Apartment Choice

What is a planned community? It's a housing development where the homes, roads, stores and other features are carefully designed and orchestrated to make living there as convenient and enjoyable as can be. For instance: Shopping centers may be deliberately situated within walking distance of planned community homes , which are typically attached—condos, townhouses, apartments—to make travel by foot manageable. Trees and flowers are planted alongside most streets, along with hiking/biking trails. High-speed commuter rails whisk workers to nearby urban centers  for their 9-to-5 jobs. There may even be village-wide Wi-Fi, to boot. Contrast this with the ad hoc way communities are usually built: In many cases, a developer just plunks down row housing on a parcel of land nowhere near commercial districts, which means you'll have to always grab your car keys for a carton of milk. Sometimes, luck or some modicum of forethought helps these neighborhoods turn out OK, but planned communi...

Full Circle Communities is bringing much- needed affordable senior housing to Richmond, Ill. Creekview Apartments, a 25-unit community, opened its doors to low-income seniors 55 and older. Novak Construction served as the general contractor of the $ 6 million project . Located at 5615 Liberty St., the new 22,000-square- foot community features one- and two-bedroom apartments for $866 and $1,039, respectively. Property amenities include a computer lab, library, community room and an on- site property management office . Full Circle Communities also provides concierge amenities, including transportation services , case management , medical screenings and health and fitness resources. A natural wetlands buffer and generous landscaping with walking trails provide for an environmentally-friendly outdoor setting ENERGY STAR Certification The three-story facility is ENERGY STAR Certified and features include high -efficiency heating, cooling and ventilation systems , comprehensive wat...

There were many aspects of the four- site Capitol Hill transit - oriented development the East Design Review Board liked, but confidence was not high enough to clear it for permitting on Wednesday. Situated above the light rail station , the transit- oriented development will be Capitol Hill’s largest construction project to date, creating more than 400 apartment units in a superblock that borders Broadway , 10th Avenue, East John Street and East Denny Way. Each of the four buildings will be seven stories. Three will provide around 20 percent of their apartment units at affordable levels, while the Capitol Hill Housing B-North site will include 110 units at affordability rates of 30-60 percent of the area median income . The East Design Review Board ’s last assessment of the development, which is being led by Portland- based Gerding Edlen Development (GED), was in December. Board members agreed developers responded to the guidance provided at that time, but didn’t feel every r...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - 923 Folsom is redefining city living . The recently completed apartment building offers renters the finishes a discerning buyer would require, along with amenities previously reserved for much larger buildings — all in a community of only 115 rental residences ."The result is a boutique rental community offering the quality, comfort and sense of home often found only in condominiums, with thoughtful shared spaces that substantially extend the walls of your well-designed residence," said Billie LaBelle, Vice President of Operations for Alliance Residential Company , which professionally manages the community. " 923 Folsom leaves the need to buy a house at the door." Every emphasis is given to cultivating an elevated resident experience . It starts with the double-height, feature bookcase that sets the tone for the community as you enter and flows throughout the many impressive spaces that add to each resident's livable, usable square f...

When visitors approach one of the two new affinity houses opening on the Bucknell University campus this semester, they'll cross an irregularly shaped section of pavement. Instead of proceeding straight from the front door to the road, the pathway forks at a 60-degree angle and meets the sidewalk to inscribe an equilateral triangle — or the Greek letter delta — in the concrete. It's a small detail that didn't cost extra to install, but will go a long way to making the building feel like home to its eventual occupants. The house at 125 Strohecker Farm Lane is planned to host the Delta Upsilon fraternity , which is recolonizing, and contains other architectural nods to the chapter's former house next to Bertrand Library. The two-story portico above the entryway replicates that found on the former DU house, as does the cherry wood trim on the building's first floor. Now known as Hildreth-Mirza Hall, the former DU house was acquired by the University in 2005 and ...

Align Real Estate completed 923 Folsom, a boutique luxury apartment building in the SoMa arts and cultural district of San Francisco. The nine- story building managed by Alliance Residential Co. offers 115 residences and includes 1,900 square feet of retail. Trumark Urban purchased the property in 2012 and sold it once the entitlement process was complete. The company has also recently completed a 76- unit luxury conversion , The Pacific, which is around two miles away. Construction on 923 Folsom started in 2015, with a budget of $48.7 million, according to Cahill Contractors. Condo-feel “The result is a boutique rental community offering the quality, comfort and sense of home often found only in condominiums, with thoughtful shared spaces that substantially extend the walls of your well-designed residence,” said Billie LaBelle, vice president of operations for Alliance Residential Co., in prepared remarks. “ 923 Folsom leaves the need to buy a house at the door.” Designed by S...

Driving into the city on I-95, just before the exit for 676, a steadily-rotating collection of Visit Philly billboards welcomes visitors to the city. " Run the steps like nobody's watching ," reads one, accompanied by a black-and-white photo of a dancer in mid-leap at the top of the steps at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. " There's no jawn like home ," reads another, a sunset photo of the Benjamin Franklin Bridge floating above the visitor's bureau's cutesy " With Love, Philadelphia xoxo signature along the bottom." Visit Philly recently held a contest for residents of Philadelphia to create their own billboard to shuffle into the rotation, and although the winner has already been selected, you can still create-your-own 'billboard' on the Write-A-Billboard app, to share with friends and family on social media (albeit on a slightly smaller scale ). Just because Renters Week has gone by doesn't mean we can't have a litt...

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...