Guess what, Asheville? Not only are you high on the list for retirement living, you may possess the kind of qualities ideal for a national model for real-estate acquisitions and development.
On its website, Global Development Resources Inc. (an Arden-based real-estate marketing firm that handles “high-margin, lifestyle communities, second homes, commercial and resort related properties”) lists a slew of characteristics about the baby-boomer set (the largest generation of consumers in U.S. history), and refers to its general fitness, desire to retire in an attractive location and love of SUVs.
Near the end of the page, after highlighting this demographic’s tremendous economic impact, the company proclaims its intention to not only target the Asheville area for development operations, but to use it as a model for duplication in other, nationwide locales.
Which begs the question: What Asheville-area development trends do you think do or don’t merit exporting elsewhere?
— Brian Postelle, staff writer
