"Enquiring minds want to know..."grovester wrote: I'l like to learn more about becoming a "clever and frugal develepor", where do we find out more about this fellow?
Jones is a grad of the Art Institute. Ratty-assed old buildings are his canvas. He sees the jewels beneath the junk. He has a design sensibility and a passion that most developers lack and that's carried out in his vision of what these old buildings can become. Often his acheivement is in figuring out how to reuse an awkward or troubling feature of a building and create a unique positive in doing so.
He is masterfull at finding salvage materials from similar vintage structures and incorporating them into a project in attractive and respectful ways.
I'd also call him a pragmatic anarchist. He doesn't accept the status quo and it's his bent to look for creative solutions to the challanges presented by the bureacracy represented by codes, zoning, lending, lawyers and indian chiefs.
He's not perfect, but after all, there's not room for two of us.
