shout outs!

from January-February 2019

Marc Chalmé – Intimate Dreams

Expressions of praise given in the presence of many peo ple.

WalletHub released an in-depth report on 2018’s Most Pet-Friendly Cities. Kudos to Austin that came in 4th, behind Scottsdale, AZ, Orlando, FL and San Diego, CA. See the whole report at https://wallethub.com/edu/most-petfriendly-cities/5562/

1. WalletHub released its 2018’s Best & Worst Places for Veterans to Live . The report compares the 100 largest U.S. cities across 18 key metrics, ranging from share of military skill-related jobs to housing affordability to availability of VA health facilities. Number 1 on the list – Austin ; and coming in at a not-too-shabby 6th – Plano . Kudos to both cities!

Confucius Say: Foolish man give wife grand piano. Wise man give wife upright organ.

I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol. Treat each day as your last; one day you will be right.

To determine the most attractive real-estate markets in the U.S., WalletHub compared 300 cities across 22 key metrics. The data set ranges from median home-price appreciation to home sales turnover rate to job growth. Texas cities claimed 5 of the top 10 spots including Richardson

2. With application season in full gear and college living costs reaching $26,200 per student for nine to 12 months, WalletHub today released its report on 2019’s Best & Worst College Towns & Cities in America , as well as accompanying videos , as a follow-up on its College & University Rankings . They compared more than 400 U.S. cities – also grouped by city size – based on 30 key indicators of academic, social and economic growth potential. The data set ranges from cost of living to quality of higher education to crime rate. Coming in at #1among large college cities – Austin! Coming in at #8 among small college cities – College Station! Big time congratulations to both!

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(the local unemployment rate, historical job growth, projected job growth and the level of employment (based on tax burden, insurance costs, commuting costs, medical spending, utility (racial makeup, racial integration, and economic diversity within the population, education (based on math and reading test scores and local and county level high school graduation rates) and income (based on historical median household income, projected household income, a comparison between local and state median household income and change between current and historical household income, Money Magazine chose the City of Frisco as #1 In its annual review The Ten Best Places to Live in America Right Now. Wow! Congratulations! Read more: http://time. com/money/5387468/best-places-to-live-2018-methodology/

3. Congratulations to the Houston Chapter of the Institute of Real Estate Management (IREM®) ! It announced its annual list of top real estate companies in the Houston area based on the number of CERTIFIED PROPERTY MANAGER® (CPM®) credentialed members they employ locally. They are: Transwestern, AMO® with 19 credentialed members; Stream Realty Partners, AMO® with 15 credentialed members; CBRE, AMO® with 10 credentialed members; Brookfield Property Partners with 5 credentialed Members; and Woodbranch Management, Inc. with 5 credentialed Members. The announcement

It’s Cheaper to Own Than Rent a Home

To determine where the most rapid local economic growth occurred over a period

Hats off to Lancaster, PA which has earned gold certification under the new LEED for Cities program, (https://new.usgbc.org/leed-forcities) recognizing leadership in sustainability. It is among the first communities in the United States and the world to earn the rating, which also recognized Washington, D.C.; Phoenix; Arlington County, Va.; Songdo, South Korea; Savona, Italy; and Surat, India. LEED is administered by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) and is the most widely used green building rating system in the world. The certi

Newspaper Readers

The Wall Street Journal is read by the people who run the country.

The New York Times is read by people who think they run the country.

set ranges from population growth to college-educated population growth to unemployment rate decrease. In addition, they produced a separate ranking by city size.

Fort Myers, FL Midland, TX Pearland, TX Bend, OR McKinney, TX unemployment rate decrease. In addition, they produced a separate ranking by city size.

A recent GOBankingRates study identified the typical rent and cost to own a home in 50 major U.S. cities. Although renting can be cheaper, it’s more expensive than owning a home in 27 cities, including these Texas cities: Arlington, Fort Worth and El Paso. See the whole report at https://www.gobankingrates.com/saving-money/ home/cheaper-to-own-than-rent-home-in-these-cities/

The Washington Post is read by people who think they should run the country.

USA Today is read by people who think they ought to run the country but don’t really understand the Washington Post. They do, however, like their smog statistics shown in colorful pie charts.

The Los Angeles Times is read by people who wouldn’t mind running the country, if they could spare the time, and if they didn’t have to leave L.A. to do it.

The Boston Globe is read by people whose parents used to run the country and they did a far superior job of it, thank you very much.

The New York Daily News is read by people who aren’t too sure who’s running the country, and don’t really care as long as they can get a seat on the subway.

5 Dallas High School recently won a 2018 Preservation Dallas Achievement Award, which honors Dallas’ outstanding residential and commercial historic preservation projects and the individuals who are committed to making Dallas a better place to live by protecting its architectural heritage. The 102,000-square foot, fourstory building was built in 1907 and sat empty for nearly two decades before being purchased by Matthews Southwest and redeveloped into 78,000-square feet of historically converted office space, along with 10,000-square feet of restaurant, retail and outdoor patio space. Kudos to Aimee Sanborn, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, Principal and Team Leader at Merriman Anderson/Architects (the design architect, historic architect and architect of record for the building shell and interior restoration, including the LEED Gold

The New York Post is read by people who don’t care who’s running the country either, as long as they do something really scandalous, preferably while intoxicated and when there are photographers present.

The San Francisco Chronicle is read by people who aren’t sure there is a country, or that anyone is running it; but whoever it is, they oppose all that they stand for. There are occasional exceptions if the leaders are handicapped minority feministic atheist dwarfs, who also happen to be illegal aliens from ANY country or galaxy as long as they are democrats.

The Miami Herald is read by people who are running another country, but need the baseball scores.

For more information, go to 2018’s Fastest Growing Cities in America (https://wallethub. com/edu/fastest-growing-cities/7010/ ). Also view accompanying videos.

Apple announced that it plans to build a $1 billion campus in Austin, creating at least 5000 new jobs (ranging from engineers to callcenter agents) to the already bustling technological hub. Apple is expected to receive up to $25 million from a Texas jobs- creation fund, in addition to property-tax rebates, which still require approval.

For more information, go to 2018’s Fastest Growing Cities in America (https://wallethub. com/edu/fastest-growing-cities/7010/ ). Also view accompanying videos.

6 College Station, TX

8 Mount Pleasant, SC

7 Lehigh Acres, FL

9 Enterprise, NV 10 Irvine, CA

8 Mount Pleasant, SC

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1 a senior project manager in the Transmission and Utilities Group in Dallas 2 Aimbridge Hospitality

Senior Vice President of Project Management in Dallas 3 Karen Perez joined Freese and Nichols in El joined Image Building Maintenance as Regional Manager 5 Jimmy Gibson joined Freese and Nichols as leader of the firm’s Environmental Services Practice based in DFW 6 Ben Salomone joined ML Realty Partners as an Asset Manager 7 Tim Stout joined Billingsley Company as the Director of Engineering 8 JT Samford was promoted to Acquisition Manager at ML Realty Partners in DFW 9 Steven Jones joined Heritage Land Bank as its new Vice President Loan Officer in Fort Worth 10 Jason Hanna, AIA was promoted to Associate Principal at Corgan in Dallas 11 Mark Cardwell, AIA was promoted to Associate Principal at Corgan in Dallas 12 Mike Hemme, AIA, LEED AP BD+C was promoted to Associate Principal at Corgan in Dallas 13 Susan Smith, AIA, LEED AP BD+C was promoted to Principal at Corgan in Dallas 14 Brett Sumrow, AIA LEED AP was promoted to Principal at Corgan in Dallas 15 Joe Haver, AIA, LEED AP BD+C was promoted to Principal at Corgan in Dallas 16 Matt McDonald, AIA, NCARB was promoted to Principal at Corgan in Dallas 17 Krista Bethune Melnar joined Freese and Nichols manager of the firm’s Central Texas Stormwater Group, including the Austin and San Marcos 18 Michelle Wilken joined Copart as Administrative Support Assistant 19 Leland Manning joined Newmark Knight Frank in the Valuation and Advisory Department 20 Beth Burke joined Whitebox Real Estate as an Executive Coordinator 21 David Harris was promoted to Associate Vice President at Whitebox Real Estate 22 Kim Telkamp was promoted to General Manager at Billingsley Company 23 Ted Kollaja, FAIA joined OMNIPLAN as a Principal | Project Director in Dallas 24 Baron Aldrine was promoted to Executive Vice President at CBRE 25 Michael Chiocca was promoted to Vice President at CBRE 26 John Ellerman was promoted to First Vice President at CBRE 27 Ryan Keiser was promoted to Executive Vice President at CBRE 28 Krista Raymond Clark was promoted to Senior Associate at CBRE 29 Chris Sacks was promoted to Vice President at CBRE 30 William Vonderfecht was promoted to First Vice President at CBRE 31 Noreen Weathers was promoted to Senior Associate at CBRE 32 CallisonRTKL has a new workplace team in its Dallas office. (L-R) Michael Horton, Associate Vice President; Dani Veeder, Associate; Rina Burnett, Associate Vice President; Brian Fox, Senior Associate Vice President; April Coover, Associate Vice President