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A locally owned and operated small business in West Houston, Houston Katy Appliance Repair, has just announced theyve awarded an area non-traditional student a $500 college scholarship.

Festus Amoye, a junior psychology major at Houston Baptist University and a resident of Houston has been selected as their 2014 http://www.Houston-Katy-Appliance-Repair.com scholarship essay winner.

Amoye beat out dozens of finalists by submitting the most exceptional 1,000 word essay explaining the numerous benefits that locally-owned small businesses play in the economic health and social vibrancy of the community. Scholarship contestants were also asked to explain how the local area community would be impacted without these vital small businesses and the jobs they create, as well as formulate ideas on how area colleges, universities and trade schools can better enhance the health and potential success of small businesses.

It is refreshing to see that so many young people in our community really understand the connection between local prosperity and the health of our locally-owned small businesses. In our current era of economic uncertainty, I really portend great things for the future of our community because of the exceptional insight and aptitude that dozens of our young people demonstrated in this scholarship contest, said Francis Welch, owner and manager of the Houston and Katy areas fastest growing appliance repair and installation business.

Festus Amoye is a 2004 graduate of Elsik High School in Alief ISD, a veteran after having served in the nations armed forces for nine years, and currently a junior psychology major at Houston Baptist University.

Following graduation, he plans on using his education and training to help other young men and women go on to achieve their higher education goals while graduating with a plan and less debt.

Amoye said, These scholarship funds will definitely help further my goal. Im thankful I live in a community where people care so much about others success. I feel blessed!

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ALBANY An aging foundation, heaving frozen ground and neighboring construction all likely combined to undermine a Sheridan Avenue building razed Friday as it threatened to collapse, a city official said Monday.

"There was the frost, the age of the foundation that had some kind of deterioration to it, and you have to add the factor of the exposure that it had from the new construction," Chief Building Inspector Carlo Figliomeni said.

That determination was made after the two-story building at 211 Sheridan Ave. was visually inspected by city codes officials and outside engineer Russ Reeves, who the city often calls in to assess buildings it fears are near collapse.

That was the case Friday when the east wall of 211 Sheridan began to bow toward the excavation site of multi-unit apartment building soon to rise as part of Capital District Habitat for Humanity's rebuilding of much of the Sheridan Hollow neighborhood.

The building on the northwest corner of Dove Street and Sheridan Avenue is being built by Syracuse-based nonprofit Housing Visions and will eventually house Habitat's regional headquarters, as well as those of the Albany County Land Bank.

The stress of the construction, "definitely added to it," Figliomeni said, "but it wasn't the primary cause. The building was old and these things happen."

Figliomeni said it appeared as though masonry block had been added to support the existing brick-and-mortar foundation.

Engineers were unable to more closely examine the failing wall because the foundation appeared to be shifting so quickly that it was not safe to do so, Figliomeni said.

"The frost heaved and shifted, and once that foundation starts going, it's going to deteriorate," he said.

Two people were left homeless by the demolition. They are currently being put up in a hotel.

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The state's healthy economy and steady population growth have combined with a national downturn in home ownership and shifts in preferences for mobility and urban living as a vast cohort of younger adults known as millennials form their own households. Up against rising prices on single-family houses, tighter lending rules and lagging incomes, many are opting to rent instead of buy, at least in the short term.

After a decade of adding an average of 1,223 new apartments annually, the greater Salt Lake City area could see up to eight times that many units come online in the next three years, according to EquiMark, which tracks the industry in Utah.

Nearly 4,839 apartments are under construction in Salt Lake County alone and work will start on an additional 6,484 units in the next 18 months. Together, those new dwellings amount to about 10 percent of Salt Lake County's existing inventory of 120,389 multifamily rental units.

Another 9,944 apartments are either planned or under construction across Davis, Utah and Weber counties, EquiMark said. Researchers documented 122 apartment projects being built or proposed across the four-county area, each with scores to hundreds of units apiece.

"We've never seen so much new construction in Salt Lake," said Sage Sawyer, a principal at EquiMark. The last boom even comparable was 30 years ago, he said, when apartment building accelerated as the U.S. came out of a global economic recession in the early 1980s.

In Salt Lake County, the new construction is focused in Salt Lake City's downtown, cities in the south end of the valley and along light-rail lines. Utah County's new projects, though centered on Provo and Orem, reach from American Fork to Payson.

In Weber County, apartments are mostly going up in Ogden and Pleasant View. Davis County has new projects in Layton, North Salt Lake, Centerville and Farmington.

Demand goes beyond millennials. At least eight new apartment complexes along the Wasatch Front will cater to seniors, with about 1,124 dwellings between them.

With the pace and breadth of new rental construction, EquiMark and others are warning that markets could be nearing a saturation point, where the number of new units starts to exceed would-be renters, creating downward pressure on rents. That said, even seasoned commercial analysts of Utah's apartment sector have seen recent predictions that the market would top out proved wrong.

"Some of these upscale, urban developments in Sugar House and downtown are getting two dollars per square foot in rent," said Pete Williams, a longtime expert in investment sales and development with Coldwell Banker Commercial. "I never thought I'd see that in my lifetime."

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When Sherry and Larry Howard want to get away for the weekend, they merely have to step out the back door, walk around the pool and climb some stairs. With the help of their son - a building design and construction specialist - the Deer Park couple has remade a dumpy garage apartment into a charming, cozy retreat in their own backyard.

The space, roughly 500 to 600 square feet, is simple but stylish. On one wall hangs an old sign that says "Howard's Hideaway" - the very sign that hung in a cabin Larry's grandparents owned on Matagorda Beach, one they had to rebuild after Hurricane Carla destroyed it in 1961. This backyard haven isn't even close to the beach, but among family and friends, it, too, has become known as the Hideaway.

The Howards moved into their three-bedroom main house in 1995, when their two sons were still living with them. Back then, the apartment had blue carpet, striped wallpaper and one long, narrow living space.

"It was kind of an ugly room," Larry admits. And it had just a half-bath and no kitchen, "so it could never function as a true apartment."

Even so, their older son talked his parents into letting him claim it as his own. "He moved up here his last year of high school, and he stayed here until he finished his Ph.D. at the University of Houston," Sherry says, adding that when Larry Landon Howard left in 2007, "it was really kind of empty."

The Howards decided to gut the place in 2009. They wanted to do something with it, but they weren't sure what. Initially they talked about a game room, but then Sherry started discussing possibilities with their younger son, Spencer, who owns the Houston company Design & Construction Management. The plans became more ambitious, and they decided to transform the space into a clean, bright, livable apartment.

Spencer delivered the architectural drawings on Mother's Day in 2012. Then he, his father and one of their craftsman friends did every bit of the work to make it happen. They installed whitewashed poplar panels horizontally along one wall. Overhead, poplar beams provide structural support and serve to break up the studio space visually, gently dividing it into areas for eating, lounging and sleeping. Near the front door, antique stained-glass window lets in light through blue and green panels.

"The sunbeams that come in, in the morning - it's just a gorgeous window," Sherry says. "Even in the evenings, the glow from the moon - we'll see it reflecting in here all night long."

To decorate, the Howards started with furniture pieces they had already. An antique Duncan Phyfe table and reupholstered chairs fill the tiny dining space. The headboard of the bed, meanwhile, is made from the Jenny Lind crib the couple's sons used as babies.

While the apartment morphed into the Hideaway, they also decided to remodel the adjacent pool, making it more lagoon-like with dark surfaces and a rocky waterfall. The couple now has the perfect spot to host family and friends on the weekends.

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Though spring has not yet arrived, everywhere you go, it seems you'll see construction - especially apartments. One expert says it's in response to changing lifestyles, a change that may create a new problem.

A giant crane cuts a huge arc across the sky above Grandview. Men are busy building below it. The new apartments are rising skyward.

The greater Columbus building boom began as the recession ended in 2012.

"I think it's good," commented local resident Harry Harbin. "There's a lot of people moving to Columbus."

Three years and 5,000 apartments later, the construction shows no sign of letting up.

"It's actually accelerating," said Rob Vogt, a partner in Vogt Santer Insights, a company that specializes in real estate feasibility studies. "We see close to 5,000-6,000 units right now in the pipeline. That will probably have a huge impact on the Central Ohio housing market in the coming couple of years."

Vogt said much of the thirst for new rental housing is driven by the millennial generation. He said many twenty-something residents have too much college debt to qualify for a home loan. Others currently have no interest in home ownership.

"These are folks who aren't getting married, they're not getting into relationships, they're staying single longer," he explained.

He said they also love the idea of walking to work, restaurants, and entertainment.

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North Bethesda Market, a retail and residential complex in White Flint. (Photo by Amanda Voisard/For the Washington Post)

Banners hanging from roofs, flyers stuck on parked cars and signs on streetcorners are all delivering the same message: All those fancy new apartments going up in and around Washington? The rentsmay begoing down.

The booming Washington apartment market, which a few years ago ran hotter than ever before, has slowed. In some neighborhoods there are so many new units in the worksthat developers have lowered their rent expectations or evenput constructionplans on hold.

Many of the new buildings are going up in neighborhoods that are subject of high-profile economic development efforts. In Tysons Corner, 1,721 apartments were recently completed or are under construction (not counting subsidized units). In NoMa, north of Union Station, 1,820 units were recently completed or are under construction. Around Nationals Park, the boom is even bigger, with 2,242 units recently opened or on the way.

All those new units might suggest a glut is building in the market, but that doesnt necessarily mean everyones rents will be pushed down. In fact, rents across the board went up 1 percent in 2014 andrent increasesfor lower income earners have rapidly outpaced earnings, according to a new report by anadvocacy group, the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute. In a decade, the number of apartments in D.C. renting for less than $800 fell about 42 percent,the report said.Mayor Muriel E. Bowser has made affordability a central focus of her administration.

But most experts see a growing number ofsoft spots in the market forhigh-end units think floor-to-ceiling windows, stainless steel appliances and roof-top pools that have driven the regions commercial real estate boom. Real estate services firm Cushman & Wakefield, for instance, reported at the end of last year thatthe building boom could induce modest declines in rents in2015.

Some building owners areaggressively discounting rent by 10 percent or moreor giving a month or two free up front, not to mention gimmicks such as putting a communal English bulldog in the lobby.

Good news for renters: High-endapartments are being built more quickly than they are being rented. (Delta Associates)

White Flint, an evolving stretch of Rockville Pike north of Bethesda, offers a case study ofwhat happenswhen competition gets tight.

The one-and-a-half mile section of Rockville Pike is Montgomery Countys answer to Tysons Corner when it comes to offering recent college graduates and other apartment seekers a neighborhoodwith the promise of Metro access and coming attractions like farmers markets, beer gardens, sidewalk cafes and dog parks. With the support of county officials and members of the community, a collection of like-minded developers banded together and began plotting a series of more urban neighborhoodsaround a Red Line Metro station that could attract condo buyers and luxury apartment renters.

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