Miami Beach wants to address the scarce parking for apartment dwellers in North Beach by creating a new permit program, with a one-year trial period starting soon. The precise steps and timeline for the program are not yet finalized. Commissioners will discuss details July 24, and three community meetings are planned in July. The program […]
Designer Joe Doucet has created a wind fence that will help urban areas produce clean energy. Doucet’s system features twisty vertical wind turbines, according to Interesting Engineering, that look like DNA helices or fusilli noodles. The designer’s road to settling on this design was a long one — he originally conceived of 16 different turbine […]
Yet another Boeing aircraft has suffered yet another mid-air upset, as a jet operated by Southwest was caught on video making a terrifying, unexpected dive towards a residential neighborhood in Oklahoma City, OK. Just after midnight on Wednesday, a Boeing 737-800 en route to Oklahoma City from Las Vegas was cleared to land at Will Rogers […]
George E. Perkins Sr., the architect-builder whose construction of hundreds of west Augusta homes helped shape the city’s postwar growth toward suburban Columbia County, has died at 95. Perkins died June 15. His wife of 75 years, the former Joyce Banks, died less than three months before. If Perkins’ name doesn’t sound familiar, the names […]
Badly needed housing construction in Germany is not gaining ground, as the number of building permits for new construction and apartment conversions fell in April to well below the level seen a year ago, data released on Tuesday showed. The Federal Statistical Office in Wiesbaden said new construction permits amounted to 14,300 in April – […]
Jun. 15—INDIANAPOLIS — Inventory continued to increase in May and homes sold quickly throughout the central Indiana area, according to F.C. Tucker Company. Available housing inventory increased 26.2 percent compared to May 2023. Homes sold nine days, or 18.4 percent, faster than this time last year. Compared to May 2023, the average home sale price […]
A global human rights group has claimed that Israel used white phosphorus incendiary shells on residential buildings in at least five towns and villages in southern Lebanon, possibly harming civilians and violating international law. Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in its report that there was no evidence of burn injuries due to white phosphorus in […]
Jun. 3—MORGANTOWN — Hope Gas residential customers could see their bill rise by $6.08 per month under a proposal submitted to the Public Service Commission. The figure is included in Hope’s annual Pipeline Replacement and Expansion Program (PREP) filing. The hike represents a 6.34 % increase for residential customers. Hope wants to have its new […]
Escambia County’s Development Review Committee approved 10 residential projects during May which are laying the groundwork for more than 700 homes to be added to the county. May’s approved projects will be developed in different areas around the county, ranging from Southwest Pensacola to Cantonment. Here are the residential development projects that were approved by […]
A pilot survived after his helicopter crashed Saturday afternoon in a fiery accident in New Hampshire. According to the New Hampshire State Police, the helicopter plummeted into the wooded line at a residential property at approximately 12:45 p.m. in Danbury. Authorities said that the initial investigation revealed that the pilot lost control. 4-YEAR-OLD AMONG 5 […]
(Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images) When the Virginia Clean Economy Act became law in 2020, solar advocates celebrated. In addition to creating a framework for a transition to a zero carbon electricity sector by 2050, the VCEA and sister legislation known as Solar Freedom swept away multiple barriers to installing solar in Virginia. Among the […]
Jeff Bezos Quietly Enters Residential Mortgage Business, Giving High Interest Rate Loans To Other Investors Benzinga and Yahoo Finance LLC may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below. Jeff Bezos may be best known as the founder of Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), but the billionaire has several lesser-known business interests across multiple […]