Platitudes, vision statements, mission statements, posters, speeches and value statements are meaningless unless action is in place to create trust between employee and employer.

A new entry on PB’s GIANTS list, this Marietta, Ga.-based apartment builder checks in at No. 58 after beginning operations in 1998 as a spinoff from Trammell Crow Residential, the apartment building behemoth.

The Bush administration’s fiscal 2003 budget proposal includes an innovative homeownership tax credit program that would help achieve two national objectives.

Town & Country Developers Inc. of Woodcliff Lake, N.J., and its affiliated companies have made headlines by converting brownfields — dormant industrial and commercial sites — into residential communities.

Valhalla, N.Y.-based Spectrum Skanska is delivering homes to New York-area buyers who often are priced out of the market: police officers, firefighters and teachers.

A few details can turn an ordinary front door into an entry court, says Paul Campbell, AIA, of Kephart Architects in Denver.

The Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers has created the only standard, certified performance measurement of air cleaners with the CADR, or clean air delivery rate.

Two-thirds of home buyers surveyed indicated they had 11 or fewer walk-through items.

In units, this Denver-based apartment builder is top dog in the rental sector, with 6,181 completions in 2001.