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East Seventh Street ."> East Seventh Street ." /> A row of buildings on East Seventh Street . View Full Caption Landmarks Preservation Commission MANHATTAN —  Millennials, be forewarned before moving to the Big Apple: You'll need a roommate, you'll likely pay at least $1,000 a month, and don't bet on settling in Manhattan. Nearly 72 percent of Millennials shared their home with someone other than their partner in 2016, according to a report from New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer . And now is the time of year that many of these young New Yorkers are searching for new digs. The third week of August tends to the busiest single week for renters because of the flood of college students coming to New York and recent grads starting new jobs in September, according to the roommate- search app SpareRoom . The city’s streets around universities such as NYU, Columbia and Barnard will soon be cordoned off on Aug. 27 for the annual rite of “move-in day,” wh...

MERIDIAN, Miss. (WTOK) - An announcement was made five years ago about a big housing project for downtown Meridian. According to the mayor and other business leaders, that project and others are getting closer to becoming a reality. Oxford- based Chartre Companies first announced plans to convert the old BellSouth building on 23rd Avenue into Cumberland Terrace Apartments in 2012. Just last year the city's community development director , Bunky Partridge, shared with Newscenter 11 the company's plan to put a coffee shop, gym and apartment balconies for the complex. A year later, the building still looks the same from the outside. But Mayor Percy Bland says he expects that to change. "They are telling us that they are ready to move forward. We're just waiting on them," said Bland. In a statement to Newscenter 11, the administrative director for Mississippi State University 's Meridian campus says that the additional housing downtown ...

LANSDALE >> Plans for a six- story apartment building on the corner of Third and Walnut streets have been revised again, and Lansdale officials look likely to be asked to approve several waivers for the project. Developer Ross Ziegler and architect Mike Rosen presented the latest version of those plans Monday night , describing changes including a new fence next to a dog park meant to buffer the building from its next door neighbors on Third Street. “In terms of both the fence and the dog park, we’d be open to discussions, certainly, to explore what would be more desirable, or how we can come up with solutions that might make more sense,” said Rosen. “We really want to encourage the concept of pet ownership, and taking care of their pets. And we clearly have been sensitive to the neighbor issue, and we will deal with it,” he said. The proposed Third and Walnut apartment building — termed “Walnut Crossing” on the plans — has been discussed since late 2015 by various borough b...