Summaries for: Urban planning
National Real Estate Investor on Battling Regional Mall REITS
In retail markets saturated with fortress malls and lifestyle centers, outlet centers represent one of the last opportunities for ground-up construction. While some rival regional mall REITS compete ferociously for limited space, others are partnering to build a joint development rather than spending money fighting each other, the National Real Estate Investor reports.
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Strategic Comms #42: Using SMART Goals for Your Communications Strategy
(This is the 42nd in a continuing series on strategic communications. Click here for earlier segments)
By Owen Eagan, The Saint Consulting Group
In our last segment on the Communications Strategy Map (Strategic Communications Part 41: Using a Communications Strategy Map http://bit.ly/ITibf7), we discussed the need for your goals to include benchmarks to measure your results. To illustrate the ...
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NY Times Exposes Wal-Mart’s Bribes for Building Permits
Systemic bribery program resulted in expedited permits and rapid market expansion in Mexico.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc, the world's largest retailer, hushed up a vast bribery campaign that top executives of its Mexican subsidiary carried out to build stores across that country instead of broadening the probe, the New York Times reported on Saturday.
The newspaper reported that ...
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Environmentalists Push Hard to Use Life Cycle Approach to Scoping
By Jay Vincent, The Saint Consulting Group
When it comes to scoping for projects needing state or federal permits, the regulatory regime typically requires that a scoping process include study of the impacts on the site and the area surrounding it. But environmentalists want to change that. Instead, they want the scope of the environmental impact ...
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Strategic Comms, Pt 39: No Substitute for Grassroots Communication in Politics
(This is the 39th in a continuing series on strategic communications. Click here for earlier segments)
By Owen Eagan, The Saint Consulting Group
One of the hallmarks of our company’s success is our use of grassroots advocacy on behalf of our clients. This is our preferred method of communication because it allows us to interact with people directly and ...
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Strategic Comms Pt 38: Why the Medium Is the Message
(This is the 38th in a continuing series on strategic communications. Click here for earlier segments)
By Owen Eagan, The Saint Consulting Group
Many people have heard the expression, “The medium is the message.” However, few people really know what it means or heed its importance. This aphorism, coined by Marshall McLuhan in his 1964 book Understanding Media: The ...
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The Promise and Problems of West Oakland – reprinted from The Monthly
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West Oakland is the first exit eastbound off the Bay Bridge from San Francisco. Its legacy of poverty, crime and high unemployment is making room for high expectations as a grand development plan takes shape ...
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Saint Is Award Finalist With IBM, Deloitte, FTI
AMCF Spotlights Top Business Strategy Projects of Year
The Saint Consulting Group is a finalist with IBM, FTI Consulting and Deloitte Consulting for the Association of Management Consulting Firms 2012 award for business strategy.
The judges selected Saint Consulting for its work with the Barnett Shale office of Chesapeake Energy, the nation’s second-largest producer of natural gas. ...
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Strategic Comms: Pt 30 – Build Trust, Establish Dialogue, Be Transparent
(This is the 30th in a continuing series on strategic communications. Click here for earlier segments)
By Owen Eagan, The Saint Consulting Group
Communication plays a critical role in building trust, and trust plays a critical role in any organization. In fact, trust not only enhances employee satisfaction but also the bottom line. Though, this should come as no ...
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Top 15 Arguments Against New Land Use Permit – Not Just NIMBY Objections
By P. Michael Saint, Chairman and CEO, The Saint Consulting Group
Not everyone who lives near a proposed new land use project and objects to it is a NIMBY. And not every argument raised in opposition to a new land use permit is a selfish grasp at straws. Many who say “no” to new development have ...
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