Posts

Showing posts matching the search for 550 square feet

Smaller Apartments In Old Field's Warehouse OK'd By Key City Panel - Avondale - Chicago

Image
Fishbein's new proposal is more dense and more studio-heavy than the original plan, which called for 84 live/work apartments with a more diverse mix of apartment sizes. View Full Caption DPD AVONDALE — Controversial plans to turn the residential portion of "The Fields" development into a high- density studio project received unanimous approval from Plan Commission Thursday . The apartments are part of the massive development taking over the old Marshall Field's warehouse at 4000 W. Diversey Ave. Other components of the project, including the Cermak Fresh Market grocery store , are finished. The apartment proposal will next be considered by the full City Council . It's the second Plan Commission go-around for developer Paul Fishbein of 4K Diversey Partners . Fishbein's new proposal is more dense and more studio-heavy than the original plan, which called for 84 live/work apartments with a more diverse mix of apartment sizes. Under the new proposal, the pr...

Park Square adds 110-room hotel pad and fitness center to UCF-area retail site

Image
Park Square Enterprises  will announce a national fitness center anchor tenant this week that has been the catalyst for a complete re-envisioning of its plans for Park Square Plaza near UCF. When Park Square Homes CEO Suresh Gupta purchased the 12.5-acre site on the 12000 block East Colonial Dr . in 2016, he planned to develop retail  along the highway frontage and pursue rezoning for multifamily use. The college campus has attracted several multifamily developments recently, including the Core Spaces student housing development  and a second complex by Catalyst Development Partners that will mirror its  popular EOS Apartments .  Park Square had initially planned to seek rezoning for a 250- unit apartment complex .  Ali Mushtaq, senior adviser for SVN, told GrowthSpotter on Monday the developers were approached by a national gym tenant with a strong interest in locating there. The Guptas scrapped the apartments and filed a new retail- focused site plan last week with the St. ...

Housing on a budget: how does a single-income or low-income family find affordable housing with rising housing prices in Alaska?

It is one of the necessities in life, finding shelter. But who actually enjoys taking the time to search all over town for a perfect place that mandatorily fits into a budget? Anchorage isn't exactly the most expensive city around, but it's certainly not the cheapest. In a search for almost anything these days, most will likely turn to everybody's favorite modern resource , the Internet. Unfortunately, the online listing for Anchorage apartments is slim, and the information available for those apartments is even more feeble. The best and probably most accurate aid in an apartment search is an Apartment Finder catalogue , the small, detailed pamphlets found all over town in stores like the local supermarket and other retailers. The Apartment Finder names a variety of complexes citywide, lists apartments within most everyone's budget, and even provides maps for easy directions. And it can be acquired for every consumer's favorite cost: p...

Taurus Snags $34M Raleigh Community

Image
Olde Raleigh aerial Taurus Investment Holdings acquired the Olde Raleigh garden - style apartment community in the Northwest submarket of Raleigh, N.C. The company purchased the property from Chaucer Creek Capital for $33.5 million.  Located at 4000 Grand Manor Court , the 228- unit community features one-, two- and three- bedroom floorplans ranging from 716 to 1,523 square feet. Interior features include gourmet kitchens , walk-in closets, washer/dryer connections, bay windows, crown molding, nine-foot ceilings, garden tubs, faux wood plank flooring , private balcony/patios, brushed nickel faucets , stainless steel appliances , refinished white cabinets , spring carnival faux granite counter tops , columns and built-in bookshelves. Amenities with an upgrade “Taurus plans to execute an extensive renovation plan throughout the property including: high- quality interior renovations of the apartment homes, new and upgraded amenities on site, exterior cosmetic improvements , and sus...

Plans to repurpose former Americana come before city

Image
CLOSE The Americana Lodge in downtown Redding , California, closed in January after hundreds of alleged code and safety violations , and now The Hignell Companies hopes to repurpose the building. Wochit Architectural renderings of the proposed remodeling project to turn the closed Americana Lodge into The Lofts. (Photo: Russell Studio) Plans to convert the shuttered Americana Lodge in downtown Redding to apartments come before the city Wednesday afternoon . The project has been hailed as a catalyst for the area since The Hignell Companies of Chico announced it was purchasing the former motel late last year. Hignell would transform the property between Pine and Market streets into 24 one-bedroom and 20 studio apartment units that would average between 400 and 500 square feet of floor space. At least four of the apartments would be set aside for very-low and low-income renters. The Redding Board of Administrative Review will consider Hignell’s site development permit application ...