Timber Buildings: Coming Soon to a Building Code Near You?
[May 30, 2018 via Urban Green Council]
For a century, steel and concrete have ruled the commercial building market. Today, a small but growing movement suggests that timber—the structural resource they replaced—may be poised for a comeback.
With new and stronger-engineered timber products, designers are beginning to put their trust back into wood for structural applications in timber buildings, some of which reach as high as 18 stories. Construction is now underway in Williamsburg on the first two wooden office buildings in decades. With an increasing number of projects around the world and efforts to recognize mass timber products in some building codes, designers and builders are starting to take note.
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Tweaked, Lot Sale For Housing Advances
[April 30, 2018 via New Haven Independent]
The city’s anti-blight agency voted to sell two vacant Munson Street lots to a faith-based nonprofit housing developer to bolster the affordable rental market in a stretch of Dixwell-Newhallville that is on the cusp of overflowing with market-rate apartments.
That was the result of the most recent meeting of the Board of Directors for the city’s Livable City Initiative (LCI), which voted to sell vacant lots at 232 Munson St. and 245 Munson St. to Beulah Land Development Corporation for redevelopment as deed-restricted affordable housing rental apartments.
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Beulah Unveils A Promised Land In Dixwell
[April 27, 2018 via New Haven Independent]
Dixwell neighbors are used to developers trying to woo them with plans for apartments, leaving them asking “‘affordable’ for whom?”
They were pleased not to be asking that question after hearing Thursday night about the details of a new planned gateway to their neighborhood with 70 mostly lower-income apartments on a now-vacant lot once known for barbecue.
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Low-income apartment plan for New Haven has long-range vision
[April 27, 2018 via New Haven Register]
NEW HAVEN — A plan for low-income apartments using a new building method with training for local contractors — and a longer-range hope to produce the specialized materials here — was introduced to the Dixwell community Thursday.
Darrell Brooks, project director of Beulah Land Development Corp., architect Alan Organschi and New York developer Jeff Spiritos shared their proposal for some 70 apartments on land at the intersection of Munson Street, Dixwell Avenue and Orchard Street.
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Beulah Plans Housing On Joe Grate’s Lot
[April 23, 2018 via New Haven Independent]
A longtime dream of redeveloping a vacant parcel at 340 Dixwell Ave. into affordable housing moved a step closer to coming true.
Darrell Brooks, project director for Beulah Land Development Corp., delivered that news this past Thursday evening at a Dixwell Management Team meeting.
The site, at the intersection of Orchard and Munson streets, is the former home of a gas station and parking lot where Joe Grate used to set up his popular barbecue stand. Beulah Land bought the lot from the city under a now-expired land disposition agreement with the hope first of putting a pharmacy there, Brooks said.
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