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The Cooper Ridge loft model has 2,263 square feet and is priced from $354,000. It has a first-floor master suite with a walk-in closet and luxury bath.

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The Amherst model has a family room open to the kitchen and breakfast area on the main level. Upstairs are the master suite, three more bedrooms, a second full bath and a laundry area.

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The Amherst model at Greene Mill Preserve has a center-island kitchen with a breakfast area. It has more than 3,100 finished square feet and can be expanded with a finished lower level and a three-car garage with a bonus room above.

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The Federal-style town home at 213 1/2 S. Fayette St. in Old Town Alexandria is on the market for $619,000.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS President Obama meets with area residents at Camardelle's, a seafood restaurant in Grand Isle, La., in June. Restaurant owners are hoping Mr. Obama's recent consumption of Gulf seafood will boost business and encourage residents to buy local.

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STEPHEN DINAN/THE WASHINGTON TIMES A waitress at Blow-Fly Inn in Gulfport, Miss., takes orders from two members of the "Spending Caravan." The group is traveling along the coast from Bay St. Louis, Miss., to Panama City, Fla., with the sole purpose of spending money to garner attention for the region's businesses.

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Senate candidate Ken Buck was joined onstage by his daughter Kaitlin and his wife Perry at a primary night party in Loveland Tuesday night. Ken Buck supporters gathered for a primary night party in Loveland Tuesday night. The Ken Buck primary night party was held inside the Embassy Suites hotel Tuesday night, August 10, 2010, in Loveland, Colorado. (AP Photo/Karl Gehring, The Denver Post)

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Recently legalized table games attract a crowd at the Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem in Pennsylvania on July 16. States increasingly are looking to more casinos with more game options as a way to meet their budgets without raising taxes, but that may mean they get smaller shares of the same pot. (Associated Press)

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Jonnetta Young, 35, of Whitewood, SD and Ron Ulmer, 49, of Newton, KS relax on Ulmer's Harley-Davidson motorcycle as they watch the concert at the Buffalo Chip Campground Monday, Aug. 9,. 2010 at the 70th Annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in the Black Hills of South Dakota. (AP Photo/Steve McEnroe)

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The Buffalo Chip Campground concert grounds is packed Monday, Aug. 9, 2010 as thousands of bikes and bikers fill the infield in for the ZZ Top performance at the 70th Annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. (AP Photo/Steve McEnroe)

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Unidentified American tourists brave the thick blanket of smog covering Moscow as they visit Red Square, with St. Basil's Cathedral in the background, on Sunday, Aug. 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

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A visitor views paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest. There are uncounted works of art housed in museums in Eastern Europe for which there are no reliable records of how the museums came to ownership during World War II and immediately thereafter. (Associated Press)

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First lady Michelle Obama, left, walk with unidentified people at the Beach Club of Villa Padierna Hotel in Marbella, southern Spain, on Friday, Aug. 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Sergio Torres)

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A civil guard patrols the entrance of the Villa Padierna Hotel where U.S First Lady Michelle Obama is staying in Marbella, southern Spain. Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010. The White House says first lady Michelle Obama is in Spain for a private trip with longtime family friends. (AP Photo/Sergio Torres)