| Alabama-Based Developer Chooses Fleetwood's Trendsetter Homes for ...
RIVERSIDE, Calif., April 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Fleetwood Homes division of Fleetwood Enterprises, Inc. (NYSE: FLE) , an industry leader in factory-built housing for more than five decades, announced today that its modular housing division, Trendsetter Homes, has been selected for a new 160-unit housing development on the Gulf Coast. Consisting of a mix of single and two-story buildings with four different elevations, the Alabama condominium development will offer floor plans ranging in size from 1,140 square feet to 2,030 square feet. The units will be built in the new Trendsetter Homes modular facility in Douglas, Georgia. The developer will begin showing model units to potential buyers by late summer. The three Trendsetter projects Fleetwood has announced over the past two weeks -- Ft.
Architect Jennifer Siegal To Speak At Palm Springs Art Museum
On Sunday, March 25, 2007 architect Jennifer Siegal will present her lecture TransModern Architecture at the Palm Springs Art Museum's Annenberg Theater at 2 p.m. The lecture, hosted by the Art Museum's Architecture & Design Council, will be followed by a reception in the Marks Graphics Center. Tickets are $5 for ADC members and $10 for non-members. .
Trailer parks house people, not trash
The porch is stacked full of wicker furniture. Inside, boxes with labels like "big fish" and "little fish" fill the living room. A stack of bedding - sheets, blankets, pillow and sleeping bag - is neatly folded on the end of the couch.
Green is in that pre-moving limbo, where the TV and VCR still are plugged in, but the dishwasher isn't.
His move is more uncertain than most. Green lives in a 1970 Champion double-wide trailer - essentially, a worthless home. As of June 20, the optimistically named White Manor Mobile Home Park where he lives will disappear under 33 new condominiums. He can't afford the $12,000 bill to move his old trailer - if another mobile home park even would take it. They probably wouldn't. And the cost of hauling it away is more than the home is worth.
Living in a lunchbox
“Living in a lunchbox" or “a tin can" are a few phrases tossed at those who chose to purchase a Lustron stainless steel pre-fab home in the immediate post WWII years from 1947 to 1950. Less than 3,000 were ever manufactured before Carl Strandlund's idea to solve the housing shortage for veterans ended in bankruptcy. Built in a former aircraft plant in Columbus, most of these homes ended up with home owners in the Midwest, including one in Delphos, two in Spencerville, three in Van Wert and several more in Lima. Strandlund was a manufacturer of porcelain-coated steel panels used in that era for facades of gas stations and fast-food restaurants. He had not originally intended to build homes. Wartime restrictions on steel were still in place in 1946, so he worked with two Chicago architects to sketch out plans for all-steel, prefabricated homes to solve the housing shortage.
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