EcoVillage Housing Opportunity

West of Maitreya Ecovillage in Eugene, Oregon is a culdesac called West 
8th Place.  You enter it off of Chambers between West 8th Ave and West 
Broadway.  For years it was kind of marginalized and low-income, but 
recently the entire thing got sold to some builders that are renovating 
the houses with the intention of selling them.

I would LOVE to see a bunch of people sympathetic to the goals and 
values of Maitreya EcoVillage purchase the various houses and do a 
permaculture makeover of the entire place.  I even expect that the paved 
area of the culdesac could be reduced to allow for a huge urban garden 
shared by the dozen or so dwellings (six duplexes) surrounding it.  This 
could end up constituting an entire new western half of Maitreya 
EcoVillage sharing in the straw bale community building, group dinners 
and other amenities.

Apparently the realtor who will be handling some of the sales is Sherman 
Terry. ([email protected])  Or just show up and check the place out 
presently.  Most of the units are currently under rennovation and you 
can expect to find the some of the temporary owners busy working on them 
presently.

This is a huge opportunity that I hope some of you will at least explore 
- if not act on - thus creating a wonderful new Eugene permaculture 
enclave.  To learn more about Maitreya EcoVillage please go to 
www.maitreyaecovillage.org

Excitedly,
Rob Bolman
541-344-7196



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