The owners of Creation Gardens, a wholesale produce and gourmet food supplier, have closed on the sale of their property at East Main and Hancock streets to the state Transportation Cabinet for about $3.6 million.

Other than the picturesque lookout from Grant Park, the chaparral-studded hillsides above Ventura City Hall are largely cut off from human use.Local nature lovers who want to change that are holding a community workshop Saturday to gather ideas to determine what is possible and desirable for a “premier” botanical gardens to enhance the 100-acre Grant Park.The 9:30 a.m. workshop at the Crowne ...

BRIDGEPORT -- A proposal to expand the city's inventory of community gardens died on the vine Tuesday as the Board of Park Commissioners denied a request to add gardens in two city parks.

Dr. Tom Parsons of Avalon Medical Clinic told the audience at the official opening of Avalon Gardens, a seniors' residence in Murrayville, how his clinic got its name. The new facility is built on the former site of the medical clinic.

STAFF REPORT The family that runs Sarasota Jungle Gardens has decided not to sell to the county and state, which have been trying to buy the 11-acre property -- or obtain a conservation easement that would keep it from being developed in the future -- for more than two years.

Beautifying yards and gardens in Rhinelander this year could benefit property owners with a credit to their sewer utility bills.

KUALA LUMPUR: HwangDBS Vickers Research, which recently hosted the DBSV annual property talk by CB Richard Ellis (Malaysia), says demand for niche residential products still strong, but weak for high-end condos.

April 30 - May 2, 2010