The Fuller Center for Housing in Greater Atlanta reports in an Inside Stories post that it’s become the first nonprofit to attain EarthCraft of Renovation certification. But the president of the affordable housing group says the center is committed to sustainable construction and is likely to rely more often on renovations in the future.. “I…
Banks, developers and other owners of “illiquid land holdings” could be helped by legislation approved in the waning hours of this year’s Georgia Legislature, according to Bisnow Atlanta. Among the provisions of State HB 346 is a proposal that will grant tax incentives to land owners for conserving land and allow them to transfer those credits to…
Southern Co. CEO Thomas A. Fanning cited two factors today when explaining why the company was able to raise shareholder dividends for the 10th straight year. The first was a standard line you’ll here from any public company: a “commitment to customer satisfaction.” But the second factor says more about a competitive advantage that’s helped to…
The Right Honorable John Gummer, Lord Deben, doesn’t sound like the title of a flaming liberal. It isn’t. Lord Deben was a protege of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, the “Iron Lady” who dismantled the United Kingdom’s welfare state and was the ideological godmother of the Reagan revolution. “I love her,” Gummer said of Thatcher…
Less than two days before the city of Atlanta must submit its official wish list of transportation projects to a special metro-wide panel, Atlanta Beltline Inc. holds the last in series of public planning meetings tonight designed to help come up with that wish list. The Beltline’s Westside Study Group, which is open to the…
A bill that would have restored Georgia’s clean energy tax credit appears to have died for the year in the state House Ways and Means Committee. The bill’s primary sponsor says there’s an outside change the same provisions could become law by piggybacking as an amendment to another bill. “It’s possible — although unlikely,” Rep….
Atlanta’s homegrown green building certification program has found a promising new niche. Despite the impressive proliferation of rating systems that cater to houses, apartments, office towers and even stadiums, there’s precious little in the way of green certification aimed at the needs of small commercial buildings. EarthCraft Light Commercial is designed to do just that….
Death and taxes may be sure things. For growth industries though, lawsuits are just about as inevitable. Congratulations, green building professionals: You have hit the big time! Veteran environmental attorney Stephen O’Day warns that lawsuits over a whole range of liability issues related to green construction are only now beginning to pop up around the…
As I interviewed Mandy Mahoney and two of her colleagues yesterday about her impending departure from city government, a couple of updates on other Atlanta-centric stories tumbled my way and are worth mentioning: Sustainable Atlanta: It sounds as if the nonprofit set up during the Franklin administration to help the city with its sustainability efforts…
Midtown real estate investors ought to be delighted — or at least intrigued — by the Atlanta Beltline’s new strategy to get taxpayer funding for certain segments of the project. Of course, some property owners are likely to end up more delighted than others. Let’s put it this way: If I owned commercial property on,…
