A Birmingham, Ala. builder turns an unsellable suburban commercial lot into fast-selling townhomes with an urban warehouse loft feel.
A boatlike play loft gives a children's bedroom a touch of magic.
Washington, D.C.
Check out four projects that share walls, look great, and may portend housing’s future.
A Denver builder pairs investors and renters at one of its projects.
A boutique, mixed-use loft project offers green living in a gray town. See it in pictures.
Old buildings are reincarnated as hot properties through adaptive reuse.
When Christopher Homes developed plans for the first two mid-rise buildings to be unveiled as C2 Lofts, the thought was to stick its toe in the water and see how buyers would react to a vertical housing type not indigenous to Las Vegas. Let's just say that since then, the builder has taken the...
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The housing market is hurting everyone, and 2007 will surely go down as the year many builders crashed and burned. But there are a few Teflon ventures that have managed to defy the odds and rack up healthy sales in an otherwise weary landscape. And they aren't necessarily using incentives or...
AS ONE OF THE NATION'S most revered bastions of colonial architecture, D.C.'s Georgetown neighborhood is not known for being structurally avant-garde. Except in the case of this boutique mixed-use project, which honors historic precedent and then crowns it with what architect Mark McInturff calls a...
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Facing a market flooded with unsold homes and discount-hunting buyers, Lennar has decided to temporarily stop taking orders at one of its largest and highest-profile projects in southern California - Central Park West in Irvine. The Miami-based builder has also postponed construction of two...
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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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Introducing higher density to an established Houston neighborhood of single-family homes was a gutsy move. But this 144-unit upscale loft project was an instant hit with professional singles and couples craving the option to lock-and-leave. The four-story building adds a contemporary vibe to an...
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As one of the nation's most revered bastions of colonial architecture, D.C.'s Georgetown neighborhood is not known for being structurally avant-garde. Except in the case of this boutique mixed-use project, which honors historic precedent and then crowns it with what architect Mark McInturff calls a...
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These six heavy concrete buildings were operating, albeit inefficiently, as cold storage for a wholesale fruit and vegetable market when architect Pappageorge/Haymes purchased them for condo loft conversions. Located in the South Water Market historic district, the 926 units are within financial...
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The developers of GreenCity Lofts had the unenviable task of dealing with two different zoning jurisdictions to get the project built, but the hard work was well worth it. The 62-unit project now stands as one of the greenest multifamily projects in the San Francisco Bay area.
In the suburbs of Washington, a student housing tower gives new life to a development that's been more than 50 years in the making.
In The Gulch, Nashville's newest redevelopment area, a nifty loft project rises up through an old warehouse.
In this world of cookie-cutter projects and look-alike communities, it's hard to claim the mantle of first. But each of the three mixed-use projects profiled here can make legitimate claims to being unique. Club Casa Mina is the first private-equity residence club—a fractional—to hit Santa Barbara...
This past September, nearly 1,000 prospective buyers turned out for “Toll Advantage Day,” an invitation-only event that Toll Brothers conducted to showcase three mid-rise projects in the New York metro area. A picnic was followed by a tour of Hudson Tea, a 523-unit condo conversion of a former...