Is a green-built home in a sea of suburbia truly sustainable?
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California officials reject $25 million grant proposal that would have helped pay for San Francisco’s Hunters Point redevelopment.
Old buildings are reincarnated as hot properties through adaptive reuse.
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Residents reject proposal that would have required more affordable housing.
Peek inside the homes in venerable neighborhoods in and around Raleigh, N.C., and you’ll likely encounter a preponderance of dark-glazed cabinetry, crown molding, tray ceilings, and ordered rooms with walls intersecting at 90-degree angles.
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Any housing venture that promotes public transportation in auto-choked L.A. deserves props; this infill project meets that objective and more.
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Packing a couple thousand graduate students into 11.4 acres is no easy feat, particularly when it involves knitting 840 units of campus housing into a dense urban framework without overshadowing the old-growth neighborhood next door (Westwood Village, circa 1922). Working in partnership with...
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Urban planner Tom Gallas literally wore out a car making the trip from D.C. to Philadelphia as many as three times a week during the planning process for this turnaround project in the City of Brotherly Love. “It took some time to develop a strong bond of trust [between the developer and urban...
Opportunities for urban revitalization seldom come in neat little packages. Consider the turnaround of Providence's downtrodden Smith Hill neighborhood—a five-year effort involving three construction phases, two nonprofit developers, two builders, and a handful of non-contiguous lots to produce a...
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The quaint Northern California town of Campbell has a few claims to fame. It's the original home to e-Bay and the birthplace of fruit cocktail (although the latter remains a topic of some dispute). These days it's getting noticed for an expanding light-rail system and a subsequent boom of...
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Al fresco living spaces and four-car garages are the kinds of goodies one would expect in a large home on a well-endowed parcel, where dirt is no object and the setbacks are generous. Now check this out: a single-family city residence that serves up the same menu on a lot measuring just 40 feet...
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A coalition of builders, Realtors, and farm groups soundly defeated an attempt by an unusual pairing of environmentalists and local trade unions to protect 700,000 acres of unincorporated rural land in eastern and northern San Diego County.
Architect David Furman designed the company's one-of-a-kind Park West Condos in Charlotte, with contemporary lines and some traditional details that were perfect for the site and the market. Although the forms are modern, the brick facade of Lander's Summit/Grotto Condominium townhomes in St. Paul...
"Eventually, [infill] will be 100 percent of what everyone does," predicts Lance Waite, president for Western Pacific Housing in San Diego, a division of D.R. Horton. I've lived in the city my whole life, and I understand the value and economics of city development," says Jim Letchinger, president...
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Seven developers who got creative in overcoming development obstacles.
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Appease the NIMBYs with appropriate designs, and they might not even know you're there."Sites can be tough to find and approvals difficult, but there is a strong demand and little competition," says Michael Lander of the Lander Group, a builder/developer carving out his niche in the Minneapolis...