The company is so good at the real-estate game that it has spawned a catchphrase, the Whole Foods Effect, a phenomenon Detroit is clearly banking on, having offered the retailer $4.2 million to come there. That figure suggests city leaders believe that Whole Foods is a force unto itself that can give a neighborhood the escape velocity it needs to break free of its doldrums. Are they right?
![Free mortgage if you make your home into an ad.
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Free mortgage if you make your home into an ad.
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Wright matters:
Dramatic, historic and prices slashed, yet no buyers are biting - chicagotribune.com
In Los Angeles, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Ennis House and La Miniatura remain on the market, despite significant price reductions/buyer incentives. Begs the architectural stewardship question: Who is willing and able to take care of these historic homes?
[hat tip to @ChiArchitecture]
Related: June 2009 post.
Now *this* is a way through which to sell a 1967 swankienda in Austin.
Design notes: Space age / atomic design influences. Circular fire pit with built-in table. Rocks! (Lava rocks.)
(hat tip to @Room4SF)
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70s-era beachfront Dune House near Jacksonville is in a hill (and on the market). Unique is an understatement. Click on photo to view slideshow. [Wall Street Journal story: http://bit.ly/2F8A5]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a74557e4b0b80ded0421f1/1437979210865-VQRZJZ1DSKQMJS58AWFU/image-asset.jpeg)
Preservation-worthy:
70s-era beachfront Dune House near Jacksonville is in a hill (and on the market). Unique is an understatement. Click on photo to view slideshow. [Wall Street Journal story: http://bit.ly/2F8A5]