Apartment City

RIO DE JANEIRO ― Seven years ago, Vila Autódromo was little more than a tranquil fishing village on the edge of Jacarepagua Lagoon, next to the racetrack for which it was named. Like the hundreds of other favelas that dot Rio de Janeiro ’s landscape, it had long been neglected by the city government , and it lacked many basic public services that are standard in the fast- growing wealthier neighborhoods just across the water. But to the more than 600 families that lived there, it was home. “This was a paradise,” said Luiz Cláudio Silva, who lived in Autódromo for more than 20 years. “I thought that I would live here for the rest of my life.” By the time the Rio Olympics are over, just 20 of the families who lived in Autódromo in 2009, the year the International Olympic Committee chose the city to host the games, will remain. The community, which sits less than a mile away from Rio’s Olympic Park, was crushed so that the city could build new access roads to connect Olympic venues . ...

Martha's Vineyard Hospital announced last week that they are taking steps to close the independent living facility at Windemere. — MV Times file photo Windemere Nursing and Rehabilitation Center (WNRC) has suspended admissions to its independent living facility as it moves to close the 13-bed unit, where three people now live. In a conversation with The Times on Tuesday, Joe Woodin, president and chief executive officer of Martha’s Vineyard Hospital (MVH), was vague about the closure of the independent living facility , owned by the hospital and on the MVH campus in Oak Bluffs. Though Mr. Woodin didn’t say conclusively that the unit will close, he said MVH is exploring the option of closing. “We’re going through the process of strongly analyzing this and looking at the options for closing the unit,” Mr. Woodin said, referring to the independent facility known as Wildflower Court. According to Mr. Woodin, MVH would not have started the discussion had it not been seriously con...

Bernard Condon, Ap Business Writer Updated 2:05 pm, Tuesday, August 15, 2017 NEW YORK (AP) — Residents of a building owned by the Kushner Cos. filed a lawsuit Tuesday alleging the business once run by Jared Kushner is charging too much rent in violation of state regulations . The lawsuit in New York State Supreme Court in Brooklyn alleges that the Kushner Cos. is charging nine residents much higher free-market rents than the rent-stabilized ones they are entitled to under state rent rules . The suit says it's likely that more than 100 current and former residents of the 48-unit building have also been overcharged, and so it is seeking class-action status. "Greed colored the owner's decision-making process, and clearly blinded its judgment," said plaintiff's lawyer Lucas A. Ferrara, senior partner at Newman Ferrara. "It's inexcusable for any landlord to sidestep New York's rent law." A spokesman for the Kushner Cos., James Yolles, said they wer...

A vote in support of a controversial 114-unit, five- story apartment complex next to Forsyth Park could be reversed this week — or area residents hoping the project is blocked could just get their hopes dashed for a second time. One Savannah City Council member is now having second thoughts about rezoning the project site bounded by Drayton Street , East Bolton Street , Abercorn Street and East Bolton Lane . After voting to approve Delray Ventures’ rezoning request for the project on Aug. 3, Savannah Alderman Tony Thomas announced on Facebook the next day that he plans to call for the 5-3 vote to be reconsidered during Thursday’s meeting. Thomas said Monday that he wants to hear more information about the project and see if the developer would be open to reducing the scale of the building, which he now believes is too big for the area. “I’ve never ever called for reconsideration of a vote up until now because I have reservations and am not afraid to go out and limb and reconsider...

proposed Easton Crosssing subdivision on Sport Hill Road ." width="800" height="518" /> An artist’s rending of the proposed Easton Crosssing subdivision on Sport Hill Road . Saddle Ridge Developers , LLC brought its attorney, architect, builders, engineers and an environmental scientist and sat opposite a team of town commissioners who fired off questions, while about 65 Easton residents watched , listened, and were eager to shoot off their opinions, albeit at a later hearing. The Planning and Zoning Commission and Conservation Commission held a special meeting at Helen Keller Middle School cafeteria Sept . 16 so a team of professionals could answer questions regarding the third revised development plan and application for the Saddle Ridge project , Easton Crossing . The proposed Easton Crossing would consist of 48 new houses built on one- to two-acre lots with 20 of the new houses containing a one- bedroom attached affordable apartment . In 2011, the...

Buy Photo The new owner of Creekside Apartments , Rector resident Freedom Hobbs was on site Friday, preparing for tearing down the roof next week, he said. Hobbs will face the same deadlines as former owners Princeton Commercial B Holdings, LLC., according to Mountain Home Mayor Joe Dillard . (Photo: Josh Dooley/The Baxter Bulletin ) Buy Photo Once again, Creekside Village, an abandoned apartment complex , has a new owner, according to a warranty deed filed earlier this month in  Baxter County . The property was sold to Freedom Hobbs, of Rector, from its previous owner, Princeton Commercial B Holdings, LLC, based in Newark, Delaware. The deed was signed on Jan. 5 and filed on Monday. The document lists Quintin King, Princeton Commercial B Holdings national counsel , as the representative authorized to execute the sale on the company's behalf. The Creekside property, located at 105 S. Cardinal Drive, was sold to Hobbs for $175,000. Hobbs, the new owner, was at the Mountain Home c...

Dhan Subedi flipped through sheets of apartment listings on Thursday, 15 days before the deadline for her four-person household to vacate Glenbrook Apartments . She’d circled and called the most affordable units in Boise. The earliest one would be available was Oct. 15, nearly a week after her deadline to leave a one-bedroom, $575-a-month apartment. Her 13-month-old son, Kaden, rolled around the floor at the feet of her mother, Mina Subedi. The families of both Dhan and her husband, Prem Subba, are Bhutanese, though Dhan was born during her family’s two-decade stay at a refugee camp in Nepal. Subba’s was one of thousands of Nepalese- speaking families evicted from the country. Located at the corner of South Curtis Road and Cassia Street, the family’s sparse Glenbrook unit is close to the Boise Airport, where Subba works, and State Street, where Subedi works at a market. It’s also close to the former Boise International Market , where the couple owned the Bhutanese and Nepali grocery...