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Steward Health Care System — the Boston-based for-profit medical group that purchased the former Morton Hospital and Medical Center this year — intends to sell and lease back the Taunton hospital’s Northwoods Medical Center building at 2007 Bay Street.

The Columbia City Council gave approval Monday night to a controversial proposal to rezone the Regency Mobile Home Park to allow for the construction of a 936-bed student apartment complex.
The council decided after nearly three hours of testimony from mobile home residents, University of Missouri students and activists speaking mostly in opposition to the rezoning [...]

The first phase, a $70 million project, will build three housing facilities to accommodate 924 students with two residential facilities on the north side of campus and one on the south side of campus.

TUCSON, Ariz. — Tucson is moving quickly to rezone land near the University of Arizona to allow taller buildings, but owners of some historic bungalows complain they’ll be left in the shadows.
Properties in the area targeted by city planners for student high-rises now are limited to four stories. New rules would allow 14-story buildings with [...]

BentleyForbes, a real estate investment firm based in California, is testing the market for single-tenant buildings by putting three Ohio properties up for sale.

A law prohibiting more than two unrelated people from living in the same single-family residence has forced three veterans attending Texas State University to abandon their housing arrangement.

Kelsey-Seybold announced plans to build a new administrative office building on a 18-acre site in Shadow Creek Ranch

New zoning allows residential building but not the usual mix of uses.

Read more: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/10/30/2727936/developer-proposes-student-apartments.html#ixzz1ceOsC4dy

Project to move forward despite neighbors’ opposition

The Thomas Edison Inn — and surrounding property in Port Huron — is getting an upgrade.