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Today's Post has an article, "The new housing market: Why it’s so hard to find a cheap apartment in Washington, D.C.," with this line about strategies for producing more and lower cost housing : In D.C., you could even ditch the large historic districts that make it extremely difficult to build anything substantial in many desirable neighborhoods. Too bad it's wrong.  (The article doesn't say all that much considering.) The reason that it's hard to find cheap apartments in DC, is that relative to demand, there is lack of inventory. But it's not because of historic districcts. It's because historically, DC had been a small city relatively speaking, and not an industrial city, which would have led to the construction of more and higher capacity apartment buildings and tenements. Instead, especially in the late 1800s and into the early part of the 1900s, mostly single family housing (rowhouses) was constructed in those inner city neighborhoods th...

Business Editors/Real Estate Writers MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 22, 2003 New, Affordable Rental Units Located Downtown Minneapolis on the Riverfront Stone Arch Apartments , located on the Mississippi riverfront in downtown Minneapolis , opens to renters on Sept. 1. The apartment complex is at 601 Main Street S. E., at the historic Stone Arch Bridge trailhead , and has 221 rental apartments in two buildings, including a large number of affordable units . The apartments were developed by Minneapolis Stone Arch Partners , LLC - a joint venture of The Wall Companies and Lupe Development Partners, LLC - and are situated on a formerly polluted, industrial site. The location was cleaned-up to create a stunning river and downtown vantage point . The development presented complicated land use problems requiring a change in state law, street vacations, railroad abandonment, pollution clea...

Quizzes Lists Topics Save The Saxony Apartment Building is a historic apartment building in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Located along Ninth Street in the city's downtown, [1] this five- story brick building includes a distinctive range of architectural details. Among these elements are brick pilasters and projections, a three- story bay window on each side of the symmetrical main facade , semicircular balconies , and many stone pieces, such as pediments, keystones, and stringcourses. Due to its location at the intersection of Ninth and Race Streets, the Saxony appears to have two fronts: one onto each street. Although the Ninth Street facade is larger and more complex, the Race Street facade is nevertheless ornate as well: it features small yet elaborate semicircular balconies with wrought iron railings similar to those of the Ninth Street facade . [2] Constructed in 1891 according to a design by leading Cincinnati architect Samuel Hannaford , [1] the Saxony Apart...