The system uses information from occupancy sensors to turn off lights in
vacant areas of the building.
Not exact matches
In urban
areas, lack
of vacant plots
of land is driving more and more urban farmers to produce food upwards on the side
of buildings rather than outwards.
When the new library is
built in the New Lenox Commons
area north
of Village Hall, the old
building will be
vacant.
Don Wenzel, vice president
of the S Group, which converted the 2027 - 2029 W. Pierce
building, said that the next step for Wicker Park would be new construction on a number
of vacant lots that still remain in the
area.
Oneida County began holding the Public Market in June at the
vacant Railway Express Agency
building at Union Station and has seen the participation
of area farmers, produce growers, prepared food purveyors and craft vendors grow each week since.
In his letter, Towns explained the money provided «coordinated investment» with Rochester, and community revitalization
of an
area through the partial demolition and re-use
of a dilapidated, long -
vacant building «having a blighting impact on the surrounding
areas.»
The Seward Park Urban Renewal
Area, or SPURA, consists
of five undeveloped lots just south
of Delancey Street that have sat
vacant for more than 40 years after the city razed the site's former tenement
buildings and displaced thousands
of residents.
What they found instead was a
vacant lot at the corner
of Annunciation and Orange in the Lower Garden District where they plan to create a campus
of modular
buildings, but soil tests
of the playground
area there have revealed lead contamination in the soil that exceeds federal limits by 10 times or more.
As a compromise, the city offered to let Colab choose another
vacant building in the
area, as 125 Delancey had been selected to be part
of a massive renewal project that was supposed to invest the whole neighborhood.
The collective hopes to slow the advance
of luxury real estate in the
area by buying a
vacant lot and
building a community health center focused on medicinal plants and herbs.
Creating more urban farms and more food production centers closer to where the market is, whether they are traditional outdoor growing
areas, rooftop farms, indoor hydroponic and aquaponics systems, vertical farms, or
vacant lot gardens, can go a long way toward
building a more resilient local food system and reducing the ecological footprint
of our diets.
In some
areas, there may not be a huge amount
of buildings to source materials from, so it might not be quite as simple as in other
areas, where houses, barns, sheds, and even commercial
buildings are standing
vacant, in part because
of the country - to - city migrations that have been happening for the last few decades.
This has included not just the land on which existing infrastructure is
built, but also large
areas of vacant land.
In 1994 when the military moved out, this
area was surrounded by barbed wire and filled with 1,000
vacant, mostly dilapidated
buildings, says Hilarie Portell, director
of public relations and marketing for the Lowry Redevelopment Authority, which supervised redevelopment.
«Red flags include things like a new highway being
built [in close proximity to the house], an increased number
of short sales, foreclosures and
vacant properties, but even the number
of rentals in an
area can be cause for concern,» says Lisa Frushone, a Pennsylvania real estate agent.
Looking at listing may not need full rehab, new roof and water heater done, 3br in neighbor run 900 to 1000, rehab for low maintenance, try to buy as low as you can, look at comps, probably could go in as low as 38 - 42 with good agent and stress as is, maybe a few agents here to help, get one to give you good numbers not listing agent numbers, street is a nice one for
area, not much back yard or parking but nice front, before you close make sure
vacant contingent, if numbers work I would do it, the are predicting an abundance
of rentals avail next year with
building craze but keeping expense low you should be safe, remember don't rehab as if you are living there, think durable and repaintable, number should go into systems and structure first, elect, heat, walls, windows, floors, plumbing, if you use a contractor go with one you know or work with someone in
area to keep an eye on progress, good luck at least you know some
of the history
of the property
Areas of expertise: Apartments, Industrial
buildings, Condominium developments, Warehouses, Office complexes Multi-use facilities, Government edifices,
Vacant Land, Gas Stations, Restaurants, Commercial properties
I knew a out
of town investor in a different
area that the PM was saying the
building was
vacant and all the while collecting and pocketing the rents.