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Immokalee Regional Airport is seen as a catalyst to economic development and diversification. Factories on airport property have been called essential to build up a middle class in that rural community. After years of false starts, including some would-be manufacturing tenants with dubious real-world business potential, comes a proposal for a company known as C-Tech making parts for modular homes that take the concept of pre-fab to the next level of strength and quality. Some would say the plan is tailor-made for Immokalee, which could use good jobs as well as good, economical housing. Yet, Collier County commissioners balk at $1.7 million in subsidies to help make the $16.3 million project possible. They say the average job pay of $37,000 a year is only 6 percent above the countywide average.
Vincent Cortez Brown, who left the 2005 mayoral race amid revelations that he tried to cover his past as a convicted felon, is wanted by police again. Durham police started looking for Brown on Sept. 28, when a warrant was issued for his arrest on charges he defrauded a man of nearly $30,000. They have yet to find him and are seeking the public's help. Brown, 46, who claimed in his campaign to be a lay Baptist minister and a former Navy SEAL, allegedly was paid for architectural work he never performed. CAMP LEJEUNE Marine who wrote to schoolchildren killed A Camp Lejeune Marine who had once been pen pals with students at his old elementary school, writing them from Iraq, was killed Tuesday on his second tour of duty there.
By next ski season, 14 Snowmass families are expected to have new homes down at Entryway in the new Rodeo Place affordable housing development. At this weeks Town Council meeting, Roaring Fork Custom Homes was announced as the winning bid contractor by Joe Coffey, Snowmass Villages housing manager. They will team with Timber Creek Homes, a custom modular home builder, to construct the first phase of Rodeo Place. Construction is currently planned for next summer. Coburn Development is the project architect. Im really happy that we are going to have a housing product that is very needed and that it will fill a niche we dont have by creating more small and mediumsized homes, said Housing Manager Joe Coffey. The homes are going to be high quality and energy efficient, and its going to be a wonderful place for families to live next to the rec center, the parks and the trails.
BATON ROUGE -- Louisiana will receive $75 million in new federal money to pay for modular quick-assemble homes, known as "Katrina cottages," to replace the cramped FEMA trailers where many residents have lived since Hurricane Katrina, U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu said Thursday. .
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