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Jan 06

Approval of Coach Houses Opens the Way to Better Urban Design

By Bruce Firestone | Architecture , Business Coaching , Business Models , Design , Entrepreneurship , Finance , Green for Real , Ideas , Investing , Real Estate , Real Estate Investment Coaching , Urban Economics

(This article first appeared in OBJ,  https://obj.ca/article/opinion-coach-houses-open-door-better-urban-planning-ottawa.) As OBJ readers may already know, the city of Ottawa recently changed its bylaws to permit construction of coach houses on many existing residential lots. This is part of a worldwide effort to densify and intensify existing urban areas to make them more interesting, more diverse, and more […]

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Dec 06

Preconditions for Economic Takeoff

By Bruce Firestone | Uncategorized

What’s Holding Back Economic Growth? I met Walt Rostow many years ago when he visited Ottawa. I enjoyed listening to the great man hold forth on his ideas about how to establish the preconditions for economic takeoff in DCs, developing countries. From Walt Rostow’s work of the 1950s and 1960s and recent work by Hernando […]

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Apr 25

By Bruce Firestone | Uncategorized

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BflKLK0lTpk?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=250&h=141] Why Coach Houses are Important In this video, Prof Bruce talks about why coach houses might become an important part of the affordable housing solution, and why Conrad Construction (run by young entrepreneur Chris Long) just might be the right outfit to lead the charge in Ottawa Canada. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

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Feb 27

How to Add Coach Houses and Other Animations to Your Residential Investment Portfolio to Produce Amazing Returns

By Bruce Firestone | Uncategorized

The topic? How to Add Coach Houses and Other Animations to Your Residential Investment Portfolio to Produce Amazing Returns Highlights? -learn how to provide for yourself and your family by creating an outstanding real estate portfolio -learn how to animate and differentiate your properties, and boost cap rates -find out how to create rental agreements that increase […]

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