Pricechopper: Where Does One Get Sheets For Round Beds These Days?

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Was $998,000
Now $849,000
You Save $149,000

And just as we thought, it's back, gloriously restored. Actually, it's been on the market for almost 5 months and just got $149,000 shaved off yesterday. Despite some uncertainty as to which parent it resembles more- a brass band or a train wreck- the agent only took the saxophone/musical analogies/puns as far as "handsomely re-tuned." We had a look at it back in 2010 when the agent at the time gave a frank assessment (it had suffered some serious water damage) then possibly a foreclosure, and was finally sold in May, 2011 for $560,000. The 3-bed, 3.5-bath Post-Modern retains most of its signature elements- gilded spiral staircases, glass block, brass railings- along with that swoopy fireplace. Really, why buy some crappy historic brown-shingled thing in Berkeley when you can have all this up in the Berkeley Hills? See it for yourself at the open house on Sunday, March 25 from 2pm to 4pm.
· Late Period Shagalicious[Curbed SF]
· 1985 Tunnel Road [Redfin]

1985 Tunnel Road, Berkeley, CA

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Curbed Cup 2011: Curbed Cup First Round: (7) The Panhandle vs. (10) La Lengua

× Like us and you'll find top breaking news in your Facebook newsfeed. Sign up for our daily email newsletter and get top stories and breaking news delivered to your inbox. Thursday, December 15, 2011, by Sally Kuchar

The Curbed Cup, our award to the San Francisco neighborhood of the year, is kicking off with 16 'hoods competing for a glorious JPEG of an illustrated trophy. This week we'll have two matchups per day, and all the results and full tournament bracket will be reviewed on Friday. Voting for each pairing ends in the wee hours the next morning. Let the eliminations commence!
[Photo via Jason Rosete]

The Panhandle (or NoPa if you're into naming an entire neighborhood after a newish restaurant) didn't receive a ton of buzz this year. Most young things call it home because of its central location and inexpensive housing. It's true, the Panhandle has a slew of sensible and even quirky condos that are decently priced around the 600K mark. And hey, it has San Francisco's first parklet.

Many a microhoods are creating each year, but how many stand the test of time? And more importantly, how many get a mention on local television? When La Lengua first popped on the scene people were skeptical, but then the Google Gods acknowledged it and most haters quietly accepted its existence. It's a fun nabe, one you can read more about here. Another reason it made the list: It helps out its neighbor during a time of need.

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Hottest Week: Round 4 Closed; Round 5 Imminent: Meet Your Final Two!

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Alas, as all good things must come to an end, so nears an end Curbed's Hottest Week. Yesterday's Final Four round proved a shutout on all fronts, with architect Lira Luis beating out Matthew Gryzwinski 2,310 to 527, and interior designer Lindsey Coral Harper beating out Steve Somogyi 292 to 38. The tournament started with only 11 women out of 32 total players, and two of them are the last ones left standing. The final round commences in a few—stay tuned.

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Hottest Week: Round 4, Group 1: Matthew Gryzwinski vs. Lira Luis

× Like us and you'll find top breaking news in your Facebook newsfeed. Sign up for our daily email newsletter and get top stories and breaking news delivered to your inbox. Thursday, August 25, 2011, by Sarah Firshein

The votes have been tallied and now the highfalutin quest to find the globe's hottest interior designer, decorator, and/or architect marches on. Today kicks off the Final Four of Hottest Week. Let's begin, shall we? We've got two guy-girl pairings; first up, Matthew Gryzwinski of Gryzwinski + Pons faces off against Lira Luis of Atelier Lira Luis. Voting begins right this second and continues until 10 a.m. EST tomorrow—and not a second later. Go on now, make it happen.

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Hottest Week: Round 5, the Finals: Lira Luis vs. Lindsey Coral Harper

× Like us and you'll find top breaking news in your Facebook newsfeed. Sign up for our daily email newsletter and get top stories and breaking news delivered to your inbox. Friday, August 26, 2011, by Sarah Firshein

It all comes down to this, a final face-off between femmes fatales Lira Luis, of Atelier Lira Luis, and Lindsey Coral Harper, of LCH Interiors. It's up to you to decide who will reign supreme: Will it be the brunette or the redhead? The architect or the interior designer? These are the burning questions. Polls open right this second and continues well through Hurricane Irene: polls close Monday at 10:30 a.m. EST. Click to vote.

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PM Linkage: Merry Go Round Celebrates 100 Years; Greening Turk & Lyon; Peralta: Then and Now; More!

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<b>Real Estate</b> Round Up: Travis Barker

Sometime last week–or maybe it was the week before, our boozy brain can't recall–The Bizzy Boys at Celebrity Address Aerial kindly floated Your Mama some 411 about heavily tattooed rocker and airplane crash survivor Travis Barker who recently purchased a perfectly quotidian if not exactly inexpensive home in a gated development in the Bel Air area of Los Angeles. We set the matter aside until yesterday afternoon when Your Mama was overcome with Nosy and started to peek peep and poke around in the public property records to see what we could see.

Mister Barker, the drummer for a slew of pop-punk and rock bands including Blink-182, +44 and Box Car Racer, has successfully parlayed his fame into a small fortune with other ventures that include a record company (LaSalle Records) and a clothing company (Famous Stars and Straps). Among the gossip glossy reading crowd he's perhaps best known for his famously volatile on-again-off-again marriage/relationship with tee-vee presenter Shanna Moakler, a hot-tempered former Miss USA who bore him two rug rats and who had a very public, very trashy and high-larious smack-down in the fall of 2006 with Paris 'the heiress' Hilton after her then-estranged husband Mister Barker was caught canoodling with Miss 'gets around town' Hilton a month or so earlier.

In the fall of 2008 Mister Barker was a passenger on a plane that crashed near Columbia, SC. Only he and friend DJ AM survived the hideous accident. DJ AM died of an apparent drug overdose in his New York City apartment the following year and Mister Barker's injuries were far more significant than first revealed to the public. Last week, in anticipation of the release of his debut solo album next week, it was reported that Mister Barker came damn near close to having his foot amputated and that he's endured 16 surgeries to put his Humpty Dumpty back together again. This probably sounds sappy from a cold-blooded cynic like Your Mama but we think Mister Barker's physical courage and psychic fortitude in the face of such awful adversity is to be commended and admired.

Anyhoodles poodles, let's get down to brass tacks, shall we? Our odyssey through Mister Barkers real estate journey begins in August of 2003 when property records show the then twenty-something year old skins pounder paid $3,150,000 for a very adult mansion with 7,620 square feet located within the guard-gated Bel Air Crest community in the mountains on the upscale but much less glitzy far western border of hoity-toity Bel Air. The 6 bedroom and 8 pooper property, which has an impress-the-guests-style entry with wrought iron dual staircases and a cozy backyard with swimming pool and mountain views, practically hovers over the always clogged up 405 freeway, an ever-present source of vehicular aggravation for many Angelenos.

Mister Barker quickly caught a case of that ol' Real Estate Fickle and flipped his Bel Air Crest beehawtcha back on the market. Records reveal it was sold in May 2004 for $3,500,000 and, as it turns out, the property is currently back on the market with an asking price of $4,495,000.

Even though he was quick to flip, Mister Barker must have liked living up in the Bel Air Crest because on September 2004, just a month or so before he legally hitched his wagon Miss Moakler, the tatted-up rocker went and paid $6,200,000 for a much larger 12,184 square foot mcmansion just around the corner from his previous house on Queensborough Lane. It was here, in this 8 bedroom and 9 bathroom beast of an abode, that Mister and Missus Barker filmed two seasons of a reality program called Meet the Barkers, a lame rock-n-roll version of the equally lame Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica.

September of 2004 was a busy real estate month for Mister Barker. Records show that in addition to snatching up a new mcmansion in Bel Air paid $480,000 for a 2,752 square foot tract house in the middle-brow resort community of Lake Elsinore, CA. Interestingly, information we dug up the interweb shows that a naughty notice of default was filed on the property in May 2007 but was quickly cleared up. Your Mama has not idea if Mister Barker used this house for personal use, an investment and/or as a residence for a family member.

In December of 2006 Mister Barker and Miss Moakler split up for the first of many times and in February of 2007 they sold their behemoth abode in the Bel Air Crest community for $8,000,000 to a prominent Los Angeles attorney. The attorney somehow managed to flip the mansion just three short weeks later for $9,500,000, a mind-blowing $1,500,000 profit before he even had to make a second mortgage payment. The buyer who lined the attorney's pockets with an impressive and, let's be honest, revolting $1,500,000 profit was none other than rebellious Canuck pop-puck princess Avril "The Spitter" Lavigne who occupied the large and lavish residence with her then huzband Deryck Whibley, front man of some band called Sum 41. That marriage, as anyone who reads the tabs knows, has done swirled down the terlit of Hollywood love.

At that same time Mister Barker sold his hu-mongo house in the Bel Air Crest community to the L.A.-based attorney in Feb. 2007 he bought a slightly smaller but still-titanic 10,198 square foot mansion within an exclusive gated enclave inside an affluent and also gated community in über-suburban Calabasas, CA. As far as we know–and we really know so very little–Mister Barker remains in residence at his Calabasas crib that happens to be located in the same double-gated enclave where pop superstar Britney Spears was living in a massive rented mansion until she recently decamped for and even larger leased estate in the celebrity-friendly equestrian community of Hidden Hills, CA.

Riverside, CA is about as far from the Tinseltown klieg lights as one can get but in January of 2008 Mister Barker shelled out $370,000 to acquire a fairly modest house in a banal tract development in the decidedly un-glam suburban city. For what purpose Mister Barker wanted this house is unknown.
Later in the year, Mister Barker was involved in the above mentioned aircraft accident and with better things to do than buy and sell houses Mister Barker kept his real estate checkbook in check until March of 2010 when property records reveal he whipped it out and paid $1,300,000 to purchase a large but very ordinary and architecturally sad 5,529 square foot house in Rancho Cucamonga, CA (above). Once again we have no idea what Mister Barker might want or need with a 5 bedroom and 5.5 pooper house way out near the flavorless city of San Bernadino in ur-suburban Riverside County.

Listing information shows the house sits on a gentle slope with 180-degree views of city lights and the surrounding mountains and includes garage space for four cars, 3 fireplaces including a massive freestanding number in the backyard, a technology alcove, library with custom cabinets and large gore-may kitchen that's open to a family room. A covered patio at the rear of the house protects people from frying themselves in Rancho Cucamonga's scorching summer heat. A built in barbecue center makes for year-round grillin' and chillin' and instead of a swimming pool and/or spa there's some sort of hybrid situation that listing information refers to as a "spool." As best as we can tell that's a plunge pool that can be heated up to a boil where Mister Barker and his guests can wallow in the water like they're a damn human stew.
Mister Barker's 2010 real estate activities continued apace in December 2010 with the $1,495,000 acquisition of a truly insipid 2,960 square foot mock-Med tract house situation in the Bel Air Crest community (above) , the same upscale development that the children who are paying attention will recognize as the same one in which he previously owned two much larger mansions.

Listing information shows the house includes 3-4 bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms, a living room with extra-high ceiling and hardwood floors, and an eat-in kitchen with stainless steel appliances and granite counter tops. Although there's but a sliver of a front yard and an only slightly larger backyard, listing information from the time of the purchase indicates the landscaping was new and includes a spa and built-in barbecue.

Once again, Your Mama hasn't an iota why Mister Barker would want this house but if we've said it twice we've said it twice too many times before, who are we to comprehend the capricious real estate ways of the rich and famous

listing photos (Rancho Cucamonga): Prudential California Realty
listing photos (Bel Air): Nelson Shelton & Associates

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Pipeline: Commercial <b>Real Estate</b> Round Up for 1.28.11 : Richmond <b>...</b>

Grubb & Ellis | Harrison and Bates reports the following deals:

Tetra Pak Tubex, Inc. leased 30,000 square feet at 675 Industrial Drive in Louisa County.

Astro Jump of Richmond expanded into 3,000 square feet at 11034 Air Park Road in Hanover County.

Central Virginia Automatic Arms, LLC leased 1,200 square feet at 10967 Richardson Road in Hanover County.

H & R Block extended a lease on 1,000 square feet at 1225 N. Laburnum Ave in Henrico County.

Commonwealth Commercial Partners, Inc. reports the following deal:

KLMK Group, Inc. leased 6,856 square feet at 7130 Glen Forest Drive in Henrico County.

Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer reports the following deals:

Open Plan Systems has leased 38,000 square feet at 2819-2823 Bells Road in Richmond.

JoAnn Fabric & Crafts has leased 19,100 square feet in Merchant’s Walk Shopping Center at 7504-7598 W. Broad Street in Henrico County.

Capital Warehouse has leased an additional 10,000 square feet for a total of 50,000 square feet leased at 3031 Transport Street in Richmond.

Tokyo Restaurant has leased 9,100 square feet in Brandy Hill Plaza at 7443 Lee Davis Rd. in Mechanicsville.

KLMK Group has leased 6,856 square feet at 7130 Glen Forest Drive in Henrico County. Ohio Farmers Insurance Company has leased 5,277 square feet in North Park, 4701 Cox Road in Henrico County.

Dynamic Taekwondo, Inc. has leased 3,092 square feet in Village Square at 14722 Village Square Place in Chesterfield County.

Jenkins Restorations has leased 3,000 square feet at 2102 N. Hamilton Street in Richmond.

Mature Options has leased 2,704 square feet in Two Paragon Place at 6802 Paragon Place in Henrico County.

Greenlee Textron, Inc. has leased 2,496 square feet in Springfield Commons at 3924 Springfield Rd. in Henrico County.

C&F Mortgage has leased 2,221 square feet in the Winchester Building at 10800 Midlothian Tpk. in Chesterfield County.

Taekwondo America has leased 2,150 square feet in Tower Plaza at 3401-3431 Cox Road in Henrico County.

Gentiva Health Services, Inc. has leased 2,078 square feet in Midlothian Center at 101-271 Wadsworth Drive in Chesterfield County.

Pereira, Inc. has leased 1,837 square feet at 1700 Huguenot Road in Chesterfield County.

River City Detailing has leased 1,500 square feet at 701-730 Johnston Willis Dr. in Chesterfield County.

Firehouse Subs has leased 1,465 square feet at Parham One at 8101-8191 Brook Road in Henrico County.

Biocare Carpet & Upholstery of Richmond, LLC has leased 1,200 square feet at 4102 W. Clay Street in Richmond.  R. Scott Douglas, SIOR and Franklin Bell of Thalhimer handled lease negotiations.

TJ Nails has leased 1,200 square feet at Westchester Commons, Watkins Center Parkway at Rt. 288 & Midlothian Tpk., in Chesterfield County.

One Environmental Group has leased 1,175 square feet at 500 Libbie Avenue in Richmond.

National Pawn Shop has leased 1,128 square feet at 7037 Staples Mill Rd. in Henrico County.

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Tagged: Astro Jump of Richmond, C&F Mortgage, Capital Warehouse, Central Virginia Automatic Arms, Dynamic Taekwondo, Gentiva Health Services, Greenlee Textron, H & R Block, J.J. Haines, Jenkins Restorations, KLMK Group, Mature Options, National Pawn Shop, One Environmental Group, Open Plan Systems, Taekwondo America, Tetra Pak Tubex, Tokyo Restaurant

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