Home construction

When Homes Shrink, What Does It Mean For the Economy?

By Bethany Erickson / June 1, 2019 /
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It was a Tweet that had us sitting up and paying attention, as the National Association of Home Builders pointed out last week that although homes got slightly larger from the fourth quarter of 2018 to the first quarter of 2019, sizes are still declining. Median new single-family home floor area ticked up to 2,355…

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Crime Report: Call the Coppers; They Stole My Copper!

By Zachary Dickens / September 16, 2014 /

Unless their clients want to shell out even more money, home builders can’t secure their work sites 24 hours a day. Criminals know this, and that’s why a combined $15,000 worth of copper pipes were stolen from two University Park construction sites during the weekend of Sept. 6-7. The crimes happened in the 4000 block…

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