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Controversy erupts in Florida over how homes are being rebuilt after Hurricane Ian

The Federal Emergency Management Agency recently sent a letter to officials in Lee County, Florida alleging that hundreds of homes were rebuilt in violation of the agency’s rules following Hurricane Ian. The letter provoked a sharp backlash as homeowners struggle to rebuild following the devastating 2022 storm that destroyed a large swath of the county.



Mixed-Use

A surging master-planned community in Utah gets its own entertainment district

Since its construction began two decades ago, Daybreak, the 4,100-acre master-planned community in South Jordan, Utah, has been a catalyst and model for regional growth. The latest addition is a 200-acre mixed-use entertainment district that will serve as a walkable and bikeable neighborhood within the community, anchored by a minor-league baseball park and a cinema/entertainment complex.


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Drew Ballensky | May 28, 2013

Renovated casino part of redevelopment project at Los Angeles-area racetrack

Hollywood Park racetrack in Inglewood, Calif., will soon become Hollywood Park Tomorrow, a 238-acre development project.

Drew Ballensky | May 20, 2013

Competitors vie to redevelop home of N.Y. Islanders on Long Island

Four groups are competing to redevelop the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, home of the New York…
Drew Ballensky | May 13, 2013

Maryland proposal would fund commercial green-energy retrofits

A proposed bill in the Montgomery County, Md., Council would provide an innovative way to encourage…
Drew Ballensky | May 6, 2013

Philadelphia Navy Yard building converted to energy research ‘living lab’

A 70-year-old vacant recreation building at the Navy Yard in Philadelphia will open next week as…
May 2, 2013

New web community aims to revitalize abandoned buildings

Italian innovators Andrea Sesta and Daniela Galvani hope to create a worldwide database of abandoned facilities, ripe for redevelopment, with their [im]possible living internet community.

Drew Ballensky | Apr 29, 2013

Dilapidated 22-story Cambridge, Mass. courthouse headed for mixed-use rebirth

Plans have been unveiled to convert the old Middlesex Courthouse in East Cambridge, Mass. into a…
Drew Ballensky | Apr 22, 2013

Controversy over whether Montreal’s Olympic Stadium should be preserved

The deteriorating membrane roof atop the Olympic Stadium in Montreal needs to be replaced, but some…
Apr 19, 2013

Must see: Shell of gutted church on stilts, 40 feet off the ground

Construction crews are going to extremes to save the ornate brick façade of the Provo (Utah) Tabernacle temple, which was ravaged by a fire in December 2010.

Drew Ballensky | Apr 15, 2013

Lowell, Mass. mill transformation to mixed use features whimsical elements

The renovation of a former textile mill in Lowell, Mass., into a mixed-use facility features…
BD+C Staff | Apr 14, 2013

Translucent walls convey dramatic glow for adaptive-reuse arts center

The City of Rahway (N.J.) Redevelopment Agency recently unveiled a dynamic icon representing the…
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