{"id":489,"date":"2006-09-30T09:52:34","date_gmt":"2006-09-30T16:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=489"},"modified":"2006-09-30T10:18:21","modified_gmt":"2006-09-30T17:18:21","slug":"want-to-know-where-real-estate-corruption-comes-from-whatever-you-do-dont-look-in-the-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/489\/want-to-know-where-real-estate-corruption-comes-from-whatever-you-do-dont-look-in-the-newspaper\/","title":{"rendered":"Want to know where real estate corruption comes from? Whatever you do, don’t look in the newspaper . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

I have a bunch of Phoenix-area real estate news piling up in browser tabs, so I want to reference it now, before it blows away in the autumnal desert breezes.<\/p>\n

First, more fake good news downtown: “Phoenix is putting in place the final building block in its plan to construct a new downtown.”<\/a> How? What are you, new? Massive tax-payer subsidies, of course.<\/a> How else? But, not to worry. This will be the piece that completes the puzzle for a true downtown in Downtown Phoenix.<\/a> Pay no attention to all those other, past, failed pieces that were to complete the puzzle. This is the real deal, you betcha. If you say otherwise you’re a counter-revolutionary running-dog imperialist wrecker. Oops! Wrong propagandists…<\/p>\n

But don’t get the idea that Pravda<\/i> — er, the Arizona Republic<\/i> can’t issue a discouraging word: It turns out that trolley riders, if there are any, may have trouble finding shaded parking<\/a>. If they can find any shaded parking now<\/i>, in this benighted pre-trolley epoch, they should move to Vegas. They’re beyond lucky…<\/p>\n

But at the same time, don’t conclude that the Republic<\/i> can’t strain at gnats over a good press release: Active-adult housing is popular in the Southwest Valley<\/a> — even though there almost isn’t any. The article justifies its spin by stretching as far as Sun City Festival — which is in the Northwest Valley. (Disclosure: I am a long-time friend and confederate of Tom Horton<\/a>, who wrote the biography of Ed Robson, founder and owner of Robson Communities, which in turn owns PebbleCreek, the principle focus of this article.)<\/p>\n

Did I say something about the Northwest Valley? Here comes the Northern Parkway<\/a>, to relieve all the traffic out there where nobody lives — yet. The City of Glendale, which used to end at 67th Avenue, is going to extend itself miles and miles further west<\/a> so that its tax-payers can delight in subsidizing thousands of new homes along the incipient SR-303 Freeway.<\/p>\n

All of this serves as a nice way of distinguishing capitalism from mixed-economy socialism. None<\/i> of this would be happening if our real estate economy were governed by capitalist Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have a bunch of Phoenix-area real estate news piling up in browser tabs, so I want to reference it now, before it blows away in the autumnal desert breezes. First, more fake good news downtown: “Phoenix is putting in place the final building block in its plan to construct a new downtown.” How? 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