Apartment City

Over the next week, SouthBMore.com will be posting development photo tours of all the projects under construction in South Baltimore . This tour features development in Otterbein, Federal Hill, and Sharp-Leadenhall. Check out SouthBMore.com’s South Baltimore Development Rundown for information about all the real estate projects under construction, recently completed, or in planning in South Baltimore . 414 Light Street The currently under- construction 414 Light Street development will include 394 apartments, 40,000 sq. ft. of outdoor and indoor amenity space , 12,300 sq. ft. of ground floor retail space , and a 550- car parking garage . More than 25 floors have been constructed and exterior glass is being installed. The site was formerly a McCormick & Company spice factory . Each of the building’s 41 floor plans will be named after a spice. 414 Light Street will offer studio, one-bedroom, and two-bedroom apartments. More than half of the units will have private balconies. Ba...

At the five-unit condo at 3525 14th St. NW, a new development by Congressional Properties, units are priced from $599,900 to $649,900. (Benjamin C Tankersley/For The Washington Post) Home buyers always hope to purchase at the right moment in the housing market and in the right location, preferably one where new development will add value. Condominiums have been rising for years on streets near the Columbia Heights Metro station and the Georgia Avenue- Petworth Metro station , yet developers always seem to find new locations to squeeze in more. The five-unit condo at 3525 14th St. NW, a new development by Congressional Properties, was a small retail business on the ground floor with an apartment above, says Brian Athey, founder and president of Congressional Properties in Washington. “We like that location a lot because you can walk to Metro very easily and get to restaurants and shops, but the immediate area along 14th Street is still changing pretty quickly ,” Athey says. “We fee...

OMAHA, Neb.--( BUSINESS WIRE )-- Marcus® Hotels & Resorts , a division of The Marcus Corporation (NYSE: MCS), and Marriott Hotels announced today the official opening of the Omaha Marriott Downtown at the Capitol District in Omaha, Neb. The 333-room, 12-story hotel is the first new full- service premium hotel to open in Omaha in more than a decade. It also serves as a major anchor of the Capitol District, an upscale urban destination dining and entertainment district located in the heart of downtown Omaha . Marcus Hotels & Resorts is a minority investor in the property and is managing the new hotel. “We are thrilled to officially welcome guests to the Omaha Marriott Downtown located in the city’s first entertainment district, the Capitol District. Led by General Manager Steve Hilton , the hotel team has spent countless hours over the past year ensuring that the Omaha Marriott Downtown is an exceptional place to stay, meet, relax, dine and celebrate,” said Joseph Khairal...

After five years and the demolition of a former car dealership site on Main Street, Royal Oak will see a Hyatt hotel, a mixed-use building and a parking deck by next year, a developer promised. “I think you’re going to see a lot of action at that site from here on out,” Greg Cooksey of Trailhead RO LLC told City Commissioners . He added the timeline for project completion is September 2018. Cooksey has worked in a development partnership on the project with Versa Development in Southfield. City Commissioners approved a few changes to the proposed project Monday night and preliminary construction is underway at the former Jim Fresard Pontiac -Buick- GMC dealership site just north of 11 Mile Road. Advertisement The six-story hotel is designed to have 123 rooms on the top three floors, a bar cafe in the lobby, over 1,600 square feet of meeting rooms and a 4,400-square-foot restaurant on the ground floor, and 18,000 square feet of office space on the second floor. An eight...

More than three years after the proposal for new apartments and retail at 2340 N. California Avenue first surfaced, the project’s developers have finally broken ground . According to developers Hunt Investment Management and Savoy Development , workers have finally begun constructing a new six-story building at the site. The project, which currently does not have a formal name or branding yet, will eventually deliver 138 apartments , 44 vehicle parking spaces , and roughly 9, 000 square feet of ground floor retail space to the booming Logan Square neighborhood by fall 2018. While it was proposed around the same time as other nearby transit-oriented developments that have been completed and open for at least several months, the plan to develop on California had experienced a number of alterations and setbacks since it was introduced in April 2014. Originally dubbed “California Studios,” the plan from Savoy Development sought a dense 66-unit project with 63 units being studio apar...

Marcus Hotels & Resorts, a division of The Marcus Corporation , and Marriott Hotels opened the Omaha Marriott Downtown at the Capitol District in Omaha, Neb. The 333-room, 12-story hotel is the first new full-service hotel to open in Omaha in more than a decade. Marcus Hotels & Resorts is a minority investor in the property and is managing the new hotel. The new Omaha Marriott Downtown at the Capitol District was designed by Leo A Daly and was built by construction firm JE Dunn . The south side of the building has winged corners to allow 270-degree views of downtown Omaha ’s skyline. Materials used include as brick and iron, conveying a warehouse style inspired by Omaha’s Old Market neighborhood. There are also wood paneling that hints at Omaha’s roots, but tailored with modern details in keeping with Marriott’s midcentury-modern-inspired aesthetic. On the ground floor, the Omaha Marriott Downtown ’s Greatroom lobby area has large windows and high ceilings to provide vie...

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 ...

A week after Mayor Eric Garcetti signed the nation’s strictest earthquake laws mandating vulnerable buildings retrofit their facilities, Park La Brea apartments management held a Great ShakeOut event to help prepare residents for the possibility of “the Big One.” The Los Angeles Fire Department demonstrates a high- rise rescue drill of a trapped resident last week at Park La Brea ’s Tower 49. (photo by Gregory Cornfield) Although presenters all but guaranteed a big earthquake to hit the city within the next 30 years, they also helped ease fears . Cameron Barrett of MySafe:LA, displayed a poster for Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s movie “San Andreas” that showed downtown Los Angeles splitting in half and falling apart. “That wouldn’t happen,” she said. “ Fault lines won ’t fall apart. [ Park La Brea ’s] Tower 49 won’t fall into a crevice.” My: SafeLA executive officer David Barrett said buildings in Los Angeles are stronger than most other cities in other countries. MySafe:LA held...

CHICAGO – The co- development team of Conor Commercial Real Estate , a national real estate development firm and a member of The McShane Companies , and Ravine Park Partners (RPP), a Jeff Annenberg and Greg Moyer company , is pleased to announce the groundbreaking for Woodview Apartments, a new 248- unit luxury apartment development in Deerfield, Illinois.  Prominently situated at Deerfield Road and Interstate 94 in the north suburban Chicago market , the multi- family development will provide luxury rental residences incorporating an upscale array of features together with well- appointed tenant amenities .  The co- development team will begin tenant occupancy in first quarter of 2015 while the remaining portions of the complex will be completed in summer 2015. The four-story, 432, 000 square foot apartment development will be constructed with thoughtful architectural and landscape design in order to seamlessly integrate into the surrounding neighborhoo...