Market Development Archive Give me informality or give me death: Nation’s Building News: Vanilla Not a Favorite Flavor of Generation X Home More + “Vanilla Not a Flavor of Gen Xers”: Nation’s Building News: Vanilla Not a Favorite Flavor of Generation X Home More + Is your town a lovemark?: If you think it’s hard enough for a place to have brand More + Is your town a good brand?: Is your town a good brand? You’ve heard of the iPod and More + CNN: Unfashionable cities trying to create cool: CNN: Unfashionable cities trying to create cool CNN July 14, 2004 home More + Do women support CoolTowns?: Yes, as this blog has aluded to here and here, referring to More + Poll: Which food venue is missing in your neighborhood?: We all have our favorite eating establishment, the place where we depend More + Up-ending the real estate industry – really!: The reason why over 90% of new homes are built as sprawl More + Speaking of surveys…: 75% of home buyers want the option of walking or biking to More + Great live/work neighborhoods are about choice: What time shall I wake up for work tomorrow? Shall I walk More + Even Baby Boomers seek CoolTowns: BOBOs (bourgeois bohemian boomers) and Nexers (empty nester boomers) are as keen More + Why is small so cool?: McMansions are out. Small is in. Smaller homes. Smaller schools. Small towns. More + Why creatives detest suburbia: Conventional developer: “We look at what’s been financially successful and replicate it. More + Cool isn’t necessarily about being ugly: That seems to be the myth. The ‘coolest places’, especially to the More + Q&A: How do you build for younger audiences when the boomers are in charge?: I’m in Utah this week visiting small towns that may by interested More + What do women really want in their neighborhoods?: Article in San Francisco Chronicle By Richard Paoli, November 16, 2003 The More + Investing in the Gen X Town: How do you do it without busting the Gen X piggy bank? More + Designing the Gen X urban village: Affordability: Design smaller-sized 4-6 story unfinished loft-style units (like these here by More + What is Gen X looking for in a home?: Something less than $150,000 in the inner city or near an outer More + What is Gen X looking for in a town?: It should be clear from yesterday’s blog: Jobs, affordability, entertainment. Jobs, affordability, More + Where is Gen X moving to?: Well, since most Gen Xers are single/divorced (over 70%), they sure aren’t More + Sex and the City: It’s not called Sex and the Suburbs for a reason. The popular More + Only in New York City: Where else can you have a #1 show about nothing? Where else More + The CoolTown movie test: A few days ago I was listening to a traveling sports announcer More + Why Apple fits into CoolTowns: Apple introduced videoconferencing for the masses yesterday which will help connect entrepreneurs More + What do the most culturally creative Gen Yers want in a town?: As I mentioned regarding last week’s event, I surveyed the early adopters, More + Special Report: Hanging with the future: I was fortunate to host a focus group of about 20-30 University More + 123