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In 1999 Chicago Housing Authority announced Plan for Transformation, [7] a plan to spend $1.5 billion over ten years to demolish 18,000 apartments and build and/or rehabilitate 25,000 apartments. Earlier redevelopment plans for Cabrini–Green are included in the Plan for Transformation.
Classic Seven is a seven-room apartment floor plan one can find in buildings built in New York City prior to 1940 consisting of a formal dining room, a living room, a kitchen, three bedrooms, a maid's room, and two or more bathrooms. [1] [2] Classic Seven is essentially Classic Six with an added bedroom.
The three-storey penthouse at 740 Park Avenue. The building was constructed in 1929 by James T. Lee, the grandfather of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis – who lived there as a child as Jacqueline Bouvier – and was designed by Rosario Candela and Arthur Loomis Harmon; Harmon became a partner of the newly named Shreve, Lamb and Harmon during the year of construction.
Billionaire Robert Ziff owns an apartment at 720 Park Avenue. [citation needed] In 2008, diplomat Carl Spielvogel, who served as the United States Ambassador to the Slovak Republic from 2000 to 2001, sold his apartment in the building to businessman Peter S. Kraus, the chairman and chief executive officer of AllianceBernstein, for US$37 million ...
The building has a total of ten elevators; owners will share a hallway with at most one other apartment. The developers also figured a generator on the ninth floor into the plans. [14] There are eight full-floor apartments at the top, ranging from 5,200 to 6,400 sq ft (480 to 590 m 2), with 14-to-19 ft-high (4.3-to-5.8 m) ceilings. [14]
According to Christina Vella, historian of modern Europe, the Pontalba Buildings were not the first apartment buildings in the present-day U.S., as is commonly believed. They were originally built as row houses, not rental apartments. The row houses were turned into apartments during the 1930s renovations (during the Great Depression).
Construction of Casa Loma, c. 1912. In 1903, financier Henry Pellatt purchased 25 lots from developers Kertland and Rolf. Pellatt commissioned architect E. J. Lennox to design Casa Loma, with construction beginning in 1911, starting with the massive stables, potting shed and Hunting Lodge (a.k.a. coach-house) a few hundred feet north of the main building.
The building comprises 12 apartments. There are ten apartments that are full-floor. These apartments are lavish in scale, each containing roughly 6,500 square feet (600 m 2). The lower two floors consist of two duplex maisonettes, one 7000 SF, the other 4,500 square feet (420 m 2). There is also a superintendent's apartment on the first floor ...