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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...

Police lights (Photo: Stock) City of Neenah July 31 Theft, 800 block of Fox Point Plaza . An employee had a bike stolen a few days earlier. Loss prevention had the incident on video and identified the suspect. Traffic stop, 1100 block of Maple Street. An officer observed a driver not wearing a seat belt. The operator had the belt tucked under her arm. She was told she needed to wear it properly. Aug. 1 Suspicious situation, 500 block of Quarry Lane. A caller stated he woke up this morning to find a TV in the middle of his driveway and didn't know who put it there. The responding officer thought it appeared someone just dumped it in the roadway. Theft, 1500 block of Remington Road. A caller witnessed the theft of equipment from the construction site across the street. The contractor said nothing is missing. It appeared they grabbed wood from a scrap file and he didn't want to file anything. Damage to property, 600 block of South Church Street . A party reported the back door an...

A Macon apartment development sitting on 50 acres with a pond in the center of the site has been sold to an Atlanta company. Kenilworth Manor, formerly known as Crystal Lake Apartments , on Crystal Lake Circle , has been bought by Crown Bay Group , according to a news release. The company has already change the name back to Crystal Lake Apartments . “This is a very interesting property and we are very excited to bring it back to a high standard,” Crown Bay CEO Steve Firestone said in an email. Work on the properties has already begun and “some big improvements” should be seen soon, he said. Kenilworth Manor is comprised of an 11- story apartment block , a five- story midrise block as well as a mix of two- story garden apartments , townhouses and “even a cluster of odd cubed-shaped single-story houses,” the release said. “This was built as a cutting edge dynamic community project at the time, but has gone into some disrepair over the years.” The buildings are surrounded by trees wit...

NORFOLK, Va. – Seventeen people have been displaced after a two-alarm fire at an apartment complex in the 7100 block of Sewells Point Road Friday . The fire was reported at 11:12 a.m. and crews with the Norfolk Fire- Rescue arrived approximately four minutes later. An adult female occupant inside the apartment smelled smoke and self-evacuated along with her five-year-old grandson. She notified neighbors of the fire as she evacuated. Engine Company- 14 reported heavy smoke visible from the second floor of the two- story apartment building . Crews advanced a fire hose inside the building for an interior fire attack and to conduct a primary search of the apartment. Firefighters encountered heavy smoke and high heat conditions as they attempted to suppress the fire. A second alarm was called due to the magnitude of the fire and the size of the building. Norfolk Fire- Rescue Battalion Chief Julian Williamson said the fire was brought under control at 12:30 p.m. Crews used fire sup...

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...

WILLIAMSPORT -- Two men were arrested and committed to Lycoming County Prison on Saturday, August 19, after police raided an apartment on Glenwood Avenue and found marijuana , traces of heroin and paraphernalia. According to an affidavit by a Williamsport Bureau of Police officer, he was patrolling the 400 block of Glenwood Avenue, a known narcotics trafficking area , around 10:46 a.m. The officer noticed a gray Dodge Charger rental car with a Georgia license plate parked in front of an apartment building known for narcotics trafficking. The officer had observed the vehicle driving through the 700 block of Center Street, also a known narcotics area, moments before. As the officer pulled in front of the apartment building on Glenwood, he observed Hakiem Khalid Price , 31, of Williamsport, coming out of the apartment building and recalled having contact with him in the past for previous charges.   When Price saw the officer, he put his hands in the air and went to the car to get his c...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (KABC) -- Crews battled a five-alarm fire at an abandoned apartment building in Riverside on Sunday. The fire broke out in a second- story apartment at the Monte Vista Terrace apartments , located in the 2400 block of Market Street around 4:30 p.m., fire officials said. The unoccupied building is listed as a senior living facility . When firefighters first arrived, they say they attempted to fight the flames from the inside, but were quickly forced to evacuate as the fire grew. The fire was upgraded from a four-alarm fire to a five alarm fire in the 9 p.m. hour. By 11 p.m., crews had the flames under control. They were expected to remain on scene through the night. No injuries were immediately reported. A cause of the fire was not immediately known. CNS contributed to this report. (Copyright ©2017 KABC-TV. All Rights Reserved.)

Cherry Creek Square shopping complex is set to be redeveloped along with another nearby property . Photos by Burl Rolett." /> The Cherry Creek Square shopping complex is set to be redeveloped along with another nearby property . Photos by Burl Rolett. One of Cherry Creek’s most active developers plunked down $35 million last week for two plots of prime Cherry Creek real estate with plans for fancy apartments and a new hotel. BMC Investments plans to turn two buildings along St. Paul Street and another on Josephine Street into two apartment buildings up to seven or eight floors tall and a cheaper hotel for travelers who don’t want to shell out top dollar. The three projects will total between $150 million and $ 180 million worth of development, company CEO Matt Joblon said. “We are the biggest believers of Cherry Creek long term , and we’re looking to do as much as possible here,” he said. “We want to commit a lot of our resources, money and time in buying and building ...

Another program, run by the Urban Homesteading Assistance Board , works with the city on co-op conversions of buildings taken over from delinquent landlords. Tenants help with renovations and can eventually buy the units for low prices. About 30,000 apartments are in the program, which is administered by the city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development. Since 2003 the city’s Housing Development Corporation has also been partnering with both for-profit and nonprofit developers to create new affordable apartments — 1,767 units in 21 buildings. The benefits of promoting homeownership in this way extend far beyond the individual owners, said Andrew Reicher, the executive director of the Urban Homesteading Assistance Board . “In the Lower East Side , in Harlem, in Bed-Stuy,” he said, “these owners stuck it out and struggled to improve their block, and improvements spread from their work. And they are not displaced when the neighborhood turns around.” Of course, the question fo...

Calhoun County Sheriff Department logo (Photo: Provided) WOMAN, DEPUTY INJURED: An inmate and a deputy were injured in the Calhoun County jail when the inmate fell from a second-story tier in an apparent suicide attempt . Sheriff's deputies reported the incident at 9:16 a.m. and said the inmate, 45, climbed over a security railing about 12 feet above the floor below, according to Sheriff Matt Saxton . The inmate was drinking a nontoxic cleaning solution before she let go of the railing and fell backward. Tosha Cummings, a corrections officer, attempted to catch the woman and break her fall and she was knocked back, hitting her head on a table and then the floor. Both women were taken to Bronson Battle Creek for treatment and released. Cummings is expected to return to work in a couple of days, Saxton said. The inmate was returned to the jail and placed on suicide watch. The inmate was arrested Monday on a warrant for failure to appear for a trial. She is charged with a 2015 ass...

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...

Until Saturday, August 12th, Debra Godfrey liked to sit on her front porch in the afternoons. She’d smoke a Newport and watch what little traffic there was pass by. Godfrey, who is fifty-one, lives in Belmont, a quiet neighborhood on the southeast side of Charlottesville, Virginia. Kids would play together after they got off the school bus a couple of houses down. Neighbors would walk past with their dogs, waving hello, as they headed to a nearby park. These days, Godfrey mostly stays inside in the afternoons. The neighborhood is still quiet, she said. “But it’s more quiet. People are more alert.” August 12th was the day of an alt-right rally called “Unite the Right,” which devolved into violence as thousands of white supremacists and counter-protesters swarmed through the city’s downtown streets. The unrest made international headlines and left a thirty-two-year-old counter- protester named Heather Heyer dead , with dozens more injured. For Godfrey, who is black, the day’s chaos has...