If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed.Whether or not the name of a project has any long-term significance is open for debate, but, for many practical purposes, projects need a name.
What’s In a Name?
As I’ve written before, naming a project is tricky. Up until now, our project at 4th [...]

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Newton Booth went before the Planning Commission last Thursday and was given unanimous approval.
Our Favorite Moment…
Hands down, the best moment was when Commission Boyd took the mike and said (paraphrase), “I just wanted to say that this is an exceptional project and we look forward to you bringing more projects back to us.” He [...]

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In case you missed it amidst the posts below, our public hearing for our Newton Booth project in the NorthEast corner of Midtown is tomorrow night.
If you’re interested in knowing more about the project or showing some eco-urban support, the hearing will be at the Historic City Hall, 2nd Floor at 7pm
Here’s a Bit of [...]

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Our first project in the city of Sacramento, Newton Booth, got approval from Design Review yesterday. Kudos go out to Vanessa, David Mogavero, and his team at MNA for all their hard work getting to this point.
Planning Commission Hearing
We’d love to have any and all fellow eco-urbanists show up for support at the Planning Commission [...]

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This is the back and forth nature of development: while some aspects of a project gain speed, others slow down. On one hand, this development dance could seem frustrating but it’s all a matter of perspective. Sometimes things slow down for good reasons…and often you don’t know until afterwards the benefit of that change [...]

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Design Review Hearing Coming Soon
Our Newton Booth project at 27th and V Streets is progressing through the entitlement process in the months of April and May, with a big Design Review Hearing being the next big landmark.
Learning as We Go
On so many levels, this has been a case study for eco-urban development. This has been [...]

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As many of you probably read either here or in Bob Shallit’s column in today’s issue of the Bee, we’re trying to find a permanent home for the Craftsman currently occupying part of the land we’re developing for the Newton Booth Project at 27th and V (renderings of the project are in our gallery). The [...]

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Being the new guy at LJUrban, I came in with huge expectations of how we will change the world by building a whole new kind of community. It was pretty easy to get those expectations just looking around this website and reading through the mission and values of the group. Having worked here for [...]

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We have a new photo gallery on our blog, just in time to show some of the Newton Booth designs we’re working on.
Questions? Comments? You can post ‘em here or in the gallery.

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Of late, the naming of our project on 27th and V Street in Midtown has been on my mind. Up until now, we’ve been simply calling it, “Newton Booth” However, we were never sure if that name would stick or not. And not having a “settled” name is a bit unsettling for [...]

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