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2525 El Camino Real Senior Apartments in Santa Clara Celebrates Groundbreaking Ceremony -- Anne Monaghan / Monaghan Communications

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Designed by KTGY Group, 2525 El Camino Real Senior Apartments , a development by ROEM Corporation , in collaboration with Pacific Housing , Inc. and the City of Santa Clara, broke ground on a new affordable apartment community for low income seniors . 2525 El Camino Real Senior Apartments in Santa Clara, CA" title=" 2525 El Camino Real Senior Apartments in Santa Clara, CA" width="154" height="87" class="im2" /> 2525 El Camino Real Senior Apartments in Santa Clara, CA June 21, 2012 - PRLog -- SANTA CLARA, CA - On Wednesday, June 20, 2012, Santa Clara broke ground on 2525 El Camino Real Senior Apartments , a development by ROEM Corporation , in collaboration with Pacific Housing , Inc. and the City of Santa Clara. The groundbreaking ceremony began at 2:00 p.m. at 2525 El Camino Real , Santa Clara, California 95050 (cross streets: El Camino Real and Buchanan Drive). " Providing affordable housing for our community is a very im...

Trees in Peachtree Hills on chopping block while developer gets easement through park

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Shares 372 By Maria Saporta First in a multi-part series about Atlanta’s precious tree canopy Hundreds and hundreds of trees will be cut down in the Peachtree Hills community as a result of two developments currently being proposed. Ashton Woods – an ironic name for the developer – is planning to clear cut a 4-acre parcel next to Peachtree Hills Park ­– removing a total of 148 trees. Peachtree Hills " /> A look at the trees that will be cut down as part of the easement through the park (Photo: Peachtree Hills ) Across Peachtree Hills Avenue , Isakson Living will be developing a residential community on 20 acres of land that used to house the a modern- style Peachtree Hills Apartments , which were built in 1938 and were demolished in 2008. The property has been vacant – with the exception of the grand trees that have shaded the area for decades. Brian Thomas, vice president of construction of Isakson Living, wrote in an email that “the existing tree canopy has been and will...

think rooftop vegie patches and beehives

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The long retail spine of Sydney Road, Brunswick, just north of Melbourne's CBD, was once a prosperous trading outpost on the way to the goldfields. These days it's a bohemian mix of variety stores, op shops, halal butchers and Lebanese bakeries. Take a side street to the west, however, and a different picture emerges. Sandwiched between Sydney Road and the Upfield train line is an area undergoing rapid and widespread transformation. Light industry is fast being replaced by mid- rise apartment buildings , their inhabitants attracted by the short commute into town and cheaper prices than in the city's south-east. The quality of these units is, on the whole, depressingly bad; think poor ventilation and bedrooms that "borrow" natural light (a weasel word for being dark and windowless). The occasional jazzy façade tries feebly to make up for otherwise cheap construction amid a chorus of greys. At ground level, carpark roller doors alternate with mean pocket garden...