Road access to a pair of planned condo towers next to the Pearson Bridge will move forward after the city of Nanaimo received a $790,000 grant from upper levels of government on Tuesday.
The $1.3-million road upgrade will close the existing access to Maffeo-Sutton Park and create a new intersection at Cliff Street.
Cliff Street will also [...]

A senior French public housing official was ordered to step down Thursday after a newspaper revealed that he was renting a Left Bank apartment provided by Paris City Hall at a quarter of the market rate.
Jean-Paul Bolufer resigned at the urging of Prime Minister Francois Fillon and Housing Minister Christine Boutin.
Le Canard Enchaine, a satirical [...]

Representatives of the Eden condo-conversion project, across from City Hall, have 24 more months to decide whether to proceed with the original plans for a luxury condominium or turn it into an assisted-living facility.
City officials today granted Boca LLC the last extension to the project’s building permits, which will now expire September 2009. Work on [...]

Big Bear Lake Planning Commission holds a special workshop meeting Wednesday, June 27, to discuss a condo project.
Unique Mountain Development wants to build an 82-unit condo project on Paine Road south of the Village. Planning Commissioners denied the project early on voicing several concerns. Developers agreed to make some revisions and the workshop is a [...]

Are the Stranahan House and the land next door to it historic?
City commissioners will be asked to vote Tuesday night on that issue. It’s more complicated than it sounds, though.
The home of city pioneers Frank and Ivy Stranahan on the New River downtown is the oldest structure in Broward County, and few would disagree with [...]

While Woodfin Suite Hotel workers are beefing up union and local support to get the hotel to comply with Measure C, Emeryville’s Living Wage Ordinance for hotel workers, the hotel is flexing its muscle in its own way. Last week the Woodfin filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court—for the second time—claiming the 2005 law [...]

A developer who has already made his mark in downtown Phoenix with one condominium tower is now proposing a second, 32-story residential project in the heart of the city.
The $100 million development, called Omega, would be located at Second Avenue and Adams Street, behind the Orpheum Lofts. Once built, it would be the third urban [...]

Chanting “Trump’s gotta go!” 150 hearty Soho and Hudson Square residents braved the cold and wind last Sunday to raise their voices against against Donald Trump’s Soho Condo-Hotel.
They sang “Stop the Trump” to the tune of taps. They blew “Trump whistles.”
And they sincerely hope that City Hall heard them.
They gathered at the corner of Spring [...]

A civil suit was filed in U.S. District Court last week citing the town of Ocean City for a laundry list of Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) non-compliance infractions at municipal facilities from one end of the resort to the other.
The suit filed by four individual plaintiffs, each with varying degrees of disability and access [...]

Members of a condominium group walked away disappointed at City Hall on Tuesday night after losing their bid to get Green Bay garbage pickup services inside their complex.
“We’re really ticked, because we’re paying city taxes,” said Joan Heim, president of the Alpine Point Condo Association. “We’ll just keep paying taxes and getting nothing for it,”
The [...]

Even though the South Haven City Council in December put the brakes on a proposed resort development on the city’s south side, the issue is not over for Councilman Bill Bradley.
Bradley said the council “got in the way” of the developers, who asked in December to have a 19-acre parcel on the site of [...]

Amid strong opposition from neighbours, a proposal to build a luxury hotel in St. John’s has been withdrawn.
The Millennium Group had wanted to build the hotel on a property in Quidi Vidi Village, a small, harbour-based enclave that falls within the city limits but has the appeal of a small outport.
A 133-signature petition arguing against [...]