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The owner of Upshur Street Books, one of D.C.’s most beloved neighborhood bookstores, is expanding to Silver Spring.

Upshur owner Paul Ruppert is partnering with Politics and Prose alum Hannah Oliver Depp to open Loyalty Bookstore in downtown Silver Spring. The 1,900-square-foot bookstore will open in part of the space at 931 Ellsworth Drive that was most recently home to Lincoln’s Bar-B-Que.

Loyalty Bookstore will open with limited hours Nov. 1 and host a grand opening Nov. 10. It will…

The buildings are being sold to a real estate developer and what appears to be a title agency based in downtown Dayton.

The Oakland Fire Department battled a huge blaze into the night Tuesday as developer City Ventures’ nearly completed townhouse development in West Oakland was enveloped in fire.

Officials said that the fire began around 2 a.m. and left 55 units — four of six, four-story townhouses — completely leveled, KTVU reports.

Located at the intersection of West Grand Avenue and Filbert Street, the building was part of City Ventures’ Ice House project, which had begun sales of the homes in mid-April.…

As commuters headed home from work, black smoke billowed above the San Francisco's Financial District from a three-alarm fire at the 196-unit apartment building located at 405 Davis Court.

Officials said the blaze, which spread up through five floors in the midsection of the 25-story high-rise, started around 5:30 p.m. on Monday and lasted about 40 minutes. The building is part of the Gateway apartment complex. Floors 12 through 16 were affected as the fire raged throughout 10 apartment units and…

Half of the top 10 areas saw decreases in median prices compared to 2017 data, with the biggest drops in Memorial Park, Bellaire and Braeswood Place.

It’s pretty easy to get lost in East Franklinton these days, weaving through all the construction. Some streets are unrecognizable from just five years ago.

By now, there’s an almost block-by-block plan to remake the area, particularly the West Town Street and West Broad Street corridors, and the first major projects are coming online. Casto, Kaufman Development and many of the other major development players in town have been building ever bigger there, inspired by a desire to see this near-downtown…

First, the good news: If the numbers on your Mega Millions lottery ticket matches up tonight, you can afford one of the million-dollar estates for sale in Tennessee on Realtor.com.

Now, the bad news: Purchasing the most upscale and luxurious of these estates would probably require a move to Nashville or Knoxville.

Click on the slideshow to see the priciest Tennessee upscale homes currently for sale on Realtor.com

Memphis Business Journal scoured the state to find some of the most expensive and…

I have a couple of things on my mind today — which are roughly two things more than usual, I can hear you calculating. The first concerns a flyer I received in the mail with the salutation, “Get an instant offer on your home.” It came from a company called opendoor.com and had my correct home address on the flyer itself, not just the envelope in which it arrived.

Under a headline in capital letters that said, “ESTIMATED OFFER RANGE,” the flyer showed a minimum and maximum amount of…

Amendment 74 is getting bashed.

Whether it’s Gov. John Hickenlooper, a Democrat, calling it “one of the worst initiatives that I have seen” or Republican Colorado Springs Mayor John Suthers labeling it “stupid” and “a disaster for taxpayers of our state and local governments,” Amendment 74 has elicited high-profile opposition far and wide.

The measure, which would amend the Colorado constitution to require that property owners be compensated for devaluation of their property due to government action, has been condemned by dozens of city councils across the state. It has also taken on heavy fire from the Colorado Municipal League as an unwise policy replete with unintended consequences.

The main argument against Amendment 74 is that it will open up the floodgates to litigation, with claims of property value loss being filed against governments that are just exercising their normal land use or zoning authority.

“From a purely municipal perspective, if we start seeing numerous frivolo..

Another property in East Nashville’s hip Five Points district has hit the market.

Nashville Post reports that the two-parcel property at 1105 Fatherland St., home to the Bill Martin’s grocery store, has been listed for $3.5 million. The property totals 0.98 acres.

David Estes, a broker with Parks Realty, has the listing.

Nearby, the Family Dollar property at 1000 Woodland St. was recently listed for sale. Meanwhile, the building at 1000 Main St., home to Marche Artisan Foods, was recently…