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A Kentucky development group is planning a 180- unit affordable apartment complex in north Baton Rouge on the corner of Airline Highway and Plank Road. LDG Development , which specializes in affordable housing , is still in the planning stages for the project, which is named Commodore Pointe . The Baton Rouge North Economic Development District announced the project at its meeting last night. A spokeswoman for the firm declined to comment, but LDG is not new to Baton Rouge. The firm previously developed the $ 24 million Mallard Crossing apartment complex on Greenwell Springs Road in 2012, as well as the Woodcrest Apartments, an $ 8 million development completed in 2013 on North Lobdell Boulevard . The developer is also set to cut the ribbon on the Port Royal Apartments , another affordable housing complex on Airline Highway, on May 10. In March, LDG announced a 204-unit project on Nicholson Drive and Gardere Lane. Commodore Pointe will feature two four- story residential build...

Austin, Texas, Aug. 22, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Campus Advantage® and Pinecrest have broken ground on a 197-unit, 489- bed ten story student housing community near the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Located on Forbes Avenue, The Bridge on Forbes fronts onto the main retail corridor for students attending both universities and is also located steps away from UPMC – Montefiore and Magee Womens Hospital in the thriving Oakland neighborhood of downtown Pittsburgh. The community will feature fully-furnished studio, 1-bedroom, 2-bedroom and 3-bedroom apartments and offer residents a walkable location to the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University campuses . Each fully-furnished residence will include a living room TV , dishwasher, microwave, high-quality range, quartz countertops, refrigerator, in-unit washer and dryer, cable and high-speed internet, all of which will be included in monthly rental rates . Each indivi...

Developer Carl Dranoff is planning 28 stories of luxury condos at Broad and Pine Streets, instead of the hotel-and-apartment hybrid he previously had in mind for the site, as Center City heads toward a likely near-term glut of both rental housing and hotel guest rooms . The developer’s earlier vision of a 22-story building with 76 hotel rooms and 83 apartments known as the Hyde — to have been developed with the Los Angeles hospitality mogul Sam Nazarian ’s SBE Entertainment Group — has been supplanted by a new proposal with 56 “high-end” condos, Dranoff said in an email Tuesday. Dranoff ultimately decided that the location along the strip of Broad Street south of City Hall, known as Avenue of the Arts, “lends itself best to a condo project,” spokeswoman Barbara Gall Sheehan said in a follow-up email. “We think there is strong demand for high-end/luxury condos in premier neighborhoods, like Avenue of the Arts,” she said. Dranoff said th...