West Valley

Pets abandoned in foreclosure homes

Central Phoenix

A shocking number of dogs and cats have been rescued from local foreclosure and short sale homes where their owners have abandoned them, leaving them to starve to death. Your donation of food and supplies will help to save the lives of these homeless pets who have been rescued by Lost Our Home Pet Foundation. [...]

8 December 2010 Read the full article →

SoHo in Peoria?

West Valley

Can downtown Peoria become a vibrant center for art and artists, similar to the SoHo district in Manhattan? Last summer the City of Peoria hired an arts consulting firm to develop an arts and culture plan.  Recently the firm unveiled their proposal, featuring plenty of live-work space. I’m not convinced the plan will succeed, but [...]

2 March 2009 Read the full article →

ASU West cuts MBA program

In The News

When the smoke from the budgetary cuts clears, The College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences will be the lone college remaining at ASU West. reported on AZCentral.com All graduate degrees, including the W.P. Carey School of Business master’s program and the School of Global Management, will cease to exist at the west campus.  The College [...]

11 February 2009 Read the full article →

Photo Radar goes live in West Valley

Northwest Valley

photo credit:  azcentral.com I’ve been watching the photo radar progression over the last few months.  First the local police forces stepped up their radar patrols to catch speeders and slow down traffic.  (I was lucky enough to receive a warning!)  Next came the use of moveable photo radar – a van equipped with photo radar [...]

21 October 2008 Read the full article →

Realtors wanted

Northwest Valley

I’m looking to add one or two realtors who know the North, West, or Northwest Valley, to my team. You don’t have to be a writer, but you do have to put your heart and soul into customer service. We’re getting to the point where we need help servicing our clients. Our other choices are [...]

10 June 2008 Read the full article →

Glendale Glitters ushers in the Holidays

West Valley

This is a great way to spend an evening. We were there on Sunday last weekend for the season opening lighting of the trees. Well, we missed the actual lighting, and the trees were lit up when we arrived. But it was fun anyway. They had crafts, food, pony carriage rides, a chorus & orchestra [...]

30 November 2007 Read the full article →

West Valley Population Explodes – my unscientific opinion

Buyer Help

Every morning my oldest son & I join thousands of other Phoenicians in the tradition of parents taking their kids to school. However, in our case it’s a little more of a journey than it is for most people; we leave our house in the Arrowhead area (Northwest Valley) and travel to ACT School in [...]

10 September 2007 Read the full article →

Listing in Litchfield Park, Wigwam Creek

Listings

We have a listing in the terrific community of Wigwam Creek in Litchfield Park. This is a fairly large single level home (2,134 sq ft) with 4 bedrooms and 2 baths, and is being offered at $279,000. You can learn everything about it at www.5438Rattler.com .   Please note: while this web site’s main purpose [...]

5 September 2007 Read the full article →

Own a pro sports team: West Valley Blades for sale

General Musings

This doesn’t relate very well to real estate, except maybe as a testament for how far the Valley has grown. But still, how many times have we second-guessed ownership of our favorite teams? “I would have drafted so-and-so.” “That was a stupid trade.” “I can’t believe they hired that coach!” The list goes on and [...]

2 August 2007 Read the full article →

The Dodgers Spring Training facility gets approved: another feather in Glendale’s cap

West Valley

As Steve mentioned earlier today (he beat me to the punch!), the Dodgers will be playing spring ball in Glendale in 2009, along with the White Sox if they can find another team to fill their spot in Tucson. This is good news on several levels – more baseball locally, more economic impact, more support [...]

4 July 2007 Read the full article →

Westgate City Center

General Musings

As I wrote in a previous post back in January (Click Here to read) the AVP Volleyball Tour that travels the country highlighting the best players in sand volleyball made a stop in Arizona this past weekend.  Previously they had called Tempe home, but changed the venue this year to The Westgate City Center in [...]

15 May 2007 Read the full article →