This is not a Wikipedia article: It is an individual user's work-in-progress page, and may be incomplete and/or unreliable. For guidance on developing this draft, see
Wikipedia:So you made a userspace draft. Find sources:
Google (
books ·
news ·
scholar ·
free images ·
WP refs) ·
FENS ·
JSTOR ·
TWL |
<
http://www.merriam-webster.com/spanish/frontera
The project groundbreaking was in 1998 and all land within the development was entirely sold out by 2008. Austin development partners Don Martin and Bill Smalling (1953-2008) were the developers of the La Frontera project. Fort Worth real estate financier Ed Bass provided the equity financing with Bill Boecker of Fort Worth representing Bass on the development team. [3] [4] The land was originally a partial dairy farm and was purchased from Austinite Tom Kouri (1924-2007), who farmed the land and was an astute real estate investor, and for whom Kouri Avenue in the development was named in his honor.
Round Rock Leader - newspaper
Community Impact Newspaper
Historial Round Rock - book
Road River.... -book
Land of Good Water - book
Ref List is at the end of this page.'
Formats to copy and paste into articles:
above sate and nationnal averages . [7]
Road River.... [10]
notables> Draft
Clara Stearns Scarbrough - Born in Circileville (Williamson county) which was founded by her ancestors in 1853. She graduated sum cum laude from the University of Texas and taught music including at the University of Texas. She married Don Scarbrough and assisted her husband in working in the newspaper business. Together they owned several newspapers and she personally was editor-publisher of the Taylor Times. The family moved to Georgetown where she and her husband founded the Williamson County Sun. She also prepared the two applications which lead to the designation for the the two Georgetown National Rgister districts. She wrote the definitive book on Williamson count history "The Land of Good Water published in 1973 (with four reprint editions through 1990).
<ref> {{cite book |title=Land of Good Water Takachue Pouetsu |last=Scarbrough |first=Clara Stearns |authorlink= |coauthors= |year1873= |publisher=William County Sun Publishers |location=Georgetown, Texas |isbn=1-57168-916-8 |page=back cover |pages= |url=http://openlibrary.org/books/OL6806166M/Land_of_good_water_takachue_pouetsu |accessdate=Jul7 29, 2010}}</ref>
Land of Good Water ref
Road River ref
Testing userbox modifications:
PR | Works in Public Relations and Public Affairs (member PRSA) |
PR | Is a PR specialist in Reputation and Crisis Management |
This user lives in Austin |
UT | Hook 'em Horns! |
This user is proud to be a native Texan. |
This user supports and attended the University of Texas at Austin. |
This user supports and attended the University of Texas at Austin. |
This user supports and attended the University of Texas at Austin. |
This user supports and attended the University of Texas at Austin. |
Text Colors can be changed to compliment, but for now I wenmt with Black and Brick to start:
ORIGINAL VERSION:
This is a text box with black text and #D8FFD8 background.. Place comments on the "Discussion" page. |
---|
This is a text box with black text and #fae7b5 banana background.. Place comments on the "Discussion" page. |
---|
This is a text box with black text and #F4C2C2 rose background.. Place comments on the "Discussion" page. |
---|
This is a text box with black text and Celedon background.. Place comments on the "Discussion" page. |
---|
This is a text box with black text and Burlywood background.. Place comments on the "Discussion" page. |
---|
This is a text box with black text and #BCD4E6 Pale blue background.. Place comments on the "Discussion" page. |
---|
This is a text box with black text and #F3E5AB Vanilla background.. Place comments on the "Discussion" page. |
---|
This is a text box with black text and #FFBD88 Macaroni and Cheese background.. Place comments on the "Discussion" page. |
---|
This is a text box with black text and Cambridge Blue background.. Place comments on the "Discussion" page. |
---|
Email to use: permissions-en@wikimedia.org for OTRS
The text of this website [or page, if you are specifically releasing one section] is available for modification and reuse under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License and the GNU Free Documentation License (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts).
I hereby affirm that [CHOOSE ONE: I, (name here) am OR (copyright holder's name) is] the creator and/or sole owner of the exclusive copyright of [SPECIFY THE WORK HERE - describe the work to be released in detail, attach the work to the email or give the URL of the work if online]
I agree to [STANDARD CHOICE; SEE BELOW FOR MORE INFORMATION ON TYPE OF LICENSE:publish that work under the free license "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0" (unported) and GNU Free Documentation License (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts).]
I acknowledge that by doing so I grant anyone the right to use the work in a commercial product or otherwise, and to modify it according to their needs, provided that they abide by the terms of the license and any other applicable laws.
I am aware that I always retain copyright of my work, and retain the right to be attributed in accordance with the license chosen. Modifications others make to the work will not be attributed to me.
I acknowledge that I cannot withdraw this agreement, and that the content may or may not be kept permanently on a Wikimedia project.
[SENDER'S NAME AND DETAILS] (to allow future verification of authenticity) [SENDER'S AUTHORITY] (Are you the copyright-holder, director, appointed representative of, etc.) [DATE]
This section to be removed before moving to article space. It is here only for purposes of establishing notability during review of the article. Thank you.
Born April 18, 1954, [11] Martin grew up in Baytown, Texas and he attended Robert E. Lee High School and Lee College before entering the University of Texas at Austin. While majoring in Journalism (Public Relations) at the University of Texas (1972-1976) Martin was elected to the Texas Student Publications Board of Directors [12] also worked in the Texas Legislature for State Representative Joe Allen and interned for Congressman Robert C. Eckhardt in Washington, DC.
In 1976 Martin along with other partners co-founded Legi/Slate, [2] a very early computerized bill and vote tracking service for lobbyists to follow the actions of the Texas Legislature, and later expanded it to cover the United States Congress in 1978. In 1981 the partners sold Legi/Slate to The Washington Post Companyas part of Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive who in turn sold the business in 1999 to the Congressional Quarterly. [13]
At the same time Martin also wrote and published a weekly newsletter on Texas government and politics, Texas Government Newsletter, [14] as well as writing and self-publishing the biennial A Voter’s Guide to the Texas Legislature. [15] [16]after each legislative session. The business was later sold to Thomas L. Whatley, [3] currently director of the House Research Organization.
In 1989 Martin founded Don Martin Public Affairs [17] in Austin, Texas,specializing in public affairs, public relations, crisis management, issues management, and media relations. In recent years the company added Online reputation management services. Over the years the firm has represented a number of high-profile clients, as well as small businesses and individuals, and managed numerous campaigns for political and business clients. [18] Clients include Dell, Tokyo Electron, Sun City Texas, Round Rock Express, Del Webb Corporation, TXU, Energy Future Holdings, U.S. Postal Service, AT&T Wireless, D.R. Horton, Southland Corporation, and Seton Family of Hospitals. Martin won the state Public Relations Association "Silver Spur Award" in 1997 for his work with Sun City Texas. [19] [20]
Re public campaigns: Martin was the 1991 co-manager (with Mimi Correa) of Bruce Todd's successful Austin mayoral campaign, [21] and general consultant for Todd’s successful 1994 re-election effort. Martin also managed the campaign for the Austin Bergstrom International Airport referendum; [22] the Round Rock Express Dell Diamond stadium referendum; and the Round Rock, Texas city referendum to approve a half-cent sales tax dedicated to roads and transportation; and other referendum campaigns. [23] [24]
In 2001, Don Martin Public Affairs changed its name to Martin & Salinas Public Affairs [25] to reflect the firm's new partner Trey Salinas, a former aide to Mayor Todd. [26]. Also hired as a senior executive was Jed Buie, a senior partner in a competing PR firm. [27] The company spun-off a Hispanic marketing business called, Adelante Solutions, run by employee Paul Saldana. Martin sold his 51% interest in the company to Salinas in 2008 and reverted back to Don Martin Public Affairs. [28]
In addition to his public affairs business, Martin has also developed and co-developed Central Texas real estate projects with business partner Bill Smalling (1952-2008) over some 20 years. He and Smalling developed the 52-acre San Gabriel Village project, a "walk friendly" [29] in San Gabriel Village. [30] They also joint ventured with Larry Peel the development of 54 luxury condominium units overlooking the river.
Martin and Smalling [31] also developed the high profile, signature La Frontera project, [32] a 330 acre mixed-use, master-planned commercial center in Williamson County with more than 1,000,000 square feet (90,000 m2) of retail [33] including La Frontera Village, [34], three apartment complexes [35], multi-use offices [36] and corporate headquarters and is home to the 200,000-square-foot (19,000 m2) corporate headquarters of Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corporation (TGSL). [37]
The walkability and connections within the mixed-use development was an early form of New Urbanism.The project also includes Williamson County's only full service hotel, [38] the Austin North Marriott which provides space for large conferences, meetings and banquets - a first for the county and an important component of Round Rock's and Williamson County's economic development efforts.
The project was also among the first in the nation to pioneer a bundled utility concept in joint venture with TXU. [39]
Their financial partner in the La Frontera project was Fort Worth philanthropist and businessman Ed Bass. [40] [41]The project was located at the busy intersection of FM 1325 and Interstate 35 which later became Austin's first toll road, Texas SH 45 North. [42] Martin and Smalling purchased the land from dairy farmer Tom Kouri in 1999. [43] The project was completed in 2008 when all parcels had been sold [44] [45] The project and it's developers were awarded the "Best Deal" award in the Austin metro area for real estate, on two occassions.
Several reviews of the book include:
[50]>
[51]
(Collecting postcards is called
Deltiology and postcards are the third most collected item behind stamps and coins).
Martin is a current member of the Seton Williamson Foundation Board of Trustees, part of the Seton Family of Hospitals. He founded the Austin Chamber of Commerce's Project Greenscape program, in the 1980's, dedicated to the restoration of the Texas State Capitol grounds, the planting of 50,000 trees in Austin, and the replacement of trees along Congress Avenue. [52] He has served on the Boards of Directors of the Real Estate Council of Austin (RECA) Board, Executive Committee and Transportation Chair, The Nature Conservancy of Texas, Austin Board of Directors, [53] was Chair of Leadership Austin in 1991, [54] and served on boards of both the Georgetown [55] and Austin Chambers of Commerce, and many other boards.
He also led the effort and was a founder and Chair of the Northern Edwards Aquifer Resource Council (NEARC), a non-profit dedicated to the preservation of the Georgetown Salamander population, which later became the Williamson County Karst Foundation. [56] [57] These species would be preserved through voluntary donations of land rather than required setbacks and other involuntary means typically enforced on landowners without an incidental take permit. The group eventualy transferred their successful work on an Environmental Impact Statement to the county in 2002 and obtained a $2.3 million grant for the project. [58] A county-wide 10-A permit was obtained in October 2008. [59]
http://www.reputationworkbook.com is a product of Don Martin Companies, Inc., P.O. Box 160123, Austin TX 78716-0123. Copyright 2011. Creative Commons Share and Share Alike 3.0 Licensed. (CC-SA-3.0) All rights reserved.
{{
cite news}}
: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors=
(
help)
{{
cite journal}}
: Cite journal requires |journal=
(
help)
{{
cite news}}
: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1=
(
help); Unknown parameter |coauthors=
ignored (|author=
suggested) (
help)
{{
cite news}}
: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors=
(
help)
{{
cite book}}
: Check |isbn=
value: invalid character (
help); Unknown parameter |coauthors=
ignored (|author=
suggested) (
help)
{{
cite book}}
: Check |isbn=
value: length (
help)
{{
cite book}}
: Check |isbn=
value: length (
help)
{{
cite news}}
: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors=
(
help)
{{
cite news}}
: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors=
(
help)
{{
cite web}}
: Check date values in: |accessdate=
(
help)
{{
cite journal}}
: Check date values in: |date=
(
help)
{{
cite news}}
: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors=
(
help)
{{
cite news}}
: Text "Todd" ignored (
help); Text "first+Mike" ignored (
help); Text "last" ignored (
help)
{{
cite news}}
: Text "Retrieved on 2010-05-10" ignored (
help)
{{
cite news}}
: Unknown parameter |coauthors=
ignored (|author=
suggested) (
help)
{{
cite news}}
: Check date values in: |date=
(
help)
{{
cite news}}
: Unknown parameter |coauthors=
ignored (|author=
suggested) (
help)
{{
cite news}}
: Check date values in: |date=
(
help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors=
(
help)
{{
cite news}}
: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1=
(
help)
{{
cite news}}
: Text "first Melinda West" ignored (
help)
{{
cite news}}
: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors=
(
help)
{{
cite news}}
: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors=
(
help)
{{
cite news}}
: |first=
missing |last=
(
help)
{{
cite news}}
: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors=
(
help)
{{
cite news}}
: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |titlePostcards take readers into Austin's past=
and |coauthors=
(
help); Missing or empty |title=
(
help)
{{
cite news}}
: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors=
(
help)
{{
cite news}}
: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors=
(
help)
{{
cite news}}
: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors=
(
help)
{{
cite news}}
: Check date values in: |date=
(
help)
{{
cite news}}
: Text "Retrieved 2010-05-11" ignored (
help)
{{
cite news}}
: Check date values in: |date=
(
help)
Category:Public Affairs
Category:Public relations
Category:Austin, Texas
Category:Real estate and property developers