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Madisonville protests 'low income' apartments | News

New housing in Madisonville dominated the town’s August meeting as a group has come out against construction on Willow Creek Drive . Hall Investments is the company behind the construction and controversy over the building of “low income” apartments started when talk spread that Sweetwater, which has some of the apartments close to Interstate 75, was not happy with the end results. Maurice Moser, a former principal and teacher and the current transportation director for the Monroe County School System , was the spokesperson for those opposing the apartments, telling the Madisonville Mayor and Aldermen that he wanted the town to do whatever it could to stop the project. “ Blount County turned him (Gary Hall) down,” Moser said. “ Monroe County Mayor Tim Yates wants nothing to do with it, and now Sweetwater is regretting letting him build over there.” Moser said apartments such as this can “wreck a school system ” when outside families with children come into the area...

Performance Partners Acquires Linda Vista Apartments in Dallas

Dallas—A Performance Properties LLC -headed partnership has purchased the 370- unit Linda Vista Apartments in North Dallas. With this acquisition and the previously purchased Vista Buena Apartments , the partnership has added nearly 800 units on 27 acres along the Cottonwood Trail, a hiking and biking amenity, since late last year. Both communities are situated in a neighborhood renowned for its easy freeway access in all directions. The properties are located in the northwest quadrant of the $261 million High Five Interchange, Dallas- based Performance Properties reported . Across its 18 buildings, 35-year-old Linda Vista Apartments features a mix of efficiencies and one- and two- bedroom units averaging 667 square feet in size. Performance Properties is in the process of completing a $1 million renovation at Vista Buena, and will soon launch a $700,000 renovation of Linda Vista. Included will be building exterior, common area and unit interior improvements . In addition to its l...

Apartments still planned for old Hattiesburg High

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Buy Photo Plans are in the works to turn the old Hattiesburg High School building on Main Street into apartments for residents 62 and older. (Photo: File photo/Hattiesburg American) Buy Photo A little more than a year ago, officials representing downtown Hattiesburg and Jackson- based Intervest Corp . announced plans to transform the former Hattiesburg High School on Main Street into an age- restricted apartment development . With the recent sale of the building to Intervest owner Steve Nail , that project — tentatively named Preservation Crossing — is back on track. "Mr. Nail held rights to the property through legal option for more than four years," said Andrea Saffle, executive director of the  Historic Hattiesburg Downtown Association . "Now, the sale is complete, and we are excited at the prospect of getting this project underway ." The upcoming facility, which is aimed at residents 62 years of age and older, is expected to offer 70 to 75 apartments that ar...

A Cinephile's Parisian Rental | Apartment Therapy

Name: Mathieu Location: Paris, France The basics: 1o years, rented — 495 square feet Mathieu's career and passion is film, so his charming Paris rental is basically a shrine to the cinema. With a little help from his design minded sister , he transformed his small rental space into a home that has more than enough room for the things he loves. Loading Email Sign -Up Form... If the form doesn't load, you can try our mailing list page instead. Tell us a little (or a lot) about your home and the people who live there: Well, I've had some friends stay on my couch in and out, but for the most part, it's all mine ! I work in movies in Paris, but long before that, I was already obsessed with them. So my home has always been first and foremost a big movie theatre . When I moved in 10 years ago, everything was pretty bare, I was in film school and not exactly rolling in money, so I let it sit for a while as is, I got some secondhand furniture while I put all my money in D...

A Week of Mining Seattle's Craigslist Apartment Pricing

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Everyone is freaking out over San Francisco astronomically high rent prices right now when Seattle real-estate isn’t that far behind. I was walking down the street once in the university district around the University of Washington when I saw construction being built. And then more construction. And then MORE construction down the block. Ridiculous. Looking at a half-torn up flyer, the prices for these new apartments coming out in 2015 were around 1300 per bedroom for a two bedroom apartment ! I quickly went home and started trying to figure out how fast rent was rising in Seattle. One fun way to do this was by working on a project that I have since put off for school back in November. Since reliably the best place to find apartments has been on Craigslist, I created a script using Scrapy to grab listings of apartments on Seattle craigslist and filtered them for the zipcodes within the Seattle boundaries . I manually ran the script for about a week and after filtering out duplicate p...

Saxony Apartment Building

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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...