Richard M Hopen
Why Build a Class A Office Building in Downtown Westfield?
A cornerstone of Westfield's downtown redevelopment plan is to build a 200,000 SF Class A office building on the South Avenue train...
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Richard M Hopen
One Westfield Place - The Financials
WESTFIELD NEWS ▸ One Westfield Place – The Financials On September 19, 2022, the Town held the first part of a Live Facebook discussion...
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Crypto News for Realtors – Issue 47
January 8, 2023 | Issue 47 CRYPTO SLITHERS INTO 2023 Happy 2023 and welcome back to my take on the never boring crypto world. Here are...
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Crypto News for Realtors – Issue 46
December 18, 2022 | Issue 46 THAT'S A WRAP, 2022 In this final 2022 issue of Crypto News for Realtors, I thought it would be fun to give...
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Important Stuff in Westfield – Issue 01
December 1, 2022 | Issue 01 WHAT IS THIS? Hi - When I moved with my wife and three kids from South Florida to Westfield in 2000, we...
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Crypto News for Realtors – Issue 45
CRYPTO NEWS ▸ US Prosecutors Looking At Fraud & Market Manipulation Bloomberg reported on December 9 that US prosecutors were gathering...
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Crypto News for Realtors – Issue 44
December 4, 2022 | Issue 44 TIRED OF SAM BANKMAN-FRIED? I'm not. With each interview I watch, he either describes a business practice...
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Crypto News for Realtors – Issue 43
November 27, 2022 | Issue 43 "CRYPTO IS DEAD, RIGHT?," ASKED STEPHEN AT OUR THANKSGIVING DINNER TABLE. I should have anticipated my...
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Crypto News for Realtors – Issue 42
November 20, 2022 | Issue 42 – SPECIAL ISSUE: FTX SAM BANKMAN-FRIED, A VERY BAD DUDE Over the past 42 weeks, I’ve documented the rise...
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Crypto News for Realtors – Issue 41
November 9, 2022 | Issue 41 – BREAKING NEWS! CRYPTO'S LEHMAN BROTHERS MOMENT? As the US focused on elections and which party will...
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Crypto News for Realtors – 40
November 6, 2022 | Issue 40 Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter has captured a lot of headlines. The stories highlight Elon's flip-flopping...
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Crypto News for Realtors – Issue 39
October 30, 2022 | Issue 39 VIEWING CRYPTO FROM OUTER SPACE We can look at crypto from different perspectives. We can focus on the...
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Crypto News for Realtors – Issue 38
October 23, 2022 | Issue 38 A WORKABLE APPROACH TO CRYPTO Former SEC Chair Arthur Levitt and CEO of Lumida, a digital-asset advisory...
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Crypto News for Realtors – Issue 37
October 16, 2022 | Issue 37 CRYPTO BEING EMBRACED BY INSTITUTIONS While many crypto influencers debate BTC and ETH pricing trends, large...
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Crypto News for Realtors – Issue 36
October 9, 2022 | Issue 36 EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED Last week's special issue of Crypto News for Realtors focused on macro economic...
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Crypto News for Realtors – Issue 35
October 2, 2022 | Issue 35 ** SPECIAL ISSUE ** THE ECONOMY Three months ago, I devoted an entire issue of this newsletter to the...
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Crypto News for Realtors – Issue 34
September 25, 2022 | Issue 34 THE ECONOMY & BITCOIN It's not possible to develop an understanding of crypto's future in real estate...
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The Crypto Ecosystem
I lived three blocks from the ocean in the Pacific Beach section of San Diego. Most days, I would take a long bike ride and finish at the...
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Bitcoin's Impact On The Environment
Ethereum's successful switch from the the energy-intensive Proof-of-Work to Proof-of-Stake mechanism to ensure blockchain integrity will...
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Crypto News for Realtors – Issue 33
September 18, 2022 | Issue 33 THE MERGE & A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT A historic week for crypto. In this issue of my newsletter,...
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Crypto News for Realtors – Issue 32
🇺🇸 September 11, 2022 🇺🇸 | Issue 31 BE CURIOUS, LEARN, AND SHARE When I was a first year law student studying legal research and...
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Crypto News for Realtors – Issue 31
September 2, 2022 | Issue 31 AN ANTI-CRYPTO CONFERENCE On September 5th and 6th, there will be a conference to promote critical review...
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Crypto News for Realtors – Issue 30
August 28, 2022 | Issue 30 ARE YOU EDUCATING ME OR SELLING ME? For 30 weeks I've been writing about crypto. The news is always...
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