By Taylor Anderson, PE on May 28, 2009
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 [...]
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By Taylor Anderson, PE on May 24, 2009
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 [...]
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By Taylor Anderson, PE on May 19, 2009
Following up on the portion of yesterday’s blog regarding rail, it turns out that the kickoff for President Obama’s high speed rail plan begins here in the southeast.
Charlotte will bat lead-off in a national high-speed rail vision road show – a series of workshops in seven U.S. cities put on by the Federal Railroad Administration.
The [...]
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By Taylor Anderson, PE on May 18, 2009
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 – [...]
Posted in public | Tagged atlanta, balancing law, georgia dot, infrastructure, rail, transportation
By Taylor Anderson, PE on April 2, 2009
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 [...]
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By Taylor Anderson, PE on March 17, 2009
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%) [...]
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By Taylor Anderson, PE on February 16, 2009
As the recession takes a firm grip on Atlanta land development, what does the future look like for this once burgeoning beacon of land development? Getting out the crystal ball, also known as the Atlanta Business Chronicle, and putting a few stories together, we can start to see what’s in store.
Atlanta’s skyline will likely remain [...]
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By Taylor Anderson, PE on January 31, 2009
How’s that for a title?
One amazing tool that many folks don’t know about or understand is called an RSS feed. My blog has one. My company has one. And I’ve even set one up to feed the most current news in land development, with an obvious focus on the southeast and, in particular, the southeast. [...]
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By Taylor Anderson, PE on January 5, 2009
What is 2009 shaping up like in the residential real estate market? That’s the question that many are trying to figure out, and while nobody knows where we will be this time next year, we can look at a few things that may give us a glimpse of what it likely will be like.
First, the [...]
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By Taylor Anderson, PE on December 16, 2008
David Brooks wrote an interesting piece in the New York Times regarding today’s trends in how people that once lived in the suburbs are changing their expectations of what the suburbs should be. The article in its entirety is rather interesting for a number of reasons. He talks about the emerging town centers that we [...]
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