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City launches fast-track permitting system
Portland Daily Sun
The Planning and Urban Development Department in July will launch a fast-tracking permitting system that will speed up the approval for minor improvement projects for residential and commercial properties. ... Earlier in the year, the city launched pre ...

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Recovery School District wasted $33 million in construction oversight ...
NOLA.com
The 2007 contract called for Jacobs/CSRS to manage about $484 million in school building construction. But only 48 percent of those projects were completed. Therefore, the company should have received only 48 percent of its contract, Quatrevaux said.

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Palestinian Criticizes Israel Over Construction
New York Times (blog)
JERUSALEM — The chief Palestinian negotiator condemned Israel on Thursday for moving closer to constructing 69 apartments in a Jewish neighborhood on territory seized in the 1967 war even as Secretary of State John Kerry arrived for a fifth round of ...
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Residential construction doubles in May
Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal (blog)
Residential construction in the Twin Cities more than doubled to $332.2 million in May compared to $159 million in the same month a year ago, according to a monthly report issued by McGraw Hill Construction. Through the first five months of the year ...
San Diego County Construction Contracts Down 28 Percent in First Five MonthsSan Diego Business Journal

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Residential construction doubles in May
Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal (blog)
Residential construction in the Twin Cities more than doubled to $332.2 million in May compared to $159 million in the same month a year ago, according to a monthly report issued by McGraw Hill Construction. Through the first five months of the year ...
San Diego County Construction Contracts Down 28 Percent in First Five MonthsSan Diego Business Journal

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Eastgroup Properties Inc : EastGroup Properties' "Southridge Commerce Park ...
4-traders (press release)
JACKSON, Miss., June 27, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- EastGroup Properties, Inc. (NYSE: EGP) announced today that its Southridge Commerce Park in Orlando, Florida, was recently honored by the commercial real estate industry with The Outstanding Building of the ...

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Silicon Valley property tax rolls at record high
Inman.com
Homes and other property in California's Silicon Valley have never been worth more, according to the Santa Clara County Assessor, which is about to send out letters to 478,000 property owners who can expect to see their assessments go up by an average ...

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Pathfinder to feature hands-on construction, building, planning
Joystiq
Many modern-day MMOs have relegated crafting to an automated afterthought. Not Pathfinder Online, though. No sirree, GoblinWorks' crowdfunding sandbox will feature plenty of hands-on construction, according to the firm's latest blog post. "While it may ...

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Portland summer construction kicks off Friday
kgw.com
PORTLAND -- The busy Portland construction season begins Friday with a huge project that could close Southeast Cesar Chavez Boulevard for 21 days. Sewer construction will close the street to through traffic from Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard to ...

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EastGroup Properties' “Southridge Commerce Park” Wins Commercial Real ...
Daily Markets (press release)
JACKSON, Miss., June 27, 2013 /PRNewswire/ – EastGroup Properties, Inc. (NYSE:EGP) announced today that its Southridge Commerce Park in Orlando, Florida, was recently honored by the commercial real estate industry with The Outstanding Building of the ...

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In a bid for more listings, ZipRealty launches 'Seller Center'
Inman.com
In a bid to attract more listings, tech-focused brokerage and referral firm ZipRealty Inc. has launched a “Seller Center” that provides property value estimates and a tool for identifying comparable sales, and offers to connect sellers to an agent who ...

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Port Authority awards construction contracts
Toledo Blade
The Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority today awarded a pair of construction contracts that the agency's top official said are the last needed to complete the Ironville Dock facility in East Toledo. A $2.28 million winning bid from Rudolph/Libbe, of ...

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Do You Have Hidden Cash In Your Building?
ADVANTAGE Business Magazine
The new tax increases have pushed engineered cost segregation studies onto the center stage for commercial property owners. Increased expenditures and depreciation combat higher taxes. This is a well-vetted deferral strategy. Current governor of ...

Low manufactured home construction constrains affordable housing
Inman.com
While overall home construction plummeted by 70 percent between 2006 and 2011, manufactured home construction continued along a descent that began in 1998, according to the report. Fannie Mae said since hitting a high of 374,000 units that year, ...

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Lititz adopts rental inspection ordinance
Lancaster Newspapers
At the June public hearing, only a handful attended, commenting on the need to address inspections of commercial properties as well. One change made to the original ordinance was how tenant behavior will be enforced. In the previous ordinance, it was ...

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Construction BI Software helps find, prioritize prospects.
ThomasNet Industrial News Room (press release)
NEW YORK -- McGraw Hill Construction's Dodge, the industry standard for construction information and intelligence, today announced the next generation of its Dodge Global Network platform. New and proprietary features, including many that are a first ...

Connect: where the real estate industry met Larry Page
Inman.com
On July 22, 2001 — eons ago in the digital world — a man stood on stage at the Real Estate Connect conference in San Francisco and told an audience of real estate bigwigs and tech entrepreneurs from around the country that many homebuyers would ...

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101 topic ideas for your real estate blog
Inman.com
I have been a real estate blogger for almost eight years. But how many months or years I have been at it is irrelevant. What really matters is that I have written thousands of blog posts over the years. Each one of them is out there on the Internet ...

Amid Construction Boom, Migrants Flow Into Brazil
NPR (blog)
Brazil is in the midst of a building boom as it constructs stadiums across the country in preparation for the World Cup it will host next year. In Sao Paulo, hundreds of workers are building a massive arena that will take many more months to complete ...

Negligent Fall River landlord collected government aid for now-condemned ...
Fall River Herald News
I strongly urge DHCD to inspect all of Mr. Colville's properties as well as this program.” A telephone message ... Sheaff said because of the nature of the benefit, DHCD does not require contracts with landlords or inspections of their properties. The ...