Apartment Choice

Photo by: John Dixon/The News-Gazette Gameday Spirit , at the corner of Sixth and Green streets in Champaign, will be demolished in June to make way for a 14-story tower, Bankier Apartments' tallest apartment building yet. Bankier has been planning the project since buying the lot 4 years ago . Other Related Content CHAMPAIGN — After 4 years of planning, Bankier Apartments is about to embark on its tallest apartment building yet — a 14-story building at the southwest corner of Sixth and Green streets. The tower will be constructed on the site now occupied by Gameday Spirit , Hair Benders and Beri Frozen Yogurt & Roll Model. The building will have commercial space on the first floor, parking on the second through fourth floors, a lounge for tenants on the fifth floor and apartments on the sixth through 14th floors, said Miriam Booth, managing broker for Bankier Apartments. "We're going to be starting our demolition on June 1," Booth said. The project is expected...

Artist’s impression of Town Square Bintulu Soho Commercial lobby . KUCHING: Ibraco will be launching its new commercial space Town Square Soho Commercial at Sarawak Housing and Real Estate Developer Association (Sheda) Bintulu Home & Property Roadshow at Commerce Square Mall in Bintulu this weekend (Aug 19 and 20). According to a press statement, Town Square Soho Commercial is the commercial podium located below Ibraco’s first Soho (small office, home office) development in Bintulu, Town Square Soho . It consists of one-storey of preferred high- ceiling retail outlets ranging in size from 351 to 1,040 sq feet with just 24 units up for grabs. Town Square Soho Commercial caters to the entrepreneurial needs of small to medium- sized business owners venturing into small easy to run and maintain businesses that take advantage of the 158 units of Town Square Soho apartment units expected for completion in 2019, as well as the newly completed 8- storey office block at Town Squar...

Wheelhouse offices fill about 12,000 square feet at 574 Santa Fe Drive . (Burl Rolett)" /> Wheelhouse offices fill about 12,000 square feet at 574 Santa Fe Drive . (Burl Rolett) A company charged with leasing nearly 100 apartment buildings around Denver is ready to buy a place of its own. Property manager Wheelhouse Apartments , along with its construction and commercial management wings , has moved to the former BillTrust building at Sixth Avenue and Santa Fe Drive with plans of buying a share of the office property in the next month. Wheelhouse owner Zvi Rudawsky said he was looking for a change from the firm’s previous space in a midrise office building at 90 Madison St. “We were in Cherry Creek before, and it was a good building and a good space, but it was much more corporate,” he said. “It worked well for us, but this really is just such a unique space and it fits our culture a lot better.” Wheelhouse Apartments , Wheelhouse Management and Wheelhouse Construction ...

Major apartment schemes set for green light" />CGI of the YPG scheme approved in December 2016 (left) and the new-look plans (right) Proposals to create more than 400 apartments across two major schemes at opposite ends of Liverpool city centre look set to secure the green light. Liverpool City Council 's planning committee will discuss separate residential -led applications by YPG Devon House and Eloquent Global as part of its next meeting on Tuesday, 29 August 2017. YPG Devon House is seeking full planning permission to demolish existing warehouse buildings on an L-shaped site at 33 Devon Street near the Royal Liverpool University Hospital to the north of the city centre to pave the way for a new development. The Smith Young- designed scheme involves creating 218 student studios and two ground- floor commercial units across a new eight- to ten-storey building. The site has been the subject of several student- focused planning applications in recent years, inc...

Drawing the lines in battle over space By Jeff Simms Scenic Hudson is hoping to nearly double the parking at the base of Mount Beacon to ease congestion at one of the Highlands’ most popular hiking spots . Meanwhile, the Beacon City Council and a developer clashed over who should provide spaces for a new 24- unit apartment building on Main Street. Mount Beacon Representatives from Scenic Hudson appeared before the Planning Board earlier this month to discuss plans to expand the lot at the park from 40 spaces to 77. The project, if approved, would be completed this winter, said Meg Rasmussen, a park planner for the nonprofit conservation group . It would involve moving the Howland Avenue lot entrance farther away from Route 9D and turning it into an exit. Cars routinely line Howland on holidays and weekends when the park’s lot is full. An overflow area north of the lot will be off-limits (it was recently determined to be wetlands), while the existing lot will be widened and orien...

With the Wilshire Grand Center open and a 66- story tower recently proposed for Ninth and Figueroa streets, the sky-high action in Downtown Los Angeles continues : Developer Crescent Heights has unveiled plans and renderings for a 70- story South Park building that would have 794 apartments. [Get DTLA stories in our daily email newsletter .] The Miami- based developer is planning the project for the northwest corner of 11th and Olive streets. There would be 12,500 square feet of ground- floor commercial space . A 66-Story Tower at Ninth and Fig? Crescent Heights was drawn to South Park by the neighborhood’s walkability and proximity to the sports and entertainment hub L.A. Live, according to Jerold Neuman, a partner with Liner LLP, which is representing the developer. Crescent Heights purchased the site, which currently houses six one- story commercial buildings , in 2015 for $11.5 million. This would be the company’s first project in Downtown. The budget is estimated at $300 mi...

Draft Scope of Work for the Inwood Rezoning Proposal A map from the Draft Scope of Work indicating red projected development sites (most likely) and blue potential development sites (less likely) by the year 2032. The de Blasio administration predicts its proposed rezoning of Inwood will stimulate the creation of 4,348 new apartments by 2032, of which a portion would be rent-restricted under the city’s mandatory inclusionary housing policy , according to a city document released last Friday. The rezoning is also expected to create 1,135,032 square feet of commercial space, 472,685 square feet of community facility space , and result in a loss of 50,614 square feet of industrial space. To give a sense of the scale, there are more apartments anticipated in the East New York rezoning area , but fewer in the downtown Far Rockaway rezoning area . The document in question is the rezoning’s Draft Scope of Work, which describes the details of the proposal, projects the rezoning’s develop...

July 21, 2002 | By Debra Pressey, The Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette. Knight Ridder/Tribune. CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Leon Bankier has been in the business of developing student apartments in Champaign-Urbana for 40 years, and his newest project will place a nine- story building near the western gateway to Campustown. The Bankier project is under construction at the northeast corner of Second and Green streets, and is set for completion in August 2003. Costing about $9.5 million, it will include two levels of underground parking, 4,000 square feet of commercial space for lease on the first floor, and 60 apartments on the second through seventh floors. Four of the apartments will be one-bedroom units, and the rest will have four bedrooms. Champaign- based Bankier Apartments already serves more than 900 tenants in the campus area, but needs more four-bedroom units in its inventory to fill demand, said Miriam Booth, the company's managing broker. Plus, the company couldn't resist the l...

A developer has plans to build a new 300-plus unit apartment complex with commercial space on Ventura Boulevard in Sherman Oaks, according to a marketing brochure by commercial brokerage CBRE Group Inc. The project would involve constructing 312 new apartments at 14801 to 14827 Ventura Blvd. between Kester and Willis avenues in two, five- story buildings that will also feature retail, restaurants and underground parking. CBRE is marketing between 15,000 and 22,000 square feet of retail space for lease out of a total of about 37, 000 square feet planned for retail and restaurant tenants. The ground-floor tenants would be below apartments and above underground parking, according to the firm’s brochure on the project. The site is located at the northwest corner of Ventura Boulevard and Willis Avenue and is about three-quarters of a mile from the Sherman Oaks Galleria . Currently, the Sherman Oaks Chamber of Commerce leases space in the larger of two older office buildings that now...

The Edmond City Council this week voted 3-1 with one abstention favoring the commercial site plan for The Campbell, to be located north of Campbell, west of Jackson and south of Edwards. Councilwoman Elizabeth Waner cast the no vote and Councilwoman Victoria Caldwell abstained from voting. Variances include : • 10' front yard setback variances on Campbell and Edwards; • Parking requirement to include a 25 percent exemption for not only the non- residential square footage of the project but also the multi-family units in the project; and • Sign variance for blade sign to extend over the right-of-way. Two buildings with streetscaping will be constructed with shared parking between them. Facing Edwards will be building A, a 39,954 square foot 3- story building housing with 36 apartments, said Randy Entz, city planner. Building B, a 43,203 square foot four- story building facing Campbell , will have retail/restaurant uses on the first floor, apartments and offices on the second...

Shares 355 By Amy Wenk and Maria Saporta As published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on August 4, 2017 An Atlanta developer is planning an innovative co-working space along one of Atlanta’s most historic streets — a project that’s already lured high- profile investors including top Home Depot executives . Historic preservation developer Gene Kansas in front of the 135 Auburn Ave. building, which he and a group of investors have acquired to turn into a “Constellations” project on the second floor (Photo by Maria Saporta) Gene Kansas Commercial Real Estate plans to open Constellations, a $2 million project that will offer “culturally-inspired” workspace with the hope of bringing together great minds who care about making a difference in the city. It’s coming to the second floor of the circa-1910 former Southern School Book Depository at 135 Auburn Ave., a building that was designed by famed Atlanta architect Neel Reid . Constellations will replace the Southern Education Foundati...

Consider it an outside the park home run. The owner of the South Bend Cubs has plans to build 120 apartments just outside the fence at Four Winds Field. “You’re looking at two buildings that kind of begin in centerfield and them move toward the stadium and then you’re going to have more of those buildings extending to the right and kind of left field areas that will be able to look in, of course, the analogy is kind of a Wrigley Ville type feel to it,” said South Bend’s Acting Direct of the Community Investment Department , Brian Pawlowski. Some of the buildings will even feature signature rooftop seating . “And those spaces you know in right and left field are envisioned as not just private space. There will be availability for public space as well, to kind of have events on that rooftop area to look in and things like that,” Pawlowski said. Plans call for four buildings in all. Each will be three or four stories tall. The project would als...

A busy intersection in Shaker Heights is being transformed through the redevelopment of the Warrensville- Van Aken business district . The former Van Aken Center will connect with nearby Shaker Plaza to create the Van Aken District , a new downtown and community- gathering place for the city. Phase one of the $97.2 million project, under construction near the intersection of Warrensville Center Road and Van Aken and Chagrin boulevards, is due to be completed next summer. “There really has been nothing like this in Shaker Heights,” said Jack Bialosky Jr ., senior and managing principal of Bialosky Cleveland, the architectural firm responsible for planning the project and designing most of the buildings in phase one. “It’s a mixed-use, urban development which will really provide public space for the community, all organized around a central triangular park . “It’s going to be a place where the community can come, shop, dine and recreate. It will be a beautifully scaled, contained s...