NewPortRicheyPatch says Walden Pond Mobile Home Park in New Port Richey, Florida is closing as the result of Tropical Storm Debby and residents must be out by July 31, 2012, according to a letter dated July 6 and sent under the letterhead Walden Pond LLC. Owner Paul Beraquit says because …
MarketWatch tells MHProNews Universal Forest Products, Inc. (UFPI) reported net earnings of $17.5 million for the second quarter of 2012 on net sales of $593.2 million, a 9.1 percent increase over net sales of $544.1 million that produced net income of $4.3 million for the second quarter of 2011. Net …
KamloopsNews reports Leonard Estates Trailer Park residents in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada have evacuated their homes due to a raw sewage leak seeping from the ground along a row of a dozen modular homes in the community. Located on aTk’emlup First Nation Indian reserve, Health Canada (HC) found several spots …
From its manufacturing plant in Durant, Oklahoma, Icon Construction has completed the delivery of five modular classroom buildings and the relocation of five previously sited modular classrooms in Anadarko, OK at Riverside Indian School southwest of Oklahoma City. From timesunion, MHProNews has learned Riverside is the nation’s oldest federally operated …
Lotwenterprise reports that modular builder Wincrief Homes of Kenora, Ontario, Canada received its certification from the Canadian Standards Association to supply municipalities and First Nation peoples with modular homes. Unlike the company’s ready-to-move (RTM) homes, modular homes are eligible for financing through banks. A subsidiary of Wincrief Forestry Products, the …
As energy workers are lured to eastern Ohio to take advantage of the jobs becoming available in the oil and gas fields of the Utica Shale formation, RVBusiness says the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency and the Ohio Department of Health have issued a 12-page set of regulations governing water. The …
MySanAntonio tells us the western edge of the Eagle Ford Shale near Interstate 35 south of San Antonio is drawing workers to the drilling fields where an additional 7,900 workers will be needed by 2025, but housing remains a problem. Banks are generally reluctant to lend money for rural housing …
LousivilleCourier-Journal states Bob Lane, executive director of the New Albany (Indiana) Historical Society says the first prefabricated house in the country came out of the Gunnison Housing Corporation in New Albany in 1936. Foster Gunnison, a lighting director from New York who was involved with the construction of Radio City …
theherald-nc reports the owner of the Lighthouse Christian Academy in Smithfield, North Carolina had to close the school because of the economy, and unable to find a church to help cover the cost of the mortgage on the modular building, decided to make it a boarding house to accommodate ten …
The Boston Globe reports prefabricated housing, once thought of as somewhat lowly, is going upscale. A $2 million modular home in Wellesley, Massachusetts boasts four bedrooms, granite marble kitchen, mahogany floors, six bathrooms, second-floor decks, and a spacious living room with fireplace in the 5,900 square foot home. Haven Custom …
chron tells MHProNews.com the Army has contracted to build a four story modular housing unit at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas with Energy Star roofing, waterless urinals, 50% waste reduction system, hydronic heat pump system, and 20% recycled materials, qualifying it for LEED Silver Certification. Ramtech Building Systems …
Charges of unfair labor practices lodged with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) against Blu Homes of Vallejo, California by San Francisco’s Carpenters Union Local 180 have been mostly dismissed, according to ModularHomeCoach. When Blu moved to CA last fall from Massachusetts and renovated part of an old Naval base …
triblive reports from Kittaning, Pennsylvania northeast of Pittsburgh the Mechling-Shakely Veterans Center in Sugarcreek for chronically homeless veterans was unable to raise the $56,000 in matching funds to add five modular housing units to the center as planned. The $600,000 grant was funded partly by HUD’s Continuum of Care program …
Calling the high cost of affordable housing the “single biggest obstacle to making Vancouver a more livable city,” Vancouver, British Columbia’s Mayor Gregor Robinson set up a competition to garner ideas for solutions, the Vancouver Sun tells MHProNews.com. The Mayor’s Task Force on Housing Affordability received 68 entries, including drawings …
Azstarnet reports four steel cargo containers turned into a two-story two-bedroom house is turning heads in Tuscon, Arizona, but also raising some voices. Modified in a factory to conform to state and local regulations, it falls under the jurisdiction of the Arizona Office of Manufactured Housing and meets the standards …
While business may be good for housing suppliers to the oil and energy field projects in north central U.S., increasing populations of mostly single men in North Dakota are drawing a mixed reaction, Ohio tells MHProNews.com. With a population grown from 12,500 to over 20,000 in four years, primarily due …
The energy and mineral fields north and west of Friendship Homes in Montevideo, Minnesota are making the modular builder crank out seven modules daily, but that number is expected to rise to 12 in the near future. wctrib says the oil patch in western North Dakota, the destination for its …
The DailyNewsOnline reports a $400,000 New York state grant to replace pre-1984 factory-built homes with new MH will be directed by Genesee Counties’ Housing Initiative Committee in collaboration with the non-profit Pathstone Corporation. The goal is to replace eight owner-occupied homes in Genesee and Orleans Counties with energy-efficient units. There …
Following up on a story we published April 5, 2012 concerning ATCO Structures and Logistics of Alberta, Canada opening a modular production facility in Pocatello, Idaho, Manufacturing reports the Idaho State Journal says ATCO held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Wed., June 27 attended by Pocatello Mayor Brian Blad and company CEO …
Daily Mercury reports from Australia, housing solutions company Tektum has developed a modular house with two to four bedrooms, 80% complete when it leaves the factory in one and one half standard shipping containers, and occupancy-ready within several days. The homes feature solar water heating, double-glazed windows, rain water recycling …
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