September Beige Book notes on development
The Fed’s Beige Book for the Southeast in September had the following notes on land development: The region’s homebuilders and Realtors both reported the pace of home sales had softened slightly since August. Despite this, homebuilders noted an increase in traffic with several reporting the credit quality of potential buyers had improved as well. Demand ...read more
Redevelopment: Downtown Lawrenceville
To say that Emory Morsberger has bold vision is quite the understatement. Assisting him in bringing his vision of historic downtown Lawrenceville back to life proved to be among the most challenging and rewarding projects that Taylor Anderson has had the opportunity to work on.
BrandsMart U.S.A. opens in Gwinnett
BrandsMart U.S.A. opened the first commercial LEED certified building in north Georgia in August. Blue Landworks is a proud consultant to BrandsMart USA on its Gwinnett County store.
More on the flood
Yesterday, I mentioned that even though none of the daily rain events amounted to more than 10-year storm event, the cumulative effect of a week’s worth of storms manifested itself as a 100-year storm on Monday and into Tuesday. Turns out that the US Geological Survey is actually saying that in many cases, this was ...read more
Gwinnett County files notice of appeal on federal ruling
Gwinnett County filed a notice of appeal on a federal ruling earlier this year that would no longer allow most of metro-Atlanta use Lake Lanier for its drinking water, despite the fact that it is its primary potable water reservoir and has been for decades. That this is even an issue, despite the fact that ...read more
Taylor Anderson, PE selected to Engage Gwinnett Committee
Blue Landworks LLC announced its owner, and president, Taylor Anderson, PE, has been selected to the Engage Gwinnett committee. Blue Landworks provides civil engineering services for public projects as well as private residential, commercial and light industrial projects serving government, developers, architects, law firms, homeowner associations, Realtors and banks. September 23, 2009 – SUGAR HILL, ...read more
Fed's Beige Book for June 10 in the Southeast
The Federal Reserve’s Beige Book, which tracks anecdotal evidence in the economy in each of the Fed’s districts, had the following notes related to civil engineering and land development in District 6, the southeast: Real Estate and Construction Reports from Realtors indicated that existing home sales were stabilizing overall. Florida contacts noted that the steady ...read more
More Atlanta housing news
The Atlanta Business Chronicle had a good summary of the housing news around the metro area today. Below is a small portion of a lengthy article. For the 12-month period ending in March, Atlanta saw 8,972 housing starts — ranking No. 5 out of the metro areas tracked by Metrostudy. Houston topped the list with ...read more
So much housing news – where to start?
The amount of news on the housing front over the last week or so is staggering. If you’re keeping up with the articles I share, you’re on top of the game. (If you use an RSS reader, use this feed…) However, I wanted to add a little to the mix of articles and organize them ...read more
Georgia going after rail funds…
It seems the timing on my first infrastructure post was impeccable. GDOT announced on Thursday that it would seek federal funding for rail. It even cleared up my question, to a degree, on where the missing link from Louisville to Atlanta was. Well, President Obama’s plan has it missing, but apparently the various state DOTs ...read more
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