SHOW TOPICS - Tim Sprague - Real Estate Developer - Phoenix, AZ

SHOW NOTES - 00:10 - Welcome Tim Sprague!

• 01:00 - Tim's story: "I got thrown into the deep end of the pool!"

• 03:00 - Prime interest rate comparison provides perspective

• 04:19 - Crazier than the 1980's!

• 04:27 - COVID, world economy, supply chain issues, Ukraine

• 05:15 - Tim is "pro-Phoenix", but it took awhile

• 05:45 - Waiting for cold tap water...

• 08:00 - Desert biome sunsets are the best!

• 10:43 - Courage, school of hard knocks, transforming community

• 11:40 - Applying lessons from bigger urban centers

• 12:15 - Cultivating arts, culture, and design into buildings

• 12:30 - Oasis on Grand - Affordable Housing for Artists

• 15:00 - Funding affordable living and political challenges

• 15:55 - Stratified Economic Housing

• 17:20 - Greenfield development vs in-fill projects

• 18:30 - Urban sprawl taxes community infrastructure

• 20:00 - Walkable communities, neighbors, being known

• 22:00 - Good design beats fashion

• 23:40 - Found:Re - Hotel and Gallery

• 27:01 - Arizona "Art Boutique Hotel" for all facets of art

• 28:35 - Not pretentious, not fussy, just beautiful art

• 29:08 - "Industrial Chic" and good lighting!

• 31:10 - "Cracking the egg" on in-fill development

• 32:38 - Roosevelt Action Association in response to 1-10 expansion

• 33:35 - Margaret T. Hance Park, the most invisible park in the country

• 34:12 - "The Golden Spike" joins East and West freeways

• 35:48 - Tim listens (and repeats!)

• 36:35 - "Creativity means generating ideas, good design pays for itself"

• 37:35 - "Everything we really care about is based on a story"

• 38:10 - Tim tells a story about his grandfather

• 39:10 - Tim will return in "Drought Talk"