The Daily Report » civano

There are two communities in my community.  The first is physical—thin, tree-lined streets and pocket parks, Southwestern architecture and community gardens.  The second is virtual—a community website, and more specifically a discussion forum, registration required. 

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Expectations are a tricky thing to manage, since they are both internal and external, based on solid design and a large does of guesswork. Heightened by the press and built at a frenzied pace, expectations for sports teams are also rooted in deep team loyalty, which itself comes from the host city’s sense of the place. So what do expectations for the Colorado Rockies and Tucson’s Civano town center have in common?

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A few weeks before Christmas, Alexander Gonzalez, who lives in the Skyline Bel Air Estates subdivision north of Tucson — in the lush and often posh foothills of the Santa Catalina Mountains — learned that the miniature horse he purchased from the proceeds of running the cash register at his grandfather’s service station wasn’t allowed. Livestock? Sure. But no horses, big or small.

Then the eleven-year-old spent more than $1,000 of his own money for a special election to change the…

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When my family moved from Denver to Tucson almost eight years ago, it became apparent that something significant was missing: locally brewed beer. While there were dozens of brewpubs and microbreweries in the Denver metropolitan area, there were only a handful in Tucson. Until recently, with the addition of Barrio Brewing Company in an industrial area near downtown, my fair Sonoran city’s craft-brewing residence had dwindled to a mere three. I would have guessed otherwise—that given the…

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