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Hotel to go back up for sale [Farmingdale, NJ] The 19th-century American Hotel, East Main Street, which operated as a banquet facility and restaurant for years before it was closed at the end of 2003, will be put on the auction block for a second time on March 23 at 1 p.m. The auction will …
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The boom is gone: Home sales fall 36% in Broward [South Florida] South Florida’s five-year housing boom is over. Prospective home buyers are finding prices falling to more affordable levels. Sellers are waiting impatiently as their houses sit on the market for weeks and months, only to receive tepid interest before reducing their asking prices. …
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Affordable housing offers developer rich pursuit But spiraling land prices are squeezing such projects out of Central Florida In 1988, Alan Ginsburg decided to use the federal government’s new tax credits for low-income housing to accomplish two things: provide affordable rental housing for people, and build a thriving business for himself. He has done both, …
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55 West ready to rise [Orlando] Three years after it was first proposed, construction of the 55 West condominium tower in downtown Orlando is under way and headed for completion in spring 2008. Spiraling costs for material and labor had delayed the 32-story project, and a long list of prospective buyers evaporated as delays continued …
Buyers angered as developer misses 3 deadlines at idle condo site in Boca Jackie Badome has four bedrooms, three bathrooms and two grown children. She doesn’t need a big house anymore. So in 2004 Badome agreed to pay $360,000 for a two-bedroom condominium at Eden, a former apartment complex on Palmetto Park Road and Southwest …
A New Look and Higher Expectations for a 70’s-Style Building in Midtown For more than three decades, a 41-story telephone company building adorned with vertical white marble stripes has stood opposite the western edge of Bryant Park. If all goes well next year, that structure, most recently known as the Verizon Building, will more or …
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