Tenderloin 94102
Posted by AGI on September 20, 2006 11:11 PM | Permalink
A couple of Sunday's ago, the NY Times introduced a magazine completely devoted to real estate. An amazing collection of articles talking about everything from style and design, the market place to irreverent musings of existentialism and the modern perception of one's home. This last piece referenced the various community/city based popular media, captured by titles to shows such as Laguna Beach, Beverly Hills 90210, the OC and on a more intimate level, MTV Cribs, Flip This House, Million Dollar Listing, and more. It appears that popular culture has embraced the notion of self and society through their homes or other people's homes and neighborhood. This is even more evident in the massive proliferation of real esteate and home improvement blogs/websites and persistent coffee-table chatter about interest rates, housing prices and whether one's kitchen has granite counters, - everyone has become a real estate developer and speculator . Well, here at Keeping it Real, we'd like to see some more alternative programming in this space.
It may be a show called the TL or Tenderloin 94102, perhaps Mid-Market Blues or the W.A. However, it wouldn't be a reality show of cops on patrol or drug addiction; rather it would be programming about individuals and community groups rebuilding and reinventing neighborhoods that have historically been more, uh, lets say eclectic then their OC/Beverley Hills 90210 counterparts. This current boom really has opened up the endless possibilities of smart growth in areas traditionally neglected for private investment, couple that with the uncompromised originality of the people, traditions and communities in these areas and one has compelling and intriguing programming.
Nuff said, Hollywood studio execs, this Developer is ready to sit-back at prime time and flip-off the articial lives of rich nipped and tucked socialites and flip-on programs showing the revitalization of our urban cores and cultural centers.