Several cities are tearing down highways, creating bold new public spaces -- and building a future without cars (Credit: iStockphoto/Diverstudio) Everyone freak out: Carmageddon is back. Right now, several U.S. cities are scheming to shut down major freeways — permanently. In the push to
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04/22/2012
Just Listed Central Mountain Land Value Only/No Value in Home 50X148
04/21/2012
These salaries make for a good debate. Are these guys deserving, in the name of free markets and capitalism to make this kind of cash? After all, they have done the unthinkable, generating historically unseen profits smack in the middle of a global recession. Are we, the sheeple, just plain stupi
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04/04/2012
Living alone, not living lonely... I have been to Paris many times and just love the city. The city of lights or the city of love, I presumed, was full of wonderful intellectually stylish couples who lived in bliss, ate baguettes, drank wine in Les Deux Magot while dissecting the Simon De de B
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03/30/2012
Living small: Lulu’s shipping container home Downsizing was “big” in 2011, but few took the drastic measures Argentinean-born Californian single mom Lulu did.Lulu went back to school and didn’t want to have to work full-time hours on top of her studies just to pay her rent. Instead, she and her d
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03/30/2012
Boomerang generation University of Western Ontario professor Roderic Beaujot discusses the phenomenon of delayed home-leaving at length. He cites Canadian census statistics showing that, in 1981, 27.5% of Canadians aged 20–29 lived with their parents; in 2001, the figure had grown to 41%. Accordi
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03/26/2012
Hamilton’s Transportation TransformationResearch Report Concludes That Select Property Owners Will Receive a 10 - 20% Increase in Their Property ValuesMay 10, 2011 — The Real Estate Investment Network (REIN™) a Division of Cutting Edge Research Inc. is pleased to release its second edition of T
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03/12/2012
Hamilton Population Growth Slow and Steady but still Good February 9, 2012 The Hamilton Spectator Hamilton’s 3.1 per cent population growth may look modest beside Burlington’s 6.9 per cent, but it’s still good, says Hamilton’s economic director, Neil Everson.“Hamilton has traditionally ha
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02/22/2012
Government Grants Downtown Hamilton City to offer $650,000 grocery store prize Gary Yokoyama/The Hamilton Spectator The pot: $1.4 million — The amount of money available over three years for incentives as the city targets three key areas for downtown improvements The incentives: $650,00
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02/06/2012
It took me 18 yrs, but well worth the wait. Shortly after I got into the business, and in the days when you could still telephone and solicit expired listings, I decided to brave up and go visit a mansion on a hill. This house was literally perched on a hill at an awe inspiring address. Needless
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01/31/2012