Affordable apartments for people 55 and older will soon be built at Quincy Village.

Lou Varella, executive director of Quincy Village, said construction of the 36-unit, three-story apartment building should start this summer along Orphanage Road across from the health care center.

The plans for the project were submitted to the township two years ago, but it was put on hold until federal low-income housing tax credits were approved through the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency. A for-profit agency, Enterprise Community Investment Inc. of Columbia, Md., has partnered with Quincy to finance the project and use the tax credits.

Quincy Village is a 360-acre continuing care retirement community that is operated by the non-profit Presbyterian Senior Living of Dillsburg.

Quincy Village offers independent living, personal care, skilled nursing and rehabilitation, care for patients with Alzheimers and other forms of memory impairment and at-home services.

Westminster Place

The apartments will be called Westminster Place, according to Quincy Township Supervisor Bob Gunder.

The land development plan was approved well over two years ago, he said. It caters to citizens over age 55 who would like to rent an apartment, someone who maybe doesnt want the upkeep of a home, or someone who has undergone foreclosure.

The apartment building will be handicapped-accessible, and some of the apartments will be designed for those with hearing and vision impairments.

Varella said the building will be a separate entity on campus, but Quincy will run the apartments.

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. -

Homeowners in a popular Nashville neighborhood are opposing a new apartment building that would bring in at least 90 new residents.

The controversial apartment building, 12th South Flats, which is already under construction, is located on 12th Avenue South, near Linden Avenue.

The new four story complex will take up take up four lots and will feature retail on the first floor and apartments on the remaining three floors.

Many homeowners, such as Ken Winters are not in favor of the new complex.

"[It's] too big and too much traffic," he said.

His neighbor Mark Scotland added, "This is a little too massive for the neighborhood and it's going to cause a lot of congestion."

Neighbors told Nashville's News 2 they have seen similar projects around Nashville and while it may work in other neighborhoods, it's just too big for 12th Avenue South.

Winters said, "This is an imported model from 1st Avenue, from Germantown, from the Gulch where the streets are four lanes and it's brought here to a two lane streetscaped street that can't handle it."

Although developers of the project have been approved by the planning department, they declined an on camera interview during a Monday night meeting to show neighbors their plans.

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Stevens Duval Apartments, the former Duval High School on Ocean Street downtown, has a new owner.

Mulligan Housing Group LLC, based in Massachusetts, bought the senior-living apartment building recently from the Ida M. Stevens Foundation for $1.82 million.

Stephen Schneider of Mulligan said as of Thursday, 50 of the 52 units were occupied. He said he simply intends to keep running the building as it is.

His company, under various names, has multifamily units in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, but the only other one in Florida is in Fort Pierce. This is his first building geared to seniors.

"It's a well-operated building, it's in great shape, so it's easy to take over," he said. "And it's small enough that we can learn as we go."

The center part of the building was completed in 1908 with annexes completed in 1920 and 22. In 1977, the School Board declared it a surplus and sold it to the Stevens Foundation for $85,000. Ted Pappas redesigned it as apartments and it was converted in 1980 for $1.7 million.

Peninsula near sellout

On the other end of history, the Peninsula at Southbank is getting awfully close to selling out. Paul Bobik of Palladium Realty Group, which has been marketing it for the past year, said as of Friday afternoon, 11 of the 334 condominium units are still unsold.

The price range: $200,000 to $1.5 million.

Bobik said the entire building had been presold in 2007. But when the bottom fell out of the market, a lot of those buyers walked away.

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159 passengers may have died in a crash in the Iju Ishaga area of Lagos, Nigeria. It seems that the airplanefrom a company called Dana Aircrashed into a two-story apartment building just after taking off. Witnesses say it hit a power line, but there is no official cause yet. (WARNING: STRONG IMAGES)

According to tweets and local blogs, witnesses are reporting burned people on the ground. The imagescaptured by witnesses in the area using cellphonesshow some dead bodies on the ground.

The airplane was an old McDonnell Douglas MD-83 with about 152 people on board, including passengers and crew. The MD-83aka DC-9-83started to fly in 1984, finishing production in 1999. It could carry 155 passengers while keeping a range of 2,504 nautical miles (2,881 miles, 4,636 kilometers).

There are no official casualty figures yet, according to Lagos emergency manager Femi Oke-Osanyinpolu, but it could be pretty high if you add the passengers to the people on the ground.

Firefighterstwo firetrucksand emergency medical teams, including 50 rescue people, are already in the area trying to rescue potential survivors from the plane and on the ground.

An AP reporter says that there are seats scattered across the area. It seems the apartment building crumbled as the firefighters were trying to put down the fiery flames and thousands of people looked from a distance.

The fire is pretty bad, as the airplane had just taken off from Lagos' airport and it was full of fuel.

It was en route to the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja, Nigeria's capital in the center of the country. Like Braslia in Brazil, Abuja is a planned city built to hold the country's administrative center from scratch. It became the official capital of the country in 1991, after construction begun in the 1980s. Lagos is still the largest city in Nigeria.

There's no official cause for the crash yet, although witnesses say the plane hit a power line. If that's true, it must have been on its way down, since the runway is not close enough to that part of the town. The weather conditions were good and visibility was 10+ kilometers (more than 6.2 miles).

Nigeria received a Category 1 status by the Federal Aviation Administration in 2010. That's their top safety rating, awarded to countries that can fly airplanes directly into US airspace. [Tondan and Opeyemi Blog, HuffPo and USA Today]

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QUINCY -- Quincy Village plans to build a 36-unit apartment building for low income people age 55 years and older.

Construction on the apartment building is expected to begin this summer and be substantially complete in spring of 2013. All common areas will be handicap and mobility accessible. Some apartments will be designed for people with vision and hearing impairments.

"We are excited to be able to offer this new level of service to the residents of our area," stated Lou Varella, Executive Director of Quincy Village. "These well-designed, comfortable apartments will complement the continuum of care currently offered at Quincy Village and enable us to reach out to serve people with limited resources."

Presbyterian Senior Living of Dillsburg operates the 360-acre continuing care retirement community in Quincy Township near Waynesboro. Quincy Village provides skilled nursing and rehabilitation services, personal care, and independent living apartments and cottages. About half developed, the site has 173 cottages, 10 apartments, a 32-unit personal care center and 134-bed medical center.

The Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency recently awarded federal low-income housing tax credits to the project.The tax credit program previously allowed development of low-income housing developments elsewhere in the county, including Hamilton Park Apartments east of Chambersburg and Sunset Court north of Chambersburg.

Enterprise Community Investment Inc. of Columbia, Md., is the for-profit partner financing the project and using the tax credits. Presbyterian Senior Living has worked with Enterprise on eight other projects, according to Varella.

Founded 30 years ago, Enterprise has raised and invested more than $11 billion in financing more than 300,000 affordable homes in communities across the nation.

Quincy Village acquired township approvals before seeking the housing credits, according to Quincy Township Supervisor Kerry Bumbaugh.

"They are set to go," he said.

Presbyterian Senior Living, founded in 1927, provides healthcare, housing and other services to more than 5,400 older adults in the mid-Atlantic region of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, and southeastern Ohio. Their website is at http://www.presbyterianseniorliving.org.

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A fire led to the evacuation of a downtown apartment building in Winnipeg on Wednesday.

About 60 people were forced out from the building at 52 Edmonton Street after a fire in the building's attic area on Wednesday afternoon.

No injuries were reported, said fire officials.

Tenant Michael Potts was feeding his six-month-old boy when they were forced to leave in a hurry.

"I heard a knock on the door and I opened up the door and a guy said the roof was on fire," he said.

Brittany Hoorne and her roommate live in the suite below where the fire was burning.

"I hope my stuff doesn't get burnt up," she said.

Officials said one apartment was damaged by fire while several others were affected by water and smoke. They said Wednesday most tenants will have to find somewhere else to stay overnight.

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Construction continues on the Savory House, a three-story apartment building on University Drive. The project is the latest from former Starkville mayor Dan Camp. Camp owns nearly all of the properties in the Cotton District, a 95 percent student-residential and commercial neighborhood near campus. Photo by: Micah Green/Dispatch Staff

Enrollment at Mississippi State University is set to increase for the eighth consecutive year and, with no signs to indicate a change in pattern, University and Starkville developers are making strides to accommodate the continued student influx.

Construction on two new residence halls at MSU is scheduled to finish this summer. Oak Hall and Magnolia Hall, temporary names given to the nearly completed buildings, each will house more than 350 students.

Director of Housing and Residence Life Dr. Ann Bailey said she expects the new dorms to be at capacity by the beginning of the fall semester and she stressed the importance of providing students, especially freshmen, with a comfortable living experience.

Bailey said a housing experience could determine whether a new student stays at MSU or transfers to another school.

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By KENNETH KNIGHT | The Tampa Tribune Published: May 30, 2012 Updated: May 30, 2012 - 12:00 AM

The construction of an apartment complex under way on Regents Park Drive is the first sign of multifamily housing in this New Tampa subdivision in at least a decade.

Tampa-based Bayfair Development is building 168 apartments on eight acres adjacent to the Pebble Creek Golf Club, company president and founder Michael Morris said last week.

It is the second apartment complex being built in a two-mile radius just south of the Hillsborough-Pasco county line.

The Bayfair multifamily community is expected to begin signing up tenants by late October or early November, Morris said.

"We will have a building ready for occupancy by the end of the year," he said.

The complex will have one- and two-bedroom apartments with standard appliances and a washer and dryer in each unit.

The size of the one-bedroom apartments will range from 800 square feet to 850 square feet, and the two-bedroom dwellings will top out at about 1,100 square feet.

No lease prices have been set, Morris said, "But we will be competitive in the marketplace."

The complex will be marketed to young professionals, upwardly mobile residents and empty-nesters interested in living in an active community in a suburban setting.

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PHILADELPHIA (CBS) A West Philadelphia nonprofit held a ribbon cutting ceremony on Wednesday to mark the completion of the $7.5 million renovation of a historic apartment building. Its one of the first major investment this area has seen in years.

Originally built in 1912, this is the second facelift for the California Mission-style Von Lour Building in the past 20 years.

Were not talking about gentrification here, were just talking about transforming a community, says Marcus Allen, President and CEO of ACHIEVEability, a group that provides affordable housing to low income families. He says the 30-year-old organization used a combination of historic and federal tax credits and banking contributions to fund the multi-million renovation.

It has 24 units. Two of the units are handicap accessible. As part of the construction, we were able to build an elevator for if we have families with disabilities.

Allen says the goal is to help restore the area near 60th Street Station to its former glory.

This community has suffered from the building of the EL; many businesses and affluent people left the community left because of that. I think now we are in a cycle where we can begin to repay the community for the sacrifices they made.

Allen says ACHIEVEability impacted the Haddington and Cobbs Creek communities by increasing property values by more $300 million over the past three decades. The group owns a number of properties in the area and provides social services to formerly homeless single-parent families. For more info on ACHIEVEability, go to http://www.achieveability.org.

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SEN. BERNIE SANDERS chats with some of the residents of Vergennes Senior Housing before a ceremony Monday marking the completion of the affordable housing complex on Armory Lane. Independent photo/Trent Campbell

VERGENNES Larry Carlson was on the waiting list for an apartment in the Vergennes Senior Housing building for more than three years. Once construction began, he checked back every week to see if he would get in. Now a resident of the newly opened facility off Armory Lane, he is thrilled with his experience.

As soon as the architect first came out, I was over to the offices and signed up. I was here every single week to check and see how the progress was coming, said Carlson.

At an open house Monday morning, Addison County Community Trust (ACCT) Executive Director Terry McKnight said that Carlsons satisfaction with the project was typical.

You can look around and see the faces of the people that now live in that building. If you talk to any of them, theyre really enjoying it, McKnight said.

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., joined McKnight and representatives of Housing Vermont, ACCT, and other project contributors to celebrate the opening of Vergennes Senior Housing. The $6.2 million facility will provide 25 affordable and energy-efficient apartments to seniors.

The facility was paid for through a mix of public and private funds, from Peoples United Bank, various Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) programs, Vermont Housing Finance Agency, Vermont Housing and Conservation Board, Vermont Community Development Program and Efficiency Vermont.

Sanders secured $380,000 for the project in a HUD grant.

This is exactly the kind of housing we should be building, Sanders said. Not only does it meet the significant need for quality and affordable senior housing , but it does it in a very energy-efficient manner.

Nancy Owens, president of Housing Vermont, acknowledged the importance of creating affordable housing.

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