Category: Land Value

All at sea: waterworlds of the future

11 September, 2009 (10:15) | Configuration, Humor, Land Value, Speculation | No comments

By: David A. Smith
 

We all live in a yellow submarineYellow submarine, yellow submarine
– Richard Starkey

Every one of us has all we need?
 
Perhaps it’s because, as city dwellers, we seek green space and crave privacy, but few destinations capture our imagination more than the idyllic deserted island.
 

Societal conventions optional
 
Yet we’re rational enough to realize that a [...]

Better dead than read, Part Deux

10 August, 2009 (10:41) | Boston, Boston Globe, Conversion, Land Value, Markets, Zoning | No comments

Dinosaurs and buggy whips came to my mind when I read (self-referentially, in the Boston Globe
Itself) of three bidders for the money-flushing newspaper:
 
An investment firm that recently purchased a San Diego newspaper has emerged as a third bidder for The Boston Globe, according to people briefed on offers submitted to the paper’s owner, The New [...]

Better dead than read?

4 May, 2009 (10:50) | Boston, Boston Globe, Conversion, Land Value, Markets, Speculation | No comments

Are you sure that’s spelled right?

As the unionized employees of the Boston Globe debate among themselves whether they will accede to the $20 million in annual wage cuts demanded by their owner, the New York Times Company, they might do well to ponder a grim real estate reality, as presented with clinical dispassion by [...]