The 234 Apartment

“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...

By Sabra Ayres August, 3, 2017 Ksenia Belayeva and Igor Zaitsev sit at their kitchen inside an apartment they are sharing in St. Petersburg, Russia. (Vasiliy Kolotilov / For The Times) By the time Marina Maslova was born in the six- room communal apartment at 65 Bolshoi Prospect, an entire generation had lived there and come of age since the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. Maslova still lives in the room where she was born 61 years ago , and she remembers the dozens of families that have walked down its twisting, dark hallways and lived in its crowded rooms during her life. It was here that the guests at her wedding party in the 1970s moved the furniture aside to make room to dance in the 345-square-foot room she shared with her new husband, her parents and her grandmother. And it was here, in a small room just off the kitchen, where a 16-year-old boy hanged himself with his belt in the early 1960s after his parents, with whom he shared the cupboard-size space, disappeared. Both the...

Copyright © 2015 Albuquerque Journal Platinum Apartments construction project employs a 60-foot- high building crane to lift prefabricated framing panels into place. Building cranes on an urban skyline are a common sign that a city is experiencing redevelopment. (Adolphe Pierre-Louis/Albuquerque Journal)" width="265" height="400" /> The Platinum Apartments construction project employs a 60-foot- high building crane to lift prefabricated framing panels into place. Building cranes on an urban skyline are a common sign that a city is experiencing redevelopment. (Adolphe Pierre-Louis/Albuquerque Journal) Optimism was in the air in early 2007 when preliminary plans got underway for a four- story housing project a block south of Central Avenue at the east end of Nob Hill. “Over the next decade, you’re going to see the entire landscape in that area change,” Chicago- based developer Rick Goldman told the Journal in an article from February of that year. Go...

Along Florida's Turnpike in South Miami -Dade, where potato farms and fields of row crops stretched all the way to the visible horizon at the time when Hurricane Andrew struck , it’s virtually all rows of close-packed houses and townhomes today. Now the unavoidable noise walls are going up to forever block vistas once among the most beguiling in South Florida. Along South Dixie Highway , where scraggly lots, small farm fields and vegetable- and fruit-packing houses once mixed it up with used-car lots and budget motels, the landscape is a cornucopia of strip malls, Publix and Wal-Mart stores and fast- food chain restaurants . And everywhere there is traffic, backed up one way in the morning, when three-quarters of all employed adults in South Miami - Dade head north to downtown Miami , Coral Gables or even Doral to work, and the other way when they drive back home in the evening. Lightning struck as thunderstorms swept through the ruins of Homestead in the days after Hurricane...

BERKELEY, CA - Archstone, a leader in apartment investment and operations, today announced the start of construction on its first apartment community in Berkeley, Calif. The 94- unit apartment community , Archstone Berkeley on Addison, will be located at the corner of Third and Addison, just blocks from the Berkeley Marina and the San Francisco Bay . The apartment community ’s location offers easy access to a vast array of professional jobs, shopping destinations , dining options and public transportation. “Berkeley is an incredible city and an excellent fit for an Archstone apartment community . It is a highly desirable place to live, has limited land on which to build new housing and has a strong, diversified economy,” said Amir Massih, Archstone’s group vice president of development for the San Francisco Bay Area . “We’re excited about starting this project and look forward to providing an outstanding addition to the neighborhood and for our future residents.” ...

BMW’s flagship Southbank site is on the international developer market . TWIN towers could rise above BMW’s flagship Melbourne showroom , with a $100 million-plus deal around the corner for the luxury car brand ’s prominent Southbank site . Local and international developers are putting together huge offers for the 6191sq m corner property at 58 Southbank Blvd before a CBRE campaign hits the brakes next month. Architecture juggernauts Fender Katsalidis have designed a plan for the triple-fronted City Rd corner site, comprising dual buildings with more than 800 apartments, 600 hotel rooms and 10,000sq m of retail space joined by a sky bridge. The Karl Fender and Nonda Katsalidis -led firm is responsible for some of the city’s most iconic buildings, including the Eureka Tower and the under construction Australia 108 nearby , which will claim the title for Melbourne’s tallest building at 312 metres when completed. RELATED: Melbourne Square , Southbank, ’vertical village’ gets plan...

Crews from Overland Park and Leawood Fire Departments were called to a building fire in the 11800 block of Perry Street at the Highland Ridge Apartments . First units on the scene reported heavy smoke and fire from a two- story apartment building . [Read More] Two people were killed after a car overturned on Interstate 15 near Rancho Bernardo, California Highway Patrol (CHP) officials said. [Read More] Kizer let loose with a throw that showcased all of his talent... [Read More] U.S. and South Korean military officials plan to move ahead with large-scale exercises later this month that North Korea, now finalizing plans to launch a salvo of missiles toward Guam, claims are a rehearsal for war. [Read More] Abby's dad had some C.P.R knowledge and did the mout-to-mouth while Knapp did the compressions. [Read More] I am a S.O.B. (son of a butcher)..08/10/2017 22:16:25PM EST. [Read More] Two teenagers were arrested Wednesday in connection to the Monday night shooting death of 19-ye...