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The team building the Summit Sky Ranch development on the northern edge of Silverthorne is casting the project as a next-generation mountain luxury community.

No more sprawling homes on big, isolated properties. The residences top out at 3,500 square feet. Lots range from 0.3 acres to 1.5. Loads of shared amenities have been built or are on their way including a community center with a pool and tap beer and wine, a 20-acre public park along Colo. 9 and a trails network tying everything together. Even if many people who buy the 240 homes being built there don’t end up living there full time, the aim is to create connective tissue that makes Summit Sky Ranch more than a vacation getaway spot.

“We want everyone here to know each other,” said Matt Mueller, who is managing the development on behalf of owner Tom Everist. “The original model was really that sort of second home location, the old model of the mountains. We thought that time had passed and our market research was showing that…

The final quarter of 2018 could be a pivotal moment for the future of Jacksonville.

In coming days, city leaders will make decisions on a number of potential projects that could, in aggregate, reshape downtown and put the city on a new upward trajectory.

Among the issues confronting the mayor's office and the City Council:

Do we want to commit to having a convention center, and if so, where?
Is the proposed plan for the site of the Berkman II project the best use of that property?
What should…

New Albany has started construction on a $17 million city park that will feature a pedestrian bridge over a stream that will connect cultural, educational and commercial centers in the heart of town.

Rose Run Park, named for the stream that runs along Dublin-Granville Road, is expected to boost foot traffic to the 100,000 square feet of retail and offices in Market Square and attract more private development, a city spokesman said.

The park is expected to open in late 2019, stretching over about…

A formal announcement is expected soon.

OhioHealth Grove City Methodist Hospital – offering most services of a community hospital in a smaller footprint close to a growing population center – could become a template for how the Columbus health system expands its territory beyond Central Ohio.

Large swaths of the Amazon Alexa smart home devices lab are off-limits, but building plans show what's behind the doors of the fast-growing Alexa unit.

The Boston Red Sox are getting into the music business.

Fenway Sports Group and Live Nation are jointly exploring development of a 5,000-seat music venue, to be called the Fenway Theater, on the corner of Lansdowne and Ipswich streets near Fenway Park.

The Boston Business Journal was first to report in September that Fenway Sports Group — the parent company of the Red Sox — was exploring real estate development opportunities for property the team controls in the neighborhood surrounding the…

Emerson II project yields unique find for work crews.

About 200 feet above Hillsboro Pike, there are 14 apartments at the top of the newly opened, $125 million Vertis Green Hills development. The apartments, still under construction, offer views of Green Hills and the downtown skyline in the distance. They'll come with gas ranges and hardwood floors and two premium reserved parking spaces, and a $300 move-in gift. Employees of Nashville's Please Assist Me will clean clothes, wash dishes, grab groceries and fetch dry cleaning.

Those 17th- and 18th-floor…

A more than half-acre estate on Geneva Lake featuring 10 rooms and an expansive deck and patio area recently hit the market at $4.59 million.

Located in the town of Linn at W3868 Lackey Lane, the home includes four bedrooms, four-and-a-half bathrooms, vaulted beamed ceilings and antique heart pine floors.

The two-story home includes a den/office and a great room with a towering, natural fireplace. There's a two-bedroom guest suite and family room loft on the second floor and a sun room adjacent…