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Hip eateries have home values cookin’ in Phoenix
‘Smart locks’ let you in without them DIANA MARSZALEK
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When Christy and Joe Affrunti bought their Long Island, N.Y., house last year, one of their first projects was replacing the traditional front-door lock with one that opens using a pass code. They were tired of the hassle of “jiggling with a key.� Now, when they need to give someone like a repairman temporary access, they give a temporary code to get in. They share their permanent code with friends; those who arrive at the house before they do, for instance, can “come in and be comfortable instead of sitting in their car,� Christy Affrunti says. “And when we feel too many people have the code, we create a new one and start again. It’s perfect.� High-tech door locks — typically controlled by keypads, phone apps or even the swipe of a finger — could be pushing house keys into oblivion after centuries of trusty service. “For homeowners, being free from having to carry a key every time they go outside is a lot more liberating than you realize,� says Christopher DeSchamp, of the lock company Schlage. Many lock companies are ramping up their electronic-lock offerings in response to consumer interest. “People are expecting connectivity and 24/7 accessibility,� says Keith Brandon, Kwikset’s director of residential access solutions. “Smart locks of whatever variety are becoming more what people are expect-
Retail has long followed new rooftops out to the edges of the Valley. But now, new and trendy restaurants are flocking to central Phoenix to be in and near older rooftops. More than a dozen restaurants, mostly backed by local, popular chefs, have opened on vacant lots or in older rehabbed buildings across downtown and uptown Phoenix during the past few years. Plans call for several more hip eateries to open up in the central areas this year. Home values in many of neighborhoods surthese rounding these new restaurant hubs are climbing faster than almost all other parts of the Valley: Âť ZIP code 85014 is home to The Yard and its three restaurants, the Colony eatery project under construction and the recently announced Crown on 7th Home prices development. jumped 21 percent last year. Âť ZIP code 85012 includes eateries Postino, Federal Pizza, Windsor and Joyride, all on Central Avenue. Median home price climbed almost 17 percent, according to The Arizona Republic’s latest Valley Home Values analysis. Âť ZIP code 85020, the neighborhood just north of 85012 and 85014, has seen home prices soar almost 37 percent during the past year. Bobby Lieb of HomeSmart Elite has been selling houses in uptown Phoenix for a few decades. He told me the area’s many new restaurants are drawing more buyers, particularly younger ones. “I am seeing a lot of new buyers who refused to move to the Biltmore and Central Phoenix because it was not cool a few years ago,â€? he said “That feeling no longer exists because we are getting more and more new families here and also a younger demographic.â€? Several new condominium, apartment and other infill housing devel-
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