Time for Georgia's "Balancing Law" to hit the highway
As with many things that government does, laws with good intentions often have very bad consequences. Such was the case of Georgia’s “Balancing Law” – the law which requires that equal amounts of Georgia Department of Transportation’s budget be spent equally among the states 13 congressional districts. Taking a look at Georgia’s congressional district map, ...read more
AJC: Experts: North Georgia housing market in depression
That was the headline in one of today’s AJC stories. My reaction – no kidding. In fact, that’s the same words used by a client earlier this year. It was quite obvious that the problems were huge. In fact, they’re bigger than huge – they may be insurmountable for a long, long time. Take a ...read more
Economic Indicators Show Steep Declines – Recovery?
The Mortgage Bankers Assocation numbers for November are pretty grim. For those in the land development industry, these numbers are pretty stark, although not surprising. Private residential construction dropped 3.5 percent while private nonresidential construction spending fell 0.7 percent — the third decline in the last four months. A large drop in utility construction spending ...read more
Grand Opening of Blue Landworks LLC
Blue Landworks LLC announces its opening of a full service civil engineering firm. Blue Landworks provides civil site engineering services across the southeast with professional engineering registration in Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina. Blue Landworks provides civil engineering services for public projects as well as private residential, commercial and light industrial projects serving an ...read more