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Gen Y Want Walkable Urban Communities
Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2011 12:41 pm
by Grace O'Malley
Surprise, surprise! Gen Y home buyers want walkable communities, not much yard to mow, and an urban setting:
http://realestate.yahoo.com/promo/no-mcmansions-for-millennials.html"One-third are willing to pay for the ability to walk," Ms. Duggal said. "They don't want to be in a cookie-cutter type of development. ...The suburbs will need to evolve to be attractive to Gen Y."
Re: Gen Y Want Walkable Urban Communities
Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2011 5:44 pm
by Jim O'Bryan
Grace O'Malley wrote:Surprise, surprise! Gen Y home buyers want walkable communities, not much yard to mow, and an urban setting:
http://realestate.yahoo.com/promo/no-mcmansions-for-millennials.html"One-third are willing to pay for the ability to walk," Ms. Duggal said. "They don't want to be in a cookie-cutter type of development. ...The suburbs will need to evolve to be attractive to Gen Y."
Grace
Be careful, many in this town would present this as "...want to be in a cookie-cutter type of development..."
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Re: Gen Y Want Walkable Urban Communities
Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 3:37 pm
by Kate McCarthy
Re: Gen Y Want Walkable Urban Communities
Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 12:53 pm
by Matt Jones
Kate McCarthy wrote:looks like Lakewood to me.
Call me crazy, but to me it looks more like Crocker Park than Lakewood.
I'm not sure I buy into the concept of building these types of communities from scratch. Lakewood's long term viability as a livable community has been solidly proven. While Crocker Park is undeniably successful as a shopping destination, the jury's still out on whether or not it will be a place where people will want to actually live.