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Q. My drywall sub's crew members ran out of mud before they were able to finish the third coat of a recent project. But when the local lumberyard delivered three buckets of the familiar green-labeled compound, the two tapers refused to use it and instead drove nearly an hour round-trip to pick up...
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Small mixed-use buildings created at HOPE VI development
ORLANDO, FLA. Many affordable housing developers are still scratching their heads over how to economically mix retail and commercial space into their affordable housing projects
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The debate over mixed-income housing
Mixed-income housing might be an unlikely candidate for controversy
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Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac urged to do more mixed-use
The growing trend toward urban infill development is increasing the popularity of mixed-use projects, in which residential and commercial elements coexist in the same development.
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Fannie, Freddie have limited appetite for mixed-use
The growing trend toward urban infill development is helping increase the popularity of mixed-use projects, in which residential and commercial elements coexist in the same development.
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Downtown landmark revamped for mixed-use Simbol Commercial turned one of the tallest buildings in Missouri into luxury apartments while restoring the glory of the former bank’s Art Deco design.
Kansas City, Mo. – The former Fidelity National Bank and Trust Building, which had stood vacant downtown for more than a decade, has been rehabbed as an upscale mixed-use development and renamed 909 Walnut.
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Condo developer partners with hotel
Atlanta – A local high-end condominium developer has been tapped by Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc., to build its latest project here in the heart of the Buckhead area.
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A Town Is Reborn
By Lew Sichelman. One hundred and fifty years ago, Ramsey was the fur-trading center of Minnesota. Ramsey's city administrator Jim Norman told the paper that for years the town "has been the poster child for urban sprawl," a place where people bought land for inexpensive starter homes.
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Benefit of Trees
By Wendy Leibowitz. Ten builders and developers who made tree preservation a priority in the design, production, development, and marketing of their new communities were honored in August with 2003 Building With Trees Awards of Excellence by The National Arbor Day Foundation, Firewise Communities...
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Fears of a housing "bubble," international code adoptions, smart wiring, recycling Thai railroad ties