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Local apartment designs for net-zero energy consumption win awards
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A drawing of what a new five-story multifamily building built by Rosenblum Development would look like at the Great Oaks Office Park.Provided
Apartment buildings constructed with net-zero energy use in Albany and Rotterdam are winners in the latest round of a competition sponsored by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority. Net zero, a measure of sustainability, means all the power necessary for a building is generated on-site and wastewater is handled on-site.
One local winner is Building C, a 77,609-square-foot, seven-floor mixed-use structure with 69 residential units at 76 Second Ave. in Albany s South End, proposed by South End Development and Garrison Architects. It is part of a four-building plan for the block called The Seventy-Six that would be built on 32 separate parcels along a sloping piece of land between Leonard and Krank streets. It would be built around
‘It hurts so much. It hurts my soul’: Victims of two North Side apartment fires struggle with loss
Both fires called within blocks of each other, about an hour apart
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SAN ANTONIO – Among the up to 2,700 calls coming into the San Antonio Fire Department during the city’s historic cold snap, two of them that came in Tuesday afternoon were “very odd,” Joe Arrington, SAFD spokesman said.
He said two apartment fires on the North Side were within blocks of each other, called in about an hour apart, one at the Solara Apartments on Parliament Street at 3:45 p.m. and the other at Chestnut Park on Silver Sands at 4:58 p.m.