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Sturbridge Homes is building 250 condominiums at Central Parke at Victoria Falls in Laurel. The homes are priced from $187,500.

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Miller & Smith is building 45 town homes at Autumn Walk at Emerson in Laurel. The homes have 2,737 to 2,903 finished square feet, with base prices from $389,990 to $414,990.

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Stanley Martin Homes is building 244 single-family homes at Selma Estates in Leesburg. The homes have 2,662 to 3,281 finished square feet and can be expanded to 6,053 to 6,448 square feet.

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FILE - In this June 27, 2010 file photo, Esperanza Spalding performs at the BET Awards in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, file)

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Allie Blair walks through the snow in Tulsa, Okla., on Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2011. The second winter storm to hit the state in just more than a week has dropped up to 16 inches of snow on parts of northeastern Oklahoma. (AP Photo/Tulsa World, Mike Simons)

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Ron Zirkle, whose flight to Memphis, Tenn., has been canceled due to winter storms, is silhouetted against a snow-covered tarmac, Friday, Feb. 4, 2011, at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport in Grapevine, Texas, Friday, Feb. 4, 2011. Another blast of winter weather slammed Dallas with up to 5 inches of snow, making driving hazardous and forcing the cancellation of hundreds of flights as tens of thousands of football fans descended on North Texas for the NFL's Super Bowl football game with the Green Bay Packers and the Pittsburgh Steelers at Cowboys Stadium, Sunday, Feb. 6 in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

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Fans, reflected by windows on the Dallas Convention Center, walk through the snow near the NFL Super Bowl Experience during a winter storm, Friday, Feb. 4, 2011, in Dallas. The Green Bay Packers face the Pittsburgh Steelers in Super Bowl XLV on Sunday in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

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Fans pose for photographs near the NFL Super Bowl Experience during a winter storm, Friday, Feb. 4, 2011, in Dallas. The Green Bay Packers face the Pittsburgh Steelers in NFL football's Super Bowl XLV on Sunday, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS A mountain of snow towers over a parking lot in Methuen, Mass., on Tuesday. Record snowfalls without thaws have Boston and other cities considering dumping snow into their waterways.

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Locals walk through a garden square in Mission Beach, Australia, Friday, Feb. 4, 2011, after Cyclone Yasi brought heavy rain and howling winds gusting to 186 mph. The cyclone destroyed dozens of homes, ripped roofs and walls from dozens more as well as cutting power supplies in two regional cities and laid waste to hundreds of millions of dollars worth of banana and sugar cane crops. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)

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An optimistic message is displayed on a destroyed home in Tully, Australia. Cyclone Yasi, the most powerful storm to hit the area in nearly a century, caused widespread damage but no deaths because residents heeded orders to evacuate. (Associated Press)

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NV Homes is building 11 single-family homes on 6,000-square-foot sites at Holly Manor in Annandale. The Bentley Place model homes have approximately 3,580 finished square feet, with base prices from $699,990 to $799,990.

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Craftmark Homes is building more than 70 single-family homes on 17,945-square-foot sites at Oak Creek in Upper Marlboro. The homes have 2,748 to 5,136 finished square feet, with base prices from $464,900 to $634,900.

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Demonstrators hold pictures of Haiti's ousted President Jean Bertrand Aristide during a protest demanding his return in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday Feb. 2, 2011. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

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Officials check out the Worcester Winnelson Co., building that collapsed in Auburn, Mass., on Wednesday after heavy snow followed by rain. (Associated Press)

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A woman makes her way along an icy sidewalk, Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011 in New York. A colossal blizzard roaring across a third of the country paralyzed the nation's heartland with ice and snow, leaving motorists stranded for hours and shuttering airports and schools as it barreled toward the Northeast. The monstrous storm billed as the worst in decades delivered knock-out after knock-out as it made its way from Texas to Maine, bringing a huge swath of the country to a halt. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

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A dog named Muldoon waits in the snow for its owner, Tess Taylor, who stopped for coffee on Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011, in Barre, Vt. Schools, business and municipal offices are closed across Northern New England as the storm-weary region braces for what forecasters say could be more than a foot of snow in some places. Early Wednesday snow was falling heavily across much of Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont after a smaller storm dropped a few inches across the region on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)

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An American Electric Power worker clears a tree from a power line Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011, in Canton, Ohio. An ice storm left hundreds of thousands in the dark across Ohio on Wednesday and gave way to melting slush before plunging temperatures and high winds threatened to bring new outages and a repeat of treacherous, icy conditions. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

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A man steps over a large pile of snow in Grosse Pointe, Mich., Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011. Residents awoke to at least a foot of snow and drifts as much as 3 to 5 feet in parts of southwest Michigan Wednesday, while the southeastern part of the state escaped the brunt of the storm barreling across much of the country. (AP Photo/The Detroit News, David Coates)