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• Stone Cold Style: Armstrong Alterna Reserve Luxury Vinyl Tile

  A range of pattern variations and advanced imaging offer a true stone look in vinyl flooring.

• Nationwide

  This is the Chicago suburb's first new apartment community in at least five years, and the submarket's vacancy rate was 5.3 percent in the third quarter of 2008, according to market research firm Reis, Inc.

• MIDWEST

  Detroit—Habitat Co., based in Chicago, has placed Lafayette Towers, a 584-unit apartment complex located downtown, on the sales block for $20 million.

• Nationwide

  Chicago—AvalonBay Communities has acquired a 3.5-acre site here for a new 1,000-unit apartment community, Avalon on South Clark. The development cost is approximately $280 million.

• Boston’s Suburban Building Boom

  Revere, Mass.—Five miles outside of Boston, on the border between the suburbs of Revere and Malden, Roseland Property Co.

• Backfill: Carpentry Goes to the Dogs

  Builders in the doghouse

• Toolbox: High-Voltage Cordless Saws

  New higher-voltage cordless circular saws

• Quick Kitchen Estimates

  Clients often want to know what their new kitchen will cost before they’ve picked cabinets or decided on countertop material — even before they’ve finalized the layout. This unit-price approach will help you produce rough estimates quickly and with a minimum of guesswork.

• Case in Point: Not a Roofing Problem

  Why’s it raining indoors?