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    Last Notes from Home

    Dec 01, 2019

    Honestly, it was all a blur, buying the house. I was a bachelor then — early thirties, a strange time to settle down. Strange place. On the far southwestern edge of town, way out by Blue Diamond, up against the desert hills

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    Into the Gray with the Vegas Flippers

    Nov 01, 2019

    Your feelings about home flippers — the folks who snap up homes, make a bunch of largely cosmetic fixes, then sell them fast for a nice profit.

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    Homeless Revised
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    How Do We House the Homeless?

    Oct 01, 2019

    In late August, the Las Vegas chapter of the American Institute of Architects hosted an all-day design charrette on the top floor of the World Market Center in the city’s growing Downtown, not far from the nexus of social service providers along the city’s Corridor of Hope, and in sight of the Historic Westside, a neighborhood waiting for its own transformation.

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    A Stand Against Bland

    Sep 01, 2019

    The Smith Center for the Performing Arts opened in 2012, the crown jewel in a mixed-use development, Symphony Park, that was going to shape Downtown Las Vegas for a new generation.

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    In Search of a Vegas Style: Why don't we look like Palm Springs?

    Aug 01, 2019

    We know the terroir of cities not by their grand boulevards, libraries, and museums, their parks or skyscrapers, but by the coherence of their residential styles.

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    A Roof of One's Own: Is an affordability crunch on the way?

    Jun 25, 2019

    The cranes are back on the Strip. The wood frames of single-family homes are rising again in our neighborhoods.

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