#community-opposition

#community-opposition

Ellis Partners and Spirit Living Group submitted plans in December for the seven-story, 203-unit building on Claremont Avenue, next to the pink property that used to house The Graduate bar. The apartments would be market-rate, including some memory-care and assisted-living units. "There is very, very, very little senior housing in the East Bay, writ large, especially compared to what the demand is," said Patrick Flynn, senior vice president with San Francisco-based Ellis Partners.

The Bureau of Prisons shut down FCI Dublin, a former minimum-security women's facility, in 2024 after news broke of the repeated sexual abuse of inmates, deteriorating and uninhabitable infrastructure, and cover-up and retaliation from the former prison's guards and staff. Felony charges were levied against the facility's warden, chaplain and several guards, who were suspected of running a rape club, resulting in nine convictions.

Private rehab clinics are not subject to HSE or Hiqa inspections

Extell is planning a tower the size of the Empire State Building somewhere between West 66th and West 67th, and Tony Danza is upset. The actor, who has lived in Lincoln Square for more than two decades, says he can see what will soon be a construction pit from his two-bedroom apartment and has been calling every city official he can to try and stop the tower from going up.

"This case began 493 days ago, in early May of '24, and is only about restoring my property entitlements," said Paul Stables, the property owner.

Formal plans for what could be Europe's largest data centre are expected to be submitted in the coming months, new documents show. Havering Council is set to approve the East Havering Data Centre (EHDC), which will straddle the boundary of Havering and Thurrock, in January. The centre designed by developer Digital Reef would cover 99 acres and the scheme would also include a 279-acre ecology park, which the firm said would be publicly accessible. The council's corporate plan, published this week, says it will be consulted on in the autumn before it goes before the strategic planning committee, made up of elected councillors.

The company has a high-powered lobbying firm, Lighthouse Public Affairs, on a $10,000 monthly retainer, Ethics Commission records show. And the Planning Commission just voted to approve a plan to build a 104-foot tower with 12 new antennas in the middle of the residential neighborhood of Diamond Heights. The "monopole" would soar over existing trees and create a major new element on the skyline in a part of town where most construction is limited to four stories.

Groves will turn to graves in Woodland Hills, where a developer has plans to redevelop Boething Treeland Nursery into a cemetery. The 32-acre nursery has grown trees and other plants for the San Fernando Valley for the last seven decades, but it sold last year for $3.96 million to Dignity Memorial, the nation's largest funeral provider. The company is in the process of submitting plans to the city of L.A. to get approval for a cemetery and funeral home on the property.

In the first hour or so, most of the pro-casino people said their bit and left; their talking points were uniform and matter-of-fact, about creating jobs and bringing more people to the area. All the passion, with few exceptions, was coming from the antis. One of those folks told me - and it was reported elsewhere, too, and seemingly caught on an audio recording - that a lot of the pro-casino speakers had been paid with $80 gift cards in exchange for making some noise.

"To be clear, this is not simply a rejection of a new casino in Manhattan - it is a rejection of new housing, new schools, billions of dollars in investment, and more for the borough," said William Fowler, an Adams spokesperson.

A key community panel on Monday rejected plans for a casino next to the United Nations, marking the third casino plan to fail in Manhattan and ensuring no casino will be built in the borough in the immediate future. The rejection of the Freedom Plaza proposal, by a 4-2 vote, came despite last-minute sweeteners by the developer, who promised all of the housing created on site would be affordable. Separate community advisory committees last week rejected proposed casinos in Times Square and Hudson Yards.

Pop Brixton, a vibrant community-driven initiative in South London, risks demolition under proposed tall tower developments along Brixton Station Road, threatening local businesses and culture.

We are devastated by the decision made by the Deputy Mayor, Jules Pipe, on behalf of the Mayor to allow Spurs to take over our precious public park. This will be a massive loss, both for nature and community.

"I am horrified but not surprised. The flagrant violation of the Clean Air Act and the disregard for our human right to clean air, by xAI's burning of illegal methane turbines, has been stamped as permissible by the Shelby County Health Department."