Posts Tagged ‘Development’
Pol Aims to Demystify Development
A basic fact not well understood by the public and politicians is that developers must raise money for their projects — and cannot if the expected return doesn’t compensate for investors’ risk.In other words: No profit, no project.One ele...
Orange County Supervisors Deny Appeal Against Development
Orange County officials are letting a long-simmering housing proposal in Trabuco Canyon move forward after tossing out a last-ditch appeal from residents and conservation groups.On Tuesday, the Orange County Board of Supervisors voted unanimous...
By 2028, online portals open to apply for housing development permits
https://journal.firsttuesday.us/wp-content/uploads/Audio_LW_920.mp3Why this matters: No matter where you live in California, addressing the housing shortage requires new residential construction permitting to move forward efficiently without ...
Fire-destroyed mobile home park seeks development deal, displacing residents
For months, former residents of the Pacific Palisades Bowl Mobile Estates have feared the uncommunicative owners of the property would seek to displace them in favor of a more lucrative development deal after the Palisades fire destroyed the r...
Rockrose Development Closes on $100M Cobble Hill Site
There’s a common belief these days that there’s nowhere left to build in the city. But Rockrose Development’s $100 million purchase of a Brooklyn city block, which closed Friday, shows that’s not entirely true — it just might not b...
The builder self-remedy for housing development
Why this article is important: Developers are using the builder’s remedy as a workaround for restrictive local zoning ordinances. The loophole is preemptive legislation permitting builders to organically correct local housing shortages.Builde...
NYC’s new development year in review
For New York City’s new development market, 2025 has been a year of whisper trades and low inventory. While a handful of buzzy sales launches powered the market, executives, brokers and data analysts spent the year warning of an imminent inv...
Newly passed law a boost for transit-oriented development
Why this article is important: California’s legislature continues to tackle the state’s decade long housing shortage.Growth encouraged near transit stopsCalifornia’s legislature recently passed Assembly Bill 79 to encourage the addition o...
