Next Monday at 7:00 we will have a conference call with Daniel Young from the Irvine Company.

Dan Young is president of Irvine Community Development Company LLC (ICDC), an affiliate of the Irvine Company responsible for all residential development on The Irvine Ranch®.

As president of ICDC, Mr. Young guides all facets of the Irvine Company’s community master-planning and development process, which began more than 45 years ago. From the villages of Woodbury, Northpark and Woodbridge in Irvine, to the coastal communities of Crystal Cove and Newport Coast, the residential communities on The Irvine Ranch have won many national awards and are admired for their unique character and livability.

Mr. Young came to the Irvine Company in November 1999, after a 20-year career as a real-estate developer and a consultant to the industry. In his previous role with the Irvine Company, he served as executive vice president of Entitlement and Public Affairs, overseeing the company’s entitlement on The Irvine Ranch.

His community involvement includes 11 years on the Santa Ana City Council, including eight years as mayor. In his official capacity as mayor, Mr. Young also served on the board of directors of several regional agencies, including the Metropolitan Water District and the Orange County Transportation Authority.

Mr. Young received his bachelor’s degree from California State University, Fullerton, and his master’s degree in public administration from the University of Southern California.

The Irvine Company is a 140-year-old privately held company known throughout the world as a best-of-class master planner and long-term owner, investor and operator of a large and diversified real estate portfolio. The company also is known as a steward of some of the most beautiful, permanently preserved land in California. In addition to its master-planned communities on The Irvine Ranch® in Orange County, Calif., the company also is known for its portfolio of high-quality investment properties—office, retail and apartment—it owns in San Diego, Orange County, West Los Angeles and the Silicon Valley. The company traces its roots to the 1860s with the assembly of The Irvine Ranch from Mexican and Spanish land grants. The Irvine Company was incorporated in 1894.

This is a great opportunity to learn from the top man at Irvine Company responsible for Community Development. Start thinking about questions you want to ask. This weekend in the open thread, I will devote the thread to suggested questions and we will see what kind of response we get.

Whew! 1 day without IHB, what a nightmare.

Make of this what you will…

This morning, I received this email from The Irvine Company (as I’m sure many of you did as well), touting the success of Ivy, Phase I, and advertising the release of Ivy, Phase II . What caught my attention is that they have added a line to the bottom which states, “Models do not reflect racial preference.”

Now, why would they think there is discussion that the homes do reflect racial preference? Bk - this one’s for you!

IR,

So this conference call. Afterward, you’ll be posting the questions and answers on the forum?

reason - 22 July 2009 09:48 PM

IR,

So this conference call. Afterward, you’ll be posting the questions and answers on the forum?

I don’t know. We haven’t figured it all out yet. That does sound like a good idea.

I hope Zovall or some other tech wiz can figure out how to record the call and make the MP3 available on the site.

Yeah… I was hoping you would podcast it or give us a transcript.

You already have my question… hehe.

IrvineRenter - 22 July 2009 09:53 PM

reason - 22 July 2009 09:48 PM

IR,

So this conference call. Afterward, you’ll be posting the questions and answers on the forum?

I don’t know. We haven’t figured it all out yet. That does sound like a good idea.

I hope Zovall or some other tech wiz can figure out how to record the call and make the MP3 available on the site.

Yeah, we would love to read the interview. That way we can sit here all night dissecting it. Haha!

Any of you photoshop junkies want to give an IHB welcome to our guest? Please be tasteful…

If you guys come up with some good ones, I will feature them on the weekend open thread.

IrvineRenter - 22 July 2009 09:53 PM

reason - 22 July 2009 09:48 PM

IR,

So this conference call. Afterward, you’ll be posting the questions and answers on the forum?

I don’t know. We haven’t figured it all out yet. That does sound like a good idea.

I hope Zovall or some other tech wiz can figure out how to record the call and make the MP3 available on the site.

I thought this was going to be a live chat in the chat room.  That would seem to make the most sense. then everyone could participate in real time.  If your interviewee is not comfortable with typing, maybe someone at IHB could be the go-between to relay the questions and answers.

Let’s take advantage of these new-fangled Interwebs.

jumpcut - 22 July 2009 11:07 PM

IrvineRenter - 22 July 2009 09:53 PM

reason - 22 July 2009 09:48 PM

IR,

So this conference call. Afterward, you’ll be posting the questions and answers on the forum?

I don’t know. We haven’t figured it all out yet. That does sound like a good idea.

I hope Zovall or some other tech wiz can figure out how to record the call and make the MP3 available on the site.

I thought this was going to be a live chat in the chat room.  That would seem to make the most sense. then everyone could participate in real time.  If your interviewee is not comfortable with typing, maybe someone at IHB could be the go-between to relay the questions and answers.

Let’s take advantage of these new-fangled Interwebs.

Another method might be for a moderated call with chat. I could interview Mr. Young on the conference line, but only me and Mr. Young would be heard. I will have reviewed our question list in advance, and I will be monitoring the chat to see reaction and ask any follow up questions. That might be easier than having 300 people on the phone with any one of them being able to talk.

We haven’t worked out the details of the call format yet.

Ask him why Bkshopr the most experience person in design and market demographic who understood the needs of all IHB readers and Asian population is excluded from developing products that meet the desires of consumers instead relying on consultants that know very little about the demographics.

bkshopr - 22 July 2009 11:25 PM

Ask him why Bkshopr the most experience person in design and market demographic who understood the needs of all IHB readers and Asian population is excluded from developing products that meet the desires of consumers instead relying on consultants that know very little about the demographics.

Now, now…lets be nice to our guest, Bk. Haha!

Hmm, I wonder what Marsha’s question is going to be? Any guess? =)

I suggest Irvine Renter rent Frost/Nixon and study the dynamic of a landmark interview.

reason - 22 July 2009 11:26 PM

bkshopr - 22 July 2009 11:25 PM

Ask him why Bkshopr the most experience person in design and market demographic who understood the needs of all IHB readers and Asian population is excluded from developing products that meet the desires of consumers instead relying on consultants that know very little about the demographics.

Now, now…lets be nice to our guest, Bk. Haha!

Seriously,

Do you know how well the products would be accepted with a BK approved label? with a low price of course for Ihbers! IHO will camp out for weeks.

IrvineRenter - 22 July 2009 11:11 PM

Another method might be for a moderated call with chat. I could interview Mr. Young on the conference line, but only me and Mr. Young would be heard. I will have reviewed our question list in advance, and I will be monitoring the chat to see reaction and ask any follow up questions. That might be easier than having 300 people on the phone with any one of them being able to talk.

We haven’t worked out the details of the call format yet.

You should definitely do a moderated call.  I’m not sure how an open call with 300 people on the line would even work.  There’s no way to pick who gets to talk and you just have 300 people talking over each other.

bkshopr - 22 July 2009 11:25 PM

Ask him why Bkshopr the most experience person in design and market demographic who understood the needs of all IHB readers and Asian population is excluded from developing products that meet the desires of consumers instead relying on consultants that know very little about the demographics.

Mr. Young was the mayor of Santa Ana for 11 yrs.  Maybe you could ask him in person at the next Floral Park block party.

High Gravity - 22 July 2009 11:56 PM

bkshopr - 22 July 2009 11:25 PM

Ask him why Bkshopr the most experience person in design and market demographic who understood the needs of all IHB readers and Asian population is excluded from developing products that meet the desires of consumers instead relying on consultants that know very little about the demographics.

Mr. Young was the mayor of Santa Ana for 11 yrs.  Maybe you could ask him in person at the next Floral Park block party.

He lived in FP and I think he lives in Coto now.

bkshopr - 22 July 2009 11:49 PM

reason - 22 July 2009 11:26 PM

bkshopr - 22 July 2009 11:25 PM

Ask him why Bkshopr the most experience person in design and market demographic who understood the needs of all IHB readers and Asian population is excluded from developing products that meet the desires of consumers instead relying on consultants that know very little about the demographics.

Now, now…lets be nice to our guest, Bk. Haha!

Seriously,

Do you know how well the products would be accepted with a BK approved label? with a low price of course for Ihbers! IHO will camp out for weeks.

I second that. Is the company not capable of recognizing that a product which is associated with Bk, would win favor with the hundreds of bloggers and lurkers here? That is the sort of advertising that their money can not buy. Acquiring Bk and the reputation he has developed for having high standards and authenticity would be an advantage for them. If they choose not to, it is truly their loss in more ways than one.

I agree with SoCal.  I would buy a BK approved home at Woodbury as soon as it was built.

SoCal78 - 22 July 2009 09:46 PM

Make of this what you will…

This morning, I received this email from The Irvine Company (as I’m sure many of you did as well), touting the success of Ivy, Phase I, and advertising the release of Ivy, Phase II . What caught my attention is that they have added a line to the bottom which states, “Models do not reflect racial preference.”

So are they saying the whites and asian models are not their preference or it doesn’t represent Irvine’s racial make up.

kayochan - 23 July 2009 12:25 AM

I agree with SoCal.  I would buy a BK approved home at Woodbury as soon as it was built.

Keep dreaming.  Remember, TIC goes by the “rack’em, stack’em, and pack’em” building philosophy.

jumpcut - 21 July 2009 06:53 PM

zovall - 21 July 2009 04:57 PM

Does anyone here visit/participate on the FlyerTalk forums?  It is a huge community of frequent flyers and there are dedicated boards for most airline and hotel loyalty programs. 

One of the boards is for Starwood.  Starwood is the company that owns the St. Regis, Westin, Sheraton, The W, etc brands.  The Starwood forum on Flyertalk is THE place for Starwood fanatics.  They have had a dedicated employee who has been posting there for years and it’s been a great resource.

Some of the other boards (Southwest, American Airlines) also regularly have employees posting there (although it seems like that is a personal choice, not necessarily a corporate initiative like it seems to be with Starwood).

I’ve been on the Flyertalk American Airlines forum for many years.  The employees on that forum—mostly flight attendants and a couple of pilots—all do so anonymously.  Sometimes they have posted internal memos about service changes or other things.  A couple appear to have even gotten their wrists slapped (or worse) when AA has figured out who they are.  There is no corporate-sanctioned presence at all, although it is common knowledge that AA follows the discussions quite closely.

Like AA, I see very little upside for TIC to get into longwinded discussions with anonymous people on a forum.

I think I mentioned in a previous thread that I used to be very active on FlyerTalk, and it was primarily in the Marriott and AA forums.  However, when I stopped traveling for business weekly I gave up that addiction.  The exchanges with the AA pilots and flight attendants were entertaining, frustrating and educational—sometimes all at once!

I spent some time over the weekend trying to figure out how to use my remaining miles before I lose my AA status next Feb.  :(

SoCal78 - 22 July 2009 09:46 PM

Make of this what you will…

This morning, I received this email from The Irvine Company (as I’m sure many of you did as well), touting the success of Ivy, Phase I, and advertising the release of Ivy, Phase II . What caught my attention is that they have added a line to the bottom which states, “Models do not reflect racial preference.”

Now, why would they think there is discussion that the homes do reflect racial preference? Bk - this one’s for you!

Actually, that tag has been on a number of homebuilder and developer sites for awhile.  It has to do with Fair Housing laws…

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