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Innovation Center at Navy Yard

October 13, 2010

Alex, our newest intern team member, will be taking over the lead on reporting on other projects we enjoy. This post is her first foray, but expect many more as we move forward. There’s been a lot of talk about the sustainability developments happening at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. We like sustainability and we  really [...]

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Making Modular

September 1, 2010

You know we love cross-promotion, and we know we love cross-promotion. So, leaving all shame behind, this post is on a wholly different kind of development, one that just happens to be designed by our friends over at ISA. The Modules is an apartment complex built right off of Temple’s Campus, and it is the [...]

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Back from New Orleans

August 31, 2010

Between the rigors imposed by any good press wrangler and the demands of my virulent, terminal (and often contagious) case of FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out), New Orleans was an exhausting trip. It also, as you may have noticed, left little time for the actual reporting that I was supposedly down there to do. I [...]

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Fifty for Five: Rough Cut of Sheila Hyde Interview

August 28, 2010

I have had the opportunity to speak with a few of the homeowners at the Fifty for Five event here in New Orleans. Most of the video needs a lot of editing which simply isn’t going to happen until I am back in Philly, but one home owner was brief enough for me to share [...]

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Day 1 at Fifty for Five in NOLA

August 27, 2010

This post is part of my coverage of the Fifty for Five event by Rebuilding Together. Sears, the events main sponsor, paid my way down here but they have no say in what I write. Disclaimer over. I stumbled into New Orleans yesterday on two hours of sleep, an inevitable condition of the early morning [...]

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Fifty For Five Brings Nic to New Orleans

August 25, 2010

That’s right, I’m headed down to New Orleans bright and (too) early tomorrow morning to cover Rebuilding Together’s big event in the Big Easy. Fifty for Five is an effort to rehab 50 homes in the Gentilly neighborhood in 5 days and is a sort of celebratory construction binge to mark the more extensive work [...]

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S is for Suburban, Sol Austin, and Sustainable

August 19, 2010

Suburbia. Lets be honest, it’s kind of a dirty word. We use the word ‘development’ because we live in fear of the word ‘suburbia’.But, Im going to say what everyone is thinking: most developments are suburban. And that’s okay. So, come out of the closet, be proud of the suburban dweller you are. You no longer [...]

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Village Homes: Sustainability, Hobbits and Jane Fonda

August 11, 2010

This post marks the first in a series about housing developments that we think you might find interesting. For the inaugural post I’ve chosen to write about Village Homes in Davis California, a place that many consider to be the grand-daddy of modern sustainable developments. It’s always a good idea to begin with a classic, [...]

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