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By: Aaron Payne Posted on: Sunday, February 26, 2017 < < Back to Update 2:45 p.m. An Ohio State Fire Marshal spokesperson said she erred in reporting natural gas as a contributing factor in the Carriage Hill fire . The fire at Building 12 was due to electrical wires in the building. The fire source was reportedly located in apartment 1213, an Athens Fire Department report stated . Arson is not suspected in the case. Update 2/28/17 @ 12 p.m. The Ohio State Fire Marshal is still investigating the origin of the Carriage Hill Apartment fire , but has linked a natural gas leak in Building 12 to the fire, according to spokesperson Kelly Stincer . Update 2/27/17 @ 6:16 p.m.  The report from the Athens Fire Department estimates damage from the fire at the Carriage Hill Apartments to be more than $2 million. According to the report, the department estimates structural damage to be $1.2 million and damage to the contents of the building at $1 million. Meanwhile, the American ...

Mountain View's rent- control program has already survived political and legal trials -- but what about the business test? An increasing number of apartment owners appear to be cashing out rather than working under the new restrictions. If the trend continues, some say it will lead to a cascade of redevelopment spearheaded by large corporate buyers . This scenario would result in older apartments being phased out and replaced with new housing that is exempt from rent control. Those looking at the data with a more critical eye point out that sales of apartment buildings are up throughout the South Bay, and that the number of buyers indicates a healthy interest in investing in Mountain View housing , regardless of rent control. To take one example, Fremont residents Ann and Paul Lethers decided in June to sell their 18-unit complex on Del Medio Avenue in Mountain View, which they created from separate purchases of two adjacent nine-unit buildings. They say they h...

lower Black Rock Turnpike and Commerce Drive, would be redeveloped into a five-story, mixed-use building under plans discussed with members of the Town Plan and Zoning Commission last week. Photo: Andrew Brophy / Fairfield Citizen" class="landscape" /> Bigelow Tea corporate headquarters , is being considered for the site of a five-story, mixed-use building with 102 apartments. Photo: Andrew Brophy / Fairfield Citizen" class="landscape" src="src" /> lower Black Rock Turnpike and Commerce Drive, would be redeveloped into a five-story, mixed-use building under plans discussed with members of the Town Plan and Zoning Commission last week." src="src" /> Bigelow Tea corporate headquarters , is being considered for the site of a five-story, mixed-use building with 102 apartments." src="src" /> Photo: Andrew Brophy Image 1 of / 2 Caption Close Image 1 of 2 About 2.6 acres, the former site of an Edge gym a...

Cedar Ridge Apartments have come under fire for contaminated water. (Mustafe Mussa/The Daily Campus)" src="src" /> The Cedar Ridge Apartments have come under fire for contaminated water. (Mustafe Mussa/The Daily Campus) Off- Campus Student Services have been closely monitoring the contaminated water situation in Cedar Ridge Apartments with hopes of helping students gain access to clean water. As of Wednesday, students in Cedar Ridge were still without clean water, according to seventh-semester journalism and communications major Salma Yousif who created the Facebook post that originally sparked interest in the plight of students at Cedar Ridge. “It’s still super yellow, banana yellow, it’s really bad,” Yousif said. The results from the tests run on the water show that the samples taken from Cedar Ridge Apartments exceed the Secondary Contamination Limit in both color and turbidity, according to the Microbac Laboratory Inc. Analytical Data Report given to Y...

An engineer was at the Hunters Ridge Apartments Monday afternoon , surveying the damage after a third- floor apartment collapsed during a party Friday night . . Joel Gillespie, who lives in the Hunters Ridge Apartment complex , was home Friday night when the apartment across the street collapsed. "It was just chaos everywhere. People were coming out, a few on stretchers, just people limping across the parking lot and it was just speechless, you don't know what to say about it," says Gillespie. He says it didn't seem real. "The debris inside the apartment was so thick that the firefighters, when they walked in the door, they had to step up on it because it was waist high, and then they had to duck to get under the doorway," says Gillespie. Mark Byerly is the consulting engineer called to the apartments Monday . He says overloading still seems to be the obvious cause, and the fact that those at the party were jumping to music only made it worse. ...

A mother and child. A deployed soldier. Several Ohio University students . They are among the 41 Carriage Hill Apartments residents who were affected by the fire that consumed Building 12 on Sunday afternoon. None of the residents lost their lives, but many of them lost everything else, including some pets. Eliza Holdcroft Scott and her 12-year-old son, Andrew, lost all of their belongings to the fire. She wasn’t home when the fire started and found out about it on Facebook. “I was on my way home from shopping with my parents and boyfriend in Belpre and I happened to look at Facebook,” she said, where she saw a post from her friend that talked about losing her car in a fire. Scott said it took her a moment to realize that her friend lived in the same apartment building as her. “I sent her a private message asking her if it was her apartment and she then proceeded to tell me the whole building was going to go down,” Scott said. She then realized her...

When Mayor de Blasio held a press conference in May 2014 to debut his new affordable housing plan , his full- color presentation touted a project called Spring Creek in Brooklyn. Spring Creek was flagged as a “case study” partnership between the city and developers to “create a strong, vibrant and self-sustaining neighborhood.” But on Friday, the bulk of that project remained a big, ugly vacant field of weeds and abandoned roadway in East New York. More than 1,500 of 1, 803 planned affordable units are now in a bureaucratic Twilight Zone — and may become less affordable as a result. “There is no progress from the progressive mayor ,” said the Rev. David Brawley, a leader of East Brooklyn Congregations , one of the groups sponsoring Spring Creek . Brawley said the delays to Spring Creek caused by the de Blasio administration are particularly ironic given that the mayor cited the project in his promise to build or preserve 200, 00...

By Daniel Barnett OVERLAND PARK, KS — Authorities are searching for what caused a fire at an apartment complex that took the life of two young children early Tuesday morning . Fire crews were called at about 2:30 a.m. to the Colonial Gardens Apartments , located in the 8800 block of Broadmoor Court. While on the way to the scene, units received reports of victims trapped in the complex and immediately called for a second alarm. Firefighters say a family was on the bottom floor of the apartment complex when the fire started. They say an infant and a seven-year-old were able to make it out but a three-year-old and a five-year-old were killed in the flames. The mother of the children was taken to an area hospital with minor burns. The children's father was seen walking around the area, distraught over the loss of his children. Two men were also badly burned and had to jump from a second story unit to escape the flames. They were taken to an area hospital to treat their burns and the...

Not so long ago Ibiza had a reputation solely as a party island, but these days it’s far more diverse than that. The understated vibe means the superyachting crowds and celebrities can mingle with clubbers and young families, while sophisticated beach clubs and classy harbourside restaurants and bars provide plenty of posing opportunities. And with four flights a week now running from London City Airport , the number of tourists passing through has increased by 14.6 per cent since last year, reaching a record 7.1m in 2016. Flying two hours from London to a holiday island then staying in a city apartment might seem an unusual choice, but Ibiza Town is where many second home owners want to be. It has history, a chic St Tropez -style marina, beautiful beaches and the nightlife isn’t bad either. It’s a good indicator of how the Balearic Island has extended its season to become a serious contender to its sister, Majorca. “There are flights...

STANTIALL STUDIO/SUPPLIED OPINION: Here's a question: where do you take guests from out of town on a sunny weekend in Wellington City ? Chances are Shelly Bay isn 't at the top of your list. Not yet, that is. We now have a once-in-a-generation chance to create a modern and authentically Wellington destination that all of us will be able to enjoy. A laidback spot to enjoy a picnic, grab a coffee or simply relax and watch the world go by. That's why I'm so disappointed to see opposition from the Miramar Business Improvement District to the proposed plan. What they're doing in effect is trying to keep more Wellingtonians out of the area. READ MORE: * New road in $ 500m development threatens little blue penguins' home * Wellington beach likely to be taken over by road for $500m Shelly Bay development * Ombudsman launches 'urgent' investigation into Wellington City Council * Wellington ratepayers asked to contribute millions towards Shelly Bay infrastructu...

This article is the last of a series of articles based on new research into the place of lower-income and disadvantaged households in a compact city. More and more of us living in denser cities where apartments and high-rise developments are increasingly common. This creates specific health concerns for residents of these areas, and for lower-income households in particular. We already know socioeconomic status is closely related to health and wellbeing. The importance of equity was highlighted in the 2016 Boyer Lectures. Entitled Fair Australia : Social Justice and the Health Gap, the lectures were delivered by a world leader in health inequality research , Professor Sir Michael Marmot . Further reading: Social determinants – how class and wealth affect our health Marmot examined the challenges for poor communities in achieving good health from early life to old age. His message focused on the social determinants of health. And the built environment , including its environmental co...

A £15 million ‘ dementia village ’ like no other facility in the UK could be built within Canterbury’s largest ever housing project. Plans are being drawn up for the ambitious development, which would sit on 15 acres of land to the south of the city and cater for 250 sufferers of the degenerative disease. Based on a new concept of care in The Netherlands, it would form part of Corinthian Land’s 4,000- home Mountfield Park scheme . pioneering Hogeweyk dementia village in Holland" alt="The pioneering Hogeweyk dementia village in Holland" /> The pioneering Hogeweyk dementia village in Holland Simon Wright, the developer’s chief executive, is in talks with bosses at care home provider Avante , who joined him on a trip to see the groundbreaking Dutch facility Hogeweyk in Amsterdam. “It was a real eye-opener,” he said. “What we saw was the world leader in this type of care, where people in varying stages of the illness can continue to live full lives . “You wou...