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Monthly Archive December, 2005

Christmas/Holiday Cards, and Vacation

First, I will be taking a short blogging vacation and intend to be back in the blogosphere early next year. So, no developers better announce any new Sacramento projects in the next few weeks, m’kay?
If you’re dying to contact me or name your first child “Uneasy,” my email address is on the Rationale page, [...]

Affordable Living

Carl and his wife both sent me a link to a Business Journal story about Saca’s next planned condominium development, which will be on 10th and J Street, across from Chavez Park:
“The Metropolitan” would have 320 condos, an “infinity” — seemingly rimless — swimming pool at top, plus stores on the ground level. Saca hopes [...]

What Change do you Want?

Marnie (ext.337) posted a link to a Flickr group of folks holding up signs saying what change they wanted in the world (Marnie’s change). It’s mostly the Net Squared folks right now, but I’m not one, and I just posted mine anyway. Why not? Change is good.

Lofts are so Lofty!

I posted my response to Bob Sylva’s article on loft living in yesterday’s Bee over at My Urban Vista. You can also read The Sac Rag’s take.
Briefly: lofts are still primarily apartments for people with money, but they have potential. That last part really gets lost in my post, come to think of [...]

Close the Curtains, Geeves, I Don’t Like Looking at the Sacramento River

While the folks building the Aura have been busy plastering their hot-shit architect’s face on everything (what Amanda called the “Starichtect”), the folks building the Towers have been putting together a whole set of deals which will make them, in addition to a desirable living location for Sacramento’s upper crust and their kept women and [...]