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Survey Shows the Public Resents New Development Projects
January 18, 2006 Real Estate Weekly Americans are twice as likely to oppose new real estate development projects as support them. They are more likely to oppose quarries, casinos, land-fills and big-box retail than single family homes and groceries. They say their opposition stems from concerns over traffic and quality of life issue. ...
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FINDINGS FROM THE SAINT INDEX©
Who cares about the politics of land use & development?” Real estate developers had better be strategic - or else First national survey to study the terrain where real estate, business and politics cross uncovers insights into Americans attitudes about land-use development Americans are twice as likely to oppose new real estate development projects as support them. They ...
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Stop Right There
January 4, 2006 Wall Street Journal Landfills, casinos and power plants are the most unpopular types of development in the U.S., according to a recent survey conducted by the Center for Economic and Civic Opinion at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. The first-time survey, commissioned by the Hingham, Mass.-based Saint Consulting Group, which advises ...
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