Reno and Beyond: Eat The Press, They Deserve It
- Check out the photos of the 8 on Center home interiors taken by DMD. Nice, but too pricey for me.
- The Nevada Conservation League launched a blog on March 1st–a welcome addition to Nevada’s blogging universe as one hipster tipster noted.Today’s post details last week’s meeting of the Senate Commerce & Labor Committee on renewable energy. Committee Chair Randolph Townsend seems to understand the enormous potential renewable energy holds for the state. Now, can he get the governor on board? Here’s more from the RGJ.impossibletonavigate.com
- I’m afraid this might send Stanley Scandalmonger over the edge. Gonzopedia! (Thanks Taylor). Gonzo!
- MyDD’s Jonathon Singer interviewed Bill Richardson after the SEUI/CAP presidential health care forum. During the forum, Richardson claimed that if elected, he could implement universal health care during his first year in office. Uh huh, I thinks its time to take off the bolo tie–the lack of oxygen is making him giddy.
- Obviously its a good idea for the RSCVA to conduct research on what kind of tourists the Reno/Sparks area attracts, but why are all their heads so big? Where do all the small-headed tourists go? And really, is there any doubt that the RSCVA wants to prioritize conventioneers since they pay nearly double for their hotel rooms on average than other tourists? It would be the smart thing to do.
- I’ve been trying to figure out all day what this comment thread on RGJ.impossibletonavigate.com tells me about my fellow Renoites, and I think I’ve finally figured it out. At first, I thought it could signify how cosmopolitan we are. After all, how many people know how to say “no” in 200 different languages like commenter MM? But of course that was my charitable nature trying to give my fellow Renoites the benefit of the doubt. No, once I looked at the thread holistically, it became clear that what the thread really tells me about my fellow Renoites is that they are a bunch of short term-thinking selfish bastards who never seem to get the concept that great schools contribute to a great economy because businesses can attract quality employees who want their children to go to good schools. Not everyone wants to move here so they can build a bunker, grow a mullet, and join the “I Hate California team.” And Reno’s downtown, as well as the local economy, will eventually slump if we don’t improve our schools.
- Did you guys see the UNC/Georgetown game Sunday? I’ve dreamed of a Final Four without a team from North Carolina in it nearly all of my life, and a few minutes into the second half, I had given up on that dream and drifted off into a depressed afternoon snooze only to wake up to one of the best comebacks ever by Georgetown (It must have been a rough year for John Feinstein). Anyway–fantastic games this weekend–I can’t wait to see UCLA beat Florida in a close game. Please Afflalo, please, make your first jump shot. All that head-smacking is driving Bjorn the Houseboy crazy. My hand is starting to hurt too.
But the true travesty of men’s division 1 college basketball are the players who don’t graduate at rates nearly high enough. At 10%, UNLV ties for last place with Ohio State for the worst graduation rate among men’s basketball players, and just beats Memphis for the worst overall graduation rate among division 1 institutions in this year’s Sweet Sixteen.
- Sneaky bastard. I would think that government transparency and efficiency would be seen as Mormon virtues. Maybe Bennett is using some of his campaign funds for tithing and doesn’t want the church to find out?
- Oh god, that horrible day is near. We are soon to live in a world of Gwen Stefani singles. Please, only the Gwenihana can save us now by revolting against their evil master, stealing their magical Harajuku girl power back, and silencing the queen of Japanese baby doll cheerleader chic who ain’t no “holla” back girl.
- I can’t neglect a mention of my the effortlessly adorable mancake Richard Wolffe whose new haircut emphasizes his sexy elfin ears. I would love to just grab them and look deeply into his eyes, and, um, well, let’s keep this a fantasy. Anyway, adorable mancake Richard Wolffe noted that Gonzales aid Monica Goodling’s choice to invoke her Fifth Amendment privilege to refuse to answer questions put to her by the U.S. Senate only reinforces the idea that something illegal happened in the DoJ. And now the word is that the Whitehouse is going to through McNulty under the bus because he ignored their guidance on the issue of Purgegate–in other words–for telling the truth.
- And in one final bullet, I will direct you to most of the great writing today on the failure of the main stream media to fulfill their assigned role as the Fourth Estate. Instead they prefer to play the role of Capitol Hill lapdogs, competing for the crumbs they count as prestige, while chatting condescendingly around round tables about what you and I have realized months and sometimes years ago. And the most absurd part about it is that they still don’t understand how ridiculous they are. Watch and experience the vanity.
Here’s the transcript if you’d rather not witness such hubris.
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Color me jealous that the Nevada Repuglican Party appears to have a chair more rotten than ours:
http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2007/Mar-27-Tue-2007/news/13410762.html
Chair Paul Willis equates getting a whorehouse located in Pahrump as a religious right of freedom. Following this line of reasoning [sic] Collins should have used his 1st amendment rights as the reason for having Fux.
How do these idiots get to be chair? Do they form a line, ask for a volunteer and everyone but the chair-elect just step backwards?
Uggh I am SO tired of everyone saying 8 ON Center is expensive. Get a grip and do some freakin research! Compare the cost per square foot of 8 on Center to the Palladio, Arterra, Riverwalk Towers, etc.
In YOUR building Myrna, Riverwalk Towers, a 2 bedroom condo is for sale for $460,000 at 1165 square feet. That’s $395 per square foot, compared to 8 On Center’s $283 per square foot, and you don’t get an attached private garage, commercially accessible retail space, 14″ thick concrete walls etc.
Or let’s talk about the Palladio, and this listing I found http://reno.craigslist.org/rfs/295224953.html for a 2 bedroom condo, 1,200 square feet at $619,000, which equals out to $519 per square foot. 8 On Center is starting to look affordable compared to other condo projects hmmm?
And one more post on this since I feel like ranting, even when you include Arterra and the Palladio’s high prices….we’re still cheaper than condo towers on the fringe of downtown L.A. (fringe meaning not directly in downtown L.A. but on the outskirts a few miles out, i.e. Korea Town, Century City etc), you’re talking $475,000 for a one bedroom condo that’s less than 1000 square feet…and while it may be in L.A., it’s certainly not walking distance to say the Disney Performing Arts Center, or any of the cool stuff directly in downtown L.A…..soooooo I think land is just more expensive downtown by nature than out in the boonies….so residences will be more expensive by nature. Given the sales progress reports given to me by 8 On Center and Arterra (which I will post on my site shortly) there are SOME people willing to paymore to live downtown. Just like there are SOME people willing to pay $50,000 for a car instead of $25,000.
Whoops and all those numbers above are even more dramatically higher than 8 on Center, because I just got word they lowered their prices to $475,000, and there’s no Association Fee. Sorry for posting three posts about it, but I got 10 emails this morning from people thinking 8 On Center was more expensive than other condos downtown. So I had to clear some things up
Good points, Mike. And I still think they’re fabulous, minus the facts: you have Center street running outside your bottom floor, Holcomb running parallel to your second floor, a fair amount of blight directly next to and across from the property and a 99.9% chance the beautiful facade is going to get tagged at least once a week.
The sleeper project will be Jack Hawkin’s Cheney Street Project which will have the same build quality as 8 on Center, but has a nicer layout, better location (who wouldn’t want to live next door to Tutto Ferro’s homestead) and will cost LESS per square foot than 8 on Center.
You should scoop that project and help Jack get those units off the ground.
Hi Sara, you are talking about that alley in-fill project? For the life of me I can’t figure out exactly where that is and Cheney St. is only a few blocks from me. A guy named Baron told me about it, and showed me a rough model. I love it! I am a fan of Jack Hawkins architecture. I need to find his email again and see where that project is at…have they broken ground on it yet?
Hold on Mike—I didn’t know they dropped their prices. However, you’ll not I said that they were “too pricey for ME.” That Riverwalk place must be at the top of the building. It also looks like it might be one of the 2 bed, 2.5 bath models.
I just took a spin through 8 on Center this weekend. What a gorgeous project! Have to laugh at the folks slamming that neighborhood. Taggers have hit every zip code in the city…nothing a soda blast can’t handle. And blight? Let’s not mention the bums in the alleys all along 2nd and West St, the shootings across from Montage, the hoodlums walking in front of Belvedere. C’mon people. These are urban neighborhoods we’re talking here. You accept that with the territory or go live in your cookie cutter houses with a flowering plum in the middle of the front lawn.