Net Zero, LLC Breaks Ground on Saint Louis Park Place Residential Community in NorthSide Regeneration Development
(St. Louis, MO) – Net Zero, LLC broke ground in January on three display homes for its much-anticipated Saint Louis Park Place residential community within the NorthSide Regeneration development in North St. Louis City. Net Zero purchased lots from NorthSide Regeneration to build 250 energy-efficient, single-family homes adjacent to the site of the future multibillion-dollar National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Western Headquarters. The display homes, under construction at the inters...
One Of The Most Luxurious State-Of-The-Art Building Opens On Boston's Greenway
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS – Finegold Alexander Architects (www.faainc.com) along with New Boston Ventures and Commodore Builders/Walsh Brothers is proud to announce the completion of The Boulevard, a striking condominium building on Boston’s Greenway. Located at 110 Broad Street, the building is a 12- story, 120-foot-tall structure with 31 luxury residential units and 5 artist live/work lofts. The project also includes 3,500 square feet of commercial space, and 48 underground parking spaces in a s...
SOM’s Design for Alárò City is Launched in Nigeria
London, UK. On Tuesday, January 29th, Africa’s largest urban developer, Rendeavour, in partnership with the Lagos State Government, broke ground on a new city development in the Lekki Free Zone. The master plan carried out by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) LLP Europe is designed to boost foreign direct investment in Nigeria and create tens of thousands of jobs. Alárò City is a mixed-income, city-scale development with modern employment, including industrial and logistics locations, complem...
GCI Consultants Begins Hurricane Michael Damage Inspections
PANAMA CITY, Fla. - GCI Consultants, LLC., a building envelope consulting firm with expertise in Hurricane Damage Inspections, is establishing an inspection team in the Panama City, Florida area to begin inspecting damaged buildings following Hurricane Michael devastating the area last October 2018. The first assignment will be inspection of damaged windows and doors for an apartment complex owner at three projects with 880 dwelling units and common areas. Following completion, the team will rem...
Mattamy Homes Expands Phoenix Presence with Camelback Ranch Purchase
PHOENIX, AZ - Mattamy Homes is pleased to announce that it has acquired a significant property in Phoenix, AZ, located next to Camelback Ranch-Glendale Field, the home of spring training and year-round player development for the LA Dodgers and Chicago White Sox. This purchase will enable Mattamy to bring new homes and the company's unique community design into an area that has been otherwise developed for many years. The acquisition is for a 59-acre piece of property, zoned for 199 lots in t...
Mattamy Homes Launches First 55+ Community in Highly Sought After RiverTown in Jacksonville
JACKSONVILLE, FL - Mattamy Homes, the largest privately owned homebuilder in North America, announced today it is introducing its first age-restricted community serving the needs of the active adult market. WaterSong will be located within Mattamy's successful RiverTown master-planned community located along the St. Johns River, in St. Johns County, Florida. "Mattamy conducted extensive consumer research and from those findings we recognized an opportunity to respond to a burgeoning demand w...
NYC's First Indoor Skate Park in a Residential Development Unveiled
Waterline Square - the five-acre mega-development on NYC's Upper West Side - just announced that the project will be the first residential building to feature a skate park. The indoor, multi-level half-pipe skate park (image below) is the first-ever conceived amenity of its kind of any NYC residential project, and we'd love to have you cover this exciting news. Located within The Waterline Club, which is the sprawling shared amenities space designed by the Rockwell Group that boasts over 100...
Tall, Slender Towers”: Denver Approves River Mile Redevelopment of Elitch Gardens
A rendering from Revesco Properties’ conceptual master plan for the River Mile shows one view along the South Platte River. The company is making plans to redevelop the current site of Elitch Gardens Theme and Water Park in coming decades. The council approved a development agreement and a rezoning for the 58-acre property, which is currently home to the Elitch Gardens amusement park. The change gives developer Rhys Duggan high-level approvals for a plan to build ro...
Old Mines Cast a Long Shadow on their Surroundings
Local stakeholders need more information than is currently available to them on the impacts of former mining activities on ground water and surface water, potential soil contamination, and the safety of natural products, a new study from Finland shows. The majority of the respondents generally regarded post-mining sites as unpleasant places that are in need of better reclamation and landscaping measures. “Our study shows that more attention should be paid to post-mining land use planning. Thi...
Stantec Among Design Firms Selected to Revitalize Old Sacramento Waterfront as Part of Design Competition
In a bold move to revitalize the Old Sacramento Waterfront, the City of Sacramento announced its finalists as part of its Waterfront Idea Makers Program, an initiative to develop original design concepts that reimagine the City’s historic business district and its riverfront. Stantec—a global architecture, engineering, and consulting firm with 400 offices and more than 22,000 staff worldwide (including 200 staff and two offices in the City of Sacramento)—is one of five design teams selected by t...