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Benito Lucio worries that memories of the 10 people killed in a Prairie Township fire a decade ago are as abandoned as the memorial where their apartment building once stood.

To see the memorial today with weeds, its obvious people have forgotten, Lucio said last week.

Gone are the candles and flower-draped white crosses that honored the 10 people, including three young children, who lost their lives on Sept. 12, 2004.

One of three markers lies broken among tall weeds and uncut grass. A boulder surrounded by a semicircle of pavers is dwarfed by the boarded-up remains of the former Lincoln Park West apartments.

So many lives gone, just like that, Lucio said as he stood in front of the memorial. I cant help but wonder what would have become of those three little children if things had been different."

The fire was ruled arson, but the crime has not been solved a fact that Lucio finds disheartening.

The retired migrant-worker monitor for the state said he will talk about the fire today on his local Spanish-language radio show. He wants to encourage anyone with information to come forward.

People who do bad things are supposed to get punished, he said. We cant rest until that happens in this terrible tragedy.

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Architecture is not just slow. It's a hurry-up-and-wait profession at its core, chancy and contingent, as vulnerable to the cold feet of clients as the whims of capital markets. During the Great Recession, as financing dried up and confidence cracked, the construction of important new buildings in Los Angeles ground nearly to a halt.

And so this fall, which brings with it a number of significant architectural debuts, is both welcome and a little alien: For the first time in nearly a decade, thanks to a stronger domestic economy and an influx of investment from China, South Korea and elsewhere, a steady supply of ambitious, market-tested architecture is emerging from the city's cultural pipeline.

The crop includes ground-up projects by some of L.A.'s most talented architects. The city is also learning to reuse its underappreciated older buildings in inventive ways.

All in all, it's a season of marked if still cautious revival for Los Angeles architecture: a fall that feels more like a spring.

An improving economy tends to produce what might be called a reverse domino effect. A big project coming out of the ground pulls up others by sheer force of momentum. Witness the buildings, good and mostly bad, sprouting like mushrooms in the shadow of L.A. Live's Marriott hotel tower downtown.

Even stalled projects can have this effect. Opening next month on Bunker Hill, across a new plaza from Eli Broad's delayed contemporary art museum, is the Emerson, an expedient-looking residential tower by the firm Arquitectonica with 271 apartments on 19 floors.

More impressive models for new residential architecture have popped up in Santa Monica, where the second phase of the Expo Line is expected to begin running to the beach by early 2016 and where a mid-rise collection of condos and apartments has just opened across the street from popular Tongva Park. Divided into a section of affordable rental units by Koning Eizenberg and condos by the Santa Monica firm Moore Ruble Yudell, the complex offers a compelling combination of spare neo-modern design and generous open space.

An expanding transportation network is also producing new architecture in Orange County, where the $190-million Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center, or ARTIC, will open in late fall.

As designed by architecture firm HOK and engineers Parsons Brinckerhoff, the station may seem an overly grand arrival hall for the scant number of passengers it is likely to attract in its first years of operation. Enclosed under a wide roof covered with pillowy ETFE (ethylene tetrafluoroethylene) panels, it was designed in part to hold high-speed trains that won't begin running for about two decades, if ever; perhaps over time the train-riding population in the O.C. will grow to match its magisterial scale.

The colleges and universities in town, many of which kept building at least modestly during the recession, with endowments or fundraising efforts robust enough to withstand the downturn, are now accelerating those efforts.

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A New York property developer is offering the uber-wealthy the opportunity to buy a condo parking spot for a cool $1m merely six times the value of a typical American home.

The 10 parking spaces are for sale at 42 Crosby St, the luxury apartment building under construction in the SoHo neighbourhood in Lower Manhattan.

Based on the $1m price tag, the spots are probably the most expensive residential car spaces in the country, said the broker marketing the seven-storey building.

Anyone who lives in Manhattan and has a car knows that parking is a premium in the city, said Shaun Osher, chief executive of the brokerage Core. Theres definitely a large demand and a short supply.

Prices for the parking spots compare with the US median single-family home value of $174,800, according to real estate website Zillow. For that price, however, there are few if any residences for sale in trendy SoHo, known for its high-end fashion shops and art galleries

Osher said he expected residents of the 10-unit building to snap up the parking spots when the underground spaces, which were approved for construction this week, hit the market.

The building, designed by German-born architect Annabelle Selldorf, will include 10 luxury condominiums priced at a minimum of about $8m each with private elevator access.

The 14-19 sq m parking spaces will be offered under a 99-year license to tenants, who will have the right to transfer or sell their parking spaces to other building residents.

The pricey spaces will not lack for amenities. Osher said they would come with storage space and electric car charges.

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: From left, Maurice Deveze, David Templeman and Stephen Gaffey, with his son, Jim, are unhappy with a development application for consent to replace a four-bedroom property with four double-storey townhouses. Photo: Jay Cronan

Residents of a Red Hill street have united in opposition to plans to build four townhouses on a block, claiming the development would undermine the area's character and neighbours' privacy.

The 28 objections to plans for the double-storey construction in Borrowdale Street a short road with only 19 properties included fears school children would be endangered by extra traffic.

With a decision from the ACT Planning and Land Authority now due, the chairman of the street's residents' association, David Templeman, said the 15-bedroom development would be an eyesore.

"[The owner] could probably do reasonably well out of two properties, sell relatively quickly, with reasonable garden areas and all those sort of things, without having the proposition of cramming so much into one block and making the thing look like a bloody ocean liner in the middle of the street," Mr Templeman said.

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The plans to replace the four-bedroom home on the 1405-square-metre block were lodged in December and amended slightly in May.

They received the support of the Territory and Municipal Services Directorate, which rejected pedestrian safety fears connected with the lack of a footpath.

A TAMS senior manager told Mr Templeman in June development on the property bought for $1.06 million last October would increase traffic by less than 24 vehicles a day, or by an "insignificant" three vehicles during peak hour.

A qualified planner engaged by the residents' association said the proposals failed to comply with required setback distances and privacy standards. The developer has disputed privacy breaches, and privacy screens are planned for the northern second-level windows.

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WILBER - Plans for a $4 million addition to the Saline County courthouse are focused on accessibility.

Currently, the courthouse lacks an elevator. The stairwell does feature a chairlift, but Saline County Treasurer Debbie Spanyerds, a wheelchair user whose office is located on the second floor of the building, said most customers dont like to use the lift. As a remedy, Spanyerds sends clerks downstairs to meet customers who are unable to travel to the upper-level floors.

I really kind of feel that doesnt give them the dignity, Spanyerds said. I think theyd like to come upstairs and take care of the business themselves.

Saline County Commissioner Willis Luedke said many of the notable features of the new addition will remedy most of the accessibility issues. The addition will include an elevator as well as a second stairwell to meet fire safety codes. Restrooms which meet the current Americans with Disabilities Act standards also will be added.

The restrooms on the second and third floor are not handicap accessible because they have a step up into them, Luedke explained. Well be eliminating those restrooms on the second and third floor and putting in handicap accessible restrooms in the new addition.

Another concern at the courthouse is a lack of separation between inmates and visitors. Currently, prisoners are held in the public corridor just outside of the county courtroom while waiting for court hearings and trials. That's also where the public waits before entering to take drivers license exams.

Were adding a sally port in the basement level of the addition, Luedke said. Law enforcement will enter the sally port, unload the prisoners, get them into the elevator and take them directly up to the first floor or third floor for either county court or district court. Theyll then be held in a holding room until its time for them to appear in court. That keeps them out of the flow of traffic for the general public.

Originally, the county had planned to break ground on the courthouse addition by Oct. 1. Luedke said a start date is currently unknown. He said he hopes construction can begin later this fall or early next spring.

Were doing extensive planning so that the remodeling will meet the needs of the various offices that are affected by it, Luedke said. We also want to take into account the general public when they come in. How can we best meet their needs within the confines of the building that we have?

Luedke said according to feedback he has received regarding the project, the public appears excited for the upcoming changes.

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