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Innovative Second and Delaware Apartment Project Expects to Resume Work this Summer
(Updated Aug. 16) Jonathan Arnold, the developer of Second and Delaware, told the PIEA board construction is expected to resume in September with completion expected in mid-2020. Rising labor and material costs have pumped up the overall project cost to $71 million. Arnold said the development still is expected to be the world’s largest “passive house…
Latest Grinders Break-in Alarms East Crossroads Community
By Kevin Collison STRETCH is ticked after yet another break-in at his iconic East Crossroads food joint, Grinders Pizza. “This is the 11th time Grinder’s has been broken into,” the sculptor, restauranteur and impresario said of his place that opened in 2004. “It’s frustrating. They’ve never caught anybody.” This time, he wasn’t alone when someone…
Sweet Scoop: Betty Rae’s Ice Cream Coming to River Market
By Kevin Collison Betty Rae’s Ice Cream, an instant success when it opened in Waldo in March 2016, is opening a second location in the River Market this summer. The neighborhood ice cream parlor with a national reputation plans to take the space formerly occupied by Cafe al Dente restaurant at 412 Delaware St. It…
Switzer Lofts
1829 Madison Ave. | 114 apartments in five buildings | Cost $24 million | HarenLaughlin Construction | Opened in 2016
Three Light Apartments
Truman Rd. and Main St. | 300 apartments | Cost $130 million | Completion projected in early 2021