Convivial to CityMarket at O, new homes in Brookland and Jenny's reincarnated at the Wharf

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3300-3314 Ninth St. NE: New construction of eight row dwellings, all two-family flats, for a total of 16 new residential units. The homes will be located roughly three blocks south of the Brookland Metro station. The owner and developer is Getinet Bantayehu, who acquired the 12,400-square-foot property in September from the Oxbridge Group for $1.6 million. Oxbridge purchased the same site one year earlier for $500,000, earned D.C. approval…

Rollback of renewable-energy standards dies in Colorado Legislature

An effort to roll back Colorado’s renewable energy standard in the state Legislature died Monday in a House of Representatives committee.

Democrats on the House State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee voted on a party line over Republican objections to kill Senate Bill 44.

The bill, which passed the Republican-majority Senate last month, would have cut the minimum portfolio of energy the state’s investor-owned utilities would have to obtain from renewable sources from 30 percent back to…

City of Boston names 'startup czar'

The city of Boston announced Monday that it named a City Hall staffer as its first “startup czar,” focused on helping nurture Boston’s young tech companies.

Rory Cuddyer, a member of Mayor Marty Walsh’s administration, who previously served as advisor to Walsh chief of staff Dan Koh, will lead the effort, reporting to Chief of Economic Development John Barros and the Boston Redevelopment Authority.

Cuddyer’s hiring comes along with the creation of StartHub, a regional program to support the startup…

Hawaii community Development Authority moving closer to Downtown Honolulu March 16

The Hawaii Community Development Authority will officially begin operating out of the historic American Brewery Building on Queen Street near Downtown Honolulu on March 16, the state agency overseeing the redevelopment of Kakaako said Monday.

The HCDA said that its phone and fax lines will be down on March 13 in preparation for the move, and that it can be contacted by email on that day.

All of the HCDA’s current staff, which consists of 21 people, will be moving from the current HCDA office at…

Alexander & Baldwin's The Collection condo project in Honolulu 93% sold

Alexander & Baldwin Inc.’s The Collection residential project in Kakaako, which started construction in October, has pre-sold 93 percent of its 450 units, the vast majority of which are being purchased by local buyers, the company said Monday.

Honolulu-based Alexander & Baldwin (NYSE: ALEX) said 88 percent of the units pre-sold at The Collection were under binding contracts.

A&B paid $23 million to Kamehameha Schools for the former CompUSA lot it is developing as its The Collection project in Kakaako.

“We…