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By Blue Landworks on March 16, 2010
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 [...]
Posted in The Blue Blog | Tagged economy, insurance
By Blue Landworks on February 27, 2010
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.
Posted in The Blue Blog | Tagged commercial market, economy
By Blue Landworks on February 17, 2010
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.
Posted in The Blue Blog | Tagged real estate, residential market, social land development
By Blue Landworks on February 15, 2010
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 [...]
Posted in The Blue Blog | Tagged atlanta, residential market
By Blue Landworks on January 22, 2010
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 [...]
Posted in The Blue Blog | Tagged commercial market, georgia dot, gwinnett county, residential market, what we learned this week
By Blue Landworks on October 25, 2009
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 [...]
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By Blue Landworks on September 25, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in The Blue Blog | Tagged atlanta, flooding, lake lanier, water wars
By Blue Landworks on September 24, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in The Blue Blog | Tagged atlanta, flooding, infrastructure, lake lanier, water wars
By Blue Landworks on June 10, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in The Blue Blog | Tagged economy
By Blue Landworks on June 1, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in The Blue Blog | Tagged atlanta, real estate, residential market
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