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| The New Warriors Area on the Embarcadero in San Francisco |
The Warriors New San
Francisco Arena
In the wild world of enclosed stadiums and event centers,
San Francisco, with the help of the Golden State Warriors (perennial losers in
the NBA) is in the beginning rounds of the ongoing war between franchised
cities for sports teams. The Bay Area is rife with these battles. The 49ers are
moving to Santa Clara, the A’s are trying to find a new home after messing with
at least three small Bay Area cities, and now the Warriors. I have to admit the
location is incredible and the interaction between the SF Giants spectacular
and now 12 year old AT&T Park will be energizing. As an addition to the
urban environment for more than just basketball it will be intense and I won’t
have to go to San Jose to see Springsteen. Every Bay Area environmental group is
mustering their troops. Here’s more to read (GO HERE)
Chinatown – Michigan
Style
A Chinese group is planning a residential community near
Ann Arbor, Michigan. It’s just 400 upscale homes for Chinese immigrants – key words
upscale and immigrants. The rumors must be true that the upper crust of the new
Chinese rich are planning to flee may be true. Here’s a great idea for many
American cities, offer new communities for the Afgans, Persians, Iraqis, France
when is collapses, and new Greektowns (Detroit already has one – with a
casino). Like “New” England in the 1600s I can see New Spains, New Italys, and
maybe even a New New England coming. I can just imagine the architectural
styles. (GO HERE)
The Ongoing
Housing Mashup
Here’s an article form Builder on the latest information
on housing.
They say:
New-homes sales were up in April with a 3.3% gain over March’s figure
and were 8.5% higher year-over-year for a seasonally adjusted annual rate of
343,000, according to data released today by the Department of Commerce. The
improvement surpassed consensus expectations, which had pegged April’s number
at 335,000.
Drill down to the sad fact that the projected growth is
anemic by most standards; it will be a long time before housing becomes the
engine that will drive us out of this current malaise. (GO HERE)
High Speed Rail to
Nowhere
It doesn’t help your cause when you begin to call the
opposition to your cause right-wingers. It’s sad when it reaches name calling
(then again there’s been mud-slinging from both sides). The California High
Speed Rail Blog (very, very, unofficial) starts out:
The right-wing
initiative to kill the California high speed rail project was approved
for circulation last week….. (GO HERE)
Now is that any way to form a consensus, and when you
review the comments, you’ll know why. Channel 4 NBC in LA has another take. (GO HERE).
And to make it work they will have to avoid many of those
pesky environmental laws that we all have to suffer under. (GO HERE)
For the latest update in Wikipedia for the HSR (GO HERE)
Hitchcock Redux
I was reviewing my Vimeo site and noticed that they had
posted three of their top videos listed for awards, I recommend this one – it’s
very cool and is a different take on the great suspense movie Rear
Window.
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Rear Window Timelapse (if you can download it)
Here’s the URL
Stay Tuned and Have a Great Memorial Day
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