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The city of Columbia has issued a violation notice to contractors for the Brookside on College student apartment building at College Avenue and Walnut Street for working on the site after-hours without an extended work permit.

Tenants at the apartment complex recently received emails from Brookside saying the company had obtained a permit to do after-hours construction work to prepare for a second round of move-ins to the site last week, but the city said no such permit existed.

City Manager Mike Matthes said in an email sent Friday to North Central Columbia Neighborhood Association President Pat Fowler that the city would issue a violation notice to the developers for the project.

Matthes said in the email that news coverage of the after-hours construction work "was a surprise for us, and we are responding."

He also said Community Development Director Tim Teddy would be preparing a notice of violation.

The Odle family, the developers for the 273-bed student apartment building, originally planned to have Brookside on College ready for all residents by this fall.

That plan was derailed in May, though, when a portion of the building was heavily damaged by a fire for which the cause remains undetermined.

The developers were issued an after-hours work permit for the site shortly after the fire to allow crews to conduct cleanup work. However, city officials said no such permit had been issued for more recent work at the site.

The tenants whose apartments were not ready by August were provided temporary housing at Stephens College as work continued on the complex.

Craig Van Matre, the Odles' attorney, said the developers plan to have all 273 tenants moved into the apartment building on the northwest corner of College and Walnut by the end of the month. He said crews could still be completing some items as tenants move in but that the work should not interfere.

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The future of a Lackawanna Avenue property that lies in Little Falls but is surrounded by Woodland Park remains uncertain now that a Passaic County Superior Court judge has invalidated a zoning ordinance for it.

Woodland Park sued Little Falls last year after its township council passed an ordinance that would have zoned the triangular property of just less than one-acre for a three-story, 18-unit apartment building. Woodland Park claimed that the ordinance zoned the property, which is wedged in between Notch Road and Route 46 on the Woodland Park side of the highway, specifically for the proposed developer, Daibes Enterprises, and against the public good.

The decision finds the ordinance invalid only because it does not specify the minimum number of affordable housing units to be included.

"While Little Falls had legitimate reason for the adoption of the ordinance, the ordinance's express language did not guarantee the construction of affordable housing units," wrote Judge Garry Rothstadt.

Mayor Keith Kazmark said that he understands Little Falls' need to satisfy their affordable housing requirement and need for ratable properties, but hopes Little Falls officials would understand the land is on Woodland Park's side of Route 46. He said they pled with the Little Falls council to not pass the ordinance.

"We were concerned about the integrity of the neighborhood as were the neighbors in that area," he said. "They are all significant lots with single family homes."

Woodland Park borough attorney Albert Buglione said his municipality is pleased with the ruling.

"The implications are very positive from the borough of Woodland Park's perspective in that the ordinance has been declared invalid in that the zoning for that area has been declared null and void that the project will not be built as constituted," he said.

Little Falls, however, could simply redraft the ordinance to include a minimum number of affordable housing units.

"We would hope that they didn't do that without first inviting Woodland Park to a joint work session meeting to attempt to map out a mutually beneficial plan for that property," he said. "If they were to summarily redraft that plan we would respectfully submit there are a number of areas where we can attack that plan."

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SAGINAW, MI It has been four years since Saginaw native and CBS Television executive David Strouse bought the 131-year-old building at314 S. Hamilton in Saginaw's Old Town district.

Monday, Strouse held the long-awaited ceremony dedicating the renovated TheHamilton Apartments building, which will house nine loft-style apartments.

During the ceremony, Strouse anthropomorphized the building, calling it the "hero" of the story and talking of how it sheltered businesses through the years.

"Sadly, during her second 50 years, our hero received very little in return for all she had given," he said. "If this is not a resurrection, it is certainly a resuscitation. Because our hero was at the end of her rope and had very little time left."

Strouse said preserving the historic valueof the building, constructed in 1881, was the main reason he took on the more than $700,000 in renovations necessary to ready the building for renters.

"I saved it to prove to myself and others that it could be saved, and because it was the right thing to do," he said. "This building and others like it are a part of our cultural heritage. They will never be replaced because they cannot be replaced. When they are gone, they are gone forever."

A crowd gathered along Hamilton Street for the ribbon-cutting Monday. They were then invited up to tour the nine apartments on the second and third floors of the building.

John Meyer, the construction architect overseeing the project, joined the ceremony via speakerphone from his vacation in Maui, Hawaii.

"The apartments in The Hamilton Apartments are most exciting and creative in design," Meyer said."Restoration of a historic building such as this preserves and strengthens our heritageand the historic district of Saginaw."

The group wound through the two floors of apartments, whichvaried in size and layout. All thoseopen for the tour featured highceilings, long windows looking out over the river and Saginaw River and preserved elements of the historicbuilding like wooden support beams.

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Construction on the new Riverbend apartment complex in New Providence, nearly 25 years after it was first proposed, has begun on its lot near the corner of South Street and Marion Avenue.

However, Planning Board Secretary Margaret Koontz said Tuesday, Oct. 16 that building must be halted until the state DEP issues permits to the borough. The permits are in regard to sewage and sanitation maintenance.

There is no current timeframe for those permits, Koontz said, though demolition has begun at the site.

When the Planning Board initially approved the complex construction in May, board members discussed potential issues related to the maintenance of the lot prior to construction beginning and management of soil erosion, according to The Alternative Press.

The complex, built by JAM Realty Corp., will feature 22 units in four buildings, with four of those units designated for affordable housing.

The lot wraps around a two-home apartment on Marion Avenue. A large fence and a row of trees will be constructed around that building to shield those residents from lights and noise.

There will be two entrance to the complex on Marion Avenue to either side of the existing home, with no South Street access.

Development of the area was first proposed in 1989 but moved slowly with bid auctions in 1995 and 2003. The agreement between the borough and the land owner in 1989 allotted several units for affordable housing and those terms were still in place when the Riverbend plans were finalized nearly two decades later.

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WASHINGTON (AP) U.S. builders started construction on homes in September at the fastest rate since July 2008, a further indication that the housing recovery is strengthening and could help the economy grow.

The Commerce Department said Wednesday that builders broke ground on single-family homes and apartments at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 872,000 in September. That's an increase of 15 percent from the August level.

Single-family construction rose 11 percent. Apartment building increased 25.1 percent.

Applications for building permits, a sign of future construction, jumped nearly 12 percent to an annual rate of 894,000, also the highest since July 2008.

"If there was any doubt that the housing market was undergoing a recovery, even a modest one in the face of the terrible 2008 decline, those doubts should be erased by now," said Dan Greenhaus, chief global strategist at BTIG.

Construction activity is now 82.5 percent higher than the recession low hit in April 2009. Activity is still well below the roughly 1.5 million rate consistent with healthier markets. Still, the surge in construction suggests builders believe the housing rebound is durable.

"Today's data reinforce the view that while housing is not going to be the driver of economic activity that it was in the middle of the prior decade, neither will it be the anchor on activity that it has been in recent years," Greenhaus said.

Construction activity rose in three of the nation's four regions. The biggest increases came in the West and South. Housing starts increased by nearly 20 percent in both regions. Construction of new homes and apartments rose 6.7 percent in the Midwest. Housing starts fell 5.1 percent in the Northeast.

Builder confidence reached at a six-year high this month, according to a survey by the National Association of Home Builders. The group's index of builder sentiment rose to a reading of 41. While that's still below the level of 50 that signals a healthy market, it has steadily climbed over the past year from a reading of 17.

Sales of new and previously owned homes have been slowly improving this year, and home prices are starting to show consistent gains.

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WASHINGTON - U.S. builders started construction on homes in September at the fastest rate since July 2008, a further indication that the housing recovery is strengthening and could help the economy grow.

The Commerce Department said Wednesday that builders broke ground on single-family homes and apartments at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 872,000 in September. That's an increase of 15 per cent from the August level.

Single-family construction rose 11 per cent. Apartment building increased 25.1 per cent.

Applications for building permits, a sign of future construction, jumped nearly 12 per cent to an annual rate of 894,000, also the highest since July 2008.

"If there was any doubt that the housing market was undergoing a recovery, even a modest one in the face of the terrible 2008 decline, those doubts should be erased by now," said Dan Greenhaus, chief global strategist at BTIG.

Construction activity is now 82.5 per cent higher than the recession low hit in April 2009. Activity is still well below the roughly 1.5 million rate consistent with healthier markets. Still, the surge in construction suggests builders believe the housing rebound is durable.

"Today's data reinforce the view that while housing is not going to be the driver of economic activity that it was in the middle of the prior decade, neither will it be the anchor on activity that it has been in recent years," Greenhaus said.

Construction activity rose in three of the nation's four regions. The biggest increases came in the West and South. Housing starts increased by nearly 20 per cent in both regions. Construction of new homes and apartments rose 6.7 per cent in the Midwest. Housing starts fell 5.1 per cent in the Northeast.

Builder confidence reached at a six-year high this month, according to a survey by the National Association of Home Builders. The group's index of builder sentiment rose to a reading of 41. While that's still below the level of 50 that signals a healthy market, it has steadily climbed over the past year from a reading of 17.

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