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Epcon Communities is about to start on its first housing project in Columbus in a decade.

The Dublin-based developer has clearance to proceed on an 81-unit condominium community called The Courtyards at Riverside Drive. Epcon plans to build the condos on the eastern edge of Riverside Drive on the city’s border with Perry Township.

The property, which would include an open space, a retention pond and a clubhouse, would go up on a narrow, 20-acre strip of land at 5586 Riverside Dr., south of…

The developer is a frequent face at Walnut Creek's Planning Department, and will responsible for constructing more than 900 new housing units around the downtown BART station.

The 85-acre Red Berry Estate, which the city bought in 2012, is slated to be transformed into a $61.8 million, mixed-use development.

Nearly a quarter of metro Denver renters dedicated half or more of their monthly income toward keeping a roof over their heads last year, according to a new study from Apartment List.

As much attention as that gets, a larger share of households in Grand Junction and Pueblo carried that heavy a burden, despite much lower average rents in those cities.

“There are all of these rural parts of the country where housing costs are low, but there isn’t any economic opportunity,” said Chris Salviati, a housing economist with Apartment List in San Francisco.

Housing advocates consider a household that pays 30 percent to just under half of gross household income toward shelter as “cost-burdened” and those that pay half or more as “severely cost-burdened.”

Apartment List dove into data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey to determine how rent burdens compared in the nation’s metro areas and more populated counties.

In metro Denver, 23.8 percent of renting households were s..

The Colorado Rockies 2018 season isn’t over, but the era of being able to park directly across 20th Street from Coors Field in the lot off Wazee Street is gone for good.

Visitors to the ballpark neighborhood this week will notice that the so-called “west lot” at 1901 Wazee St., just south of the stadium, has been fenced off to public access. Light poles have been taken down and asphalt has been chewed up.

What was once roughly 300 parking spots is now being prepared to accommodate a proposed mixed-use development featuring condos, office space, restaurants, a hotel and a Rockies hall of fame in more than 450,000 square feet of new space. Plans call for an outdoor entertainment plaza with giant video screens to boot.

The lot was shut down Sept. 15, according to the Rockies. Club officials wouldn’t comment on the project further at this time because of how early in the development process it is.

General Contractor Hensel Phelps applied for a commercial construction permit last week ..

Kansas City-based architecture firm Populous has opened a new office in Dallas — its eighth in the Americas and 15th globally — to open more business in the South and in emerging markets in Central and South America. Meanwhile, last week Populous was named the architect of the Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium south end zone expansion and renovation in Austin.

The University of Texas System regents previously approved spending $175 million to expand the historic stadium, home of the Longhorn…

Community Tissue Services is moving forward with its plans to add a $50 million new facility.

The Kettering-based nonprofit, which is the largest tissue bank in the United States and one of the largest providers of skin grafts in the world, broke ground on its 132,000-square-foot facility in the Miami Valley Research Park on Sept. 25. The new building will be an expansion of the existing Center for Tissue, Innovation and Research facility located within the Kettering research park.

The future…

Now that Ensemble Health Partners has selected the West campus of the former Procter & Gamble Co. Sharon Woods Innovation Center in Blue Ash for its corporate campus, the owners of the East campus have big plans for backfilling that site.

Secolari's store at the Mall in Columbia may have recently closed, but the artisan oil and vinegar retailer won't be gone for long.

Owners Bart and Mary deRosa shuttered their brick-and-mortar shop Aug. 31 after nearly five years in the mall's open-air wing. A message on the business' answering machine confirmed the closure and asked customers to look for emails and social media posts offering more information on where to find the shop's specialty oils, vinegars, seasonings and other products.…

The two facilities are less than 10 years old.