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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...

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...

T wo weeks ago, a Manhattan Supreme Court judge handed down a decision designed to strike fear in the hearts of landlords. Justice James d’Auguste ordered that an independent receiver be appointed to manage two Midtown residential buildings where the landlords allegedly allowed illegal Airbnb rentals to occur. The case, which began when the city sued the landlords in February 2015, has become one of the battlegrounds in a larger war between city enforcement agencies and short- term rental sites like Airbnb. Airbnb, which was recently valued at $31 billion, refuses to release the exact addresses of hosts who break the law by renting their entire apartment for less than 30 days without being present. Without the addresses and names of Airbnb violators , the city mostly targets the owners of buildings that rack up the most illegal hotel complaints from 311 calls and the New York City Department of Buildings. “This entire model—and it was intentional [by the city]—is complaint-drive...

(Bloomberg)—Manhattan is about to become a testing ground for what could be the next luxury real estate boom . Well, maybe mini-boom, considering the rather narrow target group : frail urban seniors with fat bank accounts . Developers are spending hundreds of millions on high-end assisted- living apartment projects , one on the Upper East Side and one in Midtown, and aiming for more in the area and across the U.S. The bet is that there are sufficient numbers of the affluent and aging in big cities who won’t want to leave their neighborhoods, even as they suffer cognitive decline . It is, of course, a rather small group of any age or mental ability that can handle the monthly rents these kinds of places will command. They’ll start at $12,000 at the complex that Maplewood Senior Living and Omega Healthcare Investors Inc. are putting up on Second Avenue and 93rd Street. Some will top more than $20,000 at the building Welltower Inc. and Hines are about to break ground for o...

Welcome to Curbed Comparisons , a regular column exploring what you can rent for a set dollar amount in different neighborhoods. Is one person's studio is another person's townhouse? Today's price: $3,800. ↑ Handel Architects designed the building at 570 Jessie in Mid-Market as an escalating series of transparencies framed and seemingly held together by a giant L-shaped frame. But now the average renter can finally get a view of what’s inside. Here a one-bedroom, one-bath apartment asks $3,750/month, boasting the addition of “ wide plank floors ” and “floor to ceiling glass”—the latter already quite apparent from the outside. The way the vivid aqua-blue tiles in the bathroom mirror the blue tinge on the exterior glass in certain photos may be an accident, but a happy one. The building allows both cats and dogs. ↑ It’s not too far from that Mid- Market building to 660 King, which sits at the very northern tip where SoMa meets the Design District and brushes up against ...

Development Aug 25, 2017   Share Also: Freeman Webb buys in Alabama; Turner releases quarterly report ; Cool Springs Hilton topped The space for the future Nashville office of Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein is being prepped at 222 2nd, the SoBro-based mixed-use tower soon to open. Thomas Constructors is handling the build-out, with a permit valued at $600,000. The building (pictured as a rendering in the center of the above photo) is located at 222 Second Ave. S. Nashville-based Gresham Smith & Partners designed the tower and will be a tenant. Lieff Cabraser is based in San Francisco. The local office operates at One Nashville Place in the CBD. Cool Springs Hilton topped The building to eventually house the 244-room, eight-story Hilton Franklin/Cool Springs Hotel has been topped. Developer Chartwell Hospitality has slated a ceremony to recognize the milestone for Tuesday, Aug. 29, according to a release. Once completed in summer 2018, the project will include a two...

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