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The search began before dawn; the train had just crossed the border of Tajikistan into Uzbekistan. We were only three hours into the four- day train ride between Dushanbe, Tajikistan’s capital, and Moscow. An Uzbek border guard , clad in brown fatigues , boarded the train — a Soviet-replica, green, with a silver roof — and began yelling. He moved through the car, searching passenger after passenger, ripping apart belongings, interrogating everyone about terrorism and narcotics, and scanning flip phones and cheap Nokias for “sex photos” (pornography is banned in Uzbekistan). The passengers endured this, unfazed. Almost all of them were migrants traveling to Russia for work. They’d seen this routine before. It was March. Across Tajikistan, thousands of people — mostly young men — were departing for or preparing to leave for Russia. The long Russian winter was nearing its end; construction projects in cities like Moscow and St. Petersburg were slowly coming back to life. Tajikistan, t...

Newly released renderings provide the first look at the design of a planned highrise on Hillsborough Street in downtown Raleigh that will include a mix of stores, offices and residential rentals. The most prominent element in the design of the project, known as 400H, is an indoor-outdoor section on the ninth floor that will include a pool, fitness center, two pool deck lounges , two indoor lounges and spaces for a coffee bar, meetings and co-working. Developers are calling it the SkyHub. Gensler, an international design and architectural firm based in San Francisco with an office nearby in Raleigh, is working on the project. “400H is intentionally different and is not about a building merely introducing square footage to the market,” Chad Parker, managing director at Gensler Raleigh , said in an email Friday. “We worked collectively to make a place that thrives on social connectivity, talent recruitment and retention, as well as identity.” The city’s planning department has approved...

BEAUMONT, TX -  BSR Trust announced that it has completed an acquisition of the West End Lodge apartment homes in Beaumont, Texas. The purchase of West End Lodge marks the second acquisition BSR Trust has made in the Beaumont market in under a year. BSR Trust purchased The Pointe Apartments in July of 2015. West End Lodge was built in 2007 and contains 360 residences in an even mix of one bedroom and two bedroom floorplans. It has received an ApartmentRatings.com " Top Rated Award " three of the last four years. The upscale garden- style community adds to the growing list of over 40 multifamily housing properties owned and managed by the Little Rock based company throughout Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Mississippi. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. " West End Lodge is the premier apartment community in Beaumont, and we are proud to expand our operations there." said Daniel Oberste, Chief Investment Officer of BSR Trust. "Our e...

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...