Just like staff writers for mainstream media like to write 'could be' or 'might be' just a serendipity - and just a coincidence in the timing - all over again when your MesaZona blogger got a feed on this from Urban Land Institute
Food & Real Estate
ULI’s Food and Real Estate Project explores the mutually beneficial relationship between food-based amenities—such as working farms, community gardens, food halls, restaurants, and grocery stores—and real estate. It highlights how the growing interest in and awareness of fresh, local food is spurring innovation in development projects.
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What's that "Farm-to-Table" Mantra all about anyway?
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The land itself is lucrative, too, though more for what's to come than for what is planted there now.
Here's an easy-to-see time-lapse of the explosive expansion of Suburbia into what once were agriculture lands here in Maricopa County taken over by the Real Estate/Industrial Complex from 1900-2010.
It does not include the 3,600 acres in east Mesa, formerly the General Motors Proving Grounds, where new massive secluded suburban enclaves of Master-Planned Communities Eastmark and Cadence at Gateway are being built.
No mention of the new wealth for more family fortunes in suburban real estate speculation and development East Valley communities, instead we get this assertion from Freeman: "like Mesa's Eastmark and Gilbert's Agritopia, [they] already have embraced urban farming. . . " HUH?
Agrihoods: Cultivating Best Practices
2018
Inspired by a growing body of evidence that developments centered on working farms can have a positive effect on human health, environmental sustainability, and real estate performance, Agrihoods: Cultivating Best Practices identifies strategies to aid developers and their partners in planning, creating, and operating single-family, multifamily, or mixed-use communities built with a working farm as a focus.
This publication explores how developers are integrating food-based amenities—such as farms, gardens, food halls, restaurants, and grocery stores—within projects, thereby generating real estate value and benefits for people and the planet.
Food & Real Estate
ULI’s Food and Real Estate Project explores the mutually beneficial relationship between food-based amenities—such as working farms, community gardens, food halls, restaurants, and grocery stores—and real estate. It highlights how the growing interest in and awareness of fresh, local food is spurring innovation in development projects.
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What's that "Farm-to-Table" Mantra all about anyway?
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19 February 2019
District 1 Mesa City Councilmember Mark Freeman Gets A Feature Story
To be honest, your MesaZona blogger was bowled over by just one more what appears to be yet another "planted-story" in mainstream media so soon after Mark Freeman was named Vice-Mayor. The feature was accompanied by 7 images of Freeman taken on a 1-acre plot of land at the SWC of Brown Road/Center Street that adjoins the Fitch Family Farm Homestead. The small parcel is irrigated by old open canal ditches. It is closely surrounded by larger parcels of real estate development to create family fortunes . . .
The land itself is lucrative, too, though more for what's to come than for what is planted there now. Here's an easy-to-see time-lapse of the explosive expansion of Suburbia into what once were agriculture lands here in Maricopa County taken over by the Real Estate/Industrial Complex from 1900-2010.
It does not include the 3,600 acres in east Mesa, formerly the General Motors Proving Grounds, where new massive secluded suburban enclaves of Master-Planned Communities Eastmark and Cadence at Gateway are being built.
No mention of the new wealth for more family fortunes in suburban real estate speculation and development East Valley communities, instead we get this assertion from Freeman: "like Mesa's Eastmark and Gilbert's Agritopia, [they] already have embraced urban farming. . . " HUH?
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Reports2018
Inspired by a growing body of evidence that developments centered on working farms can have a positive effect on human health, environmental sustainability, and real estate performance, Agrihoods: Cultivating Best Practices identifies strategies to aid developers and their partners in planning, creating, and operating single-family, multifamily, or mixed-use communities built with a working farm as a focus.
This publication explores how developers are integrating food-based amenities—such as farms, gardens, food halls, restaurants, and grocery stores—within projects, thereby generating real estate value and benefits for people and the planet.
