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bedroom floor plans and features a swimming pool, grilling stations, courtyard areas, clubhouse, fitness center and a racquetball court." /> The Citizen at Shirlington includes one- to three- bedroom floor plans and features a swimming pool, grilling stations, courtyard areas, clubhouse, fitness center and a racquetball court. ARLINGTON, VA. — Waterton has acquired Windsor at Shirlington Village, a 404- unit multifamily community located within The Village at Shirlington, a transit-oriented neighborhood in Arlington, roughly five miles southwest of Washington, D.C. The sales price was not disclosed, but the Washington Business Journal reports the Chicago- based real estate owner and operator acquired the asset for $144 million. Constructed in 1992, the property will be rebranded as The Citizen at Shirlington Village and will undergo capital improvements including the upgrade of unit interiors , renovation of the fitness center and community room and enhancement of outdoor...

The long retail spine of Sydney Road, Brunswick, just north of Melbourne's CBD, was once a prosperous trading outpost on the way to the goldfields. These days it's a bohemian mix of variety stores, op shops, halal butchers and Lebanese bakeries. Take a side street to the west, however, and a different picture emerges. Sandwiched between Sydney Road and the Upfield train line is an area undergoing rapid and widespread transformation. Light industry is fast being replaced by mid- rise apartment buildings , their inhabitants attracted by the short commute into town and cheaper prices than in the city's south-east. The quality of these units is, on the whole, depressingly bad; think poor ventilation and bedrooms that "borrow" natural light (a weasel word for being dark and windowless). The occasional jazzy façade tries feebly to make up for otherwise cheap construction amid a chorus of greys. At ground level, carpark roller doors alternate with mean pocket garden...

The long retail spine of Sydney Road, Brunswick, just north of Melbourne's CBD, was once a prosperous trading outpost on the way to the goldfields. These days it's a bohemian mix of variety stores, op shops, halal butchers and Lebanese bakeries. Take a side street to the west, however, and a different picture emerges. Sandwiched between Sydney Road and the Upfield train line is an area undergoing rapid and widespread transformation. Light industry is fast being replaced by mid- rise apartment buildings , their inhabitants attracted by the short commute into town and cheaper prices than in the city's south-east. The quality of these units is, on the whole, depressingly bad; think poor ventilation and bedrooms that "borrow" natural light (a weasel word for being dark and windowless). The occasional jazzy façade tries feebly to make up for otherwise cheap construction amid a chorus of greys. At ground level, carpark roller doors alternate with mean pocket garden...