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  1. Transportation Costs based on where you live in Tucson - The Center for Neighborhood Technology – a group that promotes urban sustainability – just released a tool that can help you discover what your transportation costs might be in a given neighborhood.  It’s called Abogo.  Click on the Abogo link and type in your address, and the site spits out transportation costs for that [...]
  2. Five Guys Comes to Tucson -
     
    Look what I spotted!
    That’s the old Hollywood Video at the Northeast corner of Campbell and Glenn being turned into a Five Guys! The first Five Guys in Tucson.  I assume the potty will be replaced with one inside, um, eventually.
    Five Guys is a delicious burger joint that I’ve only run into on the [...]
  3. New Tucson Flood Plain Maps - The flood plain maps are being revised in Tucson – for all of Pima County, actually.  The final maps are still being reviewed by FEMA, but expect the new flood maps to be out early next year.  According to the Arizona Daily Star, 9480 parcels are being taken out of the flood plain in the [...]
  4. Assessed Value vs Market Value in Tucson - Got a call from a client the other day when he received his notice of valuation in the mail from the Pima County Assessor.  He was very concerned that the full cash value of his property, at least according to the tax assessor, was far less than the amount he just paid for it [...]
  5. Grant Road Community Character Workshops -
    We’re getting closer to some major widening work on Grant road!
    First improvements will be down at Grant and Oracle in 2011 – some two years before construction was originally scheduled to start.  Then they’ll do the Stone/1st Ave area in 2013, jump over and do the Swan Road area in 2014, and work their [...]
  6. Bags on Cactus - Remember cups on cactus?
    That’s so 2008.  2010 is all about bags.  Bags on cactus.
     

     

    It’s a Tucson thing. Some people put cups (or in this case, bags) on the delicate growing ends of their cactus during the winter to protect them from freezing. It’s the first sign of winter in Tucson!

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  7. Downtown Tucson – A Year in Review - There’s nothing quite like talking about Downtown Tucson to stir up some heated opinions among the locals.  Rio Nuevo, the downtown revitalization project, often feels like an enormous sinkhole of time and money.  So let’s take a look back and stop to appreciate the progress that has been made!  Sometimes, we get caught up [...]
  8. I Always Knew Tucson Was Better Than Phoenix - Just because I can’t pass up an opportunity to taunt my Phoenix friends…
    Forbes thinks Tucson is better than Phoenix.  As if we didn’t know that already.
    Okay, so Tucson only ranks 62nd on the list, but at least Phoenix is lower than us at 82nd.  Points in our favor were for the percentage [...]
  9. The Tucson Food Dude - Ever since I figured out Google thought this blog was about Mexican food instead of real estate in Tucson, I stopped writing about my many favorite restaurants here.  But I discovered someone else has started writing about and reviewing local Tucson eateries!
    Enter the Tucson Food Dude. 
    Kevin is a self-proclaimed regular guy who likes to [...]
  10. Cheapest and Most Expensive Homes in Tucson by Price/SqFt - Just for fun – and contrast – I found the cheapest and most expensive homes in Tucson if you judge by price per square foot.
    Cheapest home in Tucson is $9.69/sq ft, at $22,900 – see it here.  I’ve been in this one.  I know it says major fix-up, but I’d call it a tear-down.  With [...]
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