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Navigating contracts from public partners
One of the many challenges facing engineers in this economy are the onerous contracts that many public institutions are using for their design professional. In the current economy, in which many engineering firms are literally desperate for any work, governments are taking advantage of the situation to transfer unmitigated amounts of risk and responsibility to [...]
Commercial Real Estate Bottoming?
From CNBC on February 23rd, an update on the commercial real estate market:
Moody’s Commercial Property Index showed an uptick of 4.1 percent in December. Neal Elkin, of Real Estate Analytics, and Harvey Green, of Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Services, share their insight.
The Next Decade of Housing
From the Urban Land Institute:
John McIlwain, ULI Senior Resident Fellow for Housing, describes the U.S. housing market, and how it will be affected by demographic trends. John’s talk was recorded at a gathering of ULI trustees on Jan. 26, 2010.
Atlanta Residential Market Update
Some interesting news and updates on the residential front has been popping up recently. The lot count update for the metro Atlanta area showed up in an article in Friday’s Atlanta Business Chronicle.
At the end of 2009, the area had 149,277 lots, down slightly from 149,782 in 2008, but above the 143,253 lots in 2007.
The [...]
What We Learned This Week
A new feature to The Blue Blog – What We Learned This Week – will highlight some of the articles that were shared via the Blue Blog Bits. For all the articles that were shared, please visit this website or subscribe to this RSS feed.
Residential News
The WSJ says we don’t need to get worked up [...]
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 for [...]
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 a [...]
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 the [...]
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