Archive for the ‘Construction’ Category
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A sign of the housing market times
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This comes via the finance blog Calcutated Risk. A developer in Victorville, an eastern suburb of Los Angeles, has paid to demolish a bunch of model homes that were all built, or at least almost-built, but never occupied. The city of Victorville was fining the builder, apparently, for leaving the [...] -
More new houses! Whoopee! (Or maybe not)
Two seemingly unrelated news tidbits crossed my desk today. One is the unexpected report from the Commerce Department that nationally, home construction is up 22 percent. The AP reports that both housing starts and permit applications are higher than economists were predicting, largely due to an uptick in apartment construction.
The other bit of news [...] -
A little complaining goes a long way
A little while back, while reporting on job growth in East Baltimore, I drove past the sign pictured above, outside the shop of A&B Flooring at 5401 Erdman Avenue.
Nosy reporter that I am, I stopped to take a photo, and made a few notes about the name of the business, the location, etc, when suddenly, [...] -
Great renovations
People who are renovating their homes, or planning to do so, may be featured on a new HGTV reality series that will air this fall.
“My Big Amazing Renovation” is the brainchild of Denver-based High Noon Entertainment. The production company sent out a release saying it’s coming to Baltimore and surrounding areas to film homeowners who [...] -
Thieves get copper-happy in HoCo
When I visited Chicago last month, my colleague and I noticed reports of theft of stainless-steel appliances from residential construction sites. My colleague shared that in his hometown of New Orleans, residents often complain of copper pipe thefts from home sites under construction.
Turns out the theft of this valuable metal doesn’t always happen so far [...]