Cheyenne Diner: Saved (again!) and moving to Alabama

The Cheyenne Diner on a rainy April 2008 night, just days before it closed. That neon might shine again in Birmingham, Ala. ( ... proud that I located a couple that value the diner’s architectural and cultural history ... , who could not be reached for comment yesterday, had said he plans to build a residential [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 09:16:52

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Upzoning approved for St. George

September 14, 2008 After several years of downzoning much of the borough to curb sprawling housing developments, ... say the office vacancy rate currently hovers around 13 percent and where plans to build a new $200 ... on building up retail on busier blocks by requiring storefronts of the first floor of residential [more...]

Date: 2008-09-14 02:43:14

Further improvement of buildings for more resistance to nuclear bomb effects

This a follow up to prior article about re-inventing civil defense using simple and affordable defenses for residential buildings, such as better nails (hurriquake nails which you can buy from amazon.com.) This is not a plan to make buildings nuclear blast proof, but a lot more blast resistant [more...]

Date: 2008-08-21 05:36:46

Billboards Gotta Go in Xi'an China

The colonel greets visitors to Xi'an China Some nice news out of China on the preservation front: ... the historic capital's walls in order to eliminate "visual pollution." They'll be taking down over 190 current ... and residential buildings in the area, He Hongxing, director of Xi'an urban planning bureau, said. "We hope [more...]

Date: 2008-09-10 14:00:00

Developer Retreats on Fort Greene Plan

PHOTOS: JAMIE LEHANE For her entire life, Cynthia Butts, 53, ... and ground-floor businesses. But Catsimatidis has already abandoned plans to build the affordable housing ... she calls home is now defined by an unusual silence. Across the street from her residential complex [more...]

Date: 2008-09-12 01:16:23

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