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GLEN ROCK - A resolution that provides the final stamp of approval on the Zoning Board of Adjustment’s June passage of a land use variance for a 52-unit, age- restricted apartment complex on Prospect Street is likely to be voted on at the Aug. 10 meeting, according to  board chairman Bruce Beal in an Aug. 3 phone interview.   The property is currently zoned A-2 for single-family housing. At its June meeting, the Zoning Board voted 6 -1 to grant a use variance to Glen Park Village LLC , for construction of two age- restricted apartment buildings on a two-acre plot in a residential zone. Board member William Mitchell voted against it. Sign Up for E-News The vote approving a use variance followed almost four years of various proposals by Glen Park Village LLC , of Franklin Lakes, for the site, including age-restricted and not age-restricted proposals. Glen Park Village LLC representatives had previously stated that they would present a full site plan to the Zoning Board after a use...

UConn’s place in the Hartford skyline . Hartford — For nearly a half-century, the University of Connecticut has had no place to call its own in the state’s capital city. Today that changes as Connecticut’s flagship university opens the doors of its new $140- million downtown branch campus on Prospect Street . The arrival of the campus, which comes after five years of false starts and setbacks, is a milestone for the university and the city of Hartford. Hundreds attended the grand opening ceremony downtown Wednesday morning . For UConn, it marks the institution’s return from the suburbs into the heart of the city – where the school first opened its Greater Hartford branch in 1939. It moved to West Hartford in 1970. The university, in the years since, had been able to continue to claim a “presence” downtown. Some of UConn’s graduate business programs are housed in a space it leases in 100 Constitution Plaza, and the university’s basketball and ice hockey teams play games in the XL ...

Quizzes Lists Topics Save The River Terrace Apartments is an apartment building located at 7700 East Jefferson Avenue in Detroit, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. [1] River Terrace Apartments was one of the first two garden apartment complexes built in Michigan which used loan guarantees from the Federal Housing Administration , the other being Hillcrest Village in East Lansing. [2] History By the late 19th century , the corridor along East Jefferson Avenue had become a prestigious residential neighborhood . As the automobile age dawned in the twentieth century and Detroit's population boomed, large upscale apartment buildings were constructed along the Avenue. However, this boom in apartment construction collapsed at the start of the Great Depression. However, in 1939, Wesson Seyburn, along with Leonard P. Reaume, of the property management firm of Holden & Reaume, applied for a building permit to construct this apart...