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Ana de Armas living ‘off the grid’ in rural $7M Vermont home she moved to after whirlwind Ben Affleck romance to get ‘away from the craziness’

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Ana de Armas living ‘off the grid’ in rural M Vermont home she moved to after whirlwind Ben Affleck romance to get ‘away from the craziness’

Ana de Armas revealed she is happier than ever following her move to a rural area in Vermont, where she quietly purchased a $7 million home last year.

While reflecting on leaving Hollywood for a quieter life, the actress, 36, gushed about loving the feeling of living ‘off the grid’ to E! News, three years after the end of her nearly year-long relationship with Ben Affleck, which ended in 2021.

‘I feel like nowadays, we all want to go away from the craziness of the world,’ she explained at the premiere of her upcoming new film, Eden, during the Toronto International Film Festival.

She continued: ‘We all want to have the chance to build your own safe space. I’ve made that decision myself.’

The Oscar nominee went on to confirm that she ‘found a home where’ she feels removed from the hustle and bustle of Hollywood life.

Ana de Armas revealed she is happier than ever following her move to a rural area in Vermont, where she quietly purchased a $7 million home last year

‘I can collect myself and only bring there who I want to be with. I have my little cocoon there,’ she said of her sprawling six-bedroom home, complete with eight bathrooms, a swimming pool, mountain views and open meadows.

As for what inspired her to leave Los Angeles, the Blonde star said: ‘You just feel it when it’s time to change. Look out for yourself. There’s a time when you learn what’s good for you and what’s not. What serves you the most? Pay attention to that and take action.’

The Cuba native previously lived in Venice, California, but listed her home in 2020 while still dating Affleck after they were relentlessly hounded by paparazzi.

Amid their whirlwind romance, she also spent time living in his $20 million Pacific Palisades home.

In 2022, the Golden Globe nominee, who is now dating Tinder VP Paul Boukadakis, told Elle that privacy issues were ‘one of the reasons’ she left Los Angeles for New York City.

‘Going through it [myself] confirmed my thoughts about, “This is not the place for me to be,”‘ she said.

The performer continued: ‘It became a little bit too much. There’s no escape. There’s no way out. It’s always the feeling of something that you don’t have, something missing. It’s a city that keeps you anxious.’

Affleck and de Armas’ romance began when they met while working on the ‘erotic thriller’ Deep Water in 2019, but they weren’t linked until early 2020.

While reflecting on leaving Hollywood for a quieter life, the actress, 36, gushed about loving the feeling of living ‘off the grid’ to E! News, three years after the end of her nearly year-long relationship with Ben Affleck, which ended in 2021

At the time of their breakup, several sources confirmed to People that a major factor in their decision to split was her desire to Los Angeles, where Ben has to be based for his kids.

‘Ben is no longer dating Ana,’ the source told the publication. ‘She broke it off. Their relationship was complicated. Ana doesn’t want to be Los Angeles based and Ben obviously has to since his kids live in Los Angeles.’

Another insider told the publication: ‘They are in different points in their lives; there is deep love and respect there. Ben continues to want to work on himself. He has three jobs lined up and he’s a solid father at home. They are both happy with where they are in their lives.’

Additionally, Us Weekly quotes a source who revealed: ‘Ben and Ana were moving in different directions in their lives and stopped seeing eye to eye. The two couldn’t work through their differences and have decided to end their relationship.’

‘I feel like nowadays, we all want to go away from the craziness of the world,’ she explained at the premiere of her upcoming new film, Eden, during the Toronto International Film Festival

The Oscar nominee went on to confirm that she ‘found a home where’ she feels removed from the hustle and bustle of Hollywood life

During their relationship, the former couple were seen traveling around the world from Cuba to Costa Rica.

They spent much of 2020 inseparable, enjoying walks in LA with their dogs and casual outings for coffee.

Ana made their relationship Instagram official in April when she shared snaps of the couple hanging out on her 32nd birthday.

During their relationship the actor introduced Ana to his three children with ex-wife Jennifer Garner; Violet, 18, Fin, 15, and Samuel, 12.

Sources at the time told People: ‘Ana seems to love being around his kids. Everyone has been getting along great. Ana is making an effort to get to know his kid.’

Affleck is currently in the middle of a divorce with superstar, Jennifer Lopez, who filed to end their marriage on their second wedding anniversary.

Ben was previously married to Jennifer from 2005 to 2018 and they have a built a solid co-parenting relationship in recent years, with the actress also supporting Ben with his sobriety.

In 2022, the Golden Globe nominee, who is now dating Tinder VP Paul Boukadakis, told Elle that privacy issues were ‘one of the reasons’ she left Los Angeles for New York City

Before meeting de Armas, Ben was in a relationship with SNL producer Lindsay Shookus from July 2017 to August 2018. They reunited in February the following year before ending things for good in April 2019.

The actor also dated model Shauna Sexton briefly in 2018.

Meanwhile, prior to Boukadakis and Affleck, she was previously romantically linked to Alejandro Piñeiro Bello, Franklin Latt and Marc Clotet.

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Vermont seeks dynamic pricing for state park access

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Vermont seeks dynamic pricing for state park access

MONTPELIER, Vt. (WCAX) – The state of Vermont wants more flexibility in how it charges for access to state parks.

Right now, fees are determined by location, size, and type of camping.

However, leaders say parking at state parks and ponds is seeing more foot traffic, and costs of maintaining them have gone up.

The Department of Forest Parks and Recreation wants to be able to price campsites and day-use parks more dynamically.

There’s no proposal to raise fees now, but if approved, some state parks could see increased fees depending on their popularity, the date, and location.

“It is trying to find that balance of covering costs, providing the service parkgoers have come to expect and making sure we aren’t creating unintentional barriers for people who want to enjoy our fabulous state lakes,” said Julie Moore, Vermont Natural Resources Secretary.

She adds that last year’s Vermont ‘Parks Forever’ initiative, which allows for people who receive three squares benefits free entry to parks, meant an additional 30,000 visits last year.

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Hundreds of housing units in the works at closely-watched project in Burlington’s South End – VTDigger

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Hundreds of housing units in the works at closely-watched project in Burlington’s South End – VTDigger

A rendering of the South End Coordinated Redevelopment Project, courtesy of Andrew Foley, development director at Jonathan Rose Companies. Credit: GOA Architecture.

This story, by Report for America corps member Carly Berlin, was produced through a partnership between VTDigger and Vermont Public.

A long-awaited housing development that could bring hundreds of new apartments to a series of empty lots in Burlington’s South End neighborhood is beginning to come together.

The first phase of the major public-private deal, called the South End Coordinated Redevelopment Project, got official sign-off from the Burlington City Council last month. The project’s backers have also scored key funding commitments from Treasurer Mike Pieciak’s office and state housing funding agencies.

The project on Lakeside Avenue is the beginning of “a neighborhood being born out of a big parking lot,” Burlington Mayor Emma Mulvaney-Stanak told city councilors in May.

City officials and developers hope the project could eventually include over a thousand homes, making it one of the largest developments in Vermont – and putting a considerable dent in the Queen City’s housing shortage. Regional planners estimate that Burlington needs to add between 3,500 and 10,500 homes by 2050 to get the housing market to a healthy state.

The development is possible, in part, because of a 2023 zoning change in the formerly industrial area that allows for some of the densest housing development in the state, according to local planners.

The South End project’s backers include Champlain College, Champlain Housing Trust and Ride Your Bike LLC, the investors behind the nearby Hula coworking campus. They have brought on Jonathan Rose Companies, an affordable housing developer with projects from New York to California, as the lead developer. The South End project is the company’s first in Vermont.

The development agreement signed by city councilors in May greenlights the South End project’s first 204 units, estimated to cost roughly $100 million.

Per Burlington’s inclusionary zoning policy and state rules, at least 20% of the first round of apartments will be set aside as affordable. But the developers hope to secure enough funding to allow them to earmark a third of the 204 apartments with income restrictions, said Andrew Foley, director of development at Jonathan Rose Companies, in an interview. The development agreement offers the developers reduced city fees if the affordable units are priced even more modestly than required.

The lion’s share of the new apartments will be studios and one-bedrooms, Foley said. The building would include common social spaces for neighbors to gather, he added.

Like any large-scale housing project, the developers of the South End apartments are piecing together financing from a wide array of sources. They recently scored an $8 million low-interest loan from Pieciak’s 10% for Vermont program, along with a $6.7 million award from the Vermont Housing and Conservation Board to support 67 affordable apartments – including 10 reserved for people experiencing homelessness.

To build out new roads – along with wastewater connections and stormwater infrastructure meant to cut down on sewer overflows into nearby Lake Champlain – city officials are going after funding from a new state program. The Community and Housing Infrastructure Program, a tax-increment financing tool created by the Legislature last year, would allow the city and the developers to borrow the funds needed to build out the infrastructure against the development’s future property tax revenue.