Blue Landworks
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, GEORGIA [...]
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 improvement in [...]
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 22,502 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Part 1 – Atlanta Infrastructure – Where we are and where we need to go
Metro-Atlanta was not geographically located very well for the now 5.7+ million inhabitants that call it home. First, the only major water source is the Chattahoochee River, a very small river by drainage basin standards, especially where it feeds metro-Atlanta’s primary drinking source – Lake Lanier. The topography is extreme for a large city – [...]
Moving forward on infrastructure
America’s infrastructure is in desperate need of attention and if there is indeed one area where government serves the people – all the people – it’s in the responsibility of providing safe, reliable and environmentally sound infrastructure. Unfortunately, it has almost failed in that duty. According to the American Society of Civil Engineers, our infrastructure [...]
Residential Market Update
In my previous blog, I had said the next blog would be about Atlanta’s infrastructure. I still plan on doing that blog – in fact, I think infrastructure is the single most important long term investment for the future of Atlanta (and the United States). I was saddened to see how few dollars (around 5%) [...]
Taylor Anderson, PE named to Development Advisory Committee
Blue Landworks LLC announced its owner, and president, Taylor Anderson, PE, has been appointed by the Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners to the Development Advisory 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 [...]
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