Apartment City

Apartment department: Officials with ceremonial scissors gathered Monday to cut the ribbon at the 252- unit Costa Mariposa apartment complex in Texas City. The ceremony marked the official opening of the 7555 Medical Center Drive complex developed by San Antonio-based The NRP Group. The complex is the first affordable multifamily development completed in the county since Hurricane Ike struck two years ago. Because it targets low- and moderate- income people Costa Mariposa was awarded post- Ike stimulus funds from the Tax Credit Assistance Program administered by the Texas Department of Housing & Community Affairs . The department issued $14 million in tax exempt bonds in addition to $8.5 million in tax credits to the developers. The department also awarded the project $3 million from a federal program designed to expand the supply of decent affordable housing for moderate- to low- income families and individuals. Costa Mariposa received another $2.5 million from the T...

Two U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development top management representatives from the Birmingham, Ala., field office spent Tuesday afternoon listening to residents’ concerns at a Phenix City low - income apartment complex . Their site visit to Stonewood Apartments off 28th Avenue was sparked by a video posted to YouTube last month that shows a former resident manager berating , cursing and threatening to evict a handicapped tenant who was complaining about a faulty refrigerator. HUD Program Center Director Donna Crane and Chief Project Manager for Multifamily Housing Jalon Rush - Carter began meeting with residents during the lunch hour. They declined to comment, but said this was not a scheduled visit. The HUD representatives referred all questions to the Birmingham office , which did not respond Tuesday to an email seeking comment . The HUD investigation into the management of Stonewood, which has 50 federally- subsidized serving elderly and handicapped residents , ...

Fort Worth Business obtains some of its Real Deals content through a partnership with Xceligent Inc., a commercial real estate research firm . Country Oaks apartments in Weatherford sold The 64- unit Country Oaks apartments in Weatherford has been sold to Mercury Metroplex Real Estate VI LLC . Marketing the property on behalf of Weatherford Country Oaks LLC were Boyan Radic, Doug Banerjee, Andrew Mueller and John Marshall Doss of Greysteel Co. MANSFIELD RETAIL PROPERTY SOLD Cheney Center in Mansfield, a 11,375-square- foot retail property at 640 West Debbie Lane , has been sold to an undisclosed buyer. Philip Levy of Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Services’ Fort Worth office marketed the property on behalf of the seller, a private investor. At closing, the center was 83 percent occupied. Tenants include Comet Cleaners , Habaneros, Lucy Donuts, Fuji Foot Spa, Allstate, Edward D. Jones and Uncle Bo’s Hamburgers. SALES The Fort Worth building originally constructed fo...

Police in Pinehurst are investigating a death originally thought to have been the result of a stabbing,  Pinehurst Police Chief Fred Hanauer reports . According to a news release from the chief, Officer J. Trussell responded to the Sussex Manor Apartments at 3000 MacArthur Drive in Pinehurst on Jan. 23 at 12:23 p.m. in reference to a death at a residence there. Upon arrival at the location, he located a white male deceased within the apartment. Initial reports to the Pinehurst Police Department indicated that the victim may have suffered from stab wounds following a break-in, but Hanauer stated in the release that the investigation proved that was not the case. In addition to Pinehurst officers , officers with the West Orange, Orange and Bridge City Police Departments , Texas Rangers, Orange County Sheriff ’s Office and members of the Orange County Homicide Investigation Team , Orange County District Attorney ’s office and Jefferson County Crime Scene Unit responded and assis...

On the morning that Alfonso Maldonado Silva was set to argue his first case before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Pasadena, Ca., he was too nervous to even drink a glass of juice for breakfast. So he decided to head to court early to review the case one last time. He said a short prayer asking for wisdom, then he showered, dressed in a neatly pressed gray suit , and on an overcast morning last April, headed out the door with his evidence binder in hand. He had been up since 5 a.m. Maldonado, a third- year law student at Western State College of Law in Orange County, had left nothing to chance. This would be his first time arguing a case in court before any judge. So he had arrived the night before to stay in a Pasadena hotel to avoid the clogged commute from his Corona apartment during rush-hour. The only thing on the 28-year-old’s mind was the law. Much was riding on this case. Maldonado and his fellow law student , Cristel Martinez Medina , were representing an undocumente...