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Over 900 Grenfell fire victims reach civil settlement

Deezen

Companies and public bodies involved in a refurbishment of the 1970s London social housing block, which was destroyed in a huge blaze in June 2017 that killed 72 people, have reached an agreement with the claimants after nearly two years of legal discussions. The claimants were represented by a group of 14 law firms.

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The promising new faces of the Middle Branch

Community Architect Daily

All will be connected by a promenade and trail system that will even cross the water on a to be restored railroad bridge. Mark Sapperstein's 28 Walker Development is in charge of Locke's Landing, the redevelopment of the Locke Insulator plant that had been shuttered in 2017. So far the Sagamore venture team has completed 1.1

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Weed Whackers

Landscape Architecture Magazine

For habitat restoration and invasives control on sensitive sites, goats are a natural. Three hundred goats help Caltrans restore habitat at the foot of Big Sur. The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) recently used goats to help with habitat restoration on a sensitive site. By Katharine Logan.

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Star Tracks

Landscape Architecture Magazine

Few enslaved people could write, and even if they could, “Most of us don’t write down on paper, ‘I just broke a federal law today,’” says Kathryn Puckett, the board president of Restore Cleveland Hope, an advocacy organization that led the restoration of the Cozad-Bates House to commemorate Cleveland’s role in the Underground Railroad.

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El Yunque Visitor’s Center, Rio Grande

e-architect

million restoration and redesign by multidisciplinary and landscape architecture, urban planning and interior design firm, Marvel and Interlink Construction. El Portal Visitors’ Center had been closed since the devastating passage of Hurricane María in September 2017. El Portal, Rio Grande, Puerto Rico.

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El Yunque Visitor’s Center, Rio Grande

e-architect

million restoration and redesign by multidisciplinary and landscape architecture, urban planning and interior design firm, Marvel and Interlink Construction. El Portal Visitors’ Center had been closed since the devastating passage of Hurricane María in September 2017. El Portal, Rio Grande.

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How to Grow a Greenway

Landscape Architecture Magazine

It contracted with the firm Design Workshop to produce a master plan for a park that would double as a stormwater management system for the area. In 2017, the city hired SMM to help convert an auto inspection facility into a community center, completed in 2020. The center’s plaza is now the site of a weekly farmers’ market.