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Why pop-up campsites are the answer to your last-minute half-term break Enjoy the mini-heatwave in the nation’s top holiday spots at one of the UK’s growing number of pop-up campsites 25 May 2021 • 3:13pm Wake up to Welsh sea views at Nolton Haven Bay Campsite Credit: Nolton Haven Bay Campsite The bank holiday weekend is fast approaching, the kids are set to break up for the May half-term and forecasters are predicting a (long overdue) mini-heatwave – the perfect excuse for a mini break on home soil. Except, everywhere is fully booked, isn’t it? Not quite. It’s no secret that the...

Advocates Worry Blackstone Sale Will Take Affordable Housing Crisis From Bad to Worse The planned sale of 66 apartment buildings to the New York-based Blackstone Group highlights both the vulnerability of naturally affordable housing and the lack of requirement for owners to notify local governments of plans to unload properties. The Doriana Apartments in southeastern San Diego are among the apartment buildings being acquired by the Blackstone Group in a pending sale. / Photo by Adriana Heldiz The Conrad Prebys Foundation, a charitable organization, shocked affordable housing advocates last w...

Print Private equity giant Blackstone Group plans to purchase 66 residential complexes in San Diego County for more than $1 billion in one of the biggest real estate transactions in local history. New York-based Blackstone is purchasing roughly 5,800 apartment units from the Conrad Prebys Foundation. It said it intends to spend $100 million to improve the new assets. The deal makes Blackstone one of the biggest real estate holders in San Diego County. It already owns $4.5 billion in assets here — including Legoland and the Hotel del Coronado. The transaction, which also includes Los Angel...

Dan Yates, president of the Conrad Prebys Foundation, said the money from the deal will be used for grants in San Diego. The foundation gave more than $71 million to 112 San Diego county organizations in March. "Conrad Prebys was a sharp businessman who found true joy in the act of giving, and I believe he would be honored to see the result of his life’s work dedicated to continuing his philanthropic legacy,” Yates wrote in an email to the Union-Tribune. The deal means one Blackstone will be one of San Diego's biggest landlords with an apartment total of 6,700 units. According to the...

Related Company:  Rendering courtesy Brattleboro Savings & Loan Vermont Business Magazine The DeWitt Block, a long-empty piece of Flat Street’s history in downtown Brattleboro, is being given a new life. Standing next to the Brattleboro Transportation Center, the former Sanel Auto Parts store was constructed over 100 years ago as a grocery warehouse and, though it has received interest from investors over the years, a good match for its potential hadn’t materialized until now. “This building has been vacant for a long time,” says Skye Morse, a partner and investment director at M&...