Development
Web Feature: Affordable Housing Sees Early Signs of Recovery
There’s no gold rush or anything but there’s talk of investors coming back into the market.
Achieving LEED Silver with Metal Frame Construction
By Diana Mosher, Editor-in-Chief Mission Walk is a development by Berry Street LLC—an affiliate of BRIDGE Housing Corporation—and the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency (SFRA). “This workforce housing is for folks who earn too much to qualify for low income housing but not enough to buy market rate housing in San Francisco,” says Richard Stacy, FAIA, Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects (LMSA), the San Francisco-based firm that designed Mission Walk. [Mission Walk was featured in MHN Magazine’s May issue. Click here to read “Development & Design: Staying in San Francisco.”] Mission Walk is on track to being certified LEED Silver. The paperwork…
Labor Pains
Passage of the card check bill is unlikely, but employee classification is picking up steam
An Early Start for GSE Reform
Multifamily trade groups mobilize to keep apartment lending on track
Fundamental Growth
Unlike most markets, Washington, D.C.’s current conditions favor the apartment owner looking to sell
Staying in San Francisco
A public-private partnership results in affordable LEED-certified condos
Student Housing: Catch the Wave
Developers, investors and managers can win at the student housing game—if they play at the varsity level
Multifamily Construction Spikes in March
The U.S. Department of Commerce reported on Friday that housing construction bumped upward more than expected in March, driven in particular by multifamily development.
Case Study: Becker + Becker Adaptive Reuse Project
With so many moving parts, adaptive reuse projects frequently take longer to get off the ground and they involve unforeseen challenges—but the results can be more interesting than those found in new construction. “We [also] think that redeveloping historic buildings is an inherently green strategy,” says Bruce Becker,AIA, AICP, President of Becker + Becker, whose Fairfield, Ct-based firm developed, designed and planned The Octagon, a high-profile adaptive reuse project in New York.
Preserving the Past
What could a Japanese pagoda, a Swiss chalet, a Dutch windmill and an Italian villa possibly have in common? They, along with eight other architecturally distinct homes share a 32-acre campus with 116 multifamily residences in Forest Glen, Md.