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New York Governor Kathy Hochul announces $200 million grant program to attract high-tech industries across the state

Archinect

The grants will be disbursed through Empire State Development (ESD), the umbrella organization for New York’s two principal economic development financing entities: The New York State Urban Development Corporation and the New York Job Development Authority.

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Full funding secured for US tallest skyscraper says developer

Deezen

Funding has been secured and construction may begin in September on the Legends Tower in Oklahoma City, which is planned to be the tallest in USA , says developer Scot Matteson. Construction may begin in early autumn Matteson said that preparations on the site could begin as early as June. "We

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Trying to Buy? ADU Rental Fees Can Now Be Used as Income to Secure Your Mortgage

Dwell

The Federal Housing Administration has announced expanded financing options for "granny flats" that are meant to make a dent in the affordable housing crisis. But this week, the Department of Housing and Urban Development announced new policies that expand mortgage financing options for dwellings that have, or will include, an ADU.

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Urban Growth Strategies: Homes & Jobs for 2045

SW Oregon Architect

These include constraints on how accessible federal funding is, infrastructure and site development needs, the lack of development-ready tracts, neighborhood resistance and the threat of delayed processes and appeals, and of course national market factors (high costs for labor, land, materials, and financing).

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"Cities are branding themselves into predictably unique products"

Deezen

The city is increasingly thought of as prop and backdrop for a life lived on Instagram These are just a few of the elements of the city authentic, the third and latest movement of urban development. But what to do about new construction? Meanwhile the places where new culture is made and tested are disappearing.

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Chinese architects facing nightmare working conditions amid real-estate crisis

Deezen

Spiralling developer debt and stalling projects After a long period of booming urban development, China's property industry is in turmoil, with developers struggling under spiralling debt and construction projects grinding to a halt. SZAD has denied any financial dispute in a statement.

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Places in Time III

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

If I were doing that roundup now, having had more time to delve into the new book, I would write that politics and finance were, if not the most prevalent, the most illuminating and thoroughly discussed aspects in the book's presentation of skyscrapers over fifty years last century. Louis and Paris/Indonesia/Flanders. So why include it?