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The Richardson family has proposed a $20 million apartment complex in west Greeley, just south of Aims Community College. The plan is to have 142 units couched in six three-story buildings. The family opted to start construction this summer, and have apartments occupied by the end of the year.

For eight years, a massive lot south of Aims Community College helped Greeley landscapers bloom their gardens and sharpen residential curb appeal.

Come this year, it will be the site of a $20 million luxury apartment complex courtesy of the Richardson clan, led by father Arlo Richardson and his sons Tyler, Collin and Logan, daughter Amy Boyd and her husband, John Boyd.

The Richardsons, having divested much of their Greeley oil and gas assets through Mineral Resources Inc. last year, have taken some of the proceeds and dreamed up a luxury apartment complex that will once again bring life to a lot that has sat empty since 2008.

The Richardsons have owned and operated Mineral Resources, an oil and gas development company, not even a block away for years.

Its pretty simple, said Tyler Richardson, vice president for real estate for the Richardsons companies. Most of us live nearby in the neighborhood and drove by the location every day for last several years. Weve seen it as kind of a blighted corner. It didnt seem to have its highest and best use. We looked at it every day, and talked on a regular basis on what might work there for development.

The family, who now has several real estate and commercial projects through Richmark Holdings, also knew their market. The Greeley area has been booming for three years with oil and gas development, which has resulted in a housing shortage. The obvious idea was to give people a place to live.

It caught my eye every morning on the way to work, Richardson said.

We thought it would be really beneficial to the community and the area. Theres a shortage of multifamily housing in Greeley, and housing in general. And its a good size.

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7 hours ago Energy saving traffic lights in Japan are failing to melt snow covering them

Energy-saving LED traffic lights seemed like a cool way to cut back on electricity costs, but Japanese police said Monday they might just be too coolbecause they don't melt snow.

Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) account for around 45 percent of all of Japan's stop-and-go signals and that proportion is growing as local authorities cotton on to their economising possibilities compared with regular incandescent lights.

But in wintery northern Japan the lights have encountered a problemdrivers can't see them because they don't get warm enough to melt accumulated snow.

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More than three years after a pitched civic battle over the future of the Old Town Alexandria waterfront, the vision of a new front yard for this historic city is beginning to take shape.

The City Council last year adopted a $120million landscape design and project plan created by Olin Studios. But it may be years before residents and tourists see the lush parks and fountains in operation; Alexandrias plan is to focus on infrastructure and development first.

Residents told city officials over the winter that they wanted a solution to the notoriously flood-prone streets adjacent to the Potomac. The council will determine March3 what funding to allocate to flood mitigation. Storm-sewer work is underway, and planning officials are studying how to raise the grade of streets on the southern end of the waterfront area and build the bulkheads necessary for a waterfront walkway.

We have to get funding in place, we have to get the design done and we have permitting processes to complete, all of which could take three years, said Emily Baker, Alexandrias acting deputy city manager.

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First to build probably will be the Old Dominion Boat Club, which last year accepted a $5million buyout offer from the city for its clubhouse and parking lot at the foot of King Street.

The boat club will move a few hundred feet south, to the site of the vacant Beachcombers building, which it will raze and rebuild as a three-story, 12,000-square-foot club with a roof deck and boat launch.

The old clubhouse will be demolished and will form part of a city park, dubbed Fitzgerald Square. The boat clubs architect told the citys waterfront commission last week that he hopes the facility will open in 18 months.

Designed to incorporate maritime touches such as outdoor stairways, the clubhouse probably will be built before the city creates the waterfront promenade, a walkway intended to connect the entire area. A fenced parking lot will be directly south of the clubhouse, and a temporary boat ramp will be used until the promenade is built and a permanent ramp is installed.

Five blocks north, the retail-residential-hotel project at 500 N. Union St. could be under construction by late 2016. It is on the site of the old Robinson Terminal North. City Interests LLC bought the property from The Washington Post Co. in late 2013.

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