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DeWitt (WSYR-TV) - Construction continues on the new Fly Road bridge over the New York State Thruway in DeWitt, and some of you are wondering when the work will wrap up, so you can use the brand new bridge. The Thruway Authority says the project is running about three weeks behind schedule, and they say weather is to blame. So what's left to do on the Fly Road bridge? Crews still have some paving work ahead of them. That will happen on the bridge itself and on the approach to the bridge. They're hoping to knock off that part of the project next week. Then, they'll install some guide rails and put down road markings on the Thruway itself. The Thruway Authority estimates that work will be done by the beginning of November, making a lot of commutes to work, and elsewhere, a whole lot easier.
October is Manufactured Housing Month in Mississippi, according to a recent press release from the Manufactured Housing Association in Flowood. The release went on to say that one out of every three Mississippi housing starts in the first six months of the year was a manufactured home. With so many manufactured homes sold in the state, there is no doubt the industry fills a need. But the volume of manufactured homes sold may help explain why so many people confuse them with modular construction. Emily Austill said she got a permit and financing for her modular home in Perkinston. But after the home was delivered and while finishing work was taking place, a neighbor protested her right to have the home, believing it to be manufactured. Austill said work has stopped on the home until the misunderstanding can be rectified.
At least one analyst expects that the countys hotel sales, which have continued at a rapid clip for the past year and a half, will slow down soon, if for no other reason than there wont be many desirable properties left to sell. But gauging from the number of recent transactions, including the sale of the 192-room Residence Inn San Diego in Mission Valley, announced this month, the hotel bubble, unlike the housing bubble, shows no signs of an imminent burst. The Residence Inn San Diego was part of a four-hotel package acquired by Palm Beach, Fla.-based Innkeepers USA, a hotel real estate investment trust, from Bethesda, Md.-based RLJ Urban Lodging Fund, LP for a total of $215 million, or $231,000 per room. The package also included the 200-room Residence Inn Anaheim, 230-room Hilton Suites Anaheim and 309-room Hilton Ontario, all in Southern California.
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