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NKY remodeling starts soar while single homes suffer

Submitted by Richard Todd, Reporter
Monday, April 30th, 2012, 4:00am
NKY remodeling starts soar while single homes suffer

ERLANGER, KY (FOX19) - The Home Builders Association of Northern Kentucky recently released their permit numbers for the first quarter of 2012, revealing what appears to be both good and bad news.

“Remodeling continues to skyrocket into 2012,” said Brian Miller, executive vice president for the Home Builders Association of Northern Kentucky.  “We are up 47 percent in remodeling volume for the first quarter of 2012 over that same period in 2011 where we were already beginning to see the remodeling industry gain steam.  That is the hottest first quarter volume we have seen in the ten years we have been tracking this data for the last ten years.  

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Housing grants, not loans, to be unveiled for tornado victims

Submitted by Richard Todd, Reporter
Thursday, March 29th, 2012, 10:11pm
Housing grants, not loans, to be unveiled for tornado victims

 

MOSCOW, OH (FOX19) – The Federal Home Loan Bank of Cincinnati will unveil a program Friday to make $5,000,000 in grants to help people whose homes were damaged by the March 2 tornados in Ohio and Kentucky. 

Homeowners are eligible for up to $20,000 toward reconstruction or repair of a home, or acquisition of a new one.  Details will be unveiled by the FHLBank’s David Hehman Friday morning in Moscow.

The FHLBank is a wholesale lender providing housing finance and economic development products and services to 741 member institutions located in Kentucky, Ohio, and Tennessee. Chartered by the U.S. Congress, the FHLBank is one of 12 district cooperative banks wholly owned by its members and does not receive taxpayer dollars.

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Governor Beshear coming Friday to announce "community enhancement"

Submitted by Richard Todd, Reporter
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012, 6:46pm
Governor Beshear coming Friday to announce "community enhancement"

NEWPORT, KY (FOX19) - Gov. Steve Beshear will be at Newport City Hall at 11 a.m. Friday to make a "community enhancement announcement". 

He will be joined by Tony Wilder, commissioner of the Kentucky Department of Local Government, Newport Mayor Jerry Peluso, and Tom Guidugli, former Newport Mayor and executive director of Neighborhood Foundations Inc, formerly the Housing Authority of Newport, which manages affordable apartment buildings large and small, and is also rehabs and builds single family homes. 

Newport City Hall is at 998 Monmouth St. 

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NKY Home Builders honor their best

Submitted by Richard Todd, Reporter
Wednesday, January 18th, 2012, 3:50am
NKY Home Builders honor their best

 

ERLANGER, KY (FOX19) - The Home Builders Association of Northern Kentucky (HBA) announced their annual award winners at a ceremony held on last Friday.  “Our award winners represent the best of the best in our industry.  Many hundreds of individuals serve our industry every year and it is a special opportunity to recognize the outstanding contribution that these special individuals make to our organization and Northern Kentucky,” said Brian Miller, Executive Vice President of the Home Builders Association of Northern Kentucky.

Awards and Winners:

2011 Builder of the Year: Mike Kegley, The B.O.L.D Company

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Holiday Tour highlights Bonnie Leslie neighborhood

Submitted by Richard Todd, Reporter
Wednesday, December 7th, 2011, 11:55pm
Holiday Tour highlights Bonnie Leslie neighborhood

BELLEVUE, KY (FOX19) - The 2011 Bellevue Neighborhood Association's "Holiday on the Hill" home tour, this year focuses on six architecturally unique homes found in the Bonnie Leslie neighborhood of Bellevue. 

This year's tour features two English Tudors, two American influenced Cape Cods and two Dutch Colonials, all refreshed and decorated for the holiday season.  "Each year the Bellevue Neighborhood Association (BNA) chooses a different neighborhood to sponsor the tour, said Linda Fields BNA president.  "This year's tour highlights Bellevue's youngest neighborhood with homes built from the mid to late quarter of the twentieth century". Though similar in age and square footage, this year's featured homes says something different to the visitor. Built some 60 plus years ago, each home has been updated with features such as new kitchens and baths while retaining the charm of original hardwood pegged flooring or decorative Rookwood tiled fireplace surrounds.

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Home building permits decline, rehabbing soars in NKY

Submitted by Richard Todd, Reporter
Wednesday, October 26th, 2011, 1:03am
Home building permits decline, rehabbing soars in NKY

ERLANGER, KY (FOX19) - The Home Builders Association of Northern Kentucky released their August 2011 report showing that Tri-County (Boone, Kenton and Campbell) area saw a 32% decrease in single family permits from September 2010 over September 2011.  This decrease stops a trend that saw year over year increases for the last few months.

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NKU celebrates high-tech Griffin Hall Informatics Center on Monday

Submitted by Richard Todd, Reporter
Thursday, October 6th, 2011, 11:15pm
NKU celebrates high-tech Griffin Hall Informatics Center on Monday

HIGHLAND HEIGHTS, KY (FOX19) - At 2 p.m. Monday, NKU will celebrate the official grand opening of Griffin Hall, the high-tech home of the NKU College of Informatics. The facility, which has hosted NKU classes since August, is a marvel of modern classroom, communication and energy efficient technology. The building contains 300,000 feet of data cable, 2,900 data drops, 9,000 feet of fiber optic cable, and 24,000 feet of coaxial cable (for television). It features 47 smart spaces (these technology-enhanced areas include such features as document cameras, Blu-Ray players, lecture-capture equipment, and flat-panel displays with smart-tech overlays). 

There are 550 student-accessible computers within the building (in both PC and Macintosh platforms), and the facility features a virtualization lab and a hardware lab as well as a convergence news room.

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