I have posted many times in the past on the values of "Smart Growth". If Cherokee County must grow, and projections have the county gaining 200,000 more people by 2030 (more than double the current population of 141,903), then we better start growing smart. Well, here’s your chance to get involved in the Smart Growth [...]
As a life long Braves fan, I will always support my home team. However, the Braves don’t always get the fan support they deserve from the City of Atlanta. The Braves won 14 straight division titles, a feat that will likely never be matched by any professional sport team…ever, and yet the national media mocks [...]
In an unusual private-public partnership, developers of the mixed-use community, Laurel Canyon, have donated an 18-hole, 7,000-yard golf course to the city of Canton. The Fairways of Canton, being developed by Newnan-based Rocky Roquemore Golf Course Architects, is scheduled to open in 2007 as a city-owned public course. "This is a first-class, luxury golf course [...]
I have blogged many times about the traffic problems in Atlanta (read here, here and here) and I generally come to the same conclusion…money is needed to make a difference. Atlanta transportation funding lags behind many similar sized cities, yet no one wants to be pay more taxes to raise the money needed. Yesterday I [...]
Last week I had lunch with another broker to discuss our local real estate market, but also to share thoughts and ideas about the future of real estate as an industry. Wade Sonenberg of The Sonenberg Company is a second generation real estate agent and his father, David, is on the cover of latest issue [...]
Our country is still concerned about the "Housing Bubble". Mark Cuban‘s cool new search engine Icerocket.com has a Blogs Trend Tool that illustrates the web still averages over 76 blog posts per day about the housing bubble over the last 3 months. Nationally, the concern over the Housing Bubble still frightens many, but here in [...]
When we were kids, we all dreamed of the future and how cool it was going to be when got older. We’d have robots doing laundry, automatic meals with the push of a button, and we’d get to commute to work in the sky. Well, Atlantan’s may get to test the commute in the sky [...]
More Awards for Cherokee County cities, recently the Mayor of Canton and now the City of Woodsotck…. The Cherokee Ledger recently reported… Woodstock Downtown given top-notch honor Woodstock Downtown has been named as winner of the 2006 Atlanta Regional Commission’s 2006 Development of Excellence Award as the best overall project in metro Atlanta. The Hedgewood [...]
Cherokee County could double it’s current population in 10-15 years. The geography, natural resources such as Lake Allatoona and the new Hickory Log Creek Reservoir, proximity to Atlanta, emphasis on job growth (see Bluffs of Technology Park), and relatively low cost of land all contribute to reasons that developers are considering Cherokee County. All of [...]
Canton’s projected real estate and poulation boom could hinge on what the ARC and GRTA think about Macauley’s proposed development. The Cherokee Tribune reports…. Regional officials will meet next week to review plans for a proposed 4,000-acre development in west Cherokee County. Atlanta Regional Commission and Georgia Regional Transportation Authority staff will meet at 2:30 [...]
Home affordability took a slight hit this week after the Federal Reserve's release of its August 10 meeting minutes.
Mortgage rates would have been volatile this week. The presence of Labor Day just piles on. If you have a chance to lock something favorable ...
According to the U.S. Department of Energy, up to 30 percent of a home's energy costs can be cut just by reducing drafts. For example, ...
