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Orlando, Florida Based Contractor Begins New Project to Grow Senior Housing Market in Florida's Capitol ORLANDO, Fla. - Aug. 24, 2017 - PRLog -- TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (August 24, 2017) – Roger B. Kennedy Construction broke ground July 10 for the Tapestry Tallahassee Walden assisted living and memory care additions and renovations, under a contract of approximately $8 million.  Located at 3080 Walden Road and designed by Distyle Design PC , Minneapolis, Minn., the two three- story building additions and renovations will add 89 new assisted living and memory care units to the Tallahassee senior housing market when completed in March 2018. The scope of work will also include associated site development with outdoor amenities including secure courtyards and gathering spaces. The Kennedy organization has been in continuous operation as a family- owned construction business for 147 years, and opened its Florida office in Orlando in 1972.  Headed by Roger B. Kennedy, Jr., Presi...

An apartment development valued at $48 million is coming to West Ashley. Charleston-based Middle Street Partners  said it has broken ground on the 316-unit Atlantic at Grand Oaks complex on Ashley Gardens Boulevard . It's near West Ashley Circle at Bees Ferry Road and Glenn McConnell Parkway . The rental complex will feature 16 two- and three-story buildings and a 7,000-square-foot clubhouse with a fitness center, cafe and community kitchen overlooking a pool. The 26-acre site also will feature large open spaces and several grand trees for which the property is named. Apartments will include kitchen islands with granite countertops, 9-foot ceilings and screened porches. Live Oak Contracting of Jacksonville, Fla., is the general contractor. Construction should be completed in October 2018. Now renting A new 240- unit apartment complex is now open in Goose Creek. The Passage at 100 Underwood Lane, owned by Woodfield Investments and managed by CF Real Estate Services , is ...

How the fight against displacement calls for New York City’s Asian immigrant communities to defect from the “ model minority ” narrative. Media Gallery When NYU sophomore Sam Kim attended a rally outside Manhattan’s City Hall in March, he didn’t think that he would be ushered into the spotlight. Kim had learned of the rally through the local housing organization CAAAV (Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence), which called on New Yorkers to oppose President Trump ’s proposed $6.2 billion cut to the 2018 budget of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). This cut would dramatically reduce federal funding for New York City public housing , which currently provides rent-subsidized homes to 600,000 New Yorkers. Along the City Hall steps , Kim and two fellow student organizers joined a rare gathering of tenants from otherwise disparate peripheries of the city. Asian immigrants from Chinatown and Queens stood alongside Black and Latino residents of Brooklyn and the Bronx...