The Real and The Dream

Here on Maple Street in Argenta, Arkansas a bold dream is beginning to come true. The City Grove Townhomes will occupy blocks 400 to 600. The builder, Dave Grundfest Company, is just beginning to make it happen. I know Grundfest builds high quality structures. Inside the orange construction netting at 400 Maple the ground is being prepared for the first unit to be used as the model home. In all I think 57 units are planned. I have a link to the development web site and there you can find all the information available.
Reality on this urban street was pretty dismal up to now. But for some time behind the scenes people have been wrestling for and against this dream of urban restoration. The dream has won out and grim reality has had to move on.
Money and manpower and materials and architectural renderings are the media to construct buildings. The real power is thought. This project began as a simple thought and multiplying thought has brought this project to where it stands today. Thought will carry the project on to completion and the plans will be fulfilled. As the final dabs of paint are put on and the last construction dust is swept away, papers will be signed and checks will be written; ownership of the dream will change hands. The new people coming in buy the dream. They will bring their stuff, their tables and chairs, their sofas and beds, but more importantly, they will bring their thoughts. (Make them good thoughts!)
Our good and positive thoughts and our prayers are with the developers and with the new neighbors yet to come. We are grateful for the growing restoration of life in the neighborhood these new homes are bringing.