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Plans for a 10-unit townhome project in South Baltimore at Hanover and Clement streets are set to be unveiled before city planning officials Thursday.

The development would replace the former American Rescue Workers church and other properties in the 1400 block of S. Hanover St. Charm City Builders is scheduled to reveal details before the Planning Commission at City Hall this week.

The church was built in 1888 and was vacated over the past couple of years after serving as a local outreach mission…

San Francisco's largest approved project will add schools, a hotel and a factory to its mix of new housing after a city commission approved a redesign proposed by developer Five Point Holdings LLC.

According to a report in the San Francisco Chronicle, the city approved a proposal for The Hunters Point Shipyard project that would:

Add a 120-room hotel to the project.
Add as many as three educational campuses.
Add a factory building with maker space.

Next door to Hunters Point Shipyard, Five Point…

The company is just one of many looking to upend how real estate is bought and sold.

Al Capone’s former Miami Beach home has been fully renovated — no bullet holes present — and listed for $14.9 million.

The waterfront home at 93 Palm Ave. was built on the 30,000-square-foot lot in 1922 and bought by Capone for $40,000 in 1928. The notorious Chicago gangster, known as “Scarface,” served in prison for tax evasion from 1931 to 1939, and then returned to his heavily-guarded Miami Beach home.

Capone died of a stroke in the home in 1947. His widow sold the house in 1952.

The…

The goal is to provide modern, quality housing in a neighborhood that has suffered from blight. The construction site was once the home of Luigi's and two other Italian restaurants. Luigi's closed in 2006, and was later destroyed by arson.

Home sales and inventory fell in the Twin Cities in March, according to a new report from the Minneapolis Area Association of Realtors.

Closed sales also declined 10.3 percent when compared with the year before, the new report says. That's because of the shortage of inventory, which saw a 26.1 percent decrease in March to 8,289. That's the largest decline in more than a year, the report said. New listings by home sellers stood at 6,737 in March, a year-over-year decrease of 17.5 percent.

The…

A Kate Spade New York store will soon open at a Greater Cincinnnati shopping center.

The 4,500-square-foot store is expected to open this summer at Cincinnati Premium Outlets in Monroe. Kate Spade's merchandise includes handbags, accessories, clothing, shoes and home goods. The designer brand is known for graphic prints and crisp color palettes.

The store will bring more jobs to the region, as well as another retail options.

“People have been clamoring for a Kate Spade at Cincinnati Premium…

Six downtown Denver projects from 2017 that “had the most significant economic impact on the center city” were honored Tuesday night.

The Downtown Denver Partnership honored projects “that contribute to an economically healthy, growing and vital center city” and were judged by “a jury of key business leaders convened by the Downtown Denver Partnership.”

“Tonight’s 57th annual Downtown Denver Awards Dinner is about the brave, bold, risk -takers who have shaped our city,” said Tami Door, president…

Residents of Atlanta, Pittsburgh and Indianapolis appear willing to do whatever it takes to win Amazon’s second North American headquarters. Their cousins in Denver, Austin and Boston? Not so much.

The Business Journals for the first time has partnered with Elon University in North Carolina to conduct an online poll in all 19 of the U.S. regions that, along with the Canadian city of Toronto, remain in the running for Amazon’s “HQ2.” The survey was conducted March 30-April 3 and was designed…

The new building will mirror the aesthetics of the nearby Museum of Fine Arts Houston.