Foreign Students, Higher Education in Metro Atlanta
A report from Brookings uses a new database on foreign student visa approvals from 2001 to 2012 to analyze their distribution in the United States, finding: The number of foreign students on F-1 visas in U.S. [...]
Center for Civil and Human Rights Opens in Atlanta
ATLANTA -- The final touches are being put on the Center for Civil and Human Rights this week in preparation for its grand opening June 23. The 42,000 square foot facility houses four primary exhibitions. [...]
LDG Consulting Receives City of Atlanta Certifications
A wide majority of our work since our founding has been for private clients. However, our interest in public private partnerships (P3) has always kept us close to P3 projects. It is with pleasure that [...]
Green Bonds Booming, Funding Energy Efficient Projects
Bloomberg TV had an interesting segment on the "Green Bonds" sector of the CRE financing industry. Marilyn Ceci, managing director/head of green bonds at JPMorgan, and Manuel Lewin, head of responsible investment at Zurich Insurance, [...]
Atlanta Streetcar Corridor Development and Investment Guide
Central Atlanta Progress has released a 16-page Corridor Development and Investment Guide for the Atlanta Streetcar that will begin operations late summer 2014. A summary provided by Central Atlanta Progress: The Atlanta Streetcar project [...]
Rethinking disaster housing for cities
An intriguing post about what urban cities should be doing now to prepare for disaster housing. If a disaster were to strike a dense urban neighborhood, the FEMA trailers wouldn’t be of much use. Each [...]