Joy Kacik has had a lifelong love affair with older houses.
They’re lovely to look at, she says, but inevitably come with one of two problems: They cost too much to repair and maintain or, even worse, have had their architectural details and charm torn out by previous owners.
When the North Hills native decided to relocate in the early 1990s to the Avery’s Fields development in Cranberry, she found a way around that predicament: She built a new “old” house.
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“EMERGING VERTICALITY” IS A CATCH PHRASE used to describe the recent cropping up of the first two floors at the construction site of 4545, Conrad Properties’ newest, exciting 10-story luxury condominium building on Lindell Boulevard, between Euclid and Taylor in the Central West End. Sales began in April of this year, and already seven of the 34 residences have been sold, including one of the three available penthouses. Move-in to this eagerly-anticipated condominium development is slated for spring of 2007, according to Steven Lange, sales broker. For now, interested homebuyers can visit the well-appointed, highly informative storefront sales office at No. 5 Maryland Plaza, just a block north of the building site. (more…)
