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San Francisco Firm Hamilton Zanze Buys First Knoxville-Area Property in Alcoa
A San Francisco real estate investment firm has made its first move into the Knoxville market, closing on a 300-unit apartment community in Alcoa, Tennessee. Hamilton Zanze sponsored the purchase of Vital at Springbrook, a Class A garden-style property within the Springbrook Farm mixed-use development, with the deal closing on October 27.
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Choice Lane deal could earn $140 billion over 50 years
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RealtyLink eyes rental model for Alcoa's Mills Street homes
Developer RealtyLink may have just poured cold water on a part of the City of Alcoa’s vision for the northern edge of the Springbrook Farm downtown center. At a planning commission meeting on Oct. 15, RealtyLink Development Senior Development Manager Judd Nash and Director of Multifamily Development Blake Muldrow confirmed that they were planning to rent most, if not all, of the over 100 single-family and multifamily units planned along the Mills Street corridor. “Right now, we’re leaning towards rental with this. We’re dealing with a lot of different things. Site work costs were over $8 million... and we’re in an environment where rental makes sense. You divide ($8 million) by 147 units that’s $55,000 per unit, and if you can’t phase it, you have to do the site work all at once and then phase the homes, we just don’t think that’s viable,” said Muldrow. This news came alongside a revised concept plan that also made changes to the total number and type of units planned for the corridor — going from 94 detached units and 35 attached units approved back in 2023, to 57 attached units and only 90 detached ones, and bringing the grand total to its
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ASU Joins Purdue, Tennessee to Close Nuclear Workforce Gap Amid Reactor Boom
Arizona State University is teaming up with Purdue University and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville to tackle a shortage of nuclear-literate engineers, forming what the schools call the New Nuclear Academic Consortium. The partnership pairs ASU's massive engineering enrollment with Purdue reactor access and Tennessee's nuclear degree programs, resources the Tempe campus doesn't have on its own, as power companies, data centers and the federal government push for a rapid buildout of nuclear capacity.