Modern and timeless.

In fact tonight I will be attending a micro housing competition put on by Modern In Denver, a magazine and the Denver Architectural League, a group my partner founded.

I would also go with a more modern color scheme like green-grey with red trim.

The last Loan Officer that I allowed to waste 10 minutes of my time was just out of a Political Science degree (minor in Econ.)

You have got this stuff down to a science I think.:) 

That repeal Joseph mentioned (see note (1)) called the Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999 (or Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act) coupled with two others, the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000, and the 2004 institution of the Consolidated Supervised Entities program (CSE) at the SEC.

I also have degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science and a minor in Physics.

A modern digital thermostat will sense that the efficiency is dropping up and tell you that its time to change the filter.

To answer your question generally I would say that you should select areas where there is diverse employment and you can future proof things a bit by ensuring that some amount of the employment is in industries like technology and life sciences.

Code enforcement has been shutting down old buildings in Augusta for not complying with modern codes.