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unusual facts about housing development



Adriatica McKinney, Texas

Adriatica McKinney is a housing development in Stonebridge Ranch, McKinney, Texas nearing completion.


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1853 Copenhagen cholera outbreak

The Medical Society completed the first stage of the housing development now known as Brumleby in Østerbro in 1857.

2013 corruption scandal in Turkey

On 17 December 2013, the Financial Crimes and Battle Against Criminal Incomes department of the Istanbul Security Directory detained 47 people, including officials from TOKİ (Housing Development Administration of Turkey), the Ministry of Environment and Urban Planning, and the District Municipality of Fatih.

Amalgamated Bank

In 1957, it financed the construction of Park Reservoir Housing Cooperative in the Bronx, which was the first affordable housing development created under New York State's Mitchell-Lama Housing Program.

In 1927, Amalgamated Bank financed the Amalgamated Housing Cooperative, the first union-supported housing development in the United States, which is located in The Bronx.

American Campus Communities

(ACC and American Campus) is a university housing development company with its headquarters in Bee Cave, Texas, near Austin.

Arden Heights, Staten Island

Erastus Wiman, a noted Staten Island real estate developer, coined the name "Arden Heights" in 1886; the neighborhood's name probably refers to the hill that currently looms above the Village Greens shopping center and housing development.

Carrfour Supportive Housing

In May 2013, Carrfour's Verde Gardens community won the National Development Council's 2013 Academy Award for Housing Development.

Cranmore

Cranmore, Sligo, a large local authority housing development in Ireland

Desire Street

The Desire neighborhood in the upper 9th Ward is named after the street, as are the area's Desire Projects although the housing development has been knocked down and replaced with smaller apartment buildings.

Edgware, Highgate and London Railway

After the war, the introduction of London's Metropolitan Green Belt made the project to continue the line to Bushey unnecessary as the intended housing development proposed in the area was prevented by the new legislation.

Gipsyville

In 1967 a large food processing factory (manufacturing the "Birds Eye" brand) was opened to the west of the original pre-war housing development, on the western part of a site used as allotments.

Hobsonville Point Secondary School

The school is being constructed as part of the Hobsonville Point housing development to serve the 3000 new homes being built on the former RNZAF Hobsonville Airbase and the wider Hobsonville/West Harbour area, easing roll capacity on existing nearby secondary schools.

Joe Szakos

Szakos began his work in eastern Kentucky working on housing development in David (Floyd County) in 1979.

Kenilworth, Washington, D.C.

Kenilworth gained national attention in 1988 when its government-built housing development, Kenilworth Courts (along with a small sister development called Parkside, located about a mile southwest of Kenilworth), became the first public housing project to be sold to its residents in an initiative championed by Mayor Marion Barry, President Ronald Reagan, and U.S. Representative Jack Kemp.

Kings Langley

Kings Langley was the home of the makers of Ovaltine and the listed factory facade is now all that is left and still stands alongside the railway line among a new housing development.

Limes Railway

Beginning in 1964 a large greenfield housing development was built on the outskirts of Schwalbach am Taunus called Limesstadt (Limes City, named after the Roman fortifications of the Limes Germanicus, which actually lay more than 10 kilometres north of this site).

Lusby, Maryland

A large housing development called Chesapeake Ranch Estates is nearby, as well as the tourist resort town of Solomons.

Nandanam

The township got its name in the 1950s as a result of the housing development efforts instituted during the Chief Ministership of Rajagopalachari which concentrated on developing a green Chennai.

Neve Yaakov

In 1982, Kiryat Kaminetz, a housing development on the eastern edge of Neve Yaakov named for the Jewish community of Kamenets, Poland destroyed in the Holocaust, was built on the eastern side of the existing neighborhood.

Old Aberdeen

Since the 1960s, and the North Sea oil boom of the 1970s, however, housing development has surrounded the area, in particular with the nearby Tillydrone development.

One-off housing

One-off housing development is broadly supported by the former Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Dick Roche, and by the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Éamon Ó Cuív.

Polonia Warsaw

In March 2006, the club was bought out by a new owner, Józef Wojciechowski, the owner of JW Construction, the biggest housing development company in Poland.

Rauceby Hospital

Following public consultation, the site and its surroundings (including Rauceby railway station) were officially renamed as Greylees, although the developer continues to refer to the housing development as De Vessey Fields.

Royal Veterinary College

The original building was a quadrangle in a neoclassical style, and there was a paddock on the opposite side of Royal College Street, but this was later sold for housing development.

Scottville, Michigan

On July 23, 2007 Governor Jennifer Granholm announced Scottville as the community chosen by the Michigan State Housing Development Authority (MSHDA) to take part in the Cool Cities Michigan Main Street program.

St Richard's Church, Ham

The church was built as part of a substantial housing development on land given by the construction company; Wates.

Supetar

Slobodna Dalmacija daily recently reported that a housing development called Adriatica is being built in McKinney, Texas, USA, as a partial faithful replica of Supetar.

Take It on the Run

Chicago radio personality Steve Dahl recorded a parody version called "Better Get a Gun", which made light of then Chicago mayor Jane Byrne moving into the Cabrini–Green public housing development.

Trudy McFall

She has served on the boards and as an officer with many national housing and planning organizations, including the boards of the National Housing Conference, the National Leased Housing Association, the National Housing and Rehabilitation Association, the National Council of State Housing Agencies, the Housing & Development Reporter, and the Tax Credit Advisor.