Argenta Neighborhood Aspirations

http://www.tunspan.com/argenta/ http://www.citygrovetownhomes.com/ Argenta is the subject of a master plan creation. North Little Rock city government along with certain private developers have commissioned the firm of Tunnell-Spangler-Walsh and Associates to create this plan for the future. I have their link to the project above. I also put the link to the largest developer in the neighborhood and their their big project. We are very excited at the prospects. The developers could build things that would "gentrify" the district, in the words of the T.S.W. representative, but they have chosen, instead to work towards making this area accessible to all comers. We like that. This link to tunspan.com pretty much tells all we know. They had neighborhood meetings last week which were well attended by enthusiastic neighborhood people. I am not sure which phase of the plan we are currently in, but I do know they were going to post the findings of last week's round of talks and explorations on this website this next week. They will be busy back at their drawing boards preparing for the presentation of the next round. In attending this visioning conference, Becky had a mountain top experience. She got really excited. In one of the meetings she leaned over to me and said something like, "...When we build the garage apartment...". It was as if we had never talked about building a carport. The garage apartment had been completely off the table. She made an instant decision to do the garage apartment. The next day she found the plans on the internet. Now it is just something she is doing. To her it is done. But I am glad, because that is a big part of my purpose in publishing this blog. That is to take the vague ideas and push them down the path to crystallizing into reality. You know if you take an idea and decide to do it, really do it, maybe something like getting married, that decision makes you change your inertia. It brings something previously non-existent into reality. We had thought about doing improvements to this house over the next three years and then selling it for a profit. I told Becky, "If you really believe that this is what we are going to do you will begin to make everything in your life conform to this condition." It is a state of mind. Maybe what we end up doing is moving into the garage apartment and renting out the house. Then we could travel, and maybe get another residence somewhere up north that is in the country. I would like to have enough room for Brody to have a couple of sheep to herd around. We saw this two-story bunkhouse in the parking lot of a Lowes somewhere in Texas. It was there along with all the other prefabricated sheds. We thought something like that would be neat to put out on some land somewhere. It was just one open room upstairs and one open room downstairs with bare stud walls. The staircase was just simple risers with treads.