The real estate market is undergoing the most rapid period of change in a generation — and the shift is decidedly urban. A succession of recent studies have found there is an under-supply of urban-style housing — attached and small-lot, single-family homes — on the scale of about 13 million units. On the other hand,…
If you think things are bad already in Atlanta’s commercial real estate market, wait until Washington’s “solution” ripples down south. The peripatetic Jarred Schenke of Bisnow reports on worries that Atlanta’s CRE market could be hit hard by an Obama administration proposal to consolidate space. But that concern doesn’t even take into account the prospect…
The good news: Atlanta’s among the 30 leading commercial green building central business districts in the country, according to 2011 Green Building Opportunity Index issued by Cushman & Wakefield with help the Better Bricks Alliance. The bad news: The index says 25 of those markets offer better opportunities for commercial green building than Atlanta does. That’s…
The U.S. Green Building Council and two other nonprofits are releasing a study this afternoon designed to give a boost to President Obama’s Better Buildings Initiative. Their top finding: The initiative, which includes both legislative proposals and executive actions mainly to ramp up commercial building retrofits, would add more than 114,000 jobs to the economy. At…
I was shocked and saddened to learn via a touching e-mail that Marlin Gottschalk, director of the Georgia DNR Sustainability Division, has died. In my occasional interactions with him, I found Gottschalk to be a warm, knowledgeable man with a integrity and a sense of humor. He headed the state Environmental Protection Division air quality…
The National Park Service wants to see City Hall East retain its “imposing” facade over Ponce de Leon Avenue in exchange giving historic tax credits to the developers who want to redevelop the massive building. So reports Bisnow Atlanta’s Jarred Schenke, who’s been on top of this story: [The Park Service's] Guy Lapsley has one…
Georgia builders and architects had hoped that state-funded projects on college campuses over the next fiscal year would boost the still-ailing commercial design and construction market. But Gov. Nathan Deal dashed some of those hopes yesterday when he used his veto pen to cross out $42 million in campus projects approved by the state Legislature….
Suzanne Burnes, a veteran environmental program manager, will become the new leader of Sustainable Atlanta on June 1. The nonprofit — formed in 2007 to partner with the city of Atlanta on environmental policies and programs — has been without an executive director since its founding executive director Lynnette Young left last December. Burnes brings a…
Gov. Nathan Deal has appointed three new members to the State Licensing Board for Residential and General Contractors. The board was created in 2004 to regulate construction contractors. Here are Deal’s three appointees, with descriptions provided by the governor’s office: William “Bill” L. Duck Jr.: Duck is the building official and Director of Inspections and…
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…
