Rebchook on Site Selectors

Site selection, the process of businesses making location decisions, is the flip side of economic development where by geopolitical entities like regions or municipalities try to attract businesses and capital investments.     Long time Denver business and real estate reporter John Rebcook had an excellent story about the recent “Making the Cut: Factors Driving Today’s Site Selection Decisions,” conference for site selectors in Denver.   John does an excellent job of explaining the key role professional consultants play in guiding site selection decisions and disucsses the Denver region's competitive position.

John Rebchook's Inside Real Estate News

This spring I blogged about the end of The Rocky. Recently, I have been really enjoying reading Inside Real Estate News, a blog by former Rocky business writer John Rebchook. Rebchook puts out a prodigious amount of valuable information and data about current events, economic and real estate trends and other subjects very relevant to economic development issues. It is great that John is still engaged in reporting the economic and real estate happenings in the Denver region and is sharing his knowledge, creativity and insights with us.

Rebchook Reprints Marilee Utter

John Rebchoock's October 1 Rocky column is an article by Marilee Utter which contains a lot of wisdom.

"By curtailing sprawl and sharing facilities regional and local jurisdictions can create affordable infrastructure. This infrastructure includes water, wastewater treatment, roads, transit, power, emergency services, snow removal, schools, fire and safety departments and more. The end of suburban sprawl cuts government service operating costs by 25 - 40+% because there is less physical area to maintain and service.There are many descriptive phrases: 'cluster zoning'; 'connected communities'; 'new ruralism'; 'new urbanism'; 'transit villages'. What it all comes down to is creating compact development in circumscribed areas while devoting a great majority of land to open space that can be used for active and passive recreation. But, what we aim for in 'connected communities' (to use one phrase) is to have a range of housing that goes well beyond the single-family model."