Phoenix City Living

Roosevelt Row Harvest Festival 2007

Tonight and tomorrow Roosevelt Row features the 2007 Roosevelt Row Harvest Festival. This free outdoor urban festival features exhibit openings and artist receptions, entertainment, refreshments, and a wine tasting on Friday night. Saturday's lineup includes all the open retail, bar, and restaurant doors within the unique Roosevelt district, a beer garden, live music, and street vendors. Children's activities will include pumpkin bowling, cookie decoration, children's music, a safety helmet giveaway, and just the eye-candy that all the crowds will produce.

Perhaps the star attraction of the entire event on Saturday is the vendor booth I'll be manning which represents my own special project listing, Roosevelt 11. Now just weeks from final completion, Roosevelt 11, on Roosevelt just east of 7th Street, offers excellent value and a phenomenal location in the transitioning Garfield Historic District. Close to ASU, the Biotech campus, Heritage Square, the Arizona Center, and generally the entire downtown hub, Roosevelt 11 is the newest loft project you'll find downtown and it's all at the right price, with the right features, great aesthetics and probably the nicest broker you'll ever talk to. Hard to believe? Then check me and Roosevelt 11 out in person Saturday in the thick of the Festival. We'll discuss further!

Saturday will also include the Roosevelt Action Association Home Tour from 11am-4pm. Tour a selection of many of the finest homes in the Roosevelt historic neighborhood. Tickets are available in the Roosevelt neighborhood at 3rd Avenue and Culver. Tickets are $15. Receive a $5 discount for bringing a can of food to benefit St. Mary's Food Bank or mention the Roosevelt Row Harvest Festival. Proceeds benefit the Roosevelt Action Association.

where: Roosevelt St between 4th-7th Streets  map  when: Friday, Oct 19 - Saturday Oct 20  time: variable - check attached Festival link for times  cost: free  parking: street surrounding area (Roosevelt  St. between 4-7th streets closed to traffic)

Phoenix Old World Oktoberfest 2007

Well, I tried to get this off early this week but I had to upgrade my online Flickr account to "Pro" to get this series loaded .... and it took forever to upgrade my status. All things are now good in pictureland and I can finally bring you some of the beer-soaked love from last weekend's event.

And you think that the slowing market made sales tough enough!

A little paint here, some window treatments there....instant magic! (ok....where the gas and matches!):

Bond, cry, and search for funding: The Second Annual Entrepreneurs Conference

Several seasoned entrepreneurs will share their experiences at the Second Annual Entrepreneurship conference Nov. 8 at the Phoenix Airport Marriott.

The day-long event will connect participants with local and national entrepreneurs and investors and focus on topics from access to capital to the process of innovation.

Keynote speakers will be:

• Pat Sullivan, founder of Act! and SalesLogix, currently chairman of Jigsaw Health and an active angel investor.
• Michael Gerber, author of "The E-Myth."
• Marc Canter, co-founder of Macromedia and chief executive of Broadband Mechanics.
• Dan Morrison, co-founder and chief executive of Ittoolbox.

Check it out:  Azentrepreneurship.com
As reported in the Phoenix Business Journal

TGen and ASU receive big bucks and bigger brains

TGen, ASU receive $45 million, secure Nobel laureate:

The Translational Genomics Research Institute and  Arizona State University received a $45 million infusion and secured a Nobel laureate to oversee a new venture to develop personalized diagnostics.

The Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust committed $35 million and The Flinn Foundation kicked in $10 million to advance a personalized medicine initiative that will be based in Phoenix, but could have a global reach.

Called the Partnership for Personalized Medicine, the venture will be led by 2001 Nobel laureate Lee Hartwell. He currently serves as president and director of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, which uses molecular diagnostics for early detection and clinical management of cancer and other diseases.

Judy Mohraz, president and chief executive of the Piper trust, said the initiative could make a difference in the quality of life for people not only in Arizona, but around the world.

"If the state is going to be competitive in this global race in terms of bioscience, we have to collaborate," she said. "We do have to gain critical mass through institutional collaboration, and I think this is a fine example."  more

From Phoenix Business Journal, Angela Gonzales

Thursday Mortgage Update

Here are the rates and mortgage trends for the week ending Oct 21st, 2007.

Conforming loans (<$417K)
30 yr. fixed:  6.375%
5/1 ARM:  6.375%
3/1 ARM:  6.125%
Jumbo loans (>$417K)
30 yr. fixed:  7%
5/1 ARM:  6.5%
3/1 ARM:  6.375%

Mortgage Trends:  Bankrate.com Rate Trend Index
This week, most of the panelists believe mortgage rates will remain relatively unchanged over the next 35 to 45 days. Seventeen percent think rates will fall, and the other 17 percent believe rates will rise (plus or minus 2 basis points).

All mortgage quotes are dependent upon each borrower's credit score and other qualifying information and, as such, must be reviewed on a case-by-case basis and therefore may not be reflective of the above quoted rates and trends.

In this new economy are we all going to have to downsize?

Could this be the new reality of real estate in this changing market? How to live small and maintain your dignity (ok, maybe just how to live small....really, really small!)

For all those that feel the rage when a dent appears on your car door

REPOST: back by popular demand

Most of the time we find the "parking lot" dent only when far from the scene and without a hope of finding the perpetrator. But what of those moments, which many of us has had once in a lifetime, when the opportunity exists to immediately right a wrong, to change the course of history, and finally stand up to the evildoers that trash our treasured cars. But is life ever really that simple?