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The last two digits of a listing price for a Quebec mansion — 66 — not to mention trophies and replica Stanley Cups in listing photos, might be a give away for hockey fans as to who is the current owner of the property.

Pittsburgh Penguins hockey legend and owner Mario Lemieux has listed the mansion in Mont-Tremblant, Quebec, for $21,999,066 with Michel Naud of Engel and Volkers.

The lakeside six-bedroom home is inspired by Chateau Frontenac, a castle in Quebec City, and also includes a two-bedroom…

A luxury home on Santa Fe's east side has sold for $4.85 million.

The sale is the most expensive home sale on Santa Fe's east side in over a decade, according to Santa Fe Properties, which represented the property. The buyer was not disclosed.

The property, called Calle La Paz, is a completely walled compound with three structures. The main home, hidden at the end of a cul-de-sac, is 6,119 square feet and includes five bedrooms, four baths and two partial baths. It was built of double adobe, influenced…

The Midwest regional branch of the U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is awarding $2.3 million to the Housing Authority of the City of Milwaukee to maintain rent controls and to help train and connect residents of Milwaukee's Hillside Terrace apartment community with jobs.

The funds come from $14 million set aside for HUD’s Jobs Plus Initiative to distribute to public housing authorities around the country. That money will translate to helping about 275 families through using funds to keep…

Developers are considering close to 70 new apartment projects around town, with 11 proposed projects in Montrose and nine in Katy.

A developer is finding out that fixes Grove City might require for its mixed-use project at Beulah Park could drive up costs and drive away younger tenants.

Developer Pat Kelley and his team from Falco, Smith & Kelley Ltd. appeared before Grove City's planning commission this week to gain approval on the first major portions of the project: a set of roadways that will run through the 60-acre development and two of the first housing projects – 104 condos and a 384-unit apartment complex.

Building…

In Hamilton County, 82 percent of the 8,700 homes are seasonal, making it the top county in the entire nation for percentage of second homes.

The homes will start in the $400,000 to $500,000 range, but the developers are open to build more expensive homes.

The U.S. Postal Service is sending volunteers dressed in sandwich boards to the streets of Denver to advertise its 200 job vacancies. A Colorado senior-living company is handing out one-time grants to help employees with financial hurdles, such as car repairs, to ensure they make it to work. And the state’s largest grocery chain not only added a tuition reimbursement program to its benefit package in May, it upped its 401(k) match to boot.

Faced with a tight labor pool, employers are making bold moves to attract and keep workers.

“The best thing you can do is retain your existing employees,” local restaurateur Josh Wolkon said. “It’s hard to find people, so you have to hang on to the good ones you have.”

Colorado has entered a stretch of full employment unmatched since the dot-com boom two decades ago, one expected to boost wages but also create stress fractures in the economy.

Slow service at some restaurants, delayed surgeries at hospitals and higher home prices are just a few co..

South Fulton officials have spent the last year assuming responsibility for basic government functions, such as issuing permits, providing police and fire protection and administering public works, which were previously handled by Fulton County.

The first comprehensive acoustic study of commercial jet noise propagation to local residential communities was performed in the 1950s at what is now JFK Airport by Bolt Beranek and Newman.