Petaluma Ecumenical Properties (PEP) Housing of Petaluma & Casa Grande Senior Housing, a 58-unit, five-building, 36,386-square-foot affordable housing apartment complex for low-income seniors, won the 2009 Governor’s Environmental and Economic Leadership Award. The annual Governor’s Environmental and Economic Leadership Award Program is administered by the California Environmental Protection Agency and the Natural Resources Agency, in […]
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Greenblock® Worldwide Corporation announced that its Insulated Concrete Form (ICF) Wall System has been selected for use in the new senior community featured at the Yuma Senior Terraces in Yuma, Arizona. This private, resort-style neighborhood will feature 60 apartment homes and a “Community Life Center”, each designed and built with Greenblock high-performance insulated concrete form […]
Enterprise Community Partners, Inc. (Enterprise) and MetLife Foundation recognized the winners of the 2009 MetLife Foundation Award for Excellence in Affordable Housing at the annual meeting for the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (AAHSA) in Chicago. The awards have been presented by Enterprise and MetLife Foundation for the last 14 years […]
La Posada, a 100-acre continuing care retirement community, announced that it is accepting reservations for its Park Centre Homes, the newest component to the campus. Consisting of 35 beautiful homes, this will be the last independent living community to be built at La Posada. La Posada is working with Pepper Viner Homes of Tucson, Arizona […]
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Deputy Secretary Ron Sims recently visited Palo Vista Garden Community, an Oakland Housing Authority (OHA) property that is receiving funds through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act) for capital improvements and energy efficiency upgrades. It is one of seven developments that is receiving funding […]
Last week, the NRP Group celebrated the grand opening and and that it recently received the LEED Homes for Gold target performance rating from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) nationally recognized LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) green building certification program for Cornerstone Senior Apartments. The certification demonstrates the building is environmentally responsible, […]
American DG Energy Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: ADGE), an On-Site Utility, offering clean electricity, heat, hot water and cooling solutions to healthcare, hospitality, housing and athletic facilities, announced an agreement to supply energy to Carleton-Willard Village, a not-for-profit continuing care retirement community (CCRC), located in Bedford, Massachusetts. As part of the agreement, Carleton-Willard, will soon […]
Birchez Associates LLC, a Hudson Valley, N.Y., developer of affordable housing, recently celebrated the opening of The Birches at Esopus, an 80-unit, energy-efficient senior housing community. The Birches at Esopus is the first new construction to be completed and certified as a New York Energy Smart Building and the first low-rise construction to be completed […]
Arbor Court, a 234-unit assisted living complex for low-income seniors in Southern California, is the first affordable housing development in its area to qualify for a new California state incentive that makes solar more cost effective for such projects than in the past. The Insite Development project was funded in part through the new incentive […]
As developers tout their green practices in every area of construction, J.S. Hovnanian & Sons, a New Jersey based home builder, is taking a more pragmatic approach to marketing its 55+ community as environmentally friendly. As part of these efforts, J.S. Hovnanian & Sons has recently received the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) Green […]
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