By Adam Leech
Portsmouth Herald
PORTSMOUTH — Dozens of residents, business owners and affordable-housing advocates attended Monday night’s public hearing on an ordinance that would provide incentives for developers to create affordable housing. Read the rest of this page »
PETER J. CLEARY
Sentinel Staff
In the latest modification of a downtown Keene redevelopment, two proposed buildings grew up a bit. The Keene Planning Board gave the okay Monday for fifth stories on two buildings the Monadnock Economic Development Corp. plans for the city’s former railroad property east of Main Street. Also Monday, the board considered two proposals for senior-citizen housing. Read the rest of this page »
Freeman Klopott
Sentinel Staff
JAFFREY - Another lawsuit is now looming even as Robert Van Dyke’s plan to build 36 houses in the protected zone around Mount Monadnock takes small steps forward. A group of 20 Jaffrey residents and the Society for the Protection of N.H. Forests have filed a petition for a rehearing with Jaffrey’s zoning board. Read the rest of this page »
By Nicholas Retsinas | December 6, 2006
Soon Children will be re enacting Clement Moore’s ritual — hanging stockings on the fireplace mantle and hoping that a portly fellow in a red suit will squeeze down their chimney with an oversized bag of stuff. Certainly hundreds of thousands of children live in homes with fireplaces: 55 percent of new homes today have one fireplace. In another 5 percent of new homes, children have more than one to choose from. If Santa has to go to the bathroom (after all that milk, all those cookies), he will be in luck. Over 95 percent of new homes have at least two bathrooms; over 50 percent have more than two bathrooms (compared with 15 percent of homes built in 1971). Read the rest of this page »
Tux Terkel
Maine Sunday Telegram
PORTLAND, Maine — The foundation is in and workers have begun framing the first home in Gray Goose Estates, a new subdivision in Westbrook. It’s a 1,400-square-foot cape with a base price of $204,000, roughly $50,000 below the median home price in Cumberland County. That price point is no accident. The builder, Windham-based Custom Built Homes of Maine, had initially planned “move-up” homes, with garages, paved driveways, gas fireplaces and other extras that would sell for $270,000 or so. But as the housing market slowed and potential customers had trouble selling existing homes, the builder redesigned the project to make it more affordable for first-time homebuyers. Read the rest of this page »