PROPERTY AND CONSTRUCTION NEWS

Person of interest sought in Milton double homicide
Pensacola News Journal
Santa Rosa County sheriff's deputies are working to find 41-year-old Derrick Ray Thompson in connection with the killing of a married couple in a prefabricated home in Milton on Sunday morning, according to a news release. Deputies responded to a 911 ...

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Home sweet ... shipping container?
KBZK Bozeman News
Montainer is a company located inside a building at a former mill site in Bonner that envisions people living inside of converted shipping containers. CEO Patrick Collins got the idea to make prefabricated homes by recycling containers from builders in ...

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Realty Today

If Brazil's Stadiums Became Affordable Housing Units
Realty Today
Two French architects Axel de Stampa and Sylvain Macaux have attempted to answer just that and have proposed to build prefabricated affordable housing stacked between the outer facade of the stadiums that will not only help ease Brazil's housing ...

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The New Prefab Home-Makers
OZY
But prefab (or prefabricated) houses, long a modernist fantasy, are having a kind of moment. Over in Brooklyn's Atlantic Yards, cranes are stacking factory-built modules on top of one another like Legos. When the stacking is done, it'll be a 32-story ...

Mobile Home Apartment Building Comes to NYC
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iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- New York City is getting its first mobile-home apartment building. Called "The Stack," this new residential building has 28 apartments formed by 59 modules, creating a collection of individual mobile homes piled on top of ...

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