Summaries for: Property Development
US Chamber: NIMBY cost energy projects $560 Billion and 250,000 Jobs
A flawed permitting process for energy projects is the main contributor to roughly $560 billion in lost direct and private investment and 250,000 jobs, according to testimony delivered by U.S. Chamber Senior Vice President William L. Kovacs before a joint meeting of the Senate and House Western Caucuses. “The ‘Not In My Back Yard’ folks ...
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Whither UK housing – does the Coalition Government have a clue?
By Nick Keable, Vice President, UK Operations, The Saint Consulting Group Fact No 1 – The UK remains in the grip of a housing crisis. Demand remains high (we’re dying older, kids want to move away from Mum and Dad earlier, we’re divorcing more often and immigration has grown considerably). But supply has dwindled down ...
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The changing landscape for real estate development strategy: Part 5 Competing outside the box
By P. Michael Saint, Chairman and CEO, The Saint Consulting Group So, how do companies use the planning process to raise barriers to entry into a geographic market? Some participate in the local planning process in ways that seek to limit the areas where new competitors are allowed to locate. Some seek to ban new ...
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Changing landscape for real estate development strategy: Part 4 gaining competitive advantage
By P. Michael Saint, Chairman and CEO, The Saint Consulting Group The competitive landscape is changing. Increasing government laws and regulations make it possible for some firms to win while their competitors lose, by expanding the competition beyond the traditional boxes. See Wharton Business School Professor Richard Shell’s outstanding book, Make the Rules ...
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Win Community Support: Nine Essential Steps
By Patrick Fox
With large-scale development often facing clamors of opposition, generating community support for a project is a challenge to developers. To persuade a community to support a new project often means overcoming issues of property use, real estate value, traffic, environmental issues or character of a neighborhood.
A developer ...
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Credibility? Developers have none, just a target on their backs
By Patrick Fox,
President, The Saint Consulting Group
No matter how good you are or how many times you have gone above and beyond to ensure your projects are designed and built to the highest standards, you come to town with a target on your back. No matter how many times you have made commitments to neighbors ...
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New Chicago public way rules should reduce costs, streamline approvals
Donna Pugh, a partner in Foley & Lardner, a Chicago law practice, has written about the impact of new Chicago public way rules which should reduce costs and streamline the approvals process. Chicago business and property owners who have long lamented the onerous approval process associated with private use of the public way finally have ...
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Regardless how good your project is, people are organizing against it
By Patrick Fox,President, The Saint Consulting Group
Whether you call them NIMBYs, BANANAs, CAVE*, people or uninformed, selfish nutcases, they are organizing to stop your project and, often, they are winning. Regardless of how good you think your project is and how hard you may have worked to address community needs they are still there screaming ...
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Differences between offense and defense land use politics campaigns
(Editor’s Note: This latest installment from NIMBY Wars: The Politics of Land Use, sets out some of the differences between offense and defense in land use politics campaigns - such campaigns each mobilise local citizens but for different purposes and require different strategies and tactics)
By P. Michael Saint, Robert J. Flavell and Patrick F. Fox
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Opposition to local mosque plans highlights new NIMBY fears
A Moslem community in Brentwood, Tennessee, has decided to drop plans to build a local mosque after a planning battle thrust religion into the middle of a land use dispute. The Tennessean, reporting on the story, said that it highlights a trend where plans for building places of worship face growing resistance. The battle in ...
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