Blue Landworks is a 2012 Pinnacle Award Winner
Blue Landworks LLC announced it is a 2012 recipient of a Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce Pinnacle Award. 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. May 1, 2012 – SUWANEE, GEORGIA – Blue ...read more
Blue Landworks now licensed in Texas
Blue Landworks LLC announced it is a licensed firm for providing professional engineering services in the state of Texas. 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. July 5, 2011 – SUWANEE, GEORGIA ...read more
How Gwinnett County is creating a win-win scenario for redevelopment projects
Gwinnett County, recognizing that redevelopment provides both economic and environmental advantages over greenfield development, is making development regulation changes to distinguish stormwater regulations between redevelopment and greenfield development.
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 ...read more
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 ...read more
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 ...read more
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.