Mixed-use hotel project set to continue Alpharetta’s downtown expansion
Alpharetta is far from cheap looking at the metro area suburbs. However, If you’re looking through the current lens, then yes Alpharetta is a fair amount cheaper than COA using price/cost per SF as the basis. Right now, average list price per SF is about $55 higher in COA at an average of $230 per SF. That’s the highest it’s been historically, as gentrification is driving the current COA market to all time highs. Back in early 2012, as the housing recession wound down, there was literally only a $6 per SF difference between COA and Alpharetta, as COA had dipped all the way down to $110 per SF. The average pre-recession pricing was about $25 – $30 higher per SF in COA, really not that much of a premium. The bigger question looming is can COA sustain the current difference long term or will that bubble burst?
First leg of the Beltline’s Southside Trail is underway, but what about the rest?
As long as it won’t take 3 years to build.. (or even 2) when they do announce it. That large of a section being closed and inaccessible will be more of an inconvenience now that I am used to, and regularly use the interim trail. As do many others.
A guide to the subway formerly known as the Red Line
"But rather than using the color as the new letter (e.g. red line is R-Line, blue line is B-Line, expo line is E-Line, etc.) which would be very user friendly"
But both Gold line and Green line start with G, so how would that work?
This new naming system is designed for the long term; existing riders will get used to it soon enough. I’m still not a fan; I love the charming London Underground line names, and wish Metro had gone with something with more character, e.g., the Wilshire Line, the Hollywood line, etc.
Adorable Palm Springs cottage built in 1936 asks $2.3M
John Garfield may have owned this house – but – he was not a Silent Film Star.
His first Film was Warner Bros production of "Four Daughters" in 1938 – which he was nominated for Best Supporting Actor. Garfield maybe best know for staring with Lana Turner in the 1946 MGM Film "The Postman Always Rings Twice". He was Blacklisted in the late 1940’s, left Warner Bros after "The Postman Always Rings Twice" was released to start his own Independent Production Company and died in 1952 at the age of 39.
The switch over from "Silent Films" to "Talking Films" started with Warner Bros. "The Jazz Singer" in 1927 and was completed by the beginning of the 1930’s.
The Curbed writer or the Real Estate Broker maybe confusing the actor’s John Garfield and John Gilbert. Gilbert was a very famous Silent Film Star who was unsuccessful in making the transition to talking films. Gilbert had a long and highly publicized relationship with Greta Garbo. It’s unlikely that John Gilbert owned this home as it was completed in 1936 and he died in his Bel Air home on January 9, 1936 at the age of 38.
How a brick-built townhome community is turning out where Midtown meets Buckhead
word is…..not for long. those enormous restaurant parking lots will soon see a VERY large hospital high-rise expansion of the nearby Shepard Center. Btw..these were originally marketed at 650. walk score is misleading.
Extell’s Upper West Side tower gets the green light—again
Landmark West’s challenge is baseless because when Extell got Department of Building’s approval for this project, its plans were not in violation of any zoning guidelines. The continuous lawsuits against this project will continue to fail because the restrictions to mechanical space were passed by the City Council long after Extell received approval for this project.
I look forward to the completion of 50 West 66th Street. The part-time construction jobs, full-time building jobs, income tax revenue and property tax revenue it will generate for New York City will help all New Yorkers. Most importantly, it will prove to community groups in opposition to its development that they cannot retroactively apply approved legislation to a project that was in full compliance with all laws and regulations at the time of its approval.
How a re-energized housing movement will shape the 2020 election
PATRICKSISSON — It is not humanly possible or mathematically possible to LEGISLATEPOVERTYAWAY.
Human beings live well when they PRODUCE what they need and want. Increased production or supply is a monumental task compared with increased consumption or demand. If you don’t believe this, go to a brewery pub and see how much harder it is to make beer than it is to drink beer.
We have for many years allocated too much material and labor to either bureaucracy (service we largely don’t want, but for which we are forced pay), service we desire but can never physically store, and large-scale goods that we cannot take home (weapons systems, large aircraft, and even infrastructure) . All of these outputs which do not achieve our goal of obtaining desired goods for ourselves MUST BE PAIDFOR, not really in terms of dollars, but in terms of the goods and services that all these workers themselves desire.
Instead of allocating resources towards production, we have been trying to cheat fate by having the Federal Reserve Bank "print" more money and kid ourselves that government can give us something for nothing. The reason that housing, health care, higher education, auto ownership, etc are so UNAFFORDABLE is that the endlessly higher prices caused by "money printing" are how we are forced to pay for everything we think we’re getting for "free."
Los Angeles has found that "affordable" apartments cost $500,000 to $1,000,000 per unit. None of the solutions about which you write shall make housing less expensive. As long as nobody in power respects the value of money, vehicle dwelling and abandoned buildings are our future.
Exclusive: Now for sale, Reynoldstown steel mill on Beltline called ‘trophy opportunity’
People are being big drama queens about the property taxes. The recent hike took place after years of assessments being allowed to stagnate, and I don’t think property taxes are generally high even after the hike. If you own a house, you have to pay property taxes. It’s true that very long-term residents may experience hardship as property values rise, but many of those people are probably eligible for senior rates, and assessments on old houses that haven’t been renovated or rebuilt are I think still not out of control. I don’t know, but I think it’s probably more recent arrivals who bought expensive houses budgeting for a certain tax rate who got a surprise, but the prior tax rate was really very low. Not to say that redevelopment of Hulsey Yard and Stein Steel, and ongoing redevelopment of the entire surrounding area as the city core grows, won’t make this a real and ongoing issue, but I think this issue has already been addressed by a cap on the annual rate increase or something?