Planted about 30 cherry trees last week. The center will have a bocce ball court and seating and across the road we will have an apple / peach orchard.
25 acres of lavender in the New Mexico desert.
46 rooms, world-class farm to fork restaurant, spa, distillery, bakery, butchery, farm shop.
No gates, no pretense. 330 jobs for the local economy.
The Rembe family have become some of my favorite placemakers...
BTR is a smaller detached product … perfect for older couples who are downsizing, but who don’t want to live in a building and share walls
It’s the exact kind of product we should be building much more of, to induce people to move out of their large family size homes
It’s also v important to emphasize that BTR units are *different* than Single Family Homes that are built to be sold
They are smaller, and designed to make rents as affordable as possible.
Here’s an example:
This is a 655sf 1BR cottage built by @RembeJack@jay_rembe in ABQ. A gorgeous unit … but it’s not the size of things that people like to buy.
It provides a beautiful product for couples or families who want higher quality and bit more privacy and a different community than an apartment building … but either can’t afford or don’t want the hassle of taking care of a larger place.
It’s objectively MUCH more family friendly.
I'm going to make some obvious points.
(1) Blowing up all the oil infrastructure in the Middle East is an insane idea, and may well result in a global economic crash and humanitarian crisis unrivaled in the lives of those now living. We're talking about the price of everything everywhere rising, from food to gas, at a moment when inflation was already high. All of that will be laid at the feet of the authors of this war.
(2) The antebellum status quo of Feb 27, 2026 was just not that bad, but we're unlikely to return to it. Expect indefinite, long-term, ongoing disruptions to everything out of the Middle East.
(3) Also assume tech financing crashes for the indefinite future. The genius plan to get the Gulf states caught in the crossfire has incinerated much of the funding for LPs, for datacenters, and for IPOs. Anyone in tech who supported this war may soon learn the meaning of "force majeure" as funding gets yanked.
(4) Many capital allocators will instead be allocating much further down Maslow's hierarchy of needs, towards useful basic things like food and energy.
(5) It's fortunate that all those progressives yelled about the "climate crisis." Yes, their reasoning about timelines was wrong, and much of the money was wasted in graft, but the result was right: we all need energy independence from the Middle East, pronto. It's also fortunate that Elon and China autistically took climate seriously. Now they're going to need to ship a billion solar panels, electric vehicles, batteries, nuclear power plants, and the like to get everyone off oil, immediately.
(6) It's not just an oil and gas problem, of course. It's also a fertilizer problem, and a chemical precursor problem. Maybe some new sources will come online at the new prices, but it takes time to dial stuff up, particularly at this scale, so shortages are almost a certainty.
That said, China has actually scaled up coal-to-chemicals[a,c] (C2C), and there's also something more sci-fi called Power-to-X[b] which turns arbitrary power + water + air into hydrocarbons. But all of that will need to get accelerated. I have a background in chemical engineering so may start funding things in this area.
(7) Ultimately, this war is going to result in tremendous blame for anyone associated with it. It's a no-win scenario to blow up this much infrastructure for so many people. Simply not worth it for whatever objective they thought they were going to attain. But unless you're actually in a position to stop the madness, the pragmatic thing to do is: scramble to mitigate the fallout to yourself, your business, and your people.
[a]: https://t.co/ITat4tmAFd
[b]: https://t.co/bWwiSQcgyt
[c]: https://t.co/FQCqMhy5d3
@patcarino Nice, I do like a separate stretching / yoga room from the lifting and cardio area. If it were me id use the sport simulator space as that, less expensive too..