» Monthly Archives: July 2011
Entitlement Strategy is Essential to Securing Value Creation Opportunities
By Jay Vincent, Senior Vice President for Business Development, The Saint Consulting Group
After reviewing a transcript from a publicly traded real estate company’s Q2 earnings call recently, I was reminded how critical political due diligence is to important real estate projects. In today’s commercial real estate market, many firms aim to redevelop properties in order ...
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State-Local Planning Fight over Maine Forest at Tipping Point
A battle to control planning of some 16,000 square miles of the Maine North Woods has boiled over in New England's largest state, pitting the legislature, local counties and a state commission in conflict over the future of some 10.4 million acres of vast undeveloped and largely uninhabited forest.
In a working forest timber companies co-existed ...
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Ramblers Face Solicitors over Hiking in English Countryside
Walking in the English countryside has become a legal battleground with well-heeled landowners armed with legal briefs to halt intruders and trespassers partaking in the national past-time known as rambling.
Sunday Times correspondent Daniel Foggo reported that a group of landowners in Kent have spent a small fortune to establish that every Englishman's home is his ...
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Shell To Sell Off Mackenzie Delta Holdings Mired in Linear Land Use Politics
Thirty-eight years after it discovered natural gas in Canada's Mackenzie Delta, Shell is selling off its holdings there, an apparent victim of linear land use politics.
Its plans to transmit gas to southern Canadian and US markets via a 1,200 km pipeline got mired in 37 years of planning, negotiating and regulatory process and only got ...
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Borders’ Liquidation: Painful For More Than Just Booklovers
by Seth Cargiuolo
Chief Knowledge Officer
The Saint Consulting Group
Today, Retail Traffic
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Voter Split On Lifting Uranium Mining Ban Is Opportunity For Proponents
By Christopher M. Hopkins Senior Vice President, Aggregates and Mining The Saint Consulting Group Nearly 30 years since Virginia imposed a statewide moratorium on uranium mining, a new poll shows the ban remains a hotly contested political issue. Forty-one percent of registered voters favor ending the ban, and 41 percent are opposed, according to a ...
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And What Permits would Noah Need to Build an Ark?
In the year 2011, the Lord came unto Noah,
who was now living in Miami and said:
"Once again, the earth has become wicked and over
-populated, and I see the end of all flesh before me."
"Build another ark and save 2 of every living thing
along with a few good humans."
He gave Noah the blueprints, saying:
"You have 6 months to ...
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Beyond Mining: Diversify and Expand your Local Economy – Can Do Can Work!
The Saint Consulting Group would like to introduce our readers to the Sirolli Institute. Based in Sacramento, California, Ernesto Sirolli has worked around the world with local groups and communities setting up an entrepreneurial atmosphere for local populations to thrive.
The Institute has recently begun working in the mining industry, and we at Saint ...
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The Selling of Walmart – DC City Paper Quotes Patrick Fox
The most sophisticated retailer in the world brought its A-Game to Washington, D.C., and probably didn't need to, writes Lydia DePillis in Washington City Paper.
The alternative weekly ran a cover story on Walmart's long-awaited move into the nation's capital last week entitled, "The Selling of Walmart: How the World's Biggest Retailer Won Over DC Without ...
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Strategic Communications #18: Introducing Our Communications Strategy Matrix
(This is the 18th in a continuing series on strategic communications. Click here for earlier segments)
By Owen Eagan, The Saint Consulting Group
During the course of this series on strategic communications we have evaluated various voter outreach approaches. As we are sure you concluded, the best means of voter outreach for one activity is not necessarily the ...
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