The 234 Apartment

As you do more banking by smartphone, that bank branch you used to visit may soon turn into a restaurant, a day care center or even a condo tower. After a branch building boom a decade or so ago, banks are closing offices by the thousands as more of their customers bank online . They're leaving behind space ready to be transformed into something else, whether an urban storefront or a free- standing brick building with a drive-thru in the suburbs. "If the real estate is strong, any number of things can happen to the property," says Kim McGuire, senior vice president in the Chicago office of CBRE. It's a problem or an opportunity, depending on your perspective, that will be here for a while. Banks operate about 89,300 branches in the United States today , down 8 percent over the past decade, according to Chicago- based real estate firm Jones Lang LaSalle . JLL expects an additional 20 percent drop over the next decade. In the Chicago area, the number of branches d...

A residential community with 250 town homes and 458 single-family houses is slated for Howell Branch Road in south Seminole County . Meritage Homes Corporation bought more than 200 acres on Howell Branch Road and east of Semoran Boulevard to develop a community being called Hawk’s Crest. The purchase price was about $40 million, property records show . New homes will have 1,600 to 5,200 square feet with three to six bedrooms. Prices are expected to range from $260,000 to $635,000 with sales starting in late 2018 and closings planned for early 2019, according to the company. South I-Drive acreage sells Windermere resident Alessandro Da Silva Oliveria purchased 9 acres of vacant land on South International Drive , Orlando, from the Southeastern Conference Association of Seventh Day Adventists Inc. for $950,000. The religious nonprofit plans to reinvest the proceeds to build a church at an undetermined Orlando location , according to a news release. NAI Realvest Partner Paul P. ...

CLD Engineers acquired by Conn. firm, Hoefle joins Two International Group … and more By NHBR Staff Published: August 9, 2017 Shown at the official ribbon-cutting to mark the opening of the NH Liquor Commission ’s newest Liquor & Wine Outlet in Warner are, from left: T.A. Demoulas of Market Basket; David Swisher, manager of the Warner NH Liquor & Wine Outlet; Nicole Brassard Jordan , NHLC’s director of marketing; Executive Councilor Andru Volinksy ; John Matthews of Market Basket; Arthur Demoulas, CEO and Market Basket; NHLC Deputy Commissioner Michael Milligan ; NHLC Chairman Joseph Mollica ; former Warner Selectman David Hartman ; Tony Maiola, former NHLC commissioner ; former NH Rep. David Karrick; NH Rep. Clyde Carson; and David St. Hilaire, NHLC’s chief operating officer . Opera North has received a $150,000 grant from the Northern Border Regional Commission to renovate the main house on Blow-Me-Down Farm, across from the Saint- Gaudens National Historic Site in Concord....

“It’s kind of in my bloodline,” said Jack Barr. Contests, events & more from Tyee and select partners His great-grandfather, grandfather, and father were all Freemasons. Barr followed in their footsteps, and is the president of the Vancouver Masonic Centre Association today . As political scientist Robert Putnam noted in his famous work Bowling Alone , community groups like the Freemasons have been declining for the last few decades. Religious groups like the Roman Catholic Knights of Columbus, military groups like Legions, service clubs like Rotary and Kiwanis, even youth scouting groups and bowling leagues have seen participation plummet. Some longtime churches have also seen congregations shrink dramatically . Barr says freemasonry’s most recent heyday was the late-1960s and early-1970s. But the organizations are still around, and many own property. A number of groups are facing the question of what to do with their land and buildings as needs change, along with their abili...

The Riveter: This one was my favorite. Steve Korn S eattle has the fourth-fastest- growing freelance economy in the country, which explains why there are almost as many coworking spaces opening up as luxury apartment buildings . Since I'll never be able to afford a luxury apartment , I thought maybe I can at least work at a place where the sink actually drains and the coffee is always fresh. So I checked out some coworking spaces and brought my laptop with me. I didn't tell them I was coming. I wanted to see what these places were like inside, without any PR hoopla. Clearly, we are living in the age of the remote worker. By 2020, 40 percent of the US workforce will be freelancers, temps, independent contractors, or "solopreneurs," according to a 2010 study by Intuit. According to the 2017 Global Coworking Survey , nearly 1. 2 million people worldwide will have tried coworking by the end of next year, and around 14, 000 coworking spaces will be in operation. Sixt...