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What's next for affordable housing in 2024?

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What’s next in terms of trends, technology, and construction of affordable housing? What’s next in terms of trends, technology, construction? What are some emerging trends in terms of how affordable housing is designed and constructed? Construction. Where is it taking place? Who’s doing it?” Design Matters.

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Passive House is “In” in 2017

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Several mid-rise residential projects currently under construction will more than quadruple the number of available units and triple the square footage of Passive buildings. And there is Cornell University’s 250 foot tall 26 story high rise under construction on Roosevelt Island that may be the tallest and biggest Passive building.

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Game Winner

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Earlier this year, we told you how Las Vegas purloined the NFL’s Raiders from Oakland, CA after Clark County, NV agreed to finance $750 million of the cost of a new $1.9-billion Construction has begun on a $115-million, 243-room hotel that includes a 25,000-square-foot conference center and 65,000 square feet of retail space.

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INDUSTRY FOCUS: Points of Entry for Cash-Rich Cargo

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The company plans to construct an $8-million facility in the southeast area of the airport. The port generates more than $5 million in tax revenue every year with existing projects, which will nearly double in the short term as projects under construction and in negotiations are built. More development is on the way.

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Cracking the code of affordable housing

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“What we’re trying to do as a practice is be the leaders and stewards for design principles and quality of life for affordable housing,” says Principal Steve Line of VIA—A Perkins Eastman studio, who works in Oakland, Calif. Sustainable Senior Living Construction is well under way in Yonkers, N.Y.,

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FEATURE STORY: High-Tech Hubs Are Moving To Their Markets

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as well as co-working space such as Revv Oakland, Beauty Shoppe and StartUptown. Samsung recently announced it will invest nearly $4 billion dollars to expand and renovate its manufacturing plant, creating 600 new permanent jobs and 3,000 construction jobs. Samsung’s total investment in Austin now exceeds $13 billion.

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STATE INCENTIVES GUIDE

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SALES & USE TAX ABATEMENTS: Taxes on construction-related transactions, pollution control devices are exempt from sales and use taxes. ENTERPRISE ZONE CREDIT: To stimulate growth in depressed areas of the state, Alabama offers certain tax credit incentives to business that locate or expand within a designated enterprise zone.

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