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A Durham developer is looking to add hundreds of new apartments to an active area on the edge of the Warehouse District.

Site work has already begun.

Perhaps the single best development site in the central city — also the location of several unsuccessful proposals — is officially on the market.

Halfway through the year, housing permits are down by double-digit percentages in many of the previously booming suburbs north of Dallas and Fort Worth, with a few notable exceptions.

Compared to June 2021, active single-family home inventory last month increased 203% in the Ewa Plain.

A recent Boulder home listing aims to set a city record.

The 10,169-square-foot estate at 835 Juniper Ave. in Boulder was listed for sale on June 28 for $19.9 million.

The existing record sale for a Boulder home was set in 2017 by an off-market $13 million transaction on 4th Street, not far from the new listing, according to listing agent Lucy Conklin with Compass- Boulder.

The second most expensive was the 2018 sale of an 8,218-square-foot home on 4 acres at 3840 Pleasant Ridge Road for $8.1 million, according to MLS.

The custom home at 835 Juniper Ave. was designed by architects Annette Martin and Lisa Egger and built by Sugarloaf in 2012. Sellers Christopher Foreman and his ex-wife Laura McCain-Foreman purchased the 1.23-acre property for $1.9 million in 2010, according to property records.

Conklin said the value of the property’s two contiguous lots is now around $7 million, based on similar plots nearby that sold for $5 million and $6 million.

“The cost to build, after talki..

Pizza and public policy aren’t mixing well in Capitol Hill where the owners of neighborhood staple Sexy Pizza say their landlord has decided not to renew their lease as the result of a disagreement over a pile of rocks that the building’s ownership company placed out front.

And while Sexy Pizza will close on July 24 (as it searches for a new location nearby), the rocks may have to go as well as the city of Denver said they are blocking the public right-of-way.

The large rocks first appeared in March, prompting Kayvan Khalatbari, who co-founded Sexy Pizza, at 1018 E. 11th Ave. in 2008, to comment on Facebook about how the restaurant hadn’t been notified and would never have agreed to the rocks if it had been given a choice.

Some property owners in Capitol Hill and other parts of the city have installed similar rocks, as well as fencing, to prevent homeless people from setting up tent encampments.

The rocks at Sexy Pizza blocked access to a bike rack, rendering it “unusable,” Khalatb..

Life science companies were seeking 1.2 million square feet of lab space in the Seattle region as of September. That was an increase of 138% over the prior six months.

Meanwhile, a San Francisco-based genetic testing company is cutting 1,000 jobs as its CEO steps down.

Learn more about the challenges of such a large project during a time of supply-chain issues and workforce shortages, as well as ways Skanska's team and the industry are innovating.