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Tastes for Everyone in the Family! Browse through world class museums, or stroll along streets lined with graceful Mediterranean-style architecture. Whatever your taste, St. Petersburg offers you everything under the sun. Tampa ranks No. 3 best city to find a job Cocktails and Dog Watching! JIVE ALONG BEACH DRIVE: Cafe tables and umbrellas, a wide array of bars and restaurants and the Tampa Bay area's best parade of people - and often their dogs - are a nightly occurrence along downtown St. Petersburg's Beach Drive. With waterfront parks on one side, and shops and restaurants along the other, this is the city's most fashionable promenade. St Pete beach drive seeing major resurgence! http://www.wtsp.com/story/news/local/pinellascounty/2014/06/09/st-petes-beach-drive-seeing-major-resurgence/10248807/ Ron Goldstein Luxury Broker Associate RGoldstein@koenigrubloff.com 3127717190 www.chicagoluxuryrealty.com AFFORDABLE FOR THAT LIFESTYLE HOME OR 2ND HOME! SUNSHINE CITY The sun almost always shines on St. Petersburg, the "Sunshine City" that enjoys an average of 361 days of clear skies per year. Combine that with 244 miles of glimmering coastline along Tampa Bay, the Gulf of Mexico, Boca Ciega Bay and the intra coastal waterways and you have one hot beach destination. Catch the sun, surf and sand at Ft. De Soto Park, or take a hike up the 37-mile Pinellas Trail. Enjoy a Devil Rays game during baseball season or escape to the shady oasis of the Sunken Gardens. Tampa ranks No. 3 best city to find a job http://www.bizjournals.com/tampabay/blog/morning-edition/2014/07/tampa-ranks-no-3-best-city-to-find-a-job.html?ana=fbk Tampa/St/ Pete Luxury home sales this Sizzling Summer! http://stpeteluxuryrealty.blogspot.com/2014/07/tampast-pete-luxury-home-sales-this.html Carpe Diem..For the Ongoing Collection of LIFE! Check out downtown ST. PETE & all the culture! From the newly built Sundial to every style of Music, concert and performing arts venues, St. Pete. Check out 50 fascinating things to do! http://www.stpete.org/ThingsToDo/ One St. Petersburg. Allow me the pleasure of introducing this amazing new downtown development to you. https://m.youtube.com/watch?sns=fb&v=AJxPQV6fQUQ Colleagues/Friends-Expanding my Berkshire Hathaway teams in Chicago area and Tampa/St. Pete/Sarasota areas. Looking for newly licensed and/ or seasoned A+ -eager entrepreneurs to grow and learn and experience the dynamic real estate boom in These great cities! Please email me@rgoldstein@koenigrubloff.com for more info Chicagoluxuryrealty.com Stpeteluxuryrealty.com Luxury Redefined! Check out our brand new facility on Beach Drive! (Corner of Beach& Sunshine) 100 Beach Dr. NE, Suite 101 St. Petersburg, FL 33701 rgoldstein@bhhsfloridaproperties.com stpeteluxuryrealty.com stpeteluxuryrealty.blogspot.com

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 EDISON PARK

**Located between the Des Plaines River and the Chicago River this area served as a local continental divide, with the Chicago River flowing then into Lake Michigan, which connected to the Atlantic Ocean through the Great Lakes, and the Des Plaines River feeding into the Illinois River and the Mississippi River to reach the Gulf of Mexico.

 **Great housing adj. to  Edison Pk Metra, Harlem Blue Line & 10 mins from O'Hare.

 **Edison Park (formerly Canfield) is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago, Illinois. It consists entirely of the Edison Park neighborhood. It is named after Thomas Alva Edison

 **Very quiet tree-lined streets. Carpe diem-Suburban living with a Chicago address. Great place to raise a family! One block from Park Ridge. Short walk to Immaculate Conception grammar school and Resurrection High School.Close to restaurants and shops in Edison Park and Park Ridge. Mariano's and Whole Foods grocery stores

 **Edison Park Festival, an end-of-summer weekend sponsored by the Edison Park Chamber of Commerce, combining merchant sidewalk sales, entertainment, a parade, Taste of Chicago and arts and crafts


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Ron Goldstein,MBA
Certified Luxury Broker@Berkshire Hathaway Chicago & St. Petersburg
Principal, Silver Professionals
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Pet-Friendly Design: Making Room for the Dog Dish from the kitchen to the mudroom

Pet-Friendly Design: Making Room for the Dog Dish

In a dog’s life, you eat on the floor. Except in kitchens like these, where pets are factored into the design

When I say there is nothing quite so unpleasant as stepping in a dog’s water dish, I speak from experience (no thanks, Augie). Like a good pet owner, I keep my pup’s water bowl filled with fresh water. It’s located in the kitchen, where I inevitably get busy and distracted and step in the drink. It has happened a lot, which goes to show you really can’t teach an old dog new tricks.

When I next remodel, I’m going to plan for this condition, using the clever ideas from these fellow pet owners as inspiration.

Buckenmeyer Architecture

In this project, by Buckenmeyer Architecture, finding a space for the dog dishes was a key design consideration. “A recess at one end of the island keeps the bowls out of the way,” says Marty Buckenmeyer.

Judging from the gray around his or her muzzle, I’m guessing this sweet dog is a little long in the tooth. I’m sure the elevated bowls are appreciated.

Haddad Hakansson Design Studio

The designers at Haddad Hakansson employed a similar strategy in this kitchen, but they placed the bowls at the end of a cabinet run as opposed to an island. It’s a smart move in a kitchen that has the room. “One of the highlights of this space is the custom dog dishes,” the designers write. They are “inset into a small slab of white quartzite. The cabinet above has a tilt-out tray for dog treats.”

Perhaps the feature helped the space win first place in the 2014 NKBA northern New England kitchen design competition. And, as you can tell by the blur running toward the eating area, it clearly has won the popular canine vote too.

Michael Kelley Photography

In this kitchen, by Shannon Ggem, the lucky dog can pretend he or she is eating in the wild, thanks to a dining niche lined with artificial turf.

Shannon Ggem ASID

A closer look reveals the other features. Not only does the space have bowls printed with a grass image, but it has a faucet with an above-counter control. As the designer says: “No bending!”

Studio Zerbey Architecture + Design

With built-in bowls and the same material treatment as the kitchen island, this dog eating area, by Studio Zerbey Architecture + Design, is almost undercover.

Ideas for storing all of your pet’s stuff

Plain & Fancy by Dandamudi's

This niche, by Plain & Fancy by Dandamudi’s, is outfitted with a pullout drawer and an easy-to-clean stone surface.

Kathleen Donohue, Neil Kelly Co.

Some smart and space-endowed homeowners take the dog dishes farther from the kitchen triangle. In this project, by Kathleen Donohue, Neil Kelly, the eating area is under the command center.

Anthony Wilder Design/Build, Inc.

In this project, by Anthony Wilder Design/Build, an eating and storage area for the dog is tucked into the end of a wall. Below are the bowls; above are dog accessories and treats.

Dreamstructure DesignBuild

This mudroom, by Dreamstructure DesignBuild, is outfitted for everyone — four-legged and two. Due to the recessed and elevated nature of the bowls, you’d be unlikely to step in them — but if you did, you might be wearing your boots.

Mary Jo Bowling

 

 
 
Ron Goldstein,MBA
Certified Luxury Broker@Berkshire Hathaway Chicago & St. Petersburg
Principal, Silver Professionals
chicagoluxuryrealty.com  stpeteluxuryrealty.com  silverprofessionals.com
(o)312-264-5846 (c)312-771-7190 (f)312-264-5746
Offices in Chicago and St. Petersburg
Connecting people w/ jobs & homes!


2014 BHHS President's Circle 

Houzz Editorial Staff; writer, reader, serial remodeler.