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How Private Housing Additions Are Creating a Back-Alley Market

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How Private Housing Additions Are Creating a Back-Alley Market. Backyard units and clandestine add-ons are shortcutting legal housing but solving a national affordability crisis at the same time. Housing Markets. Infill Housing. Infill Housing. Infill Housing. Mon, 12/20/2021 - 10:13. Affordability.

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Converting downtown office into multifamily residential: Let’s stop and think about this

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Converting downtown office into multifamily residential: Let’s stop and think about this 0 dbarista Tue, 07/11/2023 - 10:44 Multifamily Housing Is the office-to-residential conversion really what’s best for our downtowns from a cultural, urban, economic perspective? Or is this silver bullet really a poison pill?

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Structural engineering solutions for office-to-residential conversion

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faces a housing deficit of 3.8 Issue 2: Adding natural light Housing facilities require exterior views in living units and it’s important to consider how this can be accomplished in an office conversion. Determining whether the floor plate is made of concrete, steel, or wood has a significant impact in the feasibility of a project.

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BUSINESS REPORT: West Virginia — Italian Gas Systems Supplier Plants Flag In Weirton

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Pietro Fiorentini group decided to invest in West Virginia after completing a feasibility study that covered several states of the nation. Temporary housing for a company’s key person during the project’s construction phase. GDP (All Industry 2010): $66.8 Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Department of Commerce.

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LOCATION FOCUS: Texas: Big Heart, Country, Business

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Housing and hotel occupancy rates speak for themselves as they have been at 100 percent full occupancy for over the past year. Many new housing developments are in construction to satisfy this overwhelming progression but catching up with this type of growth is no small task. billion.

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COVER STORY: 2013 Business Facilities Rankings Report – Metro And Global Rankings

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Inspired by New Urbanism design principles, the complex will include an office building that will house the new IBM Services Center, as well as a separate, 11-story residential building with 95 river-view apartments and nine separate town homes. billion over 10 years.

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STATE INCENTIVES GUIDE

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In-House Research and Development – New and existing eligible businesses that conduct “in-house” research that qualifies for federal research and development tax credits may qualify for in-house research income tax credits. This tax credit is applied to a tax payer’s state tax liability.

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