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The impacts of affordability, remote work, and personal safety on urban life

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Our respondents come from cities in four global regions: North America (Atlanta, Austin, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Toronto, and Washington, D.C.), Income level creates the most variation in agreement for this statement.

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Jeanne Gang reinterprets San Francisco Bay windows in new project design

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Famed Chicago architect Jeanne Gang is headed westward. Renderings show that the planned residential tower will be a tier of bay windows placed slightly askew on top of each other, resulting in a flowing, twist-effect. Body Image: read more.

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3 affordable housing projects that serve as social catalysts

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Eleven million people in this country are paying more than half of their income for rent, and these are low-income people,” says Richard Burns, CEO of the NHP Foundation, a national not-for-profit provider of affordable housing. Affordable housing is housing built for people who earn 80% or less of the area median income (AMI).

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Home Design Details That Add Distinction

Pro Builder

From backsplash tile to bedroom paint and beyond, blue is infiltrating and, to some degree, defining today's color palette in residential design. . . Designer: DTJ Design Builder: McStain Neighborhoods Market: Millennial middle-income Size: 2,151 square feet. . . . It’s a color that you can rely on.”.

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Location Focus: Illinois – Trying to Make Headway in Every Way

Business Facilities

According to the Chicago Tribune , “The fund will award convertible notes initially ranging from $100,000 to $500,000 to early-stage Illinois-based companies working in renewable energy, energy efficiency, smart grid, next-generation transportation and water resource management. This venture capital fund allocated with $2.3

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Sean Kavanaugh's Unique Plumbing and Mechanical Contractor Insights

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Litvin was a fairly famous hi-rise contractor and one of the first high rise contractors in Chicago doing the plumbing work for the John Hancock Building, Water Tower Place, Marina Towers (Think Bullet with Steve McQueen) and many others. My goal was to be the biggest plumbing contractor in Chicago. Three Quarters of a Business Life.

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Putting 9 senior living market trends into perspective

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For developers and operators of senior living communities, the upper-income part of the market has the most potential for financial success but also the most options. The company built what looked like a very nice residential hotel that quickly filled with relatively healthy people in their 70s and early 80s.