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12, 2016
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01, 2015
DIRECTIONS – Quarterly Newsletter Released (2015 01)
Topics this quarter include: Working tirelessly for our clients, "Green Bonds" of the CRE financing industry, Project Profile of Stanton Crest (East Point, GA), and Data Visualization of Foreign Students and Higher Education. Click here for a link to the PDF version.
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08, 2014
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. colleges and universities grew dramatically from 110,000 in 2001 to 524,000 in 2012. Foreign students are concentrated in U.S. metropolitan [...]
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06, 2014
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. Each is engaging, but designed to connect the American Civil Rights Movement to today's Human Rights Movements around the world. [...]
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06, 2014
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 we announce that LDG Consulting has been certified by the City of Atlanta as both a Small Business Enterprise (SBE) [...]
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09, 2014
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, explain the process behind environmentally friendly green bonds that use proceeds to fund sustainable, energy efficient projects. They speak on [...]
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03, 2014
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 is about more than improving transportation mobility and access. With over 80 acres of land and many buildings and structures [...]
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09, 2014
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 one houses one family and needs 20 feet of space on either side. Imagine trying to rehouse a single New [...]
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08, 2013
Central Atlanta Progress Releases new Downtown Data
Central Atlanta Progress has released updated data in it's Downtown Counts report. Categories include: People & Places - Revised With 9,300 people per square mile, Downtown is Atlanta's densest urban sub-market. Office Market - Revised Downtown Atlanta is home to the largest inventory of office space of all urban markets. Retail & Spending - Revised [...]
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01, 2014
A Local Explanation of Atlanta’s Snowmageddon
We can't agree more with the four factors laid out by Rebecca Burns in her Politico article.