This 'N' That

Here are a few small tidbits about things going on at Morrison Ranch:

Lakeview Village:
Panda Express went through the town process last week to get the approval needed for a drive-through. I had somehow missed the fact that there will be a drive-through window. Construction can begin when they're ready, and when the weather allows.

Highland Groves:
The good news is that most of the trenching for a water line along Recker Road has been completed and filled in, so that now we can see the Morrison Homes models and houses going up. The bad news is that the rain we just received will push all construction back at least a week, and maybe more if it keeps raining. Ashton Woods was hoping for an August 12 start date for their models; hopes dashed.

Lakeview Trails North:
This community continues on schedule; the period of feasibility for the builders has passed, the engineering work is ongoing, and we have high hopes for a closing in the late spring of 2006, which will coincide with the beginning of construction.

Website article:
Our webmaster successfully posted last Wednesday's Gilbert Independent article written about Morrison Ranch. It's titled "A Family's Story: Farmers to Developers." You can read the entire article here.

Paperless office:
I mentioned last week that we are in the process of taking our office paperless. As you might imagine, there is quite a bit of fear and trepidation on everyone's part. What if we shred that 0h-so-important original document by mistake? What if we do it wrong? What if we have no clue what we're doing? Well, we are doing our best to get good advisors and folks who have done it before to help us out. And by the way, paperless doesn't mean NOT ONE SHRED OF PAPER WILL EXIST - which is what I originally thought - but that most of the information we now have stored on paper will be stored electronically. We'll still have printers and plotters and file cabinets. The process will take months to complete. But the Mister and I have high hopes and great expectations for greater efficiency and less paper storage. I'll keep you posted on our travails.