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Between cities

July 06, 2010 | Written by Roy R. Pachecano |

How losing the younger workforce shapes small towns

When I commute from New York City to my field office in San Antonio, I cannot help but observe the landscape below. I marvel at how it all looks so natural. But this is deceptive. Almost all of what I see is man-made, except for the larger bodies of water. The landscape I observe was carved up and made into straight lines most certainly only as recently as the past 100 years. Increasingly, what I gaze upon are houses that have no possible connection to agriculture. I ask the same questions Professor Robert Bruegmann would ask: “Where do they shop? What do they do?

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Losing rural America

June 04, 2010 | Written by Roy R. Pachecano |

How to get small towns back on track

We are losing our small towns, and with it, perhaps our sense of purpose and identity. Two hundred years ago, the urban population in the U.S. was around 3%. Around the turn of the 20th century, this figure rose to 14%. Remarkably, the relocation shift from rural to urban continued on a sharp increase so that by the 1950s, urban population was approximately 30%.

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Retrofitting land use policies

May 04, 2010 | Written by Roy R. Pachecano |

Is nationalizing the building industry next?

As we slip into the pre-summer season of a mixed, but improving economy, the housing slowdown these past eight quarters should provide us with an opportunity to reflect upon how our country redevelops itself. Existing land use policy, and subsequent practice, in the United States appears to have reached a tipping point. For more than a half-century, land use policies have encouraged our addiction to foreign oil and our continued largesse to political deal-making absent of sound development principles. Do we have to nationalize our arena of industry in order to save it?

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Triple Bottom Line

Written by Roy R. Pachecano |

The impact on real estate development

The year is 2020. It’s tax time, and your accountant has a list of inquiries regarding your company’s capital inflows and outflows to be reported to the IRS, state regulatory bodies, investors, board of directors and your lending institution.

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