A warm welcome to our newest tenant at Walleye, Leigh Claremont who is renting one of our smaller shops.

For fresh, contemporary jewelry designs drop by Leighs’ shop.

The range includes matching personalized ID bracelets in shimmering precious metals and beautiful gemstones. Made from the finest gold, secured with tiny chainlinks and lobster claw clasps.

Both I and Sorka would like to wish all our tenants and friends on Second Life a very happy and prosperous 2010.

We would also like to apologise for the lower level of service over the past couple of weeks, due to a RL injury Sorka has not been able to log onto a computer and I have been looking after her to ensure her speedy recovery.  The good news is that she is on the mend now and is looking forward to getting back on-line and in-world so that she can meet with all of her friends again.

On the Second Life front we are planning a few events and updates to the area at Walleye, it will still have the same look and feel although one or two of the shops may be changing their look – if any tenants have any ideas please let any of the management team know (myself, Sorka, Zenobia Fimicoloud, moteand Bailey, Pip Scribe), we are interested in looking at all elements of the area and want to make Walleye (and our outlaying areas at Nanda and Klens) THE place for people to come shopping.

As I have already said, have a great new year.

49r Beck

Tenants may have noticed a  problem at Walleye today, this affected shops in the South East corner of the sim and was caused by a neighbour on an adjoining sim (Drum) having a security orb on their land turned up too high.  This meant that it was issusing warnings about people only having 15 seconds to leave the area.  A chat with concierge and an AR to LL solved the problem.

I would also like to tell tenants about a slight remodelling that has taken place – the empty ring building on the North East corner of the sim has beeb removed and replaced by two shops – one of these is for rent, the other will be used by Fortyniner Beck for a new product range that he is developing.  The other bit of remodelling currently underway is to replace the old dance hall with a 1950′s style diner and dance area.  Finally, in the North West corner of the sim we have put some fairground attractions down, these include coconut shys, test your strength and other sideshows – why not pop over and try them out, they are all free to use.

We hope that the changes to the area will freshen it up a little and bring in some additional visitors to the area.

You may have seen the redevelopment that is going on at our Walleye development, primarily in the North West corner of the sim.

We took advantage of the shop in the far North West becoming empty to remove that shop, a neighbouring shop and the big gallery in that area and are replacing them with a few different designs that we feel will be more useful to tenants.  At the same time we have remodelled the area at the centre of the sim slightly, reducing the number of shops by one but opening the area up a little and changing the shop designs at the same time.

We hope to have the redevelopment completed in the next couple of days and then the new shops will be ready for rental (we have to sort out one or two rental boxes that either need to be put down or having some errors fixed on them).

On a side note our Nanda development has been taken over by our manager Zenobia Fimicoloud who now has her first Megastore covering a massive 64x64m2 plot with three floors.  Zen is an accomplished builder and her Paws-4-Thought brand is continually expanding.  We are pleased to be able to help Zen in her expansion and hope that she continues to grow.  She as promised to keep her main store on Walleye and this, we think, will benefit everyone as she takes part in many traffic generating schemes including hunts.  I have personally seen people TPing in to her store and then go off wondering around the sim to see what else is there – thank you Zen.

We would like to welcome our latest tenant on Walleye – Pip Scribe.

Pip has rented the 30m x 20m store on the northern edge of Walleye and is selling a range of bears.  There is a nice range of both animated and static bears.  Why not pop over and see the bear that pops out of his box.

Pip is a talented builder of bears, having found her niche after a slight disaster with neko tails that seemingly had a mind of their own and chatted to all and sundry with very little prompting.

We have been lucky enough to be able to purchase some more land on the Walleye sim (for those of you that know the sim this was where the castle was) bring us up to 60,000m2 of land on this sim and a total land holding of around 93,000m2 being used for commercial purposes.

This latest purchase has allowed us to redevelop the area a little and we are moving two shops so that they are back in line with the others near the train platform.  The area that then opens up will be used for an attaraction to pull more visitors into the area for our shop keepers.  We have one or two ideas as to what this could be but are open to suggestions from any tenants.

Fortyniner would like to say sorry to those tenants that were spamed with notecards yesterday by another shopping area.

As soon as we realised that this was happening steps were taken to eject and ban the avatars responsible – they were also AR’ed to Linden Labs and an IM was sent to the owner of the relevant shopping area telling them what had happened and the results.  Both the offending avatars have been banned from all of our commercial land on a permanent basis.

We take a dim view of the employees of  other shopping areas attempting to sell their wares and those of their tenants on our areas, after all they are trying to take away the visitors that our tenants depend on for sales.