors seek to capitalize on rising home prices and a seller’s market with tight inventory. But the process is nothing like what you see on TV, where it looks like a home can be bought, gutted, renovated and resold in less than an hour – not including commercial breaks . The truth is often much messier, real estate professionals in Charlotte said. “It’s a lot easier to lose money in this business than it is to make it,” said Jeff Johnson, owner of NewPath Properties , which specializes in buying and rehabbing distressed properties . Still, that’s not deterring people from giving it a try in Charlotte. First-quarter figures from Attom Data Solutions show flips – defined as the same property selling twice in a 12-month period same year – made up more than 6 percent of sales in the Charlotte region, or 540 sales. House-flipping increased almost 4 percent from a year ago, though it remains well below the cit...

House-flipping hit its highest levels last year since before the recession as investors seek to capitalize on rising home prices and a seller’s market with tight inventory. But the process is nothing like what you see on TV, where it looks like a home can be bought, gutted, renovated and resold in less than an hour – not including commercial breaks . The truth is often much messier, real estate professionals in Charlotte said. “It’s a lot easier to lose money in this business than it is to make it,” said Jeff Johnson, owner of NewPath Properties , which specializes in buying and rehabbing distressed properties . Still, that’s not deterring people from giving it a try in Charlotte. First-quarter figures from Attom Data Solutions show flips – defined as the same property selling twice in a 12-month period same year – made up more than 6 percent of sales in the Charlotte region, or 540 sales. House-flipping increased almost 4 percent from a year ago, though it remains well below the cit...