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Kevin Site Admin Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 1349 Location: Eugene, Oregon	Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 9:11 am    Post subject: ArchWeek Residential 2009.1012 Dear Designers, Builders, and Dwellers, ArchWeek Residential brings you housing news and analysis weekly from the editors of ArchitectureWeek. Major demographic trends suggest increasing demand for high-quality multi-family housing for years to come, while the single-family house market may not clear its excess inventory until 2013, and rising costs of transportation will continue to nick outlying areas. These are tough realities for the classic American homebuilder. What would it take for your own work in housing to focus on desirable multi-family and residential mixed-use redevelopments? New York Times wrote: Reinventing buildings to meet New York City's changing needs is an important part of fitting millions of people into tight spaces, while hanging on to a bit of the city's character. Many New Yorkers live in converted carriage houses or in factories transformed into lofts, for instance. Soon, some will be able to call a former public school home. L+M Development Partners is taking a classroom-packed 1906 building in Harlem and making it into a mix of market-rate and moderate-income apartments. The building, the former Public School 90, on 148th Street between Frederick Douglass and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevards, has been abandoned since 1978. The fiscal crisis of the 1970s shuttered many New York City public schools; P.S. 90 was done in by low enrollment... As for restoring the structure for use as a public school, "the expense to rehab it wasn't justified," said Holly Leicht, the deputy commissioner for development at the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development. So instead the city turned the site over to L+M, which has been around since 1984 and has built and redeveloped buildings all along that block. 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Start your search of thousands of products on our online product locator: http://www.archweek.com/ad.cgi?091012_adbuilding -- * -- Couple Builds a Modern Home on Top of a Venice Cottage - Los Angeles Times, 2009.1003 http://www.latimes.com/features/home/la-hm-choeffkeck3-2009oct03,0,2886017.story?track=rss When Frank Lloyd Wright Designed a Cottage for Ayn Rand - Los Angeles Times, 2009.1003 http://www.latimes.com/features/home/la-hm-rand3-2009oct03,0,1407257.story McMansions Out; Affordable Is In - , 2009.1003 http://newsok.com/mcmansions-out-affordable-is-in/article/3405528 Suburban Montreal Housing Project Is Friendly by Design - Victoria Times Colonist, 2009.1002 http://www.timescolonist.com/business/Suburban+Montreal+housing+project+friendly+design/2063216/story.html Affordable Flair - Financial Times, 2009.1002 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/f77a5b48-ae1f-11de-87e7-00144feabdc0.html Suburban Montreal Housing Project Is Friendly by Design - Victoria Times Colonist, 2009.1002 http://www.timescolonist.com/business/Suburban+Montreal+housing+project+friendly+design/2063216/story.html Reinventing the McMansion - Time, 2009.0929 http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1924506,00.html Press Release - New handbook enables contractors and designers make the transition from lump sum building to design-build. http://www.archweek.com/ad.cgi?091007_press_release_1-1.html Product News - Wall-Mounted Toilets from Duravit and The Geberit Group http://www.archweek.com/2009/1007/products_update.html ==================================================================== Tools and Downloads -------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsor this ArchWeek special section and build your brand: http://www.archweek.com/ad.cgi?091007_notes_tools_sponsor Stimulus Funds for Building Energy Monitoring A new white paper is available from Onset: "Measurement & Verification: Tapping into ARRA Stimulus Funds." 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Kevin Site Admin Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 1349 Location: Eugene, Oregon	Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 9:41 am    Post subject: Fair balance... this (somewhat over-dramatic?) CNBC piece raises some short-term questions about the rental market... Apartments: Rents Plunge, REITs Soar http://www.cnbc.com/id/33194681/site/14081545# "Household formation in 2008 was half of what it was in 2007 and it's likely worse in 2009. Add to that the fact that home prices have plunged, foreclosed inventory has skyrocketed and the first time home buyer tax credit are all collectively turning would-be renters into borrowers. "
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