![]() The Bronx judge who cut loose an accused cop-shooting teen gangbanger is “agenda driven” - and part of the reason crime is spiraling out of control, a furious law enforcement source told The Post on Saturday.Ĭamrin Williams, a 16-year-old drill rapper who goes by the stage name C Blu, was let off the hook in the gun and assault case, which the city Law Department said Friday “cannot be prosecuted.” man fires 30 AR-15 rounds at pool cleaner he thought was intruder Mom accused of ordering teen son to shoot, kill man at hot dog stand tearfully announces suit after murder charges droppedįla. Husband shot dead during movie theater dispute after alleged gunman threw popcorn tub in his wife’s face “I think it will be a growing (niche market) but very, very slow growing.” And while Blu Homes touts its eco-friendly homes, Wehrli notes that custom builders can also build green homes.Second suspect arrested in heartless robbery, murder of NYC man: NYPD “That kind of thing can certainly have some legs in a place like the Bay Area,” he said. But, he noted, Blu Homes is aiming to reach consumers who value green-building techniques. Haney expects that some of the demand for Blu Homes will come from people who are downsizing into areas outside the Bay Area or who are looking for vacation homes in places like Lake Tahoe.īlu Homes makes it possible for buyers to lock in a set price for a home as opposed to hiring a general contractor to build a custom home and risk having cost overruns and time delays, Haney said.īlu Homes pricing is on the high side for prefabricated homes, according to Dean Wehrli, senior manager for Irvine-based John Burns Real Estate Consulting. Of course on top of that, buyers have to buy the land for the home to sit on, which in the Bay Area can be hard to come by and expensive. ![]() The homes will range in size from about 500-square-foot studios or one-bedrooms (priced at about $125,000) to 2,500-square-foot four-bedrooms (priced at $500,000). We’re really happy to be landing those kinds of jobs in Vallejo,” said Ursula Luna-Reynosa, economic development director for Vallejo. The city of Vallejo worked with Blu Homes and Lennar Mare Island to help get the site ready in time to meet Blu Homes’ timeline for opening the factory next month. “Over the first five years, if our projections of demand are correct, we expect to have up to 500” Bay Area employees, Haney said. A year ago, the company had about 20 workers. Since its founding in 2007, the privately held company has raised $25 million in funding from private investors. The major hiring will take place in the next 30 days.”īlu Homes uses computer technology to help buyers design their homes, which are then manufactured in a factory using structural steel instead of wood to frame the house, along with green and energy-efficient building techniques, before they are shipped out to the buyer’s land in a flatbed truck and assembled. “The first people have already been hired. That’s a very compelling combination,” said Bill Haney, president and founder of Blu Homes. ![]() The Bay Area has the Silicon Valley talent and information technology and the East Bay has the deep labor pool of factory craftsmen. “We were about to sign a lease in Nevada and he made a very strong case for the Bay Area for companies like ours. ![]() The company expects to hire about 80 people in the first year.īlu Homes considered a site in Nevada but decided to go with the Mare Island location after getting a pep talk about what the Bay Area could offer from Tom Steyer, founder of San Francisco-based Farallon Capital Management and co-chairman of Californians for Clean Energy and Jobs. The 250,000-square-foot manufacturing facility will start operations in November, and will have a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Oct. Blu Homes, a Massachusetts-based builder of energy-efficient, prefabricated homes, is opening a factory at the former Mare Island shipyard in a move that will add home-building jobs in the Bay Area while giving the fast-growing company a bigger California presence. ![]()
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