Top News from Today's "Boomiverse"
Downtowns Become Boomertowns
Nancy Kaffer
www.metromodemedia.com
Overview: “Across the metro area, downtown communities are finding an important new factor in the sustainability equation - baby boomers.”
http://www.metromodemedia.com/features/MIBoomers0042.aspx
Two Projects for 55-and-Over in the Pipeline
John Laidler
www.boston.com
Overview: “The owner of the New Meadows Golf Club in Topsfield is seeking to build a condominium complex for residents 55 and older adjacent to the course, marking the second age-restricted development to be proposed in town this year.”
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/10/25/two_projects_for_55_and_over_in_the_pipeline/
Silver Tsunami
www.toledoblade.com
Overview: “The baby boom generation - the so-called demographic ‘pig in the python’ - is approaching a milestone. The first boomers will turn 62 on Jan. 1 and become eligible for Social Security. But there are 71 million surviving boomers in the pipeline, and many could end up being shortchanged and the system bankrupted if Congress doesn't do something.”
http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071025/OPINION02/710250305
