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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...

On Wednesday morning the owners, staff, development partners and residents of Apple Hill Apartments joined together to celebrate the completion of Jackson’s newly rehabilitated apartment community . On Wednesday, August 16, The Provident Companies hosted an open house with light refreshments to symbolize the end of the project. During the opening house, remarks were given by The Provident Company Vice President Robert Bender , USDA Rural Development representative Brent Warren , Jackson City Councilman Jon Hensler , Ohio Capital Corporation for Housing representative John Kircher , Ohio Housing Finance Agency representative Diane Alecusan , Jackson- Vinton Community Action Executive Director Cheryl Thiessen , Park National Bank representative Stan Uchida , Diana Swack and Bernard Swack both with The Provident Company . “ Apple Hill Apartments is an example of the type of safe, decent and affordable housing that households need as a necessary building block for li...

CORTE MADERA, Calif. (KGO) -- Corte Madera's Town Council will hear a report updating the reconstruction of a brand new and controversial apartment complex , Tam Ridge Residences . Its 180 units should have opened a year and a half ago, but that was before inspections revealed water leaks and wood rot that forced MacFarlane Partners LLC to tear much of it apart, and build it again. MacFarlane's legal case against the original contractor has led to a multi- million dollar lawsuit . A company spokesperson shared little regarding the cost of this project, but said it is moving along and expects to begin renting in June. Analysts expect rents in the $3,000 to $5,000 per month range. Corte Madera approved the project after the Association of Bay Area Governments told the city it needed more high density housing . It was controversial from the start, sparking protests about the architecture and additional traffic. Project Manager Phil Roy showed how some 240 workmen have rip...

INDUSTRY GE delays opening of new building in Fort Point General Electric Co. has pushed back the expected opening of its new building overlooking Fort Point Channel by two years after deciding to break the headquarters project into two phases. GE vice president Ann Klee said in a memo Tuesday to Boston employees that executives expect the 12- story building , dubbed South Point , to open in mid-2021, compared with an earlier goal of 2019. Two older brick buildings , together dubbed North Point , will be renovated first, with the aim of opening them in the first half of 2019. GE has already started work on the two old buildings, originally part of a Necco candy manufacturing complex . But construction on the new building was supposed to happen concurrently with much of the Necco renovations. Now, GE will finish the Necco buildings and move employees into them before starting construction of the new building. GE expects it will take 24 months to complete the new structure. The ann...

THE development of a $ 100 million senior residential care facility in Coffs Harbour has been approved. At a Northern Joint Regional Planning Panel public determination meeting the panel voted in favour of the Bachrach Naumburger Group development . The development will include a 120 bed care facility , 183 self-contained dwellings and a community centre on the corner of Arthur and York Sts. Concerns were raised over flooding, single road access and building height but most of the panel thought these issues had been addressed in plans. The development was voted for 3-1. Bachrach Naumburger Group general manager Steve Gooley said he was always confident in getting the application through. "At the moment there is significant waiting lists to get into nursing homes in Coffs Harbour and there is very limited accommodation for retirement living,” Mr Gooley said. He said the project would create more than 200 jobs which would mostly be locally sourced. Mr Gooley said construction s...

Buy Photo The Ann Arbor City Apartments in Ann Arbor. Ann Arbor is seeing a building boom of apartments and condos for the last couple of years that continues to ramp up. (Photo: Romain Blanquart/ Detroit Free Press ) Buy Photo An unprecedented building boom of apartment high -rises and condos has made construction cranes a lingering fixture of the Ann Arbor skyline . No fewer than six cranes hovered over downtown last week as private developers raced to erect more luxury student and post-collegiate housing within walking distance to University of Michigan classrooms. The half- dozen residential projects that are under construction or slated to begin are the latest round in a boom that has been under way for at least three years and is permanently altering the city's housing situation. Many of the current and earlier developments specifically cater to U-M students, offering additional near- campus living options aside from blocks of grubby old houses. Other projects have ta...

As Carmel’s one- time mayor Clint Eastwood began building a legendary film career celebrating models of American male rectitude , he often presented himself as the stalwart family man . But in recent years, even Eastwood admitted that this image didn’t always match reality. Biographies and other accounts portray him as a serial philander who conducted numerous affairs during his 31-year first marriage and in his subsequent relationships. He also fathered at least seven children with five different women. As the now 87-year-old Eastwood prepares to direct his latest film, “The 15:17 to Paris,” one of his affairs has popped up as a new storyline in the popular Hollywood history podcast “You Must Remember This.” The podcast currently focuses on the life and times of one of the women Eastwood reportedly bedded : actress Jean Seberg . If you don’t know Seberg, she’s a screen icon in her own right — but one who died tragically by suicide at age 40 in 1979. She’s most famous as the blonde...

Bretton Hall is one of the buildings that was sold. ( Google Maps photo ) Progress and gentrification in Anywhere USA can often spell doom for low-income residents. Near the Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, tenants worry about being pushed out. Louis Aguilar of The Detroit News reports : Three Cass Corridor apartment buildings near Little Caesars Arena are part of an $8. 1 million sale involving a mysterious buyer that has low-income residents of the apartments wondering if they will be pushed out of the homes as the project evolves, The Detroit News has learned. The buildings are one block west of the $862.9 million sports and entertainment complex opening in less than three weeks. For several years now, the arena complex has sparked multimillion-dollar sales of property in a neighborhood that’s been blighted for decades. The buildings, on the 400 block of Henry, contain about 95 units and were sold in a single $8.1 m...