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Nothing Uncertain About Helos > $72.1 Billion$ in Next 5 Years

Military and Government Helicopter Market USD $72.1 B in next 5 years

The helicopter continues to be popular in the military being used in a wide range of roles, according new market study by Market Forecast.

Published on ASDNews: Feb 3, 2017

The global military and government is projected to grow to USD 13.9 billion by 2020, at a CAGR of 8,4% from 2016 to 2020, where medium-lift type helicopters are dominant in terms of systems delivered and in terms of value. After 2020, the value of helicopters in these sectors should fall to USD 9.4 billion by 2022, or a CAGR of - 6,5%, as a number of major procurement programs come to an end.
The helicopter's prominence has been steady since the aircraft first entered mass production in the 1940s. The Vietnam War was the starting point where the helicopter in military use came into its own with the iconic Bell UH-1 Iroquois - better known as the Huey - becoming the main workhorse of the US Army and an integral part of the US's operations in the conflict. More recently, the helicopter has played a prominent military role in conflicts like Afghanistan and Iraq.
The helicopter continues to be popular in the military being used in a wide range of roles, including transport, reconnaissance, attack, anti-surface and anti-submarine warfare, as well as search and rescue (SAR). Government roles include law enforcement, VIP, utility, SAR, Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and firefighting.
Market Forecast’s new report, the Global Military and Government Helicopter Market Forecast to 2022, provides a detailed analysis of the military and government helicopter market from 2016-2022, focusing on major rotary-wing programs, requirements and orders in more than 50 countries, with particular focus on 23 countries, worth in excess of US$82.1 billion over the entire period.
Through 126 pages, the Global Military and Government Helicopter Market Forecast to 2022 provides:

• Global market share assessments for all types in numbers delivered and value for 2016 to 2022.
• Market share assessments per region and per country for 2016 to 2022.
• Roles and types of helicopters.
• Main helicopter trends.
• Market contracts share of the leading vendors.
• Market Trends (drivers, constraints, opportunities, threats, challenges, investment opportunities, and recommendations).
• Company profiles for the leading companies, including financial information, strategic alliances, and recent contract wins.

The report is completed with detailed financial data of the value of recent and future identified orders, market share by types of helicopters, as well as a SWOT analysis to ensure that the strengths and weaknesses of the market are fully identified - to provide an understanding of the military and helicopter market in the years to come.

Source : Market Forecast. - view original press release

The Barbie-Doll Babbling Bubble-Head Face Who Launched A Thousand-Plus Lies

How Kellyanne Conway became the greatest spin doctor in modern American history
"In the few short months since she entered President Donald Trump's inner circle, Kellyanne Conway has mastered the art of message-muddying. As Trump's campaign manager, Conway frequently appeared on news programs to spin something objectionable Trump said. She was uncommonly good at it, but over time, a pattern emerged: There was (perhaps by design) no message consistency between Conway and Trump. He would frequently contradict her, and she would have to mop up the mess. At this, she is incredibly adept — perhaps the best ever.
But in her expanded role in Trump's White House, Conway has run into some difficulties ...
Conway's twin messages seem to be: "Bring it on, I can take you" and "you're not playing fair." The deck is stacked against me and everyone watching knows it, she seems to say, but I'm ready to play anyway, because that's how right I am. It's an affect that makes her seem scrappy, put-upon, tolerant, even noble.
But Conway's gift for "subtracting from the viewer's understanding," as NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen calls it, involves more than optics and more than gender. It's speed, for one thing. She rarely pauses at the end of a sentence. It's digression. And it's range. She's able to package entire arguments — whole scripts — into short sentences. It's not just necessary but essential to slow down and examine some of her appearances to see just exactly what she's doing. . . "

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New Life-Support for "Dead Malls" or Dead "Shopping" Centers > What To Call It - A Park ???

Re: This Report > Industry Outlook for Shopping Centers

By Ron Nyren January 23, 2017

Believe it or not, your MesaZona blogger is at a loss for words to wrap his head around what is a trap of names that deal with how and why and where we live and work and enjoy life- it is totally subjective to everyone's point-of-view across a big spectrum of interests and outlooks in dynamic change.
Just add 'Food Hall' to the 'mall' [see link at end of article]

To get local and get a handle on things, let's take a trip back-in-time to what Main Street Mesa looked like 30 years after its founding by "the pioneers" in 1878 to the year 1908 - 109 years ago [Reference and image from: AZ100 BlogSpot ]

The copy with the image is this:

"Commercial life centered around the intersection of Main and Macdonald, seen here about 1908, looking west. On the SW corner (at left) is the Mesa City Bank, which later became Mesa Drug Company. The next building west is LeSueur, Gibbons & Co. mercantile, established in 1905. It later became LeSueur-Botkin Co. and finally sold to Bayless mercantile of Phoenix in 1926. The building was then replaced by the Nile Theater."

It's just a flash-back to a snapshot in time at just one intersection of the original One-Square Mile, where a mercantile-based economy took root to grow commerce, back when streets and roads were dirt and wide enough for a 12-mule team to turn around, water ran in open canals - all this growth way before auto-mobiles that came to rule future development and expansion onto surrounding lands . . . even back then people needed other things to do than shop, as noted by what's now  called 'adaptive re-use' for a mercantile location replaced by entertainment.

Fast-forward to now to bring readers to the subject of the referenced article cited above where the featured opening image is Dana Park that's not called a shopping or mall - and it is a Mesa success story incorporating some of the trends and strategies that follow

Experts from ULI’s Commercial and Retail Development Councils discuss the future of shopping malls, changing consumer preferences, strategies for replacing vacant department store buildings, the challenges of adding non-retail uses to malls, competition from online retailers, and other trends.

Source: Urban Land Magaine 23 Jan 2017

 

Each takes a piecemeal approach yet are complemented by the exchange with the others, recognizing that where people are attracted to shop is more than that to meet a number of needs that developers of mostly suburban 'malls' or 'shopping centers' did not start off planning for.

 

 

This image to the left is Mesa's Tri-City Mall, one of the first 'malls' that killed the active commerce downtown just blocks away from the original one-square mile.
Like more than a few others it had its hey-day, now in the process of getting some of the strategies outlined applied to the land area and real estate

Already-established urban centers by a natural evolution and dynamic process - like what happened here on Main Street - did establish all of the things that are recommended as strategies in the expert comments . . . and if you look at Dana Park it could be taken as a block off an ideal picture-perfect Main Street

 

Readers of this post are encouraged to hook up with the report's link to see how the experts answered the following questions:

1. How are shopping mall owners and developers addressing changing consumer preferences, especially those of millennials?

 

2. With anchors like Sears and Macy’s announcing multiple closures, what are some of the more creative approaches you have seen for replacing shuttered department stores?

 

3. What are the biggest challenges of incorporating more nonretail uses into shopping malls? Are shopping center owners teaming up with developers of other property types?

 

4. How much of a threat do online retailers pose to shopping malls?

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Dana Park had AJ's right from the get-go
The writer of the following article days food will be 'the anchor tenant'
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-next-anchor-at-your-mall-could-be-a-food-hall-2017-01-24?link=sfmw_tw

 

 

Oval Office Cold Open - SNL

if u missed it last night

Published on Feb 5, 2017

President Donald Trump (Alec Baldwin) calls Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull (Beck Bennett), Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto (Alex Moffat) and German Chancellor Angela Merkel (Kate McKinnon).

Fiesta Mall: Dead Mall Complete Video Tour - Dead Mall Documentary

Published on Feb 3, 2017

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Duration: 1 hour +
This episode features a complete video tour of the dead mall Fiesta Mall located in Mesa, AZ. This tour includes the complete exterior and interior of the mall. If you prefer just o see the interior you can skip to the 30 minute mark in the video.

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REAL ESTATE: Million$ $itting On The $ideline$ > Dive Into The Risk Pool Or Not?

ULI/McCoy Symposium:

Real Estate Finance: Facing Uncertainty

By Bendix Anderson January 3, 2017

Sixty real estate leaders came together for the 23rd annual ULI/McCoy Symposium on Real Estate Finance, held in December in New York City.
People and investors with deep pockets here in Mesa might want to take a cue from one of those iconic roadside attractions re-activated by a public-private partnership and form an investment pool .....think a out it

Invited executives are high-level decision makers from major real estate investment and capital markets firms that are actively investing or lending in the commercial real estate market.
Typically, they hail from major Wall Street firms, institutional investment management firms, real estate investment trusts (REITs), private equity firms, commercial banks, insurance companies, and leading private owner/development firms.

All comments made at the invitation-only event are strictly off the record. However, ULI life trustee Bowen H. “Buzz” McCoy shared with Urban Land some key findings and insights from the symposium.
Extracts below from this source > Urban Land Institute 03 Feb 2017

How was the mood at the conference different this year than in previous years?
Everyone was unsettled because . . .
 Would that affect international investment in U.S. real estate?
McCoy: There could be a de-globalization of real estate

Are there any short-term risks to real estate?
McCoy: It’s Donald Rumfeld’s “unknown unknowns” or a black-swan event. . .

Is there any clear direction for real estate?
McCoy: The greatest friend and the greatest enemy of real estate is debt because. . .

How will this uncertainty affect the real estate capital markets? For example, experts used to worry about more than $1 trillion in ten-year CMBS [commercial mortgage–backed securities] loans made before the crash that would expire over the next few years.
McCoy: Speakers at the symposium still mentioned the “wall of CMBS,” but with less fear and trepidation. A lot of the good properties got sold. That’s the good news. The bad news is . . .

Experts at the symposium also talked about the new risk-retention rules as being an imminent factor for CMBS. The people at the conference weren’t worried about it.
The banks are so well capitalized—they thought risk retention could be handled by financial institutions.

How well are banks positioned to handle uncertainty?
McCoy: Commercial bank liquidity is at an all-time high—but the cost of regulation is very deleterious to community banks and small banks, and a record number of them are going under. The Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Reserve and the Securities Exchange Commission have permanent offices in the large banks.

Do you see a possibility for a hard landing for real estate?
McCoy: It’s more individual sectors and individual cities. A couple of speakers thought that we could have a recession in a couple of years. I thought that was a little extreme. It would be a recession with higher interest rates.

If I were an investor about to buy a property, maybe some strip centers or apartment buildings, what would you advise?
McCoy: I would say borrow now, borrow long, and keep some powder dry.

But what if the only loan I can get is short-term, high-leverage debt?
McCoy: Sell as soon as you can. It’s a time bomb.

We are sailing into unpredictable waters. Real estate generally is in good shape. Keep your powder dry. Avoid overborrowing, but take advantage of still historically low interest rates. Extend maturities. Manage your debt. The next three years could bring about increased risk and turmoil. Be prepared!

Bowen H. “Buzz” McCoy, formerly responsible for the real estate financing unit at Morgan Stanley, is a ULI life trustee and president of Buzz McCoy Associates in Los Angeles. His most recent books are Living into Leadership: A Journey in Ethics (Stanford University Press, 2007) and The Dynamics of Real Estate Capital Markets: A Practitioner’s Perspective (ULI, 2006).