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Alta Farmers Market " src="https://media.atre.yardi.com/2/29672/images/Alta-Farmers-Market.jpg?w=300&h=137" alt="" width="300" height="137" /> Alta Farmers Market By Liviu Oltean, Associate Editor Atlanta- based Wood Partners recently started work on the development of Alta Farmers Market , a 313- unit apartment community in downtown Dallas . Located on Cesar Chavez Boulevard , the 262,000-square- foot Alta Farmers Market will feature a structured parking garage ; a club room; a fitness facility; two courtyards with a pool and two water features; a grilling area; a fire pit; and an outdoor social lounge . “We broke ground on Farmers Market just over a month ago and are making great progress ,” said Wood Partners development associate Ryan Miller in an official statement. “With the revitalization of the Dallas Farmers Market next door and a resurgence in Deep Ellum, our residents will have great access to restaurants and entertai...

If you work in retail — or know someone who does — here’s a scary statistic: Between 20 percent and 25 percent of U.S. malls will close in the next five years, according to predictions from financial analysts. It’s not just jobs that are at stake; sales tax revenue used to pave roads, hire police and light up City Hall is in jeopardy, too. Topping the most vulnerable list: Generic indoor malls of the 1970s and ’80s that have fallen victim to changing consumer tastes and online shopping (thanks, Amazon). But standalone stores aren ’t immune from the downturn, as we’ve seen on the Central Coast. Consider, for example, the Madonna Plaza/SLO Promenade shopping area off Highway 101. The behemoth that once was Gottschalks and later, Forever 21, is vacant (though some of the space will be occupied by a Sprouts market). Other large spaces, including Sears , HomeTown Buffet and Staples, are vacant as well. Not that all the news is glum; major chains like Best Buy, Petco and Kohl’s continue t...

Name: Jean Mortlock Location: Sea Point, Cape Town, South Africa Size: 947 square feet Years lived in: 3 years, owned When Jean bought this apartment three years ago, not much needed to be done at all. Unfortunately, just one year later the apartment flooded — not once but twice — and all within two months! All the floors, cabinets and carpets had to be ripped out and replaced. Luckily, this meant Jean got to choose new paint colors, rugs and flooring, which made up for the inconvenience. Jean is a photographer by trade and has been working in the advertising industry for a while as an art buyer and producer. Only recently has she decided to take the leap, follow her heart and branch out into the interiors and art industry. Judging by her home and Instagram feed alone, this is a field that Jean will excel in. Jean's home is awash with color, artwork and sentimental items collected on travels, all of which have a story and personal meaning. This has created a home with a hea...

The 'largest housing complex west of the Mississippi River' once held mostly whites of a certain age. But like Los Angeles, things have changed. And even the old-timers like it that way. Park La Brea resident Katie Shin , 5, center, leans against her father, Sebastian Shin, while friend Manasuini Perumalla, 2, left, and an unidentified boy play on the grounds of Los Angeles' Park La Brea. At 4,247 apartments, management still touts it as the largest housing complex west of the Mississippi River, but the passing decades have brought many changes." alt=" Park La Brea resident Katie Shin , 5, center, leans against her father, Sebastian Shin, while friend Manasuini Perumalla, 2, left, and an unidentified boy play on the grounds of Los Angeles' Park La Brea. At 4,247 apartments, management still touts it as the largest housing complex west of the Mississippi River, but the passing decades have brought many changes." /> Park La Brea resident Katie Shin , 5...

RealSource Equity Services paid $16.7 million for the 544- unit Pinehurst Apartments , 12301 N MacArthur Blvd., Tuesday in a deal handled by Colliers International-Oklahoma. The seller was Pinehurst Apartments LP of Oklahoma City. It was the largest apartment property to change hands in the metro area this year but not the highest-priced; that was the $26.75 million sale of The Villas at Countryside Apartments last month in Moore. Salt Lake City - based RealSource Equity Services plans exterior improvements to Pinehurst. “We designed a custom marketing plan for the seller,” said Gary Gregory, managing director of Colliers International-Oklahoma. “Our research team reviewed market data and recognized Pinehurst 's occupancy and rents were lagging the market. We then made recommendations to the owner for property improvements that would help boost occupancy and revenue.” The seller “did a terrific job of managing the property through the process, and occupancy rose to as high a...

Ilene Waterstone says Park La Brea is "overpriced projects right now." Photo by Shane Lopes Ilene Waterstone, actor- comedian Steve Martin 's personal assistant, moved into a tower at the Park La Brea Apartments on April Fools' Day in 1992. She wasn't sure what to expect. "I used to think of Park La Brea as being the old people's complex," she recalls. It wasn't long before she fell in love with it. The grounds were lush and well-maintained, her neighbors respectful and neat. Then about two years ago, things went to hell. Elevators in her high- rise building repeatedly broke down, forcing Waterstone , 64 and saddled with chronic orthopedic problems , to trudge up and down floor after floor in a dimly lit stairwell to her eighth-floor apartment. She once made the climb wet and embarrassed after coming home from a water aerobics class to yet another grounded elevator . Rats and cockroaches infested what she says was an increasingly filthy buil...

View Comments Local volunteers whip up healthy meals for Portland's 'houseless' -- along with a dollop of human connection If it weren't for Gales Creek farmer Lise Monahan and a bitterly cold night last winter, teens Katy Schlesser , Sarah Ornelas, and Heather Monahan wouldn 't have been beating eggs, grating cheese, and chopping parsley in the Forest Grove Senior and Community Center kitchen on a hot summer afternoon . Monahan was driving her organic goat dairy wares home from the Portland Farmer 's Market last January when she stopped at a traffic light and saw a few people sleeping outside. Huddled beneath sleeping bags under a doorway on the sidewalk, they had just cardboard between their bodies and the frozen ground. Remembering someone had frozen to death in Portland just days earlier, Monahan stopped to ask if she could give the sleepers a ride to a shelter. But when she called to find which shelters were available, she learned they were all ful...

Court of Appeals of Georgia. FOREST COVE APARTMENTS , LLC et al. v. WILSON. No. A15A0799.     Decided: August 21, 2015 Following the grant of their application for interlocutory appeal, Forest Cove Apartments , LLC and American Apartment Management Company (collectively, the “defendants”) appeal the trial court's order denying their motion for summary judgment in this premises liability action brought by Teresa R. Wilson after she fell from an upstairs bathroom while performing independent contractor work for the defendants at an apartment complex. Because the uncontroverted evidence of record shows that Wilson had equal knowledge of the dangerous condition that caused her fall, we must reverse the trial court's denial of summary judgment to the defendants. On appeal from the denial of summary judgment[,] the appellate court is to conduct a de novo review of the evidence to determine whether there exists a genuine issue of material fact, and whether the undisputed facts, v...