Today, the three-story, 46-room hotel’s windows are boarded up, and the inside is largely gutted. But when the Bergmann opened in 1913, it was considered “the epitome of style and class.”
Housing
As the permafrost melts, the houses in Nunapitchuk are breaking down
Some houses in Nunapitchuk sit on their own little hills as the soil erodes around them. Whole neighborhoods have sunk as seeping sewage mixes with the melting tundra.
Glory Hall seeks commercial tenant for downtown Juneau apartment building
The commercial lease will subsidize rent for affordable housing units upstairs.
From Austin to Anchorage, US cities opt to ditch their off-street parking minimums
Around the country, cities are throwing out their own parking requirements, hoping to end up with less parking – and more affordable housing, better transit, and walkable neighborhoods.
Juneau’s new emergency warming shelter location isn’t a solution — it’s a stopgap
Service providers say 163 people have used the new warming shelter since October.
People are leaving some neighborhoods because of floods, a new study finds
There are hundreds of U.S. neighborhoods where the population is declining due to flood risk, a new study suggests. Climate change drives flooding from heavy rain and sea level rise.