Apartment Choice

The Olathe City Council on Tuesday approved rezoning 27 acres at the southwest corner of 119 th Street and Pflumm Road for a 240- unit apartment complex . The 6-1 vote came after almost a dozen neighbors spoke against the project and dozens more wrote letters and emails to the city voicing their own opposition. But while the residents were unable to scuttle the project itself, they were able to persuade the council to ax plans to connect 123 rd Street through the development to Pflumm Road as planned, a move they warned would have dumped fast-moving traffic on the doorstep of Heatherstone Elementary School . “If we are going to make considerations and alterations to the infrastructure of our city based on residents that are not here in these apartments now, I plead with you to protect the citizens that are here and living in this neighborhood now,” said Tim Laughlin, who lives across the street from the school. The thin strip of land has sat unused since being rezoned in 2001 and ...

Leonnel Davis sees change in Rochester and wonders what it means for her new neighbors. "I see growth in the community but not growth around where I live," she said. Up until about three months ago, Davis was living in a home in northeast Rochester, which she was hoping to buy through a contract for deed. However a pending divorce changed her plans, and she moved with her two grandchildren, one 12 and the other 15, to a three-bedroom apartment in the Andover Apartments complex in southeast Rochester. It wasn't the first choice for the 53-year-old grandmother, but searches for three-bedroom apartment kept coming with price tags as high as $1,900 a month in buildings near the city's core. "Who are they building that for? They couldn't be building it for me," she said, noting she pays $900 for rent in her new apartment as she points to needed repairs and cites safety concerns . "I'm on disability, and I'm a single grandparent....

AMHERST — A large apartment complex proposed for Route 9 at the Amherst- Hadley town line continues to move through the permitting processes in both communities, even as some residents express worry about the size of the project and how it could impact their neighborhood. Amherst Planning Director Christine Brestrup said people have raised several issues with the 131- apartment Aspen Heights residential community in both written comments and orally at a Zoning Board of Appeals hearing earlier this month. One of the most prominent concerns, Brestrup said, is whether people who live at the proposed complex , to be built at 408 Northampton Road, will drive through the Greenleaves Retirement Community and Windfield Family and Senior Estates. Because Northampton Road is a divided highway, those living at Aspen Heights will have to exit the complex by taking a right, heading east, Brestrup said. To travel west toward the shopping malls, the roads through Greenleaves and Windfield migh...

Hull City owners Assem and Ehab Allam have submitted new plans to convert a disused foundry in Caroline Street for residential use. They want to turn the Grade II listed Hennebique building into 26 apartments and retain two adjacent derelict factories for residential use. Their company, Allam Developments, has also applied for outline planning permission to build up to 70 new homes on nearby land. Assem and Ehab Allam A similar proposal at the same site was rejected by planning councillors five years ago. Hull housing charity Giroscope plans a self- build housing scheme But the new application says the current scheme would address previous concerns about potential noise from nearby industrial premises . However, the major development scheme has this time triggered fears it could squeeze out one of Hull's oldest engineering firms . It says it aims to "create a high quality and sustainable urban extension to Hull." The concrete- framed Hennebique building d...

MUSKEGON HEIGHTS, MI -- Following a contentious week in the Muskegon area and throughout the United States, the Unity Rally for Racial Understanding seeks to close the racial divide in Muskegon County. The event is in response to several racially-charged incidents in the county throughout the week, including a noose hung from a swing set at Glenside School in Muskegon, said organizer Eddie Sanders Jr ., of Muskegon Heights. The rally is scheduled for 3-6 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 19, at Rowan Park in Muskegon Heights. Sanders emphasized that the rally is a peaceful event, and everyone is welcome. The event is not about political affiliation, but community, he said. "We just want to have an open dialogue," he said. "We're trying to come to some kind of closure for the racial divide in Muskegon County." The rally will include guest speakers and open dialogue. "They can express their concerns, their hurts and their fears," Sanders said. "Hopefully, pe...

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...