In 2010, 2,397 project plans for submitted to the exchange. Last year, that number increased by 323. Many of those were residential projects. Builders are completing more than 1,700 units here at Crescent Village off danker road. A Welcome Change from 2007, where there were virtually no apartment projects in the pipeline. With job growth and job creation, people need places to live, and its time for builders to see a newfound confidence in Silicon Valley to begin building apartments that offer places for people to live. Reporter Joshua Howard with the California Apartment Association says the new apartments may help all renters. As more housing comes online and becomes available, that will probably start seeing prices come down, or rent increases moderate going into the future because there will be more competition for housing. Reporter from retail, to residential, to recreation. Even though more construction workers are landing jobs, the industry is far from digging out of tough times
Go. This is kpix 5 news. Breaking news. Right now entire towns are being evacuated because of an out of control wild fire. Those wild fires more than doubled in size sinsz monday. This one broke out in the mountains southwest of palm springs. Its consuming everything in its path and roaring toward 400 homes. 2200 firefighters are on the front lines tonight including members of the elite hot shots. Flames are so out of control all 6,000 people of the towns are now under mandatory evacways orders. Tom wade is near the fire line tonight. This fire has been burning for several days now. Firefighters have been doing what they can to knock it down, but right now its burned more than 19,000 acres across the area. The good news is there have only been about three jirzlys so far. Firefighters are bringing in the most heavy ma veenly. Try to get this thing knocked down. Try to get these flames out as quickly as possible before more homes are burned. Right now firefighters say they dont know the
What did we learn on the show tonight, craig . Craig and to all a good night. That was a lovely story, wasnt it . Geoff beautiful, yeah. Im totally in love with the avocado on this sub. I love avocado so much i started a Facebook Page. Oh, you should post a picture of my new earrings. Those would go perfectly with this sweater im knitting. [ male announcer ] show your avocado love try it on the turkey spinach or subway club. Subway. Eat fresh®. This is kpix 5 news. Breaking news. Right now entire towns are being evacuated because of an out of control wild fire. Those wild fires more than doubled in size sinsz monday. This one broke out in the mountains southwest of palm springs. Its consuming everything in its path and roaring toward 400 homes. 2200 firefighters are on the front lines tonight including members of the elite hot shots. Flames are so out of control all 6,000 people of the towns are now under mandatory evacways orders. Tom wade is near the fire line tonight. This fire has
Has forced 6,000 people to evacuate in riverside county. Winds pushed the flames toward idylwild. The fire began on monday. As Teresa Garcia reports, it has burned more than 19,000 acres and is just 15 contained. Reporter the mountain fire raging southwest of palm springs is prompting new evacuations. The blaze has already burned at least 22 square miles and destroyed several homes. Hundreds more were evacuated along with a camp serving children with cancer. My daughter got burnedout. Her mobile home was on my property. Burnt to the ground. Reporter bright flames and smoke are looming over idylwild. Residents feel helpless. Its hard because its so big. Theres not anything that can be done. Reporter waterdropping helicopters are conducting an allout assault. We have access burning in the north and northeast. Right in the center its made a detour around the center where theres an old burn from about 7 or 8 years ago where the fuels are more sparse. So we had two fronts, and thats because
They had a couple of tollbooth lanes closed overnight and overnight roadwork but now everything is moving fine into and out of San Francisco. On the maps, if you are traveling in the east bay right now, well go to northbound 680 where there is some roadwork this morning approaching monument boulevard. Various lanes blocked, that is scheduled until about 6 00 this morning. It is in the northbound lanes. Obviously our sensors though not picking up much of a delay heading into concord. The macarthur maze nice and quiet this morning on 80. Highway 24, highway 13, and 880 all look good as you head towards the maze. Highway 4 no delay as well yet. 61 Miles Per Hour. Its one of our live traffic sensors picking up closer towards a street. Well get a check of mass transit once again coming up. In the meantime, back to you guys. Kpix 5 reporter cate caugiran is following some breaking news now in oakland. An 8yearold girl was killed when shots were fired into her apartment. Cate, youre getting u