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Image 1 of / 1 Caption Close Image 1 of 1 MARK ZARETSKY / HEARST CONNECTICUT MEDIA Officials from the city of West Haven, developer The Acorn Group and architect Svigals + Partners converse just prior to Thursday’s ribbon-cutting to celebrate completion of The Atwood, a 67-unit, four-story, mixed-use apartment and commercial building on Route 1. less MARK ZARETSKY / HEARST CONNECTICUT MEDIA Officials from the city of West Haven, developer The Acorn Group and architect Svigals + Partners converse just prior to Thursday’s ribbon-cutting to celebrate ... more Atwood development officially declared open in West Haven Back to Gallery WEST HAVEN >> Some residents already had moved in to The Atwood, a 67-unit, four-story, mixed-use apartment and commercial building on Route 1 — the first completed component of The Acorn Group’s ambitious University Commons project — when officials gathered Thursday to cut a celebratory ribbon to declare it open. They began moving in on Aug. 1. Addi...

Written by Michael P. Walsh WEST HAVEN, CT — Clasping a pair of oversize scissors, Mayor Edward M. O’Brien cut the ceremonial ribbon Thursday with Acorn Group founder David A. Beckerman and Vice President Gary S. Letendre to mark the grand opening of Acorn’s The Atwood, an $18 million apartment and commercial development at 222 Boston Post Road aimed at making the neighborhood around the Allingtown Green a destination. As many of the new building’s residents, all students of the nearby University of New Haven, moved into their new digs, O’Brien touted The Atwood’s highly anticipated opening as “one example of how we are transforming West Haven through economic development .” “This area is transforming before our eyes,” O’Brien told a group of more than a dozen city officials and project executives moments before the afternoon ribbon -cutting, which also included Jay Brotman , managing partner of the New Haven architectural firm Svigals + Partners, state Rep. Michael A. DiMass...

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — A man was killed overnight at the Forest Hills Apartments on Forest City Road . Orange County sheriff spokesman Jeff Williamson said the victim is 35-year-old Julio Velez. Advertisement Get breaking news alerts sent to your email Williamson said Velez, who did not live at the apartments, was found dead around 6:30 a.m. Sunday near his gray 2006 Chevy Impala , in the parking lot of the apartments, which are on State Road 434 between Kennedy Boulevard and Riverside Park Road . A neighbor found the body and called 911. "In the parking spot, his door was open and his body was outside,” said visitor Jose Velez . "I didn't know if he was asleep or dead or what." Neighbors describe a bloody scene.  Investigators were using mulch to clean up the crime scene. "(One neighbor) couldn't go to work because the car was on. She thought it was somebody cleaning the car, and then when she went to check she saw the body,” said resident Madiline Lallav...

click to enlarge Wake County Housing Authority - THOMAS GOLDSMITH" /> Thomas Goldsmith Burnetta Smith, CEO of Wake County Housing Authority Residents of Forest Hills Apartments in Garner appeared March 20 with little fanfare to tell Wake County commissioners their story: they’d received short notice that they’d have to pay much higher rents and/or move out of the place that had long been home to many of them. By Wednesday night, ten days later, dozens of Forest Hills residents , led by community activist Octavia Rainey , drew a notable crowd to a meeting in a Garner church on the issue. And action at the federal and local level was underway to help residents who had been dismayed by their imminent removal. “To have done us this way was inhumane to us,” sixteen- year Forest Hills resident Janice Williams said during the meeting. Those who showed up included an aide to U.S. Representative David Price , six of the seven Wake County commission...

MORTGAGES Selected mortgages filed with Kent County Register of Deeds SCHONDELMAYER, Chad et al, Lake Michigan Credit Union , Crystal Springs Plat No. 3, Lot 136, $315,875 KIRBY, Catherine J. et al, Quicken Loans, Walker, 2-7-12, $245,600 DAY, Eric G. et al, ChoiceOne Bank, Condo-Knockadoon Condominiums, $316,033 LOWE, Nathan et al, AmeriFirst Financial Corp ., Eastwood Plat, Lot 22, $223,250 KARCZEWSKI, Scott et al, Lake Michigan Credit Union , Grattan Twp., 17-8-9, $274,500 HAGA, Scott et al, Mercantile Bank Of Michigan, Princeton Estates No. 16, Lot 618, $219,600 SCHMIDT, Nancy A. et al, Finance Of America Reverse, Apple Valley Plat No. 3, Lot 31, $324,000 MULLINS, Lawrence H. et al, Independent Bank, Cascade Twp., 20-6-10, $256,410 COXON, Brad et al, ChoiceOne Bank, Solon Twp., 15-10-11, $260,000 3015 DORMAX LLC, Economic Development Foundation , Grand Rapids Gravel Industrial Park No. 2, Lot 37, $225,000 FASSETT, Brennan et al, Quicken Loans, Vergennes Twp., 31-7-9, $368,475 S...