Ye wants the lawsuit against him dropped, where contractor Tony Saxon accused him of violating labor codes, discrimination and retaliation.
The construction industry is highly competitive, and Black women are severely underrepresented in it. These companies are working on shifting those numbers.
Your storage could be cut in half if not diminished even further. Certain parts of your home are off limits to you, driving you and your partner to consolidate your necessary belongings from various cabinets and closets into one closet. You had a delicate storage ecosystem in place before. It was the reason things ran smoothly. Now they do not run smoothly.
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(New York Times) — After the Norcor Management Corporation bought the Sunnyside Jewish Center in Queens in 2006, it demolished the synagogue in expectation of building residential housing on the site. But like so many projects, the plans were dashed in the wake of the real estate crash, and the parcel has sat vacant for […]
(mlive.com) — A Muskegon-based construction company has signed a significant agreement with the Greater Cincinnati Energy Alliance that will put local laborers to work in Ohio. HERCO and HER Construction Co. signed a two-year agreement with the alliance and the Laborers’ International Union of North America Local 265 that could have weatherization work under way […]
(Black America Web) — In a Port-au-Prince warehouse loaded with tarps, plywood, corrugated roofing, nails and other building supplies, company owner Patrick Brun says he had hoped to get contracts from the billions of dollars in international aid promised to Haiti. His 40-year-old company, Chabuma S.A., sells cement blocks, doors, sand bags and other materials […]
(AJC) — When the metro Atlanta housing market began to spiral downward out of control, many builders were taken by surprise. Land and speculative inventory, once seen as assets, quickly became liabilities as sale prices and acreage values fell. Homes sale prices are now 22 percent off the April 2007 peak, according to the latest […]
Faith and tenacity were key to her success, says Drake by Tarice L.S. Gray In March of 2002, Stephanie Drake had an epiphany. The long time commercial real estate finance professional would take the leap of faith into construction. She launched Drake Inc., headquartered in Washington D.C. and hasn’t regretted it since. The company has […]
(Crain’s) — Here’s a stark piece of good news from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: Going to work in New York City has never been less deadly. From 2008 to 2009, the number of fatal work injuries in the city tumbled to 63 from 90, the BLS found. That mark, though preliminary, is the […]
(AJC) — One small office building was completed in metro Atlanta in the second quarter of this year. And it wasn’t even a whole office building. At 6,000 square feet, the project is a graphic illustration of the fierce slowdown in office construction wrought by the Great Recession in Atlanta. A market accustomed to adding […]
(Atlanta Journal Constitution) — Local homebuilders who want to survive in Atlanta’s real estate market must have cash, patience and an eye for opportunity. Many builders, large and small, were forced out of business over the past couple of years as the housing market spiraled out of control. Land and housing prices tanked, leaving developers […]