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Two people were injured at the apartment construction site on Thursday.

A construction worker was crushedunder a concrete slab while working on an apartment complex in Auckland, an eyewitness said.

St John said two people were injured in the accident and hospitalised on Thursday morning.

The eyewitness told Stuff workerswere lowering a slabnear the intersection ofPaora and Tautari Streets,in Orakei,when another slab already in place seeminglyfell and collapsed.

"There was stillpanickingthere and there's an ambulance there now. It was pretty rough."

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He said scaffolding at the Eastern Bays construction site might have stopped the slab causing even more damage.

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The construction company says the site will be "untouched" and it will investigate, as will a subcontractor and WorkSafe.

"I only saw one person but think it might havecollapsedonto another.

"Some of the scaffolding stopped it from falling all the way down," he said shortly before 11am.

Southbase Constructionchief executive Quin Hendersonsaid a 12sq m precast concrete slab was dislodged as another slab was being moved at the Paora Apartments site.

Henderson said first aid was carried out immediately and an ambulance called as a precaution.

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The Fire Service and St John were alerted after the 6x2 metre precast concrete slab fell.

He said it appeared all required health and safety measures were in place at the site but Southbase and the subcontractor involved would co-operate fully with WorkSafe.

The site and any affected area "would remain untouched" until WorkSafe arrived.

"Southbase and the subcontracting party will be conducting their own investigation."

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An ambulance was sent to the construction site on Thursday morning (File photo).

Henderson said Southbase's "immediate concern" was for the two workers' welfare.

They were fine and would be returning to work soon, Henderson said.

He said investigations typically took "a couple of days".

WorkSafe confirmed it was notified of the Orakei construction site incident.

"We are working to establish details of the incident and what our next steps might be," a WorkSafe spokeswoman said.

St John was called to a workplace incident on Paora Street at 9.58am, an ambulance service spokeswoman said.

One ambulance crew, a rapid response unit and a St John manager were deployed.

"We have treated and transported two patients to Auckland City Hospital. One is in a moderate condition and one is in a minor condition."

Fire and Emergency NZ was alerted to reports at 10.05am of a person trapped underneath a concrete slab but firefighters were stood down soon afterwards.

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Chinese state-owned media and at least one party official are spreading disinformation to convince foreigners of the success of Beijings response to the growing public health emergency of the coronavirus.

Peoples Daily, owned by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the most-circulated newspaper in China, and Lijian Zhao, a deputy director of information with the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, tweeted an image Monday morning of a building they claimed was a hospital in Wuhan, China, the center of the recent coronavirus outbreak. The publication and the bureaucrat said enterprising workers in Wuhan had constructed the hospital in just 16 hours. In reality, the picture showed an apartment building more than 600 miles away. BuzzFeed News first reported the fakes.

Chinese speed. Infrastructure maniac. The 1st building of #Wuhans #Coronavirus hospital, Huoshenshan hospital, completed construction in 16 hours, Zhao wrote.

The Global Times, another party outlet, published a story Monday about the purported construction: Amazing! Huoshenshan Hospitals 1st building completed in 16 hours! A screenshot in BuzzFeeds story showed that the Global Times used the same picture as Zhao and Peoples Daily. The picture no longer appeared in the article Monday afternoon.

Yaqiu Wang, a researcher with the Human Rights Watch who studies Chinese censorship, said the boast was not surprising, given that the Chinese government has long prided itself on quick construction.

The government wants to use the new hospital to show it is on top of things, but apparently it is not. Even the picture of the hospital is fake, Wang said.

The coronavirus outbreak has killed 82 people in China and infected 2,800, according to Chinese authorities. More than 50 million people in China are under quarantine, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a warning against any travel to China. Five people in the United States have been confirmed as infected, and more than 100 are under quarantine for investigation.

Misinformation hyping certain aspects of the governments response will undermine the entirety of it, Wang said. The memory of the partys failure to report the severity of the 2003 outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), which public health experts say worsened the diseases impact and death toll, is still fresh, she added. The New York Times reported Monday that Chinese social media sitesWechat, Weibo, TikToks counterpart Duoyinhave exploded in an uncharacteristic display of rage directed at the government, which maintains strict internet censorship.

Being able to build things quickly is certainly impressive, but the key to epidemic control is trust and transparency. However, these things are currently urgently lacking in China, a problem that is very much of the governments own making, Wang said.

Because Twitter is banned in China, Zhaos charm offensive and the false claims from state media will only reach foreigners who do have access to the social network or Chinese citizens using virtual private networks. The ministers tweets often praise China and disparage the United States.

The government had shared videos days earlier of a fleet of backhoes breaking ground on the same new hospital to deal with the growing outbreak, though the origin of that footage is unclear. Bloomberg reported that the goal for the hospitals completion was one week, though its unclear when construction began.

Coronavirus is starting to cause political friction in the U.S. Former Vice President Joe Biden published an op-ed in USA Today on Monday calling President Donald Trump the worst possible person to lead our country through a global health challenge.

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Developers of the $1.8 billion Frisco Station project are ready to roll with a third office building.

VanTrust Real Estate is ready to start construction of The Offices Three at Frisco Station, a 210,000-square-foot speculative office building.

Its part of the 242-acre mixed-use project near the northwest corner of the Dallas North Tollway and Warren Parkway.

Work on the six-story building will start before the end of the month with a completion set for late next year.

Frisco is the hottest market in North Texas and was Americas fastest-growing city in 2018, Bill Baumgardner, VanTrust executive vice president, said in a statement. With the job growth and office demand in North Texas, the projections for leasing are excellent.

Also, wellness and technology amenities in new, collaborative office spaces are key to companies talent acquisition and retention strategies, and this site will offer a premier environment for a healthy, smart and engaging work experience.

The first office building in Frisco Station was completed in 2018 and sold last year to a partnership representing a unit of MetLife.

MetLife also has an option to buy the second Frisco Station office project, which VanTrust just completed and is also significantly leased.

With the success of the first two buildings, the developer is pushing ahead with phase three.

Dallas architect HKS will design the project. Manhattan Construction is the general contractor.

The new office building will include a fitness center, conference center and tenant lounge.

Commercial real estate firm Cushman & Wakefield is marketing the building to tenants.

Frisco Station is a development of VanTrust Real Estate, Hillwood and the Rudman Partnership.

It wraps around the Dallas Cowboys Star in Frisco development.

Along with the offices, Frisco Station includes apartments, retail, hotel and other uses.

Hillwood has already opened its first, 300-unit apartment development in the project called Station House. And construction is underway on a second 322-unit rental community called Cadence.

Atlanta-developer Novare Group has opened its 25-story SkyHouse Frisco Station apartment tower on the west side of the Dallas North Tollway. Its the tallest building in Frisco.

Lewisville-based NewcrestImage Hotels has opened the doors on two new hotels in Frisco Station. The Marriott AC Hotel and the Residence Inn are the first of four hotels planned in the project.

Together the new hotels have 300 rooms plus meeting space.

The overall Frisco Station project will have more than 4 million square feet of office space, 2,400 apartments, shops, restaurants and civic facilities. A large greenbelt and park will cut through the middle of the community.

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A high-floor apartment in Miami Beach, Florida, that offers unobstructed, 270-degree views of the ocean and city skyline, is coming onto the market Tuesday for $16.95 million, Mansion Global has learned.

Located on the 20th floor at Apogee, a luxury condo tower developed by Argentine- American billionaire Jorge M. Prez, the 4,154-square-foot apartment has four bedrooms, three-and-a-half baths, a home theater and open entertaining spaces enhanced with floor-to-ceiling glass walls. It also comes with an 11-foot-deep, 2,446-square-foot terrace with a built-in summer kitchen.

The view, the space, and the architecture of the home, combined, is what makes it so valuable, said Bryan Sereny, who is handling the sale with Bill Hernandez at Douglas Elliman.

Since the building, which stands at 24-stories, is located on the southwestern-most tip of the island, the high-floor residence enjoys views of the Atlantic Ocean, the Biscayne Bay and downtown Miami Beach skyline.

With that beautiful backdrop, the sunset is incredible, Mr. Sereny said.

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The current owner is a Swiss entrepreneur, per the listing agents, who bought the apartment when the building was under construction. He closed on it in July 2008 for $7.3 million via a limited liability company, property records show.

He hired French architect and interior designer Michel Gamard to design the unit. The homes art-deco interior includes 19 different colors that speak to South Beach style, Mr. Hernandez said.

For the past few years, the family used the apartment as a vacation home and decorated it with some unique pieces of furniture, including a glass dining table from Carlo Santambrogio, who is known for the see-through glass home in Milan, Italy; an original couch of the late Zaha Hadid worth $13,000; and original Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Barcelona chairs.

The furniture is not included in the asking price, but can be negotiated separately, the listing duo said.

The home also comes with a two-car, air-conditioned garage, which can also be used as storage rooms, they said.The 67-residence Apogee, has a 34-foot lobby, a full-time concierge, a pool, a gym with massage rooms.

The large penthouse of the building was once the most-expensive apartment listed in Florida, when it was listed for $65 million in January 2017. The listing was taken off the market in May 2018.

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Grizzly Station was demolished last week, leaving only memories of midday snack runs and cheap gas stops.

Built in the mid-1900s, the gas station would host groups of 20-30 high school students every day at its pinnacle of popularity. However, Grizzly Station was left vacant for several years before being torn down last week and for a while was in the running to be the new library location.

In September 2019, the Logan Municipal Planning Commission approved a plan to construct a 75-unit apartment complex with one and two bedroom units in the gas stations place. According to the site plan, there will be four levels of living and two levels of parking on the .94 acres located at 100 West and 100 South. The plan was proposed by Jared Nielson of Mill Creek of Logan LLC.

With Logan High School just across the street, the gas station was often utilized during lunch breaks as a place to grab a hot dog, a slice of pizza or something from the aisle of snacks.

While the new apartments might not have the same appeal for teens, they are part of the citys focus on bringing more housing options downtown.

This is evidence of that, said Russ Holley, the citys senior planner. This is the first apartment building in downtown in many years.

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He said the apartments are to be named Mill Creek and because there is a height transition requirement around the high school, the apartment complex will vary between three and six stories above ground.

The project developers did not immediately respond to questions about the timeline of construction for the apartments.

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Jake Adkins took ownership of Bartlett Construction at the beginning of the year

Bartlett Construction has a new face at the helm.

Jake Adkins took the reins of the company as of Jan. 1. Adkins has been in the construction industry for approximately eight years. He previously worked for another Central Oregon company as a chief estimator.

"I looked at the numbers, I looked at where I was headed and then decided it was better that I go out on my own," Adkins said.

He was a partner in another bedrock construction business venture in 2011 in North Dakota. Primarily, he has been doing site preparation and paving for most of his career. He has been away from Central Oregon for several years, and he was drawn back to Crook County to raise his children.

"Coming back to Crook County and being able to run a business in Crook County is a blessing," Adkins said. "We are growing by leaps and bounds, but that same core is still there. I can still walk into the city office and shake hands with everybody there or walk into the court, and within 15 minutes be sitting in front of any official that we have."

"When something happens in the community, we all come together," he added.

He really enjoys supporting sports events and youth in the community.

"Those are the things that I enjoy putting my money into, because it is still that small town we are still close knit," he said. "Without that closeness of a community, it's not the same as it would be in a city and there are five schools and nobody knows anybody. And here everyone knows everybody."

When previous owner Brad Bartlett decided to retire, Adkins decided to take the opportunity.

"It seemed logical," he said.

It made sense to keep the name Bartlett Construction because Bartlett owned and operated the business for 33 years, Adkins said.

"Everything just kind of fell into place," he said.

Business operations include site preparation which includes all underground infrastructure such as storm systems, as well as public and private utilities. Currently, Adkins and his business are doing all the infrastructure for Prineville Apartment Complex, a new 135-unit complex being constructed off Peters Road north of Secure Storage.

"We are the general contractor for all of the site prep up there," Adkins said.

In addition to larger jobs like the complex, his business does a variety of work for ranchers, such as cleaning ditches, removing dams, building roads and installing and maintaining septic systems. He will be soon be expanding to add asphalt maintenance.

"It's something that I have funded and am going into in the springtime," Adkins said.

Although the scope of the business is vast, his focus is on the smaller local businesses.

"I still want to take care of those guys," Adkins emphasized. "Really the focus is the ranchers and Prineville, primarily. We branch out and we go everywhere in Central Oregon."

He has added different types of work and has expanded the payroll from three to nine employees; he anticipates being up to 15 employees by spring.

Adkins brought Rod Fulton on as a field superintendent; he was public works superintendent for the city of Madras for 25 years.

"When I took this on, I looked for somebody that was going to know the ins and outs and kind of run the field," Adkins explained. "Not that I can't, but it just gets to be too much."

Adkins stressed that Bartlett had the business for 33 years, and he has built a lot of good relationships.

"Those relationships are going to continue," he said, "and I will do my best to cater and facilitate those relationships. I will do my due diligence to make sure those contacts are met. The customers in this are the primary."

He wants to make sure that he takes care of all customers not just the larger general contractors.

"I also have this community to take care of in little ways, also," he pointed out. "I want to be able to treat that $200 job the same as the $200,000 job. That is kind of my main focus here to be able to sustain just like Brad did for that amount of time."

He explained that it will be a family-owned and operated business where his door is always open. Adkins prides himself on being a hands-on business owner, and is often on the job site.

"There is not anything that I won't ask my guys to do that I won't do," Adkins concluded.

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Dunn Development has racked up a lot of firsts with its redevelopment of the former Triboro Hospital for Tuberculosis in Jamaica, Queens, into about 200 affordable and supportive apartment units.

The Brooklyn-based firm, which is a prolific owner and operator of affordable housing in the city, is tackling its first project in Queens, its largest single-building development, and its first adaptive reuse of a historic property.

Logistically, its the most complex thing weve ever done by far, said Martin Dunn, president of Dunn.

Surveying the vast swaths of vacant patient wards, decaying office labs, and cavernous kitchens, that appears to be an understatement.

The 10-story property, just north of the Grand Central Parkway at 82-41 Parsons Boulevard, originally opened in the early 1940s as the Triboro Hospital under the watch of Mayor LaGuardia. Decades later, the building transitioned into part of the Queens Hospital system, where it was known as the T Building and began to slowly deteriorate.

The hulking, 243,000-square-foot property has experienced a bumpy road going into its third act. Earlier plans for senior housing were derailed by the financial crisis, and preservation groups had to lobby to save the property from the brink of demolition. The city eventually selected Dunn to lead the project a task that involved collaborating with community groups, preservationists and NYC Health + Hospitals (NYC H+H), which controls the city-owned property and, last June, Dunn secured a 99-year ground lease at the site.

We spent years working to build community support, Dunn said. Its a big building in a neighborhood with low-rise homeownership. We brought people to the building, and our other buildings, to show them what we do and the quality of our design and operations, to get them comfortable that were going to be good neighbors.

The final plans call for 124 affordable units, ranging from studios to three-bedrooms and reserved for low to moderate incomes, and 75 supportive units catering to tenants coming from NYC H+H.

Since kicking off construction last August, Dunn has been busy with things like restoring the marble lobby, which features original bronze radiator screens and grilles and double-hung steel windows that hint at the architectural gems upstairs. On the ninth floor, an auditorium with a stage and projection room, where visiting thespians would put on plays for sick patients, will be restored with a plaster ceiling and a rounded wood proscenium. The building also houses a solarium ward with historic bed partitions, an eerie and dazzling space that looks like it was yanked straight off the set of Sleep No More.

Agreements with preservation groups, plus the use of historic tax credits, require Dunn to retain a number of original elements within the building, such as certain 10-foot wide hallways, fixtures and certain structural elements. (Though, notably, the team has been busy undoing the work from the Batman-inspired series Gotham, which filmed there; set designers took the liberty of adding things like doors, walls and even a few sea-green archways.)

Elements that are being restored across the property include its glazed terra cotta wall tiles, terrazzo corridor flooring, oval-shaped teak exterior handrails, copper skylights, slate stairways, and brick facade.

There are so many things that we wanted to restore, said Maggie Poxon, senior project manager at Dunn, pointed to an oversized glass partition that was too bulky to save. I had some big heartbreaks.

When completed in the summer of 2021, the property will also include 12,000 square feet of office space, occupied by NYC H+H; an 8,000-square-foot community center repurposed from the propertys industrial kitchen space; an attended lobby; on-site social services; a restored library and computer room; childrens play area; roof terraces; and community, exercise, laundry and bike storage rooms.

Monthly rents on the affordable units range from $856, on the low end, for a low-income tenant in a roughly 419-square-foot studio, to $2,143, on the high end, for a middle-income tenant in a roughly 1,156-square-foot three-bedroom. The lottery for the units is expected to open in early 2021.

Dunn has even embraced the propertys past association as a tuberculosis hospital. The building, after all, is orientated to the southwest, so patients could receive a blast of afternoon sunlight through the oversized windows and cantilevered balconies.

As a tuberculosis hospital, it was all about getting light, air, and getting sun into the lungs of the people and keeping them happy, Poxon said.

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The second phase of Leland Town Center includes plans for a hotel, big-box retailer, apartment complex, and more. (Port City Daily photo/Courtesy Leland Town Center LLC)

LELAND A major commercial development is underway at Leland Town Center. Planning work has begun on phase two of the project, set to include a 10,300-square-foot hotel, at least one big-box commercial store, restaurants, and a 13-building apartment complex.

Phase one of Leland Town Center is still underway, with visible frontage on Highway 17. Chik-fil-A notably opened in December and construction of a 9,450-square-foot, multi-tenant commercial building continues this month, set to include Starbucks, Firehouse Subs, AT&T, and Heartland Dental.

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Behind phase one south of Gateway Boulevard, even bigger plans are in store.

Site plans for phase two show nearly 200,000 square feet of new projects are planned on the 67-acre parcel. An apartment complex comprised of 13 multi-family buildings totaling 312 units will be situated toward the southeast portion of the site, near the West Gate Drive and Tradeway Drive roundabout.

Behind Ocean Gate Plaza, phase two of Leland Town Center will also include a 127,000 square foot commercial building comprised of eight tenants.

Five restaurants are planned, three of which would be free-standing. A 30,000-square-foot, free-standing commercial building is also shown on site plans could this spot eventually be filled with a long-awaited home improvement retailer? In total, 15 multi-tenant commercial buildings are planned.

Palmer Williams, developer of C&S Commercial properties, said the project is still in the early planning stages.

Phase two has not yet been submitted to the Town of Leland for review. Earlier this month, C&S Commercial Properties submitted a pre-construction notification seeking environmental approval.

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An 18-story apartment building in Brumunddal, Norway, is not only the worlds tallest timber building, its also the worlds tallest carbon dioxide sink. The building's timber structure, including elevator shafts, are made entirely from cross-laminated timber with columns made from glued-laminated timber. The same materials will be used for a massive 500,000 square-foot timber office complex on the waterfront of Newark, New Jersey. In Sweden, a new development in Stockholm will see31 timber towers rise 25 to 35 stories from the waterfront to house 3,000 apartments and 30 shops and restaurants.

Wood, or more specifically cross-laminated timber (CLT), is the hot new building material due to its high strength-to-weight ratio, precise prefabrication in a factory and ease and speed of assembly on building sites. Designers also say timber buildings can be a powerful tool in the struggle to reduce global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.

Double benefits for climate protection

Trees absorb CO2 from the atmosphere as they grow and will release it if the tree decays or is burned. However, if the wood is used in a building that CO2 could be locked away for many decades, or even hundreds of years, said Galina Churkina of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Such timber buildings are carbon sinks a place that keeps CO2 from getting into the air. A second benefit from using wood as a building material is that it reduces the amount of cement and steel production, both of which are large CO2 emitters.

This matters because an enormous number of new buildings will be built as there will be 2.3 billion more people living in urban areas by 2050, according to UN estimates. If these future buildings are made of concrete and steel they may use up 20 percent of our remaining carbon budget to keep global warming below 2 degrees Celsius, according to a study by Churkina and colleagues published Jan. 27 in the journal Nature.

However, if most of these new buildings are made from wood they could store close to 700 million tons of CO2 every year. In addition, this would reduce cumulative emissions from steel and cement manufacturing by half.

We need to keep CO2 on the land and out of the air. Building timber cities can help, Churkina said in an interview.

CLT is an engineered wood product that is sometimes called mass timber. Its prefabricated using several layers of kiln-dried lumber, laid flat-wise and glued together in alternating layers which makes it far stronger while being light. Not only is CLT a better insulator, it is more fire resistant rather than burning, it chars.

Keeping climate change under2 degrees Celsius means there can be no CO2 emissions by 2050 without ways to remove it. We cant get rid of most of the CO2 from concrete and steel production, she said. That makes reducing the need for such materials and finding ways to remove CO2 from the air extremely important.

A five-story residential building structured in laminated timber can store up to 180 kilograms (396 pounds) of carbon per square meter, according to the study. Thats three times more than trees in a similar sized area of forest would naturally store. So that 500,000 square-foot timber office complex in Newark, N.J., may end up being a permanent storage site for around 8.4 million kilograms (18.5 million pounds) of CO2.

Impressive as this might be, the worlds forests store thousands of times more CO2 than buildings are ever likely to. Existing forests must be protected to avoid dangerous climate change, a coalition of forest scientists warned in a statement. The worlds forests contain more carbon than exploitable oil, gas and coal deposits, they note.

Our planets future climate is inextricably tied to the future of its forests, the scientists wrote.

How to prevent timber cities from increasing deforestation

Protecting forests from unsustainable logging and a wide range of other threats is thus key if timber use was to be substantially increased, agrees Churkinas co-author, Christopher Reyer of Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany.

Our vision for sustainable forest management and governance could indeed improve the situation for forests worldwide as they are valued more, said Reyer in a statement.

The study used complex simulation modeling to determine that there is enough wood resources available with plantations and the cultivation of fast-growing bamboo by small-scale landowners to construct 90 percent of future buildings out of timber.

Deforestation is almost entirely driven by clearing land for agriculture and for fuel, said Mark Wishnie, global forestry and wood products director at the Nature Conservancy. Very little deforestation globally is for wood products like building material or furniture, according to data from Global Forest Watch, Wishnie said.

Done right, building future cities out of timber has the potential to cut CO2 emissions and create more forests, he said in an interview.

Doing it right means managing forests on a landscape scale to ensure they continue to provide habitat for a diversity of species and maintain and clean water flows, among other ecological functions. To make a significant impact on the climate, timber construction will be needed to be done on a mass scale and there is the potential for large impacts on existing forests, he said.

Research into the potential impacts of a shift to timber cities is ongoing so that safeguards and appropriate policies can be put in place to protect forests and encourage the use of timber. These are beautiful buildings with wide open spaces that are wonderful to live or work in.

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The 2.2-acre site, at 8400 Delmar Boulevard, had been owned since 2018 by a company affiliated with AKG Development. LuxLiving acquired the property last month. The office building currently contains the Global Village Language Center, while small business Craft Central is located in a building on the parking lot.

Plans call for a five-story Element by Westin Hotel, according to University City planning documents, though the developer says negotiations with hotel brands arent final yet. The four-story luxury apartment building would be mostly one-bedroom and studio apartments, with about 29 two-bedroom apartments out of 160 total units. The developer would also add a restaurant space to the building.

University City Planning Director Cliff Cross said the University City Council is expected to take up the rezoning matter at its Feb. 24 meeting. Approval of the final plan could come as soon as this summer. Construction is expected to take 18 to 24 months after that.

LuxLiving, led by Victor Alston and Sidarth Chakraverty, has been busy in recent years. It is finishing up leasing on its new Bordeaux apartments, a 48-unit rehab of an old mop factory in Lafayette Square, and it expects to complete construction of its 150-unit Chelsea apartments on Pershing Avenue in the Skinker-DeBaliviere neighborhood later this year. It recently proposed another 150-unit building in that neighborhood.

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