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CLOSE Groundbreaking took place for the new Toll Brothers Apartment Living on Corporate Park Drive in Harrison, Aug. 15, 2017. Mark Vergari/lohud Buy Photo A rendering of the planned Toll Brothers Apartment Living planned for 103- 105 Corporate Park Drive in Harrison, photographed Aug. 15, 2017. (Photo: Mark Vergari/The Journal News) Buy Photo HARRISON - The first apartment development  on the Platinum Mile broke ground Tuesday , marking the further transformation of the aged office park corridor . To make way for the 421- unit luxury apartment complex , to be known as Carraway, one of two vacant office buildings at the 10.35 acre site,  105 Corporate Park Drive , has already been razed. Following the groundbreaking ceremony , heavy equipment started crashing into the facade of the remaining building at  103 Corporate Park Drive . Buy Photo Work continues on demolition for the site of the planned Toll Brothers Apartment Living at 103- 105 Corporate Park Drive in Harrison, photo...

At the ribbon cutting this month for the Wesley Village affordable housing complex in Garden Grove, Laura Archuleta couldn ’t resist referencing Joni Mitchell ’s 1970 environmental protest “Big Yellow Taxi.” Built on underused land that’s part of the Garden Grove United Methodist Church campus on Main Street, Wesley Village offered Archuleta , president of the nonprofit community organization Jamboree Housing Corp ., a chance to riff on one of Mitchell’s most famous lyrics. Where Mitchell sang “They paved paradise/And put up a parking lot,” Archuleta told about 300 people packed into the steamy church sanctuary on a hot afternoon that “Today we are going to learn how a group of dedicated organizations and individuals re-purposed a parking lot and put up a paradise.” Then she and others who spoke, including a single mom with six children who now reside at Wesley Village , told how the project became reality through a unique collaboration that involved the church, Jamboree and other...

THREE OAKS – No injuries were reported in an early morning fire that caused the evacuation of a 16-unit, two- story apartment building in Three Oaks on Saturday, Aug. 19. Fire Chief David Flick said the alarm of a structure fired came in at 5:40 a.m. and the middle section of the roof was engulfed in flames when crews arrived at the Hidden Harbor Villas (formerly Oak Tree Apartments ) at 305 W. Locust St. The fire took about three hours to bring under control and wasn’t totally cleared until approximately 2 p.m. Peter Trigg said he came home from work at about 5:40 a.m. and immediately smelled burning plastic and heard popping sounds , went around to the back of the building and noticed that a second-floor unit’s deck was on fire. “I ran in, pulled the fire alarm as quick as I could, ran up the stairs and got my family out,” he said. Trigg noted that his his wife and 1-year-old baby along with most of the unit’s other residents were asleep at the...

Developers could break ground on at least three multifamily housing complexes this year in and around Lombard, village officials say. Bill Heniff, director of community development, said numerous apartment ideas have been brought to the village in recent months -- including the possibility of a 120-unit building being constructed on the site of the old DuPage Theatre -- but only three have completed, or are close to completing, the entitlement process. If those three projects are built, Lombard will be home to 547 new rental units and 100 new townhouse units. A market analysis of the village recently completed by Tracy Cross & Associates shows significant demand for more apartments in the Lombard area. Some factors driving that demand include an increasing number of young professionals who relocate to the area for a year or two at the start of their career. They need somewhere to live that is close to work but don't necessarily wa...

The long retail spine of Sydney Road, Brunswick, just north of Melbourne's CBD, was once a prosperous trading outpost on the way to the goldfields. These days it's a bohemian mix of variety stores, op shops, halal butchers and Lebanese bakeries. Take a side street to the west, however, and a different picture emerges. Sandwiched between Sydney Road and the Upfield train line is an area undergoing rapid and widespread transformation. Light industry is fast being replaced by mid- rise apartment buildings , their inhabitants attracted by the short commute into town and cheaper prices than in the city's south-east. The quality of these units is, on the whole, depressingly bad; think poor ventilation and bedrooms that "borrow" natural light (a weasel word for being dark and windowless). The occasional jazzy façade tries feebly to make up for otherwise cheap construction amid a chorus of greys. At ground level, carpark roller doors alternate with mean pocket garden...

Developer Jerry Epstein will replace his 202-unit Del Rey Shores apartment community built in the 1960s with a 544-unit complex in fewer, taller buildings. Marina Del Rey . The development will feature 12 four- and five-story buildings. The project is expected to be completed in two years." alt="An artist's rendering shows the Shores project to be built in Marina Del Rey . The development will feature 12 four- and five-story buildings. The project is expected to be completed in two years." /> An artist's rendering shows the Shores project to be built in Marina… (Shores ) The last surviving original developer of Marina del Rey will start work Monday on a $165- million apartment complex there that will replace one he built in the 1960s. The project is part of a push by Los Angeles County officials to spruce up the aging publicly owned marina , the largest pleasure boat harbor community in the United States. Leaseholders of land there have been urged to u...

County planners see the 2- acre public parking lot on the west side of Marina del Rey as underutilized and better suited for an apartment complex . But a group of citizens has a different vision for the land along Marquesas Way near Via Marina, not far from Mother's Beach. In its place, they want the county to build a park - a use envisioned for the site years ago , but that never came to fruition as marina redevelopment plans marched forward . The parking area - Parcel FF - is one of several in Marina del Rey that the county Department of Beaches and Harbors wants to redevelop, but that requires a land-use change before anything could be built on it. The Board of Supervisors in February agreed to establish new uses for FF and other parking lots - despite community opposition - and on April 26 could vote to certify an environmental report for the planned apartment development . (The land-use amendments still require California Coastal Commission approval ). With the supervisors...