Real Estate Pool Party

I’ve been working with a group of investors who had partnered with the Seattle Housing Authority to build market-rate homes in the Rainier Vista, a housing development in South Seattle. It was a unique group of men brought together with a common purpose and goal and to build attractive and affordable housing, and the group named itself after George P. Riley, the first African-American landowner in the Washington and Oregon territories. Aubrey Cohen of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer wrote about this interesting group of men in “Southeast Seattle group pays homage to African-American developer”. Over the past year of working with this group, I’ve become acquainted with several of the principal investors and count them as my friends. I was recently invited to a summer pool party at one one of the investors home, David Tyner and his wife, the artist Diane Christensen. We had a marvelous time and I was able to meet David’s beautiful and talented d...