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A developer who has converted several local apartment complexes into condominiums is eyeing a similar project in Kirkwood.

Bruce Mills, chairman and chief executive of Clayton-based Mills Properties, is awaiting approval from the city's planning and zoning commission for a $120 million, 10-year condominium project. If plans go through, Mills said, he'll resort to his usual business model: lease units until buyers arrive.

In the gloomy national housing market, developers are among the ranks of professionals — including real estate agencies and investors — scrambling for ways to buoy their businesses. Mills' strategy centers on rehabilitating apartment complexes one building at a time based on demand and selling the units as condos. Units in buildings that aren't rehabilitated are rented out.

Councilman MikeK Recalls Knievel Action Figure

I have been a customer for over 25 years and am a bit upset that we are not receiving official records for Kootenai County anymore, but instead for Spokane County. My interest is in Kootenai County and what is happening in our neighborhoods and at our courts. It seems that there is very little coverage of our area by your paper anymore, not what I am wanting to purchase daily. I have conferred with others and they are upset also. Please advise if this is a permanent change and if it is, all I have spoken with will be canceling their subscriptions too.
Sad for all/Jacqui.

Answer: In response to complaints about the disappearance of the Idaho public records in our newspaper, we're working on a solution. We believe we'll be able to publish them in our weekly zoned editions -- the Handle Extra and the Post Falls Voice.

Action on Pansy Road Purchase Postponed

The Board of Selectmen on Wednesday postponed a vote for a special bond appropriation for $1.5 million until its Feb. 5 meeting.

The money, requested on behalf of the Land Acquisition Commission, would be used to acquire the properties at 85, 89, 107 and 121 Pansy Road for possible use as a junior soccer field, dog park or general open space.

Although the contract will not stipulate a specific use, the space is one of the last areas of open space around a school in Fairfield, roughly equaling 1.22 acres, according to Town Attorney Richard Saxl.

Selectman Ralph Bowley expressed concern over the fact that "this parcel has been available, excess land for the last 30 years. We could have purchased this for much less earlier."

Bowley asked if "such an expensive purchase [would] preclude other purchases in upcoming years?" The fact that the appraisal price for the land is $250,000 less than the purchasing price was a contentious topic at the meeting.

Why Is Florida God's Waiting Room?

Leading up to Tuesday's Republican primary in Florida, Sen. John McCain sucked up to the 65-and-older crowd at The Villages retirement community by decrying the cost of prescription drugs. Mitt Romney went after the same age bracket by attacking the Arizona senator's Medicare voting record. Senior citizens are a political force in the Sunshine State: 3 million of Florida's 18.7 million residents are seniors, the densest concentration of elderly folk in the country. How'd Florida get to be so full of old people?

Good weather, effective marketing, low taxes, and a herd mentality. In the first half of the 20th century, the concept of moving to warmer climes upon retirement didn't really exist—seniors generally lived with relatives to conserve funds. But the advent of Social Security payments in 1940, as well as the post-World War II economic boom, made it possible for grannies to live independently.

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