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Condo development eyed for Country Inn Motel site in south Palo Alto

Source: Palo Alto Online     Author: Gennady Sheyner The Toll Brothers project also includes townhomes and accessory dwelling units   The Toll Brothers' proposal for 4345 El Camino Real in Palo Alto would include 67 new dwellings. Rendering courtesy Van Meter Williams Pollack.   A new housing development with 55 […]

Former East Colfax strip club property becoming affordable housing

Source: Westword ; Conor McCormick-Cavanagh [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="1320"] A lot that once housed a strip joint will soon become affordable housing. Courtesy of Van Meter Williams Pollack LLP.[/caption] The development of a former strip club at 8315 East Colfax Avenue lays bare the changes in this […]

St. Elizabeth Place Apartment’s Historic Origins Will Breathe New Life Into Houston’s Fifth Ward

Source: National Equity Fund Congratulations to Fifth Ward Community Redevelopment Corporation (FWCRC) on last Friday’s (September 27th) groundbreaking of St. Elizabeth Place Apartments in the Fifth Ward district of Houston, Texas. The development consists of the rehabilitation and repurposing of St. Elizabeth Hospital, which was originally […]

New mixed-income multifamily housing coming to Houston’s 5th Ward

Source: Defender News Service Preservation of Houston’s historic St. Elizabeth’s Hospital leads to new mixed-income multifamily housing development in Houston’s 5th Ward. Built-in 1947 in a racially segregated Houston, St. Elizabeth’s Hospital was the first medical facility dedicated to serving African Americans in Harris County. The hospital […]

St. Elizabeth Place breathes new life into historic Fifth Ward hospital

Source: City of Houston Housing and Community Development Safe and affordable apartments will provide new homes and new opportunities Mayor Sylvester Turner joined community members in Houston’s historic Fifth Ward today for the groundbreaking of St. Elizabeth Place, a new community of 85 apartment homes. Approved as […]

Ilion selling abandoned Duofold factory to local investors. Officials mum about plans

Source: Times Telegram; Author: Donna Thompson The former Duofold property in Ilion has been sold. The Ilion village board Monday approved the sale of the property, which has been vacant for nearly two decades, to some local investors for $100,000, according to Mayor Brian Lamica. The identity of […]

Faster, Cheaper: How California Is Revolutionizing Homeless Housing — And Why It Might Not Last

Source: KQED; Author: Erin Baldassari Letta “Oneka” Glover sits in a common area of an office building in San Rafael that is converted into a temporary shelter for people experiencing homelessness on May 17, 2021. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)   When Letta “Oneka” Glover checked into the shelter in San Rafael, […]

Journey’s End Redevelopment Plan Unveiled

Journey’s End Redevelopment Plan Unveiled Source: News Of The North Bay     Members of the public got their first, early look Tuesday at a proposal that would tranform the Santa Rosa site of the former Journey’s End mobile home park into a bustling 532 unit development. The […]

Master plan for Warm Springs Station development approved

Source: Marin Independent Journal Fremont City Council members Tuesday unanimously approved a master plan for a community with up to 1,000 multi-family residential units, 5,000 square feet of commercial development and 2 acres of parkland on 34 acres to the east of the Warm Springs-South Fremont […]

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