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Restaurant's footprint to triple; $1.4M renovation expected to be completed by mid-July

By Melissa Simon

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A construction crew readies the Fourth Street Eureka McDonald's location for a new building on Friday.

After a $1.4 million renovation, a larger McDonald's will rise in place of the old one on Fourth Street this summer, city officials said.

"The format of the new building was different, and my guess would be that it was easier to just tear down the old one," said Eureka Chief Building Official Brian Gerving.

Eureka Community Development Senior Planner Kristen Goetz said McDonald's approached her regarding the remodeling plans in late 2013. She managed the project through all the design reviews and permit process.

"Since they wanted to change the building by removing the basement and making the footprint of the new one bigger the old one was about 1,260 square feet and the new one would be about 4,316 square feet the permit need to be updated," Goetz said of the original permit, which dated back to 1971. "In addition to that, they need to add a coastal development permit because they're in the coastal zone which covers pretty much west of Broadway up to Myrtle."

McDonald's eventually obtained the building permit, coastal development permit and conditional use permit through the city's Community Development department with a little help from the City Council, according to Goetz.

"This permit process was a little more involved than others because the original conditional use permit approved by the Planning Commission was appealed by an adjacent property owner and it then went to the City Council," Goetz said. "The council upheld the Planning Commission's original decision and then the property went through the design review."

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Property prices in London have soared so high that house hunters are being urged to look to Shropshire for much more palatial homes at a fraction of the price.

A survey has shown a two-bedroom flat in central London would currently set buyers back around 1.1 million.

That would, quite literally, buy a small mansion in Shropshire.

But in the capital, it will provide you just one reception room and a bathroom in Kensington, not far from Hyde Park.

Estate agents Foxton, which covers London and the South East, puts the average property price in the capital at 1,178, 760. The average price of a flat is 1,061,106 while a typical house will sell for 2,482,459.

The seven-figure price tags put the properties out of the reach of many would-be homeowners. But those willing to look further afield and who dont need to commute could become lord of a magnificent country manor for a fraction of the price of a simple apartment in the capital.

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Tim Main, head of sales at estate agents Balfours, said he is seeing more inquiries from the capital, adding: It is all about the way of life people want to lead. If they want to work 14 hours-a-day and at a high-speed pace, they choose London, if they can afford it. That contrasts with Shropshires beautiful, rolling countryside.

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It's one segment of a national remodeling market that's on the mend: Homeowner expenditures on upgrades are projected to increase 3.8 percent from 2013 to about $120 billion this year, according to an analysis by the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB).

"The housing boom in the late '90s was a substantial increase to the total housing stock, so a lot of the remodeling may be to houses that are only 10 or 20 years old," said Stephen Melman, NAHB's director of economic services.

While nationwide the average new single-family home size continues to grow (it hit a high of 2,607 square feet last year after dipping during the recession), some area architects and builders are finding that the taste for large houses has waned.

In Montgomery County, for example, the median size of new homes has declined over the last decade, and more apartments are being built, county planner Brian O'Leary said.

Richard Buchanan of Archer Buchanan Architecture in West Chester said his customers are seeking smaller but still well-made homes, and eschewing some of the grander affectations of the McMansion - like those double-height spaces.

He said customers are often interested in dividing that echo chamber into two separate stories, which are more affordable to heat and offer better sound insulation between bedrooms and living areas.

"We build a floor, and add a bedroom and a bath over the family room, and everything makes sense," he said, "because you've returned to a more traditional pattern of use between private sleeping quarters and more public spaces."

Mark Fox, of Gardner/Fox Associates in Bryn Mawr, said he has also cut a few two-story spaces down to size. While renovations in newer homes are still a small fraction of his business, he said there is demand for certain improvements.

"It's upgrading: The builder put in cheap cabinets and appliances, and we're remodeling those. I haven't had a lot of additions on these homes; they're big enough as it is."

Bathroom remodels were the most-requested renovation, according to the NAHB member survey. Fox said he's also found that many McMansion-dwellers want to update master bathrooms that are fairly new but already dated.

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