Apartment Choice

By Joe Anuta Share on Twitter Tweet Share on Facebook Subscribe Get our stories in your inbox, free. Like TimesLedger on Facebook. The green scaffolding that was erected seven years ago and still covers the tower of Station Square Apartments at the Forest Hills Long Island Rail Road stop is set to come down this year. Martin Restituyo, president of the apartments’ co-op board, said there is finally enough money in the board’s coffers to make all the required repairs to the exterior and remove the scaffolding. The extra money came from cost-saving measures — and a few legal battles. “This year we expect to have the money to finish,” Restituyo said. “Finally we’re on the right track.” But getting there involved calling in some old debts with the help of the courts, according to Restituyo. One tenant, former board President Leonard Lombard , who owns 13 apartments in the building, agreed to pay at least $149,785 in fees to the co-op, according to court documents from a civil lawsuit. ...

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 ...

Despite having already received a zoning change to redevelop a parcel next to the Damen Brown Line station , the owners of the property at 4646 N. Damen Avenue have returned with a new plan which includes the neighboring property at 4650 N. Damen and bumps the density from nine dwelling units to 24, Chicago Cityscape reveals . According to the zoning application, which was introduced to the Chicago City Council in July, the plan comes from developers John and Robert Mangan’s Mangan Builders. The proposed development will replace what are currently two Victorian- era single family residences . According to the zoning application, the developer indicates that the house at 4646 N. Damen was acquired in 2016 while the adjacent property at 4650 N. Damen was purchased way back in 1978. In addition to the 24 apartments planned for the site, the developers are also proposing 4,000 square feet of ground- level retail split into two separate spaces. With its proximity to the Damen Brown Line ...

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...