As follow-up to a story we posted Nov. 23, 2012 concerning a foundation’s offer to provide free modular housing to Staten Island survivors of Hurricane Sandy who are willing to move to New Milford, Conn., nearly a dozen families have so far responded to the offer. The Stephen Siller Tunnels …
Following up on a story about the proposed development of an 11 unit modular housing project we posted Nov. 22, 2012 in Ridgefield, Conn., where neighbors criticized the plan over aesthetic and drainage issues, the developer has made revisions. The RidgefieldPress tells MHProNews the number of units on this four-tenths …
mmaltzan reports the Skid Row Housing Trust in Los Angeles is adding 102 modular housing units for homeless persons to an existing single-story building, called the Star Apartments at Sixth and Maple. The mixed use building, designed by architect Michael Maltzan, encompasses 95,000 square feet and will have retail on …
Asbury Park Press in New Jersey reports in a state where almost 350,000 homes suffered significant damage, according to the Christie administration, long dormant home builders may be in for a long and prosperous stretch. The Shore’s builders are hiring staff and gearing up for increased work, and are finding …
IndependentMail reports from Seneca, South Carolina a volunteer crew from Foothills Community Church of Seneca helped site and finish two modular Oconee County Habitat for Humanity homes. The church is donating $25,000 towards the cost and 100 volunteers from the congregation are helping complete the homes. Bill Banholzer, modular home …
MHProNews has learned the National Modular Housing Council (NMHC) reports 3,827 new modular homes were shipped in the third quarter of 2012, an increase of 14.5 percent over Q3 2011. Compared to the same quarter in 2011, 17 states showed increases in shipments, eight states showed declines, and nine states …
KULR8TV in Billings, Montana tells MHProNews the 70,000 square foot former Sutton Sportswear building has been occupied the last six months by modular home builder Cass Homes, and the company plans to hire an additional 20-30 workers within the next two months. Providing high-end homes to eastern Montana, Canada and …
ApplianceMagazine reports Whirlpool Corp. has inked a single-source supplier agreement with Clayton Homes, Inc. of Maryville, Tenn. Beginning Jan. 1, 2013, Clayton’s customers will be able to choose from a variety of Whirlpool’s kitchen appliances. A subsidiary of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, Clayton is the largest producer of manufactured and …
As follow-up to a story Nov. 26, 2012 in which Staten Island (NY) Borough President James Molinaro said he would not accept “colonies of trailers” to house those displaced by Hurricane Sandy, a SRO crowd in a high school gym of survivors now in their fifth week of homelessness voiced …
TheDailyJournal reports from south central New Jersey that American Custom Modular of Millville, NJ will hire nearly 50 new workers as part of a project to build over 180 modular townhomes for Winslow Commons in Camden County, north of Millville. Founded last year by Jeffrey DiMatteo and Gino Ciancaglini, the …
SmartCompanyAU tells MHProNews modular home builder Trade Fusion in Griffith, New South Wales, Australia has been placed in administration, similar to receivership in the U.S. Founded in 2004 on the basis of combining a traditional construction company with a factory making roof trusses, wall panels, and glass and aluminum components, …
Real Estate Weekly tells MHProNews groundbreaking for the first phase of developer Forest City Ratner Companies’ (FCRC) Atlantic Yards modular project in Brooklyn will be held Dec. 18 with completion set for 2014. Built in partnership with Skanska USA, a Swedish modular firm, and designed by architectural firm ShoP, the …
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James Oakley Lewer, 80, founder of Sunrise Housing in Iowa Falls, Iowa, passed away Nov. 22 in Des Moines, IA. He and his wife, La Donna, invested in Sunrise Mobile Home Park in 1969, and began selling manufactured and modular homes as Sunrise Housing. He was a longtime member of …
As we have reported in numerous stories over the past two years, housing continues to be in short supply in western North Dakota where the Bakken oil formation has drawn thousands of workers, many of them oilfield workers living in modular man camps. As originationnews tells MHProNews, community banks in …
As we reported here Fri. Nov. 23, the Stephen Siller Tunnel to Tower Foundation is purchasing up to 30 modular homes to be sited on land owned by Faith Church in New Milford, Connecticut to house refugees of Hurricane Sandy from Staten Island (SI) because of the foundation’s ties to …
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Under a program to combat poverty and hunger in rural areas, AllAfrica reports the provincial governor of Kwanza Sul, Eusebio de Brito Teixeirain, of Angola, has dedicated the first 12 of 50 modular homes to impoverished residents of Kassongue district. Beneficiaries of the new homes were identified with the help …
After Spring 2011 flooding forced 1,000 Lake St Martin First Nation residents from their homes in central Manitoba, Canada, the provincial government set up 60 furnished modular homes on a former radar base near Gypsumville. According to WinnipegFreePress, nine months later only 13 families have taken up the offer, others …
A Connecticut foundation with roots in Staten Island (SI) is offering 20-30 fully furnished modular homes to SI residents displaced by Hurricane Sandy sited on four acres of land the Faith Church owns in New Milford, Conn. Frank Siller, of the Stephen Siller Tunnel to Tower Foundation, John Hodge, director …
Gizmag tells us a Spanish partnership of CSO Arquitectura and prefab home builder Torsan has developed a modular home that can be move-in ready three weeks afer it is ordered. It takes a week to produce the detailed drawings, the frame and paneling are completed over three days, and a …
As follow up to an article we posted June 19, 2012 about Broad Sustainable Building Corp. constructing the world’s largest skyscraper in 90 days from modular units, the project is about to get underway. TIME says the 2,749-foot, 220-story tower in China’s Hunan Province will contain apartments for 30,000, a …
