A collaboration of nonprofits and an anonymous land donor are determined to maintain affordable housing on Maine’s Islesboro Island. BangorDailyNews informs us building new homes or renovating older ones on the island can prove costly in terms of transportation of materials. Islesboro Affordable Property (IAP) and Genesis Fund contracted with …
loansafe reports from Billings, Montana, the city is experiencing a housing boom due to its proximity to the oil boom in western North Dakota. With wome oil field employees working a two-week on and two-week off schedule, Billings is a short plane ride away. The average price for a single-family …
As follow-up to a story we posted March 16, 2012, a developer, Dan Coen, had proposed two modular housing developments comprised of 31 four and eight-person living quarters to house oil and gas workers in the energy boom now hitting the Carrollton County, Ohio area. Land that leased for $5 …
LenConnect in Adrian, Michigan informs MHProNews.com Mid Star Home Builders of Cement City, MI has taken on a new owner. Shelly Saunders is joining her husband, Scott, in operating their Ritz Craft licensed modular home business, which also has a location in Coldwater in southern MI. Scott started the business …
WisconsinRapidsTribune says Ferkey Builders in Saratoga, WI just needs approval from the Saratoga Town Board to build an over-50 modular housing community of 40 homes clustered around seven cul-de-sacs. In order for this and another project to go forward, ordinances dealing with lot sizes had to be amended, which the …
TheChronicleHerald in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada says P.J.C. Land Developments Ltd., headed by Paul R. Norwood, has proposed a retirement village of 350 modular homes just northeast of Halifax in Lake Echo. Sited in 50 clusters of seven homes each, Maple Leaf Homes of Fredericton will manufacture the homes, which …
According to LegalNewsLine, a Ventnor, New Jersey couple charged with a fraudulent modular investment opportunity agreed to pay $35,000 in restitution and civil penalties by Aug. 31 as a settlement. As announced by NJ Attorney General Jeffrey Chiesa, if the defendants, Dennis and Maria Bracall, miss the deadline they and …
The SeattleMedium tells MHProNews.com the Puget Sound Skills Center (PSSC) in the Seattle, Washington area offers a Construction Technology course where students build a modular home that is then sold by the school system. Teacher Ken Pierson says the course is great for students who like to use their hands …
ReinforcedPlastics says MSP Property Management & Development Company, a real estate developer and manager in the Caribbean, has agreed to buy modular homes for a housing project in Antigua from Innovative Composites International (ICI). As we last reported April 6, 2012, at MHProNews.com, ICI’s new Ecoscape plant in Orangeburg, SC …
Factory Homes, Ltd (FHL) in Hull, England has received the Q-Mark Certification by BM Trada, one of the toughest standards for construction products, and will begin producing modular homes with a low-carbon footprint to meet the need for affordable housing. Based on automobile manufacturing, the cutting-edge technology focuses on high …
BusinessReviewUSA informs us Moosic, PA-based Signature Building Systems, LLC is marking two milestones: Building its 4,000th custom modular home, and its 20th anniversary. CEO Victor DePhillips says, “The last four years have been difficult and we are thrilled to say we have made it through the storm and are currently …
As follow-up to an article we published Feb. 17, 2012, The New York Times reports the first MEDCottage will be delivered this month to a family in Alexandria, Virginia. As an alternative to placing aging family members in a nursing home, this 12-by-24 bedroom-bathroom-kitchenette modular unit, designed to fit in …
The “House and Home” exhibit at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. tells the history of housing in the United States through photographs, film, drawings, texts, and models, beginning with Native Americans, through tenements, suburbia, urban living, even to the modular Tumbleweed Tiny House that has just 100 square …
TheSacramentoBee tells MHProNews.com Arts Way Scientific, Inc. of Armstrong, Iowa is supplying a research and teaching institution with 24 modular buildings that will comprise a 21,350 square foot research facility. With an anticipated installation date before the year’s end, the contract is valued at $8.7 million. Art’s Way Scientific, a …
Two Illinois men have been charged with defrauding investors out of $800,000 in a modular home building scam, the DailyHerald tells MHProNews.com. Richard Osty of Waukegan and Ronald Moore of Wheaton allegedly told investors $1,500 (sometimes more) would get them a loan for a green modular home, a one dollar …
SBWire reports ModularHomesNetwork (MHN) says the modular housing industry is stabilizing after losing a number of manufacturers in 2011. With more starts this year than last, and growth in the multi-family market, MHN notes Q1 modular housing growth in the New England area, New Jersey, and upper Midwest as well …
As the energy and mining industries continue to expand in Canada, creating instant cities that last for 20-25 years and then disband, companies need to quickly get the project up and running while controlling costs, and government wants the economic impact/revenue without environmental upheaval. Instead of the old metal shelters, …
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PRWeb reports to MHProNews.com from North Dakota modular general contractor M Space is sponsoring the Bakken Housing Summit May 16-17, 2012 in Williston, ND. Bringing together lenders, developers, government representatives, and investors, the goal is to build 5,000 homes in two years to meet the demand for housing is this …
StateJournal in West Virginia reports Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin authorized tax relief to flood victims of two additional counties, bringing to eleven the number of counties included. The executive order suspends the consumer sales and service tax and the use tax on purchases that would “substantially improve efforts to provide …
SunHerald tells MHProNews.com a New Orleans firm has developed a structural steel-insulated paneled dwelling to house survivors of catastrophes. Designed with 22 solar panels so it can generate its own electricity, and with a water cachement system that can hold 6,000 gallons, the modular home can function independently of disaster-damaged …
