The light rail station in the Mill Avenue District is certainly a hotbed of activity. People enjoy riding the light rail to enjoy the many restaurants and shops in the area as well as Tempe Town Lake, Tempe Beach Park and many employment centers. Many activities are held at the park and along Mill Avenue […]
Walkable Neighborhoods & Phoenix Light Rail
It’s probably no big secret that I am excited for Metro’s Light Rail system to begin service here in the valley. You could say that I have been looking forward to this for a really long time. Having grown up in Arizona, I have seen many changes. While I love this state and all it […]
Special thanks to the “Phoenix Real Estate Guy!”
Our friend, Jay Thompson is known the world over as the Phoenix Real Estate Guy. I say the “world over” because he really does have one of the best real estate blogs around and has been recognized many times for the great work he does. His wife once told me that she doesn’t like to […]
End of the line… What’s there?
For quite some time, there has been a lot of discussion (and a lot of controversy) over the choice of where the light rail line should run. This past weekend, the newspaper had an article titled “Route choice aims to draw passengers” which covered the topic pretty well. Of course, you have the people that […]
Tempe Ribbon Cutting at Fidelity National Title
I was really glad to have been invited to the ribbon cutting to celebrate Fidelity National Title’s relocation to the Hayden Ferry Lakeside building. This is one of the most impressive spaces around and they occupy the entire 11th floor of this gorgeous building. As you cross the Mill Avenue Bridge or pass by on […]
Homes Near Light Rail
Rail Life is proud to have chosen Realty Executives of Tempe to help bring our readers information on housing near the light rail lines in Phoenix, Tempe and in Mesa. Soon, there will be an entire section dealing with homes for sale and for lease along the line. We have searches saved and available for each stop […]
Time to have some fun – Blogger style…
Monday, I am “heading out to San Francisco” (reminds me of a great Jimmy Buffet song!) to join a bunch of bloggers, mainly from the RE.net community. Inman’s Real Estate Connect is July 23rd – 25th and is preceded by RE Bar Camp on the 22nd. Day one of Inman Connect has a nearly six hour […]
More Phoenix Metro Light Rail news
I found this interesting article today talking about how cities are embracing public transportation more than ever. “The American Public Transportation Association reports that Americans took 2.6 billion trips on public transportation in the first three months of 2008 — nearly 85 million more trips than last year for the same time period. In total, […]
$6 Billion and our .02 Cents
As we get closer to the big day in December when the light rail trains begin to carry passengers in Phoenix, Tempe and Mesa, we are seeing a lot more media coverage. Recently, there was a story in the AZ Republic talking about the development along the 20 mile route and the amount of public […]
Unchained? Many ways to market TO many different markets
Marketing takes on many different shapes and sizes and can reach audiences large and small. The upcoming “Unchained” Social Media Marketing Conference at the Heard Museum has a pretty interesting line up. I had some good conversations with Greg Swann last week after an Unchained Preview. I really like some of Greg’s marketing ideas and philosophies […]