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Single-family Project to include Manufactured and Modular Housing Quashed

By / January 25, 2014 / Business, Factory-Built Homes, home buyers, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, Modular, People

According to willistonherald.com, the Williams County (North Dakota) Planning and Zoning Commission denied a request for a 55 home single-family residential development to be built outside Ray, ND, just northeast of Williston in the housing-strapped Bakken Oil Field region. Limited to manufactured, modular and site-built homes, the 164 acres were …

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Former Fuqua Homes Plant Sold

By / January 24, 2014 / Business, Company News, Factory-Built Homes, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, Modular

The 125,000 square foot industrial space in Bend, Oregon at one time occupied by Fuqua Homes, Inc. has been sold to a hedge fund manager and his wife for $2.7 million. The couple will likely develop it into a multi-tenant facility, according to bendbulletin.com. Fuqua Homes built manufactured and modular …

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India may be Inundated with Millions of Modular Homes

By / January 24, 2014 / Business, Company News, Factory-Built Homes, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Modular, People

American architectural firm KieranTimberlake (Stephen Kieran and James Timberlake), taking a page from Henry Ford and his numerous prototypes (the “Model T” derives from the 19th letter in the alphabet, because Henry had 18 previous failures), are working to transform architecture beyond its traditional guidelines into the domains of software …

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Modular Housing Gaining in Canada

By / January 21, 2014 / Business, Canada, Factory-Built Homes, home buyers, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Modular

Writing in treehugger.com, Lloyd Alter says modular housing is now 11 percent of the Canadian housing market, three times what it was when he was selling homes in Wingham, Ontario for Royal Homes’ Pieter Venema, who built the Kohn Shnier designed Muskoka cottage for two families. Noting factory-built homes are …

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Update of Manufactured Housing Community Delayed

By / January 21, 2014 / Business, Communities, Factory-Built Homes, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, Modular

Following a story we first posted Oct. 21, 2013 regarding the proposed redevelopment of Vineland Vista Mobile Home Park in St. Helena, California owned by Vintner Hall Wines, the Napa Valley Planning Commission has delayed approval of the modification because the old ordinance does not allow for multifamily modular housing. …

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Two Story Modular Home Built on Site in 48 Hours. You Think?

By / January 20, 2014 / Factory-Built Homes, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Modular

Researchers at the University of Southern California have developed a large 3D printer that will build a two-story modular  home in 24 hours. The fabrication technology, called Contour Crafting, was developed by Behrokh Khoshnevis, according to worldpropertychannel.com. A printer fitted with fast-drying concrete replaces laborers to create a home based …

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Modular Jail Proposed for Stockton

By / January 20, 2014 / Factory-Built Homes, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Modular, People

Inmate overcrowding is a major issue in the race for sheriff in Stockton, California, pitting incumbent Sheriff Steve Moore against Sgt. Pat Withrow. While a state panel approved $33.3 million for a new, higher-security facility to replace the Honor Farm, Withrow wants to add modular jail units on an “as …

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Former Manufactured Housing Plant Bustling with Modular Workforce Units

By / January 19, 2014 / Business, Canada, Company News, Factory-Built Homes, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, Modular

Taking over a one-time manufactured housing plant in Johnstown, Colorado, PTI Group has converted the 113,000 square-foot facility to constructing modular workforce housing for the oil, gas and mining industries in Canada. Based in Alberta, Canada, PTI scouted 78 cities before choosing the Denver area because of the availability of …

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Clayton-Bradley Academy Adding Classrooms Ahead of Schedule

By / January 17, 2014 / Company News, Factory-Built Homes, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, Modular, People

As follow-up to a story MHProNews last posted May 22, 2013, the Clayton-Bradley Academy, which opened on the grounds of Clayton Homes in July, has announced plans to add four classrooms to the school which currently serves 78 tuition students. Dr. Don Bruce, chairman of the nonprofit organization Innovative Education …

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Modular Accommodations Supplier Declares Monthly Dividend

By / January 17, 2014 / Business, Canada, Company News, Factory-Built Homes, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Modular

Black Diamond Structures of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, which rents and sells remote workforce housing and modular workspace solution, has announced it will pay a dividend of $0.075 per share for January, 2014. The company’s board of directors reports the dividend will be paid on February 18, 2014 to shareholders of …

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Modular Man Camp on Hold

By / January 16, 2014 / Business, Company News, Factory-Built Homes, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Modular, Zoning

The Billings County Fryburg School in western North Dakota was sold for almost $500,000 to Louisiana-based Energy Resource Group for a man camp for the Bakken oil field workers, but the company never followed through. The bismarcktribune.com reports an Alabama-based company, Bakken Suites of Fryburg, has more recently filed a …

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Modular Home Manufacturing Plant to Close

By / January 16, 2014 / Business, Company News, Factory-Built Homes, Modular

Champion Homes will close its Carolina Building Solution plant in Salisbury, North Carolina in March, and consolidate it with its facility in Lillington, NC 80 miles to the east. Some of the 93 employees may relocate to Lillington depending upon how many are needed, but Salisbury Plant Manager Jeff Mooring …

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Modular Townhomes will Replace Housing Project

By / January 15, 2014 / Business, Factory-Built Homes, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Modular

Livingston Manor at the southern edge of the Catskill Mountains in New York has won a $1.8 million grant to replace an affordable housing project with 27 two-bedroom and 33 three-bedroom modular townhomes, according to recordonline.com. Utilizing federal and state low-income housing tax credits, funding for the 60 unit Hemlock …

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Modular Home Includes Disaster-Resistant Space

By / January 16, 2014 / Business, Company News, Factory-Built Homes, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Modular

An 80,000 lb. concrete monolith portion of a home developed by Jacksonville, Florida-based Montenero U. S. has been installed in Moore, Oklahoma, the site of a devastating tornado May 20, 2013. Comprising almost a third of the 1,885 square-foot house’s structural support, newsok.com informs MHProNews.com the shell will provide an …

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Modular Home Company Sues County

By / February 24, 2014 / Business, Company News, Factory-Built Homes, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Modular

Following up on a story we first covered Jan. 9, 2014 regarding a dispute over the rewarding of a debris removal contract in Orangeburg County, South Carolina, a subsidiary of Santee Modular Homes in South Carolina is suing the county for failing to comply with federal guidelines and county guidelines …

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Argentine Architects Design Modular Housing

By / January 13, 2014 / Business, Company News, Factory-Built Homes, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Modular

Argentinian studio 4L arq has designed an affordable modular home for a vulnerable group of single mothers in the Argentina city of Cutral Co, Neuquen, Argentina. Made of concrete panels, the design process involved the future inhabitants of the homes each step of the way, MHProNews.com has learned from designboom.com. …

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Liberty Homes Showcased by Alice in Dairyland

By / January 13, 2014 / Business, Canada, Company News, Factory-Built Homes, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, Modular

The marsfieldnewsherald.com reports that manufactured and modular home builder Liberty Homes, Inc. of Dorchester, Wisconsin was chosen to receive a visit from the current Alice in Dairyland, Kristin Olson. Olson is the ambassador of the WI Department of Agriculture, promoting agricultural products to the state, country and world, logging 40,000 …

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Bond Issue would Replace Modular Units

By / January 12, 2014 / Factory-Built Homes, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Modular

In light of enrollment at Central High School in Tioga, North Dakota increasing 150 percent in the last six years, a $9.9 million bond issue before voters January 16 will alleviate overcrowding in school districts responding to the influx of workers drawn by the Bakken oil field. In October the …

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Variance for Modular Home Denied

By / January 9, 2014 / Business, Factory-Built Homes, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Modular, People

A Cody, Wyoming couple was denied a variance to site a modular home on their land by the Park County Commissioners. The current ordinance prohibits mobile homes in the North Fork Planning Area where their land sits. MHProNews has learned “mobile home” includes manufactured and modular homes in their definition. …

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Modular Home Builders Protest South Carolina Decision

By / January 8, 2014 / Business, Company News, Factory-Built Homes, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Modular, People

The owners of Santee Modular Homes, Inc. in Orange County, South Carolina protested the county council’s decision to award a contract for debris removal to an out-of-state company instead of their firm, Santee Debris Removal. As part of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) guidelines for disaster preparation, local jurisdictions …

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