West Valley Properties

It is Friday and Fridays are for fun.   Parking on  St. Paul streets is very complicated.  The part about stopping the car and getting out is the easy part.  I often park my car and sit inside and read signs.   On the particular block of Grand Avenue where I found these signs there wasn’t any place I could park that would not be in between two signs.  There really isn’t any place on the street in the entire city that a person can park without being in between two signs. 

The sign poles with three or four signs are the most confusing.  Does the message on one sign override the message on another or does one modify the meaning of another?  Someti

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THE weekend’s almost here and if you’re out shopping for a new property, here’s our guide of what your budget – large or small – can buy.

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Relocating a complete household to Los Angeles is a daunting enough task without being caught by the wrong type of mover. Unfortunately, the fact that Los Angeles is tremendously popular and people are continually moving in means that there are hundreds of them – and some of them are less than reliable. To ensure the right type of moving service agencies in Los Angeles are selected, it is important to follow a few simple steps. As a result, the task will be less daunting and the move should go smoothly and be the dream it is meant to be. One should also consider movers with storage capacity in case your destination house is not ready. Read more…

Born in Pennsylvania in 1916, Jane Jacobs gained recognition in both the United States and, later, Canada, as a writer and activist, focusing primarily on urban development and planning policies. Although she was never formally trained in architecture or urban planning, many of the insights set out in Jacob’s most famous work (The Death and Life of Great American Cities, published in 1961) are still studied and even taken for granted today. In direct opposition to the ‘top-down’ planning styles popular at the time, Jacobs advocated diverse, dense, multi-use neighbourhoods with sidewalks and strong local economies.

An emphasis on people over cars led Jacobs into urban activism, opposing plans to build the Lower Manhattan Expressway through New York’s Greenwich Village. The suc

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American Realty Capital Healthcare Trust, a New York-based property investment trust, acquired three medical office properties located in Phoenix, AZ, Carson City, NV, and Las Vegas. This portfolio was purchased from The Cirrus Group LLC for $60.9 million, or about $788 per square foot. The portfolio will be used as an investment. The seller is a developer which typically sells its medical properties to institutional investors after the properties are stabilized. This portfolio was approximately 92% leased at the time of sale.

• 5301 E. Thomas Rd. in Phoenix was delivered in 1970 and is in the Phoenix-44th Street Corridor submarket.

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