Apartment Choice

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...

A multi- story affordable housing complex built on top of a Wal-Mart or Raley’s … or Trader Joe’s for that matter. And located on land once earmarked for a Costco store at the PlacerCountyGovernmentCenter in North Auburn? PlacerCounty supervisors provided the raw materials for such a vision during a wide-ranging discussion on affordable options this week during an update on housing needs. Supervisor Kirk Uhler of Granite Bay was the chief proponent of a closer look at melding housing and commercial development , not specifying a particular location for a multi- story structure but name-checking Raley’s and Walmart. “How many more apartment units going an additional one, two or three stories above the Walmart ceiling height … could you put on that piece of dirt?” Uhler asked. “You’ve now got two utilizations of the same square foot – the commercial floor area and the residential above it.” The result could be more walkable commercial areas and better locations for transit, he s...

Developers want to build apartments on a vacant plot of land off Ann Arbor-Saline Road, which was once planned to be a motel and restaurant building. Lizzy Alfs | AnnArbor.com Pittsfield Township Planning Commission will consider plans Thursday night for a proposed apartment complex behind the Oak Valley Centre on Ann Arbor-Saline Road. The Oak Valley Apartments project — proposed for a vacant piece of land behind the northern portion of the shopping center anchored by Target — calls to construct 16 buildings with 192 total apartment units . The plans were submitted to the township in late 2012 by a group of business partners who also own the northern section of the shopping center. Planning Commission considered the plans in March and asked the developers to make several changes, including reorienting two buildings on the site to better protect a wetland. A concept image for the proposed Oak Valley Apartments on Ann Arbor-Saline Road. Alexander V. Bogaerts & Associates Th...

Woodside Village apartments ." width="714" height="473" /> Residents have begin moving in to the Woodside Village apartments . The Woodside Village development in Westwood has begun moving in its first residential tenants. Westwood officials said last week that eight or nine tenants have moved into the apartments at Rainbow Blvd. and 47th Place and that about one-third of the apartments have their temporary occupancy permits . The first phase of the development has studio, one, two and three-bedroom apartments in different arrangements and different amounts of square footage. Prices range from $1,339 per month for a 593 square foot studio apartment to $2,812 for a 1, 512 square foot three bedroom. The first phase of the development has 91 apartments. A second phase, across 47th Place, will add more than 200 more residential units to the mix along with additional retail. The second phase will follow renovations to the Woodside Health and Tennis Club. An av...

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...

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...

IN THE 1960s and ’70s, long before helicoptering emerged as a parenting style, adults had far less interest in looming over their children, frequently urging them to go play outside or downstairs. The netherworld to which these parents pointed was usually a recreation room or finished basement, clad insipidly in wood-veneer paneling and linoleum. Furnishings typically included a saggy sofa, a scratched ping-pong table and a built-in bar never used for mixing drinks; instead, the kids commandeered it as a make-believe store or a stage for puppet shows. Not even Dad’s novelty naked- lady martini stirrers lured him down once the children moved in. And the closest Mom got was to stand at the top of stairs and yell, “Supper’s ready! Wash your hands!” Perhaps these ratty rec rooms weren ’t worthy of House Beautiful, but the stints of physical distance they offered parents and offspring arguably benefited both in ways today’s airy cathedral-ceiling’d great rooms can’t. These days, peopl...