Sunday, July 4, 2010

6/27/2010 - Off to Canada I go.

Here's where partners come in. 

I have been deployed to Canada for the next three months returning every weekend to come to Dr. Forgey's Saturday classes...that's dedication to the Program, don't you think?!

I am fortunate enough to be working on a 2000 acre development outside of Alberta's Industrial Heartland.  This area has the second largest oil reserves in the World second only to Saudi Arabia.  We are developing a mixed-use Urban Square based on the principles of New-Urbanism.  More specifically, we are marketing to the 40 plus companies that call the Alberta Industrial Heartland home and offering to provide housing for its temporary, long-term and permanent employees just 12 kilometers Southeast of the Heartland.  We just completed the annexation of approximately 1500 acres and now the fun begins.

Chipman is Southeast of the Heartland as shown on this map.

Why do I share this with you?  Well because I need an excuse when Dr. Forgey asks what I have been doing all week and I say busy in Canada maybe he'll have sympathy for me...not!  Actually, I share this because without my partner Vishal "Metro" Makan, it would be difficult to accomplish anything which requires me to be on the ground in Fort Worth and Metro has my back.  Thanks partner.

Long drive, I don't recommend it.

See you next week.

J2M

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