According to a recent article in the Atlanta Business Chronicle, Forestar Real Estate Group has filed plans for a 701-acre development that will aim to entice a major manufacturer to Georgia and potentially house thousands of jobs in Jackson County.
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Old Fourth Ward to Get Retail Expansion
According to a recent report in the AJC, the owners of Studioplex, a live-work loft community carved out of a century-old cotton warehouse...
Industrial Sector Shares Market Woes
According to a recent article in the Atlanta Business Chronicle, metro Atlanta’s industrial market just posted its worst quarter in five years...
Cousins To Develop New Tower For Cox
According to a recent article in the Atlanta Business Chronicle, Cox Enterprises, the media giant that owns WSB and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution,...
Old Fourth Ward to Get Retail Expansion
According to a recent report in the AJC, the owners of Studioplex, a live-work loft community carved out of a century-old cotton warehouse in Atlanta’s Old Fourth Ward neighborhood, is adding more than 9,000 square feet of retail space. The development, which features 112 residences and 18 offices, is about 80 percent sold.
Large Asian Shopping Center For Gwinnett
A 431,000-square-foot Asian-themed shopping center called Asian Galleria will be located on the site of the Gwinnett Prado and Gwinnett Station shopping centers, both of which are largely vacant.
300 Metro Homes Auctioned This Week
According to a recent report in the AJC, A four-day foreclosure auction that begins today will include more than 300 Atlanta-area dwellings.
Lenders struck out trying to sell the properties the conventional way, so now they’re looking to investors and bargain-hunting families to make their problems go away.
Homicide of Inanimate Objects Is Not The Answer
Homicide of inanimate objects is not the answer.
In the June 25th issue of Time Magazine, a writer named Joe Klein had an article with the headline “Kill Your Air Conditioner”. Mr. Klein had spent the Summer Solstice, June 21st, attending a wedding in New England. He found the weather to be a perfect: sunny and [...]
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Seven Years of Drilling For 47 Days Of Oil?
Seven years of drilling for 47 days worth of oil???????
On the Sierra Club’s “Stop Giveaways to Big Oil” page they request that readers send a message to congress. What follows is selected portions of their model letter.
“It is estimated that drilling off of Florida’s coast would only bring 47
days of oil and 4 [...]
Forestar Plans New Industrial Park
According to a recent article in the Atlanta Business Chronicle, Forestar Real Estate Group has filed plans for a 701-acre development that will aim to entice a major manufacturer to Georgia and potentially house thousands of jobs in Jackson County.
Redevelopment Planned For Two Beltline Properties
According to a recent article in the AJC, two industrial properties on opposite sides of Atlanta’s planned Beltline loop are slated to be redeveloped.
Properties include a steel supply company near the Atlanta Water Works that’s under contract to Tishman Speyer, the New York-based real estate giant, and the Atlanta Dairies plant on Memorial Drive in Reynoldstown, which shut [...]
A Different Kind Of Green Fee
From a Wall Street Journal, Small Business section article by Kelly Spors, we learn that at least one business in San Francisco is adding an energy surcharge to client invoices. This fee is used to purchase renewable energy credits.
Homicide of Inanimate Objects Is Not The Answer
Homicide of inanimate objects is not the answer.
In the June 25th issue of Time Magazine, a writer named Joe Klein had an article with the headline “Kill Your Air Conditioner”. Mr. Klein had spent the Summer Solstice, June 21st, attending a wedding in New England. He found the weather to be a perfect: sunny and [...]
What Is The Truth?
Today DIRT-e introduces a new item: “What is the Truth?”
In our world there are truths that we all know. (The moon orbits Earth) Truths that people tell us. (In the Universe Earth is an insignificant little thing.) Truths that are intuitive. (I should not pick on someone who cannot defend themselves) Truths that don’t seem [...]
No Net Loss of Water
Stacey Shelton had a June 26 article in the AJC. The headline: “Talk of Damming Flint River Stirs Anger”.
Stacey gives a brief summary of what’s happening in Georgia regarding dams and reservoirs. This is my abbreviation of her data.
U.S. Green Building Council Awards Local Company
The U.S. Green Building Council recognized Hardin Construction for its environmental efforts in building out its new headquarters in Cobb County, located on the top two floors of a building in the Wildwood Office Park, according to a recent report in the AJC.
Hardin is a major commercial builder whose projects range from skyscrapers to retail centers.
Hardin [...]
Large Asian Shopping Center For Gwinnett
A 431,000-square-foot Asian-themed shopping center called Asian Galleria will be located on the site of the Gwinnett Prado and Gwinnett Station shopping centers, both of which are largely vacant.
MARTA May Sell Land Near Transit Stations
According to a recent report in the Atlanta Business Chronicle, MARTA is responding to the market that has perhaps driven the desire for mass transit and is offering land near several train stations to developers.
Gas prices in metro Atlanta have eclipsed $4 a gallon, spurring increased ridership on MARTA trains and GRTA (Georgia Regional Transportation Authority) buses.
MARTA, [...]