I have been representing an out of state property owner for several years. Recently, they contacted me to list and sell some of their properties, mostly tenant occupied. For the most part, this is a simple process of finding investors who want to keep the property and tenant just as they are, and they will [...]
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Pondering Pela’s Paradox, Part Four
In this post, I wrap up musing about Robert Pela’s challenge to implement authentic retail shopping experiences in downtown Phoenix, an issue he raised during Urban Planning Week in early April. When it comes to retail shopping, I’m inclined to libertarian thinking. Just as consumers verify what they desire in consumer goods, I think the [...]
Pondering Pela’s Paradox, Part Three
Robert Pela shared during Phoenix Urban Design Week that downtown flourishing can’t occur without two elemental ingredients. One of them is that the community has readily accessible public education; and the second is that dwellers must have sufficient opportunities for shopping locally, without leaving the immediate downtown area, however one defines that. For the purposes [...]
Pondering Pela’s Paradox, Part Two
Robert Pela shared during Phoenix Urban Design Week that downtown flourishing can’t occur without two elemental ingredients. One of them is that the community has readily accessible public education for primary and secondary students. With that supplied, parents can feel comfortable relocating to the city’s core. Until the Mary Lou Fulton Teacher’s College (ranked 26th [...]
Pondering Pela’s Paradox, Part Premier
I had the recent pleasure of attending an event at the Cronkite School of Journalism during Phoenix Urban Design Week which occurred partly last week. Will Bruder and Robert Pela participated in a panel discussion that yielded an interesting dialog on the essential prescription for triggering Phoenix’s full-blown downtown resurgence. Bruder offered that the key [...]
Soldier On, Beantown
This morning’s Wall Street Journal quotes Dr. Paul Thompson, a 29 time finisher of the Boston Marathon, who, in lamenting that the race never will be the same again, observed that the event will be less fun and “less of a party,” forevermore. No one can question his judgment that the events of yesterday were [...]
Seller Financing, Hard Money, and Frank Dodd
The latest effect of the Frank Dodd financial law is to throw a wrench in the works of seller financing. Specifically, the law says that any residential loan must meet certain criteria; they must be originated by a licensed person working at a licensed company, the borrower must be qualified as to their ability to [...]
The Future of Television Viewing
Lots of things have been happening in the world of TV. No more tubes, everyone has a flat screen, now the over the air broadcasts are compressed digital data… And the big thing lately, though it is pretty quiet, is DVRs, and web-enabled TV sets. Most of us would like to surf the web from [...]
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Each Valentine’s day, I think about relationships — I think about them lots, really, but about romantic ones in particular on this day. I have a wonderful relationship with my dog. I suppose I should really say “our” dog, because it was my wife’s strong desire to have a new dog after the old one [...]
Scottsdale Planning Visionaries, Part One
On February 1, a half-dozen volunteer facilitators met in Phoenix to discuss the Arizona Town Hall’s forthcoming supervision of a citizens’ workshop taking place over three half-day sessions on Feb. 6, 7 and 11. This workshop attempts to craft a citizens’ vision statement in advance of the upcoming election on Scottsdale’s General Plan. The Scottsdale [...]