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This bold revitalization project at 50-09 Second Street in Long Island City, Queens is the site of the $200 million PowerHouse Condominium project, which, when all three phases are finished, will have 447 units on the site, including 180,000 square feet of galleries, restaurants, and offices. The original 1909 structure was designed by McKim, Mead, & White to provide electricity for regional trains. The first phase of the project is 177 units, from 500-square-foot studios at $500,000 to 1,500-square-foot three-bedrooms at $2 million. Since October 2007, 30 percent have sold.
Marketing the project should not be difficult; it will attract many creative-minded professionals, and is a marvelous and unique revitalization project in an otherwise forgotten Queens industrial district.
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On Monday, March 3, 2008, Bozeman, Montana's Public School Board voted 7-0 to revamp the elementary school assignment process. Beginning fall 2008, a one-year, transitional step away from "open enrollment" to the neighborhood school system structure will start, leading to a full-fledged neighborhood school structure, with attendance boundaries clearly mapped out for fall 2009.
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In the Gallatin Valley, Montana, (Bozeman, MT) as is so often the case in the West, how best to manage growth is a contentious issue, pitting the rural-minded against the urban-minded, the agrarian-minded against the industrial-minded, those who want wild western land, or at least large western ranches, against those who want productive western land; sometimes the two sides overlap, as in the case of the western farmer seeing the land in wheat and the western land conservationist seeing the land in native grass, or the western rancher retaining the land for cattle and the urbanite retaining the land for recreation.
There are a wealth of ways in which western land can be controlled for future use: clustered development, transfer of development rights, zoning, conservation easements, and citizen-initiated zoning districts, but no single or combined use of these controls pleases everyone. Here is a piece from NewWest.net on the issue and the various "tools," as Susan Duncan calls them, toward pleasing everyone:
Redefining Urban and Rural: Why Growth "Tools" Haven't Succeeded
from NewWest.net, Susan Duncan, 1-28-08
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Montana launches online job resource-employers need skilled workers...
In Gallatin County, Montana, today's employers need to teach as much as anything else. The demand for skilled workers in the Bozeman constuction industry is serious. Most employees who come into a skilled construction job lack the skills necessary to do the work. People are quitting school to take relatively high-paying, low-skilled jobs because of the basic need for all types of workers, especially those in the construction trade.
"In the Gallatin Valley, we see a lot of commercial construction. ... You need a lot more people skilled in masonry, steel workers," David Smith, President of the Bozeman, Montana Chamber of Commerce, said. "That's a problem that came to our economy in Montana and Bozeman especially, where we didn't have those skills we needed."
The state of Montana is going to the Internet to solve what economists call "structural unemployment," which happens when workers lack the skills companies demand. Montana has launched an online resource tailored to line up the skills workers train for with the skills employers demand.
"We look at it from this standpoint--Students need to have more information. The earlier we can give them that information, the better," said Shaunda Hiderbrand, Director, Montana's Department of Labor and Industry's Work Force Development.
The website is the Occupational Supply Demand System (OSDS), which is paid for by a Perkins Grant, a federal grant program promoting high-skill, -wage, and -demand occupations. The site gives in-depth information on wages, demand, and skill needs for hundreds of jobs in Montana and other states.
Montana's unemployment rate is 3.6%, compared with the U.S. rate of ~5%. Each state has a system; check out yours...
The site states: "The National Occupational Supply Demand Consortium develops and evaluates methodologies for supply/demand analysis of occupations to assist with training and education program planning."
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The Gallatin County, Montana county commissioners contemplate Gallatin County, MT zoning as the means to manage both future and present growth. With close to an 11 percent increase in the county's population since 2000, protection of the region's agricultural legacy and preservation of its natural beauty are intrinsic to retaining the appeal that keeps people visiting and relocating to Gallatin County, which is seated in Bozeman, Montana.
It's a toss up as to whether Gallatin's countywide zoning regulations throughout the Gallatin Valley will have much of an impact on southwest Montana rancher's and farmer's property; regulation details are in the process of being hammered out and could take a while longer because opposing sides see zoning coming from opposite directions: one side thinks zoning should be top down, the other side believes zoning needs to be bottom up; thus the slow progression.
Parceling of Gallatin County land into smaller properties, which the more recent residents now live on, occurred prior to passage of Montana's subdivision review requirements in 1973:
"a division of land or land so divided that it creates one or more parcels containing less than 160 acres that cannot be described as a one-quarter aliquot part of a US government section, exclusive of public roadways, in order that the title to or possession of the parcels may be sold, rented, leased, or otherwise conveyed and includes any resubdivision and further includes a condominium or area, regardless of its size, that provides or will provide multiple spaces for recreational camping vehicles or mobile homes."
Many Gallatin Valley residents have placed their Montana land into conservation easements, which amounts to having already cashed their transfer development development rights. The question is what about those who haven't decided what to do with their land? Should they have the same possibilities with cashing in on their southwest Montana land as those who have profited in the past?
Intelligent growth and property rights and keeping the balance between the two is a touchy subject in the southwest Montana region, which has lost a wealth of large Montana farms and Montana dairies recently. The question remains, "Should Gallatin County County remove potential land development values through strict county zoning?"
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I graduated with a BA in Liberal Arts from Chapman University in Orange, California. I am passionate about community involvement, founding Ride For a Child, Share the Bread, and Operation Warmth, and participating in the Door of Faith Orphanage , Match 2 Prison Outreach , Pinehaven Ranch and Children's School , Compassion , Family Promise of Gallatin Valley , and Habitat for Humanity of Gallatin Valley .
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TESTIMONIALS TO TAUNYA FAGAN, BOZEMAN REALTOR
May 26, 2009
Dear Taunya –
Thank you so much for all the hard work on our behalf. We had been looking to buy property in Bozeman for years and when the opportunity came in 2009, we jumped on it. We had no real estate contacts in Bozeman and we found you by simply researching agents on line. We decided to start working with you because your website was so well organized and informative. Your website was also one of the few to offer all the info on the property without first requiring us to provide you “with our personal information and email”. I found your approach very refreshing. Once we got to know you, you lived up to our highest expectations. Your efforts on our behalf were limitless. You are also one of the most informed agents we have ever met. You obviously do your homework and stay involved on all levels in the Bozeman community. Over time, everyone we met had nothing but the highest praise for your approach and honesty. Our experience with you matched your reputation in the area. We ended up buying 2 properties in the Bozeman from you in early 2009, one great new house and one separate piece of beautiful land. Both are perfect. We are very excited to finally be part of the Bozeman community. Thank you for helping us on so many levels. Good luck in everything you do! Adam and Jodi Leiter, Bozeman, MT
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November 21, 2008
Dear Taunya,We are so grateful for your expertise, amazing help, and professional efficiency!!!!! Thank you. From the first moment we saw your informative, accurate, and attractive web site presentations of your offerings, to the dot on the last "i" of the final document, your attention to detail and kind and patient interaction with everyone was so amazing and admirable. We've closed on numerous properties and never, not even close, have we ever had such a pleasant experience. It can all be attributed to you! Thank you.
Walt and Juli Johnson, Bozeman, MT
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Nov. 21, 2008
Hi Taunya,I thank you again for your diligence. I believe you are one of the finest agents that I have had the pleasure to work with and hope there is a deal to be made.
Cordially, JB
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Thank you for being such a great realtor. For someone who was reluctant to work with a realtor, you have exceeded all my expectations and hesitations. You do good work and, again, I appreciate all your help.
Pat, Bozeman, MT
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We recently had a major move out of the Bozeman area to north western Washington State. My husband took a position with a company there and had to leave immediately. I was a bit concerned about being left with a 2yr old and trying to get my house sold quickly so that we could all be together. I interviewed several agents that seemed relatively competent but they all had to get back with me, check on prices and think about how best to market the house. There also seemed to be the gloomy warning of slowing house sales at this time of the year (late September).
When Taunya showed up I knew immediately that she would be the agent for us. She came with comparable market value comps in hand, she had her camera ready to take pictures and list that day, she had a marketing plan that included internet, newspaper, and television ads, at no additional charge to her standard commission. I was so impressed I agreed to sign with her on the spot. She was very helpful in coming up with a fair price that would have our house sold quickly but still assure us a great profit.
Taunya began work immediately and kept her word and all her promises for her advertising package. She then wasted no time in setting up an open house only days after the listing was posted and did not one, but two full days in a row, on the first weekend of the listing. Both days went very well, but at the end of the second day as she was packing up to leave a single man drove up on his motorcycle and asked if she would show him around. Even though she was ready to go, Taunya cheerfully agreed. He seemed like an unlikely buyer for such a large family home, and she had been told by many a nay sayer that "no one every sells houses to buyers at open houses." He bought it!
Taunya spent her time making sure that we were set up with an agent in our new home and even followed up with finding a fantastic lender who worked extremely hard to make our experience buying our new home here as easy as possible. We cannot say enough about the integrity and professionalism that Taunya displayed in a world where you don't often see that kind of work ethic anymore. We truly felt blessed! We would urge anyone in the Bozeman area to use Taunya as their agent if they truly want the best. And we wish her continued success and prosperity in the future.
Sincerely, Jeff & Terri
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Dear Taunya,
Wanting to enter the Bozeman Real Estate market, we purchased our first condo through you in 2003. You found us a new condo in a lovely development with beautiful views, and we were tremendously pleased with the quick, smooth closing of the purchasing transaction.
Two years later, you found us our dream home, and once again we had the opportunity of working with you in the listing of our condo. Your listing services went above and beyond that which is normal.
You artfully and professionally staged the condo, designed beautiful flyers, held well advertised weekly open houses with detailed follow-up with potential buyers. You marketed our property on the internet, television, and in local and national newspapers. You kept us informed of the activity you were having on the condo. It all worked to procure a "top dollar" sale shortly after listing the property which allowed us to purchase our dream home which you found for us. You helped us find a lender and worked with us on a day to day basis to insure quick, smooth closings on both the selling and purchasing transactions.
Your tireless effort and positive attitude, your responsible approach and skillful negotiation, backed by your exceptional real estate knowledge, helped us achieve our dream. We want to tell you how impressed we were with your work ethic and devotion to us as your clients and thank you. You truly are in an elite category of real estate agents.
Sincerely, George and Joyce, Bozeman, MT
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