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> From: John Leeke

> Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2014 10:32 AM



> The fascinating aspect of this to me is that someone would go to Ireland

> for custom made windows. I'd be very interested in the situations,

> thought process and decision making behind that.

> 

> Is this the "globalized economy" at work in the trades and crafts? 



> Could this

> actually cost the project less? Who pays for the environmental and

> health damage from the exhaust of all that diesel fuel?



In 1987, we had a 3.2 acre infill site in our Oakwood Historic District. It had formerly housed Fallon Florist's greenhouse facility from which the family had supplied Raleigh's floral needs for more than a half-century.



They found that they could import flowers from Brazil more cheaply than they could grow them in their locally-scaled aged infrastructure.



So we planted the terminal crop: 25 single-family houses. 



Dan

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