Archive for September, 2006

In The Region | New Jersey: Rehab Therapy for a ‘Life Care’ Center

Last summer, Applewood Estates retirement community began a $38 million expansion that will create 50 apartments and 20 duplex cottages. No comments

In the Region | Long Island: What, This Mansion Seller Worry?

At a time when even new homes on Long Island are lingering on the market, one developer is hedging his bets on $5 million homes in Old Brookville. No comments

Holiday 2006: Winners, losers and smart shopping

The recent drop in gas prices has given a needed boost to shoppers ahead of the holidays but retail experts aren't convinced that will translate into big sales gains for store chains.

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In the Region | Connecticut: Sweetening the Pot for Home Buyers

What does it take to sell a house in a slowing real estate market? Perhaps a 2006 Mercedes E-Class sedan would seal the deal. No comments

Posting: Bye-Bye Two-Families, Hello Six

With developers tearing down two-family houses to build — in some cases — six-family structures, the density seems to be on a geometric climb. No comments

Q & A: Assessments Can Affect the Tax Basis

Assessments levied by a condominium board for capital improvements can be used to increase the tax basis of individual units. No comments

Corrections:

The Sketch Pad article last Sunday, about plans by Polshek Partnership Architects to reinvent a house in Amenia, N.Y., omitted the name of an architect who helped to design Bill Clinton’s presidential library, another project by the Polshek group. In addition to Richard M. Olcott, James Stewart Polshek (another partner of Polshek Partnership) was a co-designer.

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Streetscapes | Readers’ Questions: When Packards and Other Dinosaurs Roamed Broadway

Until about 1920, Broadway in the West 60’s grew thick with automobile showrooms and garages. No comments

Big Deal : Genesis of a Luxury Condo

Perhaps a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but developers with many millions of dollars on the line worry that the name of a building can mean the difference. No comments

Sheldon Adelson: The late bloomer multibillionaire

Will the builder of a new Las Vegas -- in the Far East -- become the world's richest man? 'It seems to me that it's kind of in the cards," he tells the Curious Capitalist.

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