FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — The Quality Inn on Futrall Drive in Fayetteville will no longer serve out-of-town visitors but instead, will become affordable housing. The Fayetteville City Council approved rezoning the motel. “I was super excited to vote on this, especially now. We are experiencing, unfortunately, a housing crisis, so there’s no better time to […]
Inside Look stories give Star-Telegram subscribers exclusive sneak peeks and behind-the-scenes reporting. Story suggestion? Editors@star-telegram.com. This neighborhood tucked away in a corner of Eagle Mountain Lake with million-dollar views has history as rich as some of the homes currently on the market. Just ask Realtor Robby Carson, also known as “Mayor of Dickson,” as in […]
New York City will build 46 new public rest rooms and renovate an additional 36 loos in city parks within the next five years, Mayor Adams said Monday. The new initiative, dubbed “Ur in Luck,” includes a new smartphone-accessible map that displays all the city, MTA and public library toilet options available throughout the five […]
LANCASTER, Pa. (WHTM) — It was a special moment in one Midstate city today, one a family had been waiting on for months. With the help of the Lancaster Lebanon Habitat for Humanity, Kenya McGrier was able to move her family into a newly renovated home on St. Joseph Street in Lancaster. Close Thanks for […]
ST. LOUIS – Memorial Day marks the unofficial start of summer, with families and kids taking in the better weather at newly renovated community pools. “We have a whole new bath house, concession stand, (and) admissions area. We have three new slides: one’s a speed slide, and then we got a blue slide that’s enclosed […]
A 2007 house that recently underwent major renovation overseen by its interior-decorator seller has sold for a recorded $13.5 million at 230 Atlantic Ave. in Palm Beach. Designer Linda Saligman sold the four-bedroom, Mediterranean-style house on the near North End via a deed recorded March 25. With 4,420 square feet of living space, inside and out, […]
Mar. 23—NORWICH — A local developer received approval Tuesday to renovate a historic four-story building on Main Street into six apartments with storefront space at street level. Stephan Nousiopoulos of Norwich presented the proposal to the Commission on the City Plan Tuesday for the yellow brick building at 102-110 Main St., owned by New Jersey-based […]
Mar. 3—Email business news to Jana Wiersema at jwiersema@news-gazette.com. . Heritage Trail continues work at Skelton Park, seeks muralists A newly renovated Skelton Park could be open by early spring, according to an estimate from Tom Oravec, Community Development Manager for Experience Champaign-Urbana. The visitors’ bureau is one of multiple partners involved in the project, […]
Friendship Fountain has its sparkle back, thanks to a nearly $8 million renovation project. The updated fountain has new pumps, lights and sound, creating a dancing light show that will play nightly at 7, 7:30, 8 and 8:30 p.m. It will operate daily from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. The fountain opened in 1965 as […]
SUNDOWN — A new chapter has begun for a storied community building once dedicated to worship but in need of a new purpose. The City of Sundown cut the ribbon on its new public library this month after hundreds of thousands of grant dollars funded the renovation of an old, vacant church into a new, […]
Jan. 4—The deafening sound of thousands of sandhill cranes could be heard Wednesday as they flocked around Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge and the newly renovated Visitors Center, which has hosted hundreds of people per day since it opened a few weeks ago. “We did a soft opening of the Visitors Center on Dec. 20 and […]