Trading Eyesore for Green Patch: About 100 in Sandtown-Winchester Transform a Lot into a Park
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By Jonathan Bor, The Baltimore Sun  Sep. 17--The vacant lot off North Fulton Avenue in Sandtown-Winchester was like many in the city -- a dumping ground for discarded bricks, concrete, paper and wire. A neighborhood junkyard.
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Green show houses are appearing across the country, spreading a message about environmentally conscious building.
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By CAROLINE INNES  MORE than 400 Haydock residents gathered to protest against proposals for a recycling plant on green belt land earmarked to become a country park.
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By Tran, Tu-Uyen  With business booming in Grand Forks' lndustrial Park economic development experts are seeing the need for better streets and, in the long run, more land.
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The Arizona Cardinals have taken to losing like a beatnik to Berkeley. Consider this contrast: the man brought in to reverse the desert doldrums, Dennis Green, was gunning for his 100th regular-season coaching victory yesterday at Pro Player Stadium in Miami; you have to go back to 1986 to account for the last 100 Cardinals wins, when the franchise was ...
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A 25-square-mile stretch of flat acreage in Albuquerque is being transformed into a master-planned community that may take 30 years to build.
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By JUDY O'ROURKE  SANTA CLARITA -- A state-of-the-art recycling center stalled by lawsuits from occupying a planned Newhall business park is now envisioned for a site between Newhall and Canyon Country.
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More than 100,000 hectares of English countryside is opened up to the public this weekend after 120 years of campaigning.
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By Shelley Shelton, ARIZONA DAILY STAR  FOOTHILLS  Residents turn out to dress up and repair spot  To get a feeling for the spirit behind the ongoing transformation of a once-barren street island in the Oracle Foothills neighborhood, imagine a potluck gathering.
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Bill and Jean Lane are using a well-established open space conservation  tool in a new way that they hope others may pick up.  Bill Lane, the former publisher of Sunset Magazine and former  U.S.
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By Michael Andersen, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Feb. 19--Build a better parking lot, and the world will beat a path to your door.   Don't laugh.
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A plan to raise $100 million by charging for parking near a new stadium is one of the top proposals in the city's bid to find private money to finance the ballpark.
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By Tim Ellis, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Sep. 21--Area residents can expect to see a lot of activity over the next two weeks as the pace of work picks up on an expansion project at the county landfill on the western edge of Sahuarita.
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By Andre Briscoe, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Sep. 24--Gardening may soon be on the rise in Pacific Grove, if a new environmental group has its way.
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By Lisa Heyamoto, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jun. 13--To stand on the corner of Emerald Vista and Feickert drives in Elk Grove and look up is to see a sight straight out of a nature show.
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By Lisa Fleisher, The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C.  Sep. 16--The idea of quickly solving parking woes on a downtown street by buying land for a parking lot so excited Myrtle Beach City Council members, they interrupted their meeting this week and ordered a staffer to price the land.
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By Jenny Burns, The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C.  Sep. 13--Centex Homes released plans Tuesday to build an urban village with 900 homes -- including a town center, 6-acre park and outdoor ampitheater -- in place of Bay Tree Golf Plantation's three golf courses.