Monday, May 18, 2009

Sundial Farms on the Hill


The Seeds To Success
For several years now Dwyer Realty Companies has been working, studying and forging new relationships in the realm of Community Sustainable Agriculture (CSA’s). Our office believes that the incorporation of Urban Farms, Urban Gardens and Community Gardens is a key in the success and prosperity of the new paradigm of planned community growth, not only here in Manor, but across our great Nation.

Decades and Decades of societal belief that it is somehow acceptable to push farmers, further and further out to the periphery of development, all in the name of “progress”, has placed an undue and almost unrecoverable burden on our Nation and our communities core fabric. Agriculture is a keystone to all of our lives and we can not afford to displace it as if it were a secondary thought. Our office has seized upon this realization and we are moving forward with a pilot farming program for a series of farming ventures within the greater Manor area.

The vision of Sundial Farms is born; while conceived more than two years ago, the tangible fruits of our labor, was officially launched with the tilling of soil and laying of seeds at the offices of Dwyer Realty. Sundial Farms on the Hill is the pilot program of our ultimate Sundial Farms, a CSA program with multiple farm locations that we know will service the greater Manor and Austin communities. It is our company’s goal to incorporate paddocks of tenable agricultural use within the continual growth of our various projects.

Dwyer Realty Companies is excited in formalizing its working relationship with Andy Erwin, a local Austinite with vast and colorful experience in sustainable agriculture. Andy and his family have quickly evolved into the family fold at Dwyer Realty. Andy and his family are the heartbeat behind the future of our company’s vision for incorporated Community Sustainable Agriculture. It is through this partnership forged with sweat and hard work on Andy and his family’s part that we will truly be able to provide “Giveback Sustainability”. One of the things that our office learned quickly is that we aren’t farmers, but that doesn’t mean we can’t be informed and creative in our visions, but it did mean that we needed to find that special person to help evolve the vision into reality. Our office believes that Andy and his family are exactly what we need, what we were looking for.

Giveback Sustainability is the ultimate goal in our vision of creating integrated farming in and urban and masterplanned setting, to allow for the fruits, vegetables etc of our efforts to flow back into the community, to our restaurants, to our farmers markets, to our grocery stores, to our very tables and ultimately to our own health and enjoyment.

We hope that you will share in our excitement of the vision of Sundial Farms.


Thursday, May 7, 2009

Despite recent foreclosure of ShadowGlen Residential, Dwyer Realty continues to be a strong developer in the community

On April 7th, Residential Funding Company (RFC) posted Notice of Foreclosure Sale on ShadowGlen Residential’s (SGR) assets in ShadowGlen, which includes, but not limited to, 170+- developed lots, 300+- acres of undeveloped land and the $2,000,000 bond sale reimbursements forthcoming from the TCMUD2 bond sale. Despite continued negotiations between SGR and RFC, neither side was able to arrive at an amicable conclusion to the disposition of the SGR development loan for ShadowGlen. As stated above, the SGR assets were foreclosed on, on the Travis County Court House steps on May 5th.

Dwyer Realty would like to remind the community that we are still an active developer, we were not the lead Developer entity of the foreclosed assets but are the Managing Developer for SGR. Dwyer Realty and its partnership with Cottonwood Holdings, Ltd. are consulting with legal professionals involved in our projects to ensure the foreclosure has the least impact on the current and future residents of ShadowGlen, and that all efforts are maintained to promote the health and vitality of the Greater Manor Community.

Also, we ask you please maintain an active role in the community and take a moment to read the update sent to our ShadowGlen residents by clicking the link below. Here you may read further details and explanation on the foreclosure and future health of ShadowGlen.

http://www.dwyerrealty.com/documents/ShadowGlenCommunityStatusUpdate05.07.09.pdf