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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...

After one resident heard rumors that the complex was destined to be scraped and developed into hundreds of new units in the hot Lowry neighborhood , he contacted an official with  Vivage Senior Living Solutions , the company that manages the facility — but that official reported back that the executive director didn 't know about the sale, either. Still, residents worried that they would suddenly get a thirty-day notice to vacate, and that would not be enough time to find a new home. Space is in short supply in metro Denver, and a move can be debilitating even when there are available spaces. Many of the seniors rely on Medicaid and Social Security, and switching those accounts to new addresses can be complicated, too. Nancy Schwalm, chief business development officer for Vivage, says that management knew there were offers on the table for the property, a circa 1938 building that was used as officers' quarters back when Lowry was an Air Force base ,  but were kept in the dar...

Westbrook will not charge fees based on a development’s impacts to the school and sewer system. The decision is a reversal from last fall, when the Westbrook City Council expressed interest in the idea and planned to charge impact fees on all building projects with permits issued since Oct. 3. The fees were popular among residents and officials concerned about the pace of growth in the city at a time when hundreds of housing units were proposed for Westbrook. City staff spent months developing the formulas for the fees, which are designed to pay for new capacity needed as a result of a development. Under the system proposed, for example, the owner of a new three-bedroom house would need to pay a $3, 245 school impact fee to offset the future costs of adding children to local classrooms. But when the final proposals for those fees came before the City Council last week, the group rejected them. A majority of councilors said they were worried the fees would discourage families and b...

by: Craig Lucie Updated: Jul 22, 2013 - 8:15 PM COBB COUNTY - A sinkhole under the Ivy Ridge Apartments in Cobb County is still growing this week and residents said they may never be able to live in their apartments again. Restoration crews are concerned that more rain forecasted for this week will make the hole under the Bentley Road building bigger . "It's pretty wild," said Robin Smith, who evacuated her apartment. "Out of everything, a sinkhole. I would have never imagined this," Smith said. The ground under her apartment kept falling in and she could hear people yelling outside, she told Channel 2's Craig Lucie. Her mother, Sherry Smith Faye , says she will never forget the sound of the floor giving way. "It sounded like an earthquake," said Sherry Smith Faye . "It felt like an earthquake." Restoration crews said heavy weekend rains washed away most of the concrete foundation. "All we could do was leave," said Smith Fa...

The proposed return of a neighborhood grocery in the Lower Garden District got stuck in a zoning quagmire Tuesday (Aug. 22) with nearby residents generally welcoming the idea of a corner store but divided over how much leeway to give developers. Liz and Robby Blum bought the former Zara's grocery at 2042 Prytania St. in 2015 for $614,000 and have been trying to bring it back as an upscale grocery including a total renovation of the building.  Zara's operated as a grocery with alcohol sales, in conflict with the underlying residential zoning of the property. The store stayed open with a legal grandfathered status as a commercial use.  But the new owners lost the so-called "legal non-conforming" status while renovating the store and the property shifted to a residential zoning. The grandfathered status can be lost when a property stays vacant for six months.  Nicole Webre, a consultant for the property owners, told the City Planning Commission on Tuesday that ...

"); } if ($(imageDivId).length == 0) { $("#wrapper").after(contentText); } })(jQuery); BREMERTON, Wash. - Crystal Turner stood in the kitchen of her cramped apartment and stared at the cracks in the fake wood flooring beneath her feet. Surrounding her was the home she'd made for herself and her two sons in the past year, since they moved out of her Toyota Camry and into Admiral Manor, a low- rent apartment complex in west Bremerton . There was the single bedroom with two kids' beds on the floor. The living room she'd decorated with signs that said "Hope" and "Love." A dingy bathroom with a leaking toilet that had never been fixed. In this undated photo, Matthew Daigneault pushes his son Aden as he plays outside on the swings of his rental home in West Bremerton , Wash. (Larry Steagall/Kitsap Sun via AP) © 2017 Cox Media Group . Admiral Manor wasn 't the place Turner, a recovering addict, wanted to raise her boys. It was the place...

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (WIVB) — Some Orchard Park residents are speaking out against new development in their neighborhood. A developer wants to knock down two historic homes for a housing complex, but neighbors are saying, “not in my backyard.” “I just can’t stand by and let that happen. We’ve lost a number of old homes in the village already to progress and I can’t see it happening anymore, enough’s enough,” said Howard Rost, Orchard Park homeowner . Orchard Park Square LLC is looking to tear down two, 100 year old houses on South Buffalo Street . In exchange, the developer has proposed building a three story town-home with four units and another building with two apartments and first floor retail space . Rost, who lives down the road from the property, said he’s worried the project will take away Orchard Park’s charm. “If it continues the way it is, they’ll have apartments all down through here and you won’t know whether you’re in Buffalo or you’re in Orchard Park,” said Rost. Homeow...

Forget about borrowing a cup of sugar — can you spare a couple of bucks? Working- class Bronx families thought they had landed the dream of affordable rents at a spanking-new apartment complex — until busloads of rowdy homeless people moved in and turned the building into a living nightmare. “I feel like I’ve been scammed. They weren’t upfront to let us know what kind of building this was going to be,” said Omar Cooke, 38, who pays $962 for a one-bedroom apartment at 1802 Crotona Ave. in Crotona Park. Months after the tenants signed their leases, the developer moved homeless families into 44 of the building’s 55 units. Now the rent-paying residents say they’re plagued by fights, threats and panhandling, and they fear for the safety of themselves and their children. All visitors — including the regular tenants — have to be patted by security. And when the shelter staff leave the building between 6 p.m. Friday night and 8 a.m. Monday, all hell breaks loose , Cooke says. “On Friday wh...

TACOMA, Wash. — Tacoma police detectives need the public’s help to identify this suspect believed to be targeting senior citizens . On June 6, the suspect burglarized a 90-year-old woman’s home at the Tahoma Terrace Apartments on South Union Avenue by posing as a maintenance worker. He told the victim he was there there to sweep the patio, then entered her apartment and stole jewelry, cash, a cell phone and prescription medications, police said. “We’re worried that one of the citizens who he is stealing from may get hurt by being surprised someone is in their house,” said officer Loretta Cool . The suspect approached several other residents and told them he was there to service their air conditioning. He is believed to be responsible for similar incidents on July 16 at the Brookdale Allenmore Independent Living Facility on South Union Avenue , and on August 6 at the True Vine Apartments on South Mason Avenue in Tacoma. He appears to be in his 30s or 40s, approximately 6’ tall, me...

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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...

CLOSE The Shasta View Apartments in Redding is implementing a program to test the DNA of dog feces found at the apartment complex to hold owners accountable Wochit Buy Photo The management at the Shasta View Apartments in Redding installed a plastic bag dispenser and waste container at the complex to encourage residents to pick up their dogs' feces. (Photo: Damon Arthur/Record Searchlight) Buy Photo What do you do when there is too much dog doo? One Redding apartment complex is going high tech to find the answer. Faced with numerous owners not picking up after their dogs when they poop on the grounds, the management at the Shasta View Apartments plans to start collecting the physical evidence to track down offending pets and their owners. Apartment manager Yvonne Martin said when they find unaccounted -for feces they will have it bagged up and shipped off for DNA testing. At the least, the testing would identify the dog breed. Martin said she knows the breed of all the ...