Pie Gets Pissed Like Your MesaZona Blogger! Love Democracy!

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Published on Oct 30, 2016

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Brexit means Brexit! Why? Because democracy means democracy.

From City of Mesa Newsroom: Early Voting Deadline Ends Friday Nov 4

Early voting in person ends Friday Nov. 4

10-27-2016 at 11:33:32 AM Early voting ends for the General Election on Friday, November 4. Voters may visit the Mesa's City Clerk's Office to vote in person until Thursday, Nov. 3 as well as dropping off your signed ballot on Monday, Nov. 7 and Tuesday, Nov. 8 (Election Day). The City Clerk's Office is located at Mesa City Plaza, 20 E. Main St., Suite 150. Office hours are Monday through Thursday from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. On Election Day, you may also drop off your ballot at any polling location, including the following locations (near the Mesa City Plaza), before 7 p.m.: American Legion Post #26 505 W. 2nd Ave. Mesa, AZ 85210 First Presbyterian Church 161 N. Mesa Drive Mesa, AZ 85201 Maricopa County Recorder's Southeast Mesa Office 222 E. Javelina Ave. Mesa, AZ 85210 You may also visit www.recorder.maricopa.gov/pollingplace to find your assigned polling location on Election Day. For more information, call the Mesa City Clerk's Office at (480) 644-4868 or visit www.mesaaz.gov/city-hall/city-clerk. Public Information and CommunicationsContact: Kevin Christopher Tel. 480-644-4699kevin.christopher@mesaaz.gov

YUGE $750 Million Multi-Unit Apartments Buys + New Initiatives To Invest in Seniors Housing/Medical Properties

Blackstone Group LP's Blackstone Real Estate Partners, the world's largest real estate investment firm, is purchasing a 16-property apartment portfolio in the U.S. from affiliates of Bridge Investment Group Partners. The total price for the transaction, including transactions three of the properties still pending closing, has been reported at $750 million. [Viletta location in Mesa]

News of the deal was first reported by IPE Real Estate and picked up by SNL, an affiliate of S&P Global Market Intelligence.
Twelve properties, totaling 4,024 units, sold, per public record, for a total price of $553.375 million, or an average of approximately $138,000 per unit across the portfolio, with prices ranging from $75,355 per unit for the 352-unit Viletta in Mesa, Arizona, to $252,842 per unit for the 264-unit Presidio at Rancho Del Oro in San Diego.

 

In addition to these properties, there are also properties owned under contract and expected to close by the end of November, including the 496 unit Redlands in San Bernardino and the Ellicot’s Crossing and Pinnacle Grove apartment complex in Phoenix.
The acquisition was financed with a combination of new Fannie Mae debt and assumed Fannie Mae loans on several of the properties in Washington.
ROC II, a closed-end private equity fund managed by Bridge Investment Group Partners, was the seller.

Earlier this month, Bridge Investment Group Partners in conjunction with its subsidiary, ROC Seniors Housing Fund Manager, announced the launch of a new initiative to invest in selected seniors housing and medical properties assets.
ROC Seniors will focus primarily on independent living, assisted living, and memory care investments in markets with favorable long-term demographics and a demonstrated need for the quality services provided by ROC Seniors and its partner managers.
“We continue to source attractive value-add opportunities in the fragmented seniors housing sector that fit well with our strategy of modernization, technological updating and the implementation of state of the art, caring service and accommodation for our growing US senior citizen population,” said Phil Anderson, CIO of ROC Seniors.

For more information, see CoStar Sale Comp ID: 3725544

Source: CoStar Group News Article

Go Here >> Think Like A VC [includes great infographics]

This is THE must-read book, according to some of the world’s top startup investors    

By Shawn Langlois

Published: Oct 25, 2016 6:02 p.m. ET

For the past couple of years, the “Twenty Minute VC” podcast has been picking the brains of “today’s most successful and inspiring” venture capitalists, with the aim of dropping knowledge on those looking to make their own mark on Silicon Valley.
As part of the popular program, host Harry Stebbings asks his guests for their favorite books. The picks range from classics, like “The Old Man and the Sea” and “The Catcher in the Rye,” to more obscure nonfiction, such as “The Second Bounce of the Ball: Turning Risk into Opportunity.”
The Ramen Profitable blog’s Joe Hovde, a big fan of the show, was so fascinated by their array of selections that he crunched the numbers to determine which books and authors have actually stood out the most over the hundreds of episodes.
He created a series of infographics to summarize the results (click here for the interactive versions), starting with this one:

 

Source: MarketWatch

 

 

Time To Re-Think Our Shared Past? Pioneer Park or Peoples' Park

Public sculptures in the New Urban DTMesa may be frequently cast in bronze, yet at the same time it is good not to keep from the public vision "those who came before" . . . History means different things to different people.
Take for example the 500th Anniversary of the Discovery of The New World by Christopher Columbus back in 1492.
It's what we were taught, right?
Your MesaZona will leave it to readers to THINK MORE about the great city we call home and keep in mind this was home to many people before the pioneers arrived late-on-the-scene in the mid-1850's.
We simply cannot ignore all the centuries before that.
The "pioneers" were latter-day arrivals.

or this

Keeping What Is Unique: Alternatives to Teardown Thinking



For a city that experienced much of its growth with the advent of cars and A/C, Phoenix's truly 'historic' building stock was quite limited until recently. Extremely restrictive zoning, rigorous reuse codes, and a constant insistence at reinvention have then done few favors to a city reticent to engage with its own history.
How do we now get in touch with our historic bones and build a culture of preservation?      Phoenix's historic preservation history has been checkered at best, with remarkable buildings by world-renowned architects, as well as local gems, equally considered ready for the bulldozer. Until recently, hyper-restrictive zoning and planning, the primacy of the automobile, and downtown construction schemes all took primacy over preserving historic buildings and culture.

For(u)m brings together a journalist, an artist/academic, an architect, a government official, and a developer to discuss how we got to this point, and how we turn around.

 

Featuring:

-Adriene Jenik, ASU Herberger Institute for Design & the Arts

-Eddie Jones, Jones Studio

-John Dougherty, Investigative MEDIA

-Bob Frankeberger, Arizona State Historic Preservation Office

-Michael Levine, Levine Machine LLC

 

Page link >> here

 

*Active For(u)m members receive discounted admission 

**Unmetered street parking N of Roosevelt Third-Seventh streets; Metered street parking on Roosevelt and south, Fourth-Seventh streets

What reality are you creating for yourself? | Isaac Lidsky

Published on Oct 27, 2016

Views: 53,043

Reality isn't something you perceive; it's something you create in your mind. Isaac Lidsky learned this profound lesson firsthand, when unexpected life circumstances yielded valuable insights. In this introspective, personal talk, he challenges us to let go of excuses, assumptions and fears, and accept the awesome responsibility of being the creators of our own reality.

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