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house hunting

the house hunting has intensified significantly over the past few days. on sunday afternoon i took an afternoon walking tour of some of the up-and-coming downtown properties. most (all) of these are out of my price range, and some are only for rent, but it was an informative tour nonetheless.

the tour was put on by the Chattanooga Downtown Partnership and i'm not exactly clear on how all of the developers got involved. i presume that they each had to fork over a good bit of money for the CDP to market and show their properties. nevertheless, its pretty exciting to see how things are moving downtown. the first place we (bob demarco and me) went to was the new Loveman Apartments on market street, and after seeing these places, everything else felt kind of small potatos.
check out the photos... they certainly have a nice private patio and a good view of downtown.

that said, bob and i both decided that we couldn't, in good conscience, actually live in a such an ostentatious abode. by far, my favorite of the afternoon were the new bread factory lofts. these were much more affordable, and more creative in their use of space
and layout in my (slightly architecturally informed) opinion.

this morning, my roommate isaac and i met with a representative from the holmes corporation to talk about new development going on in the MLK/McCallie neighborhoods. he and i had both gotten pretty excited about some of the property here and the location. unfortunately our meeting was a bit disappointing - seems most of the potential property has been bought up by holmes already, precluding us from finding a good fixer-upper. but we press on.

oh, we also looked at the house that my carpenter friends bob and todd have been working on. talk about your fixer-uppers...