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ItÂ's no uncommon sight to see a Â"trailer homeÂ" hauled down the roads, but Steve ScharfÂ's Salem Valley Road house is a far cry from a trailer-home. Scharf, 39, had an ultra modern, system-built home brought down the highway from Alpharetta and constructed on his property. From the point of delivery, add eight hours and you have a constructed home. The house is built at a factory, away from the elements and vandals; built by, as Scharf tells it, Â"crews that show up to work,Â" already up to spec, and ready for inspection. These homes come in modules on wide load trailers, with plumbing, cabinetry, drywall, trim and some electrical already in place. Scharf moved to the Ooltewah area from New York five years ago to work for Ringgold Telephone Co. He and his wife Valerie, and their two children will soon be moving to Catoosa County.
WHAT: Presentation of the final plans for a new home to be built on the vacant lot at 1112 Villa St.WHEN: 6 p.m. Wednesday WHERE: St. Catherine's High School, 1200 Park Ave.Architects, UW-Milwaukee students joining forces for revitalization projectsRACINE - The vacant lot at 1112 Villa St. may soon become a single-family home as part of a project aimed at getting architects to work directly with neighborhoods to make them better.The project grew out of a charge the American Institute of Architects gave its chapters: Find a way to give something back to your communities.John Holz, incoming president of the American Institute of Architects-Milwaukee, said their membership wanted to show the community "architects are in the trenches, rolling up their sleeves and working for them."Holz, who is also a senior project designer at Plunkett Raysich Architects in Milwaukee, charged architecture students at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with designing affordable, single-family homes for select sites in Racine and Milwaukee."In our initiative, we're not just putting up a house on a vacant lot," he said.
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FLORENCE - A modular home-building business is reaching soaring heights at the Fremont County Airport Industrial Park thanks to the inexpensive cost of building here. Five Oaks Homes are like huge puzzles that are built and placed together, piece by piece, then lifted by a crane onto semitrailer trucks, before being moved and reassembled on each owner's property. Once reassembled, the seams between each piece are covered with drywall, textured and flawlessly feathered to the point that no one can tell the homes were once in pieces. "If you live in a resort or a remote location where it is real expensive to build a home, it makes sense," said Jacob Anderson, 28, who along with his father, Dennis Anderson, own Five Oaks Homes. .
Idle bulldozing equipment and a trailer sat yesterday near a hill in northeast Oceanside where Vista Unified School District officials expect to begin construction of dual magnet high schools next week. The project is the centerpiece of Proposition O, a $140 million school bond measure that voters approved in 2002 to build facilities and relieve overcrowding. It has drawn its share of criticism, with opponents arguing for a more central location within the district. The property is northeast of the intersection of state Route 76 and Melrose Drive in the northwest corner of the Vista Unified district. The district has faced several legal challenges over the project, including a pending lawsuit filed by an Oceanside couple who allege Vista Unified has misspent funds from the school bond measure.
Mississippi is getting more than $280 million in federal hurricane-recovery money for a pilot program to replace government-issued trailers with Katrina cottages. The cottages are safer, more-permanent structures than travel trailers or mobile homes. The modular homes look like traditional houses., but are smaller. U.S. Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., said Thursday the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Alternative Housing Pilot Program is a giant step forward in Mississippi's recovery. "Helping people to live in a real home will speed Mississippi's reconstruction efforts, not just in terms of restoring physical structures, but also by helping to improve the spirits of those still without a good home," Lott said in a news release. It was not immediately clear whether the state has set up a system for people to apply for Katrina cottage housing or money.
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