Buds

Mississippi Regional Trail

Ahead of the curve

http://www.minnpost.com/cityscape/2013/03/great-senior-sell-our-next-housing-crisis

And, even though many surveys show that seniors say they want to age in place, Nelson predicts that as they travel through the old age portion of the python, they will want to sell their three- and four-bedroom homesteads and move to a condo.

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How might this play out in the Twin Cities?
Tom Melchior, director of market research for CliftonLarsonAllen, a business accounting and consulting firm, who has a specialty in senior housing, believes that prices will depend to a great extent on location.
"Most of the action now is in Minneapolis and St. Paul's downtowns and Uptown,” he says. “Also in the inner ring suburbs."

Nelson predicts that all of this will hit the fan around 2020. At that point, he says, seniors will be trying to offload 200,000 more houses than there will be families coming into the market to buy them. A lot of people won't be aging in place but stuck in place. And, presumably, prices would drop, enabling younger folks with less change in their pockets to get into a house. [emphasis added]

All we have to do is sit and wait  :)

Keeping Warm

Dakota County Star Quilters are presenting a show in South St. Paul at the Dakota Country Historical Society Museum that you don’t want to miss.  The show is running from February 6-March 1, 2013 - TIME IS RUNNING OUT.  The suggested donation is $3.

There are over 50 amazing quilts of all sizes and patterns - some old, some new - and all wonderful.  There is a raffle - first prize is free machine quilting for one of your quilts.  There is also a silent auction with some wonderful hangings being auctioned.

Hours:

Wed,Fri  9 AM-5 PM

Thurs   9 AM-8PM

Sat   10 AM-3PM

130 Third Avenue North   South St Paul, MN  (across the street from South St. Paul City Hall)

651-552-7548

www.dakotahistory.org

www.dakotacountystarquilters.org

Where did that giant marshmellow come from?*

West St. Paul recently held the grand opening of its new Regional Athletics Center.

The Activities for Seniors page on the website says

Winter is here.  Escape the cold and join us for your morning walk or run on our state of the art field turf.

• Open Walk/Run Monday-Friday 7:00am-9:00am Free to the Public

• Open Field Time Monday-Friday 9:00am-5:00pm $5 per person

But we have it from a reliable authority that the actual open walk times are 7AM -3PM.


Putting aside when it is open, it is a beautiful facility that should provide us one more activity venue that doesn't involve huge slabs of ice and teeny tiny temperatures.

[Walkers are safe from flying soccer balls]

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* The RAC is the second largest dome in Minnesota!

One last swim

A day or so before the snow, Thompson Lake at Thompson Park

Silver Tsunami

In the December 2012 issue of the St. Paul Voice, staff reporter Mary Diedrick Hansen brings us up to date on the activities of the Living Longer and Stronger Initiative (West St. Paul braces for the 'Silver Tsunami', embraces senior living program). The group meets at 1:00 PM on the third Thursday of each month at the Thompson Park Community Center.