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ORANGE COUNTY C.P.I. Church Street Inc. to Church Street Station of Orlando Inc., Sec. 26-22-29, $6.6 million. C.S.D. Sawgrass Inc. to Bottling Group LLC , Sec. 27-23-29, $5.67 million. Southern Gate Way Corp. to Omega Land Development Corp ., Sec. 28-23-30, $2.64 million. NationsBank to Southern Gateway Corp ., Semoran Commercenter, $2.6 million. Park Central Properties Ltd. to Third Series Investors Ltd., Park Central, $2.17 million. Eastmar Commons Partnership to T.W.C. Ninety-Nine Ltd., Eastmar Commons , $1.98 million. Anders B. Eklov to P.T.S.-Orlando LLC, International Drive Value Cen, $1.76 million. Long Lakes Hills Ltd. to Colony Construction Co., Long Lake Hills , $1.43 million. Gerard McHale to James W. and Kenlyn J. Dollar, Sec 15-22-30, $1.07 million. Gary and Deborah Kinnett to David S. and Karen E. Bradley, Cypress Springs, $945,000. Pierre J. Seacord to Daniel S. and Kimberly Gray, Anderson Heights, $934,000. Christopher J. and Courtney Campbell to Dennis and Marceli...

DEEDS Source: Clark County Recorder . • Vacant land for $16.9 million 20160607:001054/APN 175-01-510-001 Seller: The Howard Hughes Co. LLC Buyer: Pardee Homes of Nevada 4675 Teco Ave., #115, Las Vegas, NV 89118 • Commercial/industrial for $12.8 million 20160601:002810/APN 162-08-611-001 Seller: Highland Industrial Park Partnership Buyer: Highland Industrial Park LLC 7136 Pacific Blvd., #210, Huntington Beach, CA 90255 • Commercial/industrial for $4 million 20160606:005050/APN 139-26-102-003 Seller: Mark and Loretta Bellanger Trust ; Sabrina S. Bellanger Trust ; Bokit Family Trust ; Karyn Y. Finlayson Family Trust Buyer: Anderson Dairy Inc. 801 Searles Ave ., Las Vegas, NV 89101 • Commercial/industrial for $4 million 20160601:000785/APN 176-04-413-003 Seller: Sortino Asset Management Co. Buyer: Sovereign Properties LLC 1929 Van Ness Ave., San Francisco, CA 94109 • Vacant land for $3.6 million 20160601:003694/APN 177-06-810-004 Seller: Distinctive Homes-Valley View LLC Buyer: DR Horton ...

The struggles of the impoverished are well documented. But how about the unique pain and struggle associated with being wealthy in New York City? In her research for “ Uneasy Street : The Anxieties of Affluence” ( Princeton University Press , out Sept. 5), Rachel Sherman interviewed 50 New York-area parents of young children, whose household incomes ranged from $250,000 to $10 million and with assets totaling up to $50 million. These locals live pampered lives — with multiple high-end properties, teams of household employees and frequent, lavish vacations — but still, they do impressive mental gymnastics to avoid identifying themselves as truly rich. For instance: Helen, a stay-at-home mom with an annual family income of $2 million, describes herself as “in the middle, in the sense that there are so many people with so much money. They have private planes. They have drivers. They have all these things.” This kind of creative (and self-serving) logic is prevalent among Sherman’s su...

Climate Change, Development & Aid, Economy & Trade, Energy, Environment, Global Governance, Headlines, North America, Poverty & SDGs Enrique Gili* - IPS/IFEJ POWAY, California, Oct 26 2007 (IPS) - Mary Jane Jagodzinzki nervously anticipated the arrival of a busload of building professionals . As it turned out, she needn&#39t have been too concerned. Solara green housing project in Poway, California. Credit: Enrique Gili/IPS" src="http://www.ipsnews.net/Library/solara_final.jpg" alt=" Solara green housing project in Poway, California. Credit: Enrique Gili/IPS" width="200" height="150" /> Solara green housing project in Poway, California. Credit: Enrique Gili/IPS Forty or so camera-toting architects, project managers and contractors arrived en masse in the bedroom community of Poway, north of San Diego, part of a green building tour showcasing a pioneering apartment complex that's saving money and helping the pl...

WEST WHITELAND >> Call it the development of Exton, 2.0. The area is undergoing a renewed interest with development that has the township buzzing with new projects. From a new supermarket – a Whole Foods, which the township has been told will open in January – to a post- operation rehabilitation facility , with plenty of housing in between, the Exton area is a hot spot for building again with more than 20 projects in the ground or on the drawing board. “There’s a lot happening now,” observed Mimi Gleason , West Whiteland ’s township manager. “A lot of it is because of the economy, the pent-up demand, and a lot of it is because the three supervisors we have now wanted to encourage redevelopment.” Advertisement The completion of the Exton Square Mall in 1973 helped put the Exton area on the map and through the decades leading up to the 2008 Great Recession the township saw steady growth with the development of other retail centers like Whiteland Towne Center , Fairfie...

The long retail spine of Sydney Road, Brunswick, just north of Melbourne's CBD, was once a prosperous trading outpost on the way to the goldfields. These days it's a bohemian mix of variety stores, op shops, halal butchers and Lebanese bakeries. Take a side street to the west, however, and a different picture emerges. Sandwiched between Sydney Road and the Upfield train line is an area undergoing rapid and widespread transformation. Light industry is fast being replaced by mid- rise apartment buildings , their inhabitants attracted by the short commute into town and cheaper prices than in the city's south-east. The quality of these units is, on the whole, depressingly bad; think poor ventilation and bedrooms that "borrow" natural light (a weasel word for being dark and windowless). The occasional jazzy façade tries feebly to make up for otherwise cheap construction amid a chorus of greys. At ground level, carpark roller doors alternate with mean pocket garden...

A decade after the crash, Shannon Valley housing estate , on the outskirts of Ballaghaderreen, in Co Roscommon, remains unfinished and partly in ruins. Although the number of “ unfinished housing developments ” has fallen sharply since 2010, Shannon Valley is one of hundreds that still dot the country. The Guls: ‘Every day I put rats in the bin’ Fatima Gul says her little brother, Yousaf, doesn’t like the rats. He jumps up on the sofa or the table in the living room when they come into the house. Their parents don’t allow Fatimar, who is 10, or her nine-year-old sister, Maryam, or Yousaf and his twin, Zohra, who are five, to play near the houses on the other side of their green. It’s too close to the rats and the rubble. Shannon Valley “ ghost estate ” outside Ballaghaderreen, Co Roscommon. Photograph: Simon Carswell" height="349" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/polopoly_fs/1.3181475!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_620/image.jpg" width="620...