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Project Insomnia

Project Insomnia is many things, but in this context it is simply a "braindump" of whatever I happen to be thinking/reading/watching/doing at the moment. Parental guidance suggested.

Monday, May 09, 2005

Dosey Doats

We visited the Mare Island Welcome Center on Saturday and checked out the six model homes. The homes are beautiful, though the some of them could have benefited from some feng shui during the design process--awkward layout--and the prices are very reasonable for brand new, modern homes in the Bay Area. The problem we saw was the same we see with any new developments: too darned closed together. With land at a premium, it's understandable that new homes would be so tightly packed. However, on Mare Island, there is a huge amount of development space available, and it can only be chalked up to the desire on the part of the developer to cram as many homes into that space as possible.
Mare Island itself is a place with quite a lot of interesting history, and the developer who bought most of the former Naval shipyard promises to preserve and restore most of the historic buildings and sites, along with developing parts of it for commercial use. I think I would enjoy living there, and I can't deny the attraction to a brand-new modern home. I suppose another downside is that while the island itself promises to be a comfortable community, it will be part of the city of Vallejo--not one of the best parts of the Bay Area. And, no offense to any Vallejans who may be reading this, it's pretty far from anywhere.
|| Andrew, 5:10 PM || ||

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