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A theme this week

Pay attention to the commonality of things that you are presented with and a theme may emerge.

A recent mixed use seminar hosted by the MSCA had a speaker discussing the old main street or similar central "heart" of a community as the most critical element to making a new mixed use developments work.

"Adaptive use has gotten big," says a quote in an article, 'The Brave New World of Recycled Real Estate', in the latest Fortune magazine.

My new Amazon "Plog" had a posting today from an author of a book I had purchased three years ago. It was Stone Cunningham, the author of The Restoration Economy. The book is a good overview of what Stone sees as the challenges and opportunities related to our natural and built environment.

What to make of this? It seems the more we try to look forward to find the right economic equation for real estate, the more we should look into the review mirror to find opportunities and answers. The adaptive use of old space and models of pre-car culture society seem to be emerging themes that are starting to get above the radar awareness.


The Restoration economy is a good read for anyone interested in these topics...It seems Adam commercial is.

posted by adam commercial @ 2:17 PM