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Woodcrest Country Club will be preserved in perpetuity under a deal reached between owners and town officials . (Photo: JOHN ZIOMEK/Courier-Post) Story Highlights The Short Hills complex, to be made up entirely of affordable units , would be developed by Fair Share Housing Center , a Cherry Hill- based advocacy center for affordable housing . CHERRY HILL – A deal to preserve Woodcrest Country Club could put more than 800 apartments on commercial sites on the township's west side, including the current headquarters of Subaru of America. The plan, which needs a judge's approval, would include from 90 to 124 units for people with low and moderate incomes — part of an agreement to settle a 30- year court fight over Cherry Hill's affordable-housing obligation. Township officials have said the agreement would bar future development at the 180- acre country club . The club's owner, Cherry Hill Land Associates , had sued the township in an effort to build an 844- unit apa...

Summit Ridge luxury apartment development on River Road in Allentown" alt="Construction has resumed at the Summit Ridge luxury apartment development on River Road in Allentown" /> Construction has resumed at the Summit Ridge luxury apartment development … (MICHAEL KUBEL, THE MORNING…) April 30, 2013 | By Peter Hall, Of The Morning Call Nearly three years after construction stalled at the Summit Ridge Apartments on Allentown's east side, a New Jersey real estate firm has picked up where the project's bankrupt developer left off. After foreclosing on the property and winning an $8.3 million verdict in Lehigh County Court , Diversified Realty Associates of Summit, N.J., aims to complete the luxury apartment buildings by the end of the year. The project's hiatus, which left some residents living amid an abandoned construction site , was the result of former developer David Connolly 's financial meltdown that led federal prosecutors to charge him l...

San Francisco is celebrating the Summer of Love’s 50th anniversary. Most of the celebrants are probably dead and buried by now, especially its high priests like Allen Ginsburg who passed into Eternity in the dingy East Village , Timothy Leary, Jerry Garcia, Emmet Grogan of the Diggers (remember them). In truth, there hasn’t been much of a to-do about the historic occasion. Today’s “with it” residents of the Bay Area live in the moment. Vintage refers to their last but one smart phone; antique is their pre-updated software from Microsoft. The “Summer Of Love” – if they can recognize the name at all – belongs to the Neolithic Age or whenever it was that the skies were filled with flying dinosaurs instead of Amazon delivery drones . Only the De Young Museum has done its civic duty in bowing to the past. A mile away from the Haight-Ashby, they have organized a nostalgic exhibition that features the vivid psychedelic posters from Bill Graham’s Fillmore Ballroom concerts and the accoutre...