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The Laurel Hill apartments in Milford have been sold to the Boston-based real estate company that already owns Woodland Heights, the town’s largest apartment complex. The 96-unit Laurel Hill was sold in June for $6.8 million to Mayo Nine, a…

Bed Bath & Beyond and T.J. Maxx stores will soon be built on sites long vacant in a Loudon Road shopping center in Concord. Rocky’s Ace Hardware and the Concord post office are the only current tenants at the plaza.…

Seacoast area developer Eric Chinburg and former gubernatorial candidate Bruce Keough are proposing major development project off Borthwick Avenue in Portsmouth that will incorporate residential, business and artist studio space. The estimated cost of the project could be as high…

A row of retail shops stretching from Granite Street to near a planned riverfront ballpark is being explored for two Millyard buildings on South Commercial Street in Manchester. A potential addition to the Langer Place Mill also would include a…

In the last 12 months, asking prices for single-family homes have risen by more than 50 percent in the Upper Valley towns of Lebanon and Hanover in New Hampshire and in the Vermont towns of Norwich and Hartford, with sales…

Victor Azzi, the former campus planner for the University System of New Hampshire, has filed a lawsuit against the University of New Hampshire and USNH claiming he was unfairly fired from his position in 2001. Azzi’s suit, filed in Rockingham…

Antioch New England Graduate School has signed an agreement to acquire 46 acres of wooded, undeveloped land in eastern Keene to be used as a study site for ecological monitoring. The area, bounded on three sides by the Branch River…

Architectural Resources Cambridge Inc. has been selected to work on the middle and high school facilities planning process in Laconia. ARC, based in Cambridge, Mass., will be working along with the Rist-Frost Shumway engineering firm on developing plans to address…

The city of Concord and state officials are teaming up to win a multimillion-dollar federal grant to rebuild Concord Airport’s aging terminal. The idea is to make the airport a more suitable visual gateway to the state and position Concord…

On July 7-8, I attended a two-day workshop on “Mediating Land Use Disputes” in Freeport, Maine, put on by the Lincoln Land Institute. A very nice venue, although they worked us too hard. My interest in mediation follows my role…