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Core Construction Florida won a contract to build 108 luxury condominiums at Clermont Yacht Club off Highway 27 on Masthead Boulevard overlooking Lake Minneola in Clermont. Edward A. Storey II, director of business development for the Orlando general contracting company, says construction is set to begin in November on the $26 million project. .
To all mobile home owners, resident and nonresident: The mobile home owners need to wake up to what is happening here in Seminole, Largo, Pinellas Park, St. Petersburg and the whole Tampa Bay area. We need to group together as mobile home residents, which is the only affordable housing in the state of Florida, and we all need to get out and vote.
We have to get Janet Long to Tallahassee. Dottie Reeder had her chance to put a building moratorium in Seminole. She chose not to for whatever reason, so therefore I feel she cannot help us in Tallahassee.
We need to get Janet Long to Tallahassee. We the mobile home owners can do this. We also need to get Jim Davis in Tallahassee as a new governor. I feel that the Democrats need to get Florida back.
In Seminole, we need Leo Plenski.
Public housing in New Orleans has a date with the wrecking ball, and residents, activists and their attorneys need to accept the harsh reality of a post-Hurricane Katrina world, attorneys for the Housing Authority of New Orleans say in court responses to an ongoing civil rights lawsuit.
Former tenants this year sued HANO and the Department of Housing and Urban Development for closing four of the largest New Orleans developments. The plaintiffs depict the HANO-HUD plan as racist: a cold-hearted abandonment of the poor that violates their civil rights.
HANO denies any wrongdoing and, in its most detailed response to critics since the levees failed 13 months ago, says it cannot afford to repair what the floodwaters damaged. So does its co-defendant HUD, the federal housing agency that has directly run HANO since 2002 after finding rampant mismanagement that stretched across two decades.
Developers of the Shelburnewood Mobile Home Park hope to solicit public comment on the project that could soon become Shelburne's largest planned mixed-income neighborhood.
Housing Foundation Inc. will hold a public workshop Tuesday to present information and invite comments about the project, said Krister Adams, housing development specialist with the Vermont State Housing Authority. Adams said preliminary plans call for 160 to 180 housing units on 42 acres, and many of the homes would be affordable housing. The 25 mobile homes on the property would remain, but none would be added, Adams said.
"It's not our intention to create or promote sprawl, but to actually integrate a neighborhood within the historic village of Shelburne -- to knit a neighborhood in there.
One Rancho Mirage man is still in the hospital with severe burns after his mobile home explodes overnight. It happened near the corner of Highway 111 and Peterson. Fire officials say a propane leak is to blame. Many residents at the Rancho Mirage RV Village couldn't take their eyes or their camera phones off this incredible sight: what's left of a neighbor's home. "We heard this horrible bang. It sounded like windows breaking. Our windows vibrating." "I looked outside the window. The whole trailer was just gone." The neighborhood's rude awakening occurred shortly before two o'clock Tuesday morning. "The trailer moved like this. I jumped out of bed." The Riverside County Fire Department says a leak in the home's propane tank caused the big bang shattering nearby windows and piercing through neighbor's walls." "I think it's nuts, really." Neighbors can't believe the man who lives in this home made it out alive.
LONGVIEW - A half-dozen new commercial buildings are nearing completion in Longview, and with more on the way, the area is deepening its economic roots, city and business leaders say. New buildings and stores mean rising tax revenue for Longview, jobs for area residents and services for a growing population. "All of these represent a positive outlook for our community," Longview Finance Director Kurt Sacha said. In 2005, there were 124 permits for commercial projects in Longview. So far this year, the city has issued 127. It's too early to know how much tax revenue and jobs those new and expanded offices and retail business will generate, Sacha said. However, the new buildings already have increased property tax revenues, and a healthy commercial sector is a good indicator of overall economic health.
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