New Venture to Take Infill From Local Niche to Regional Strategy

For the last several years, this nation’s largest publicly traded home builders have piled one record-setting quarter on top of another while watching their share prices tumble in the opposite direction of their earnings.

For months now, the hottest trend in computing devices for builders has been small, hand-held computing devices. But at least one builder is rediscovering the principal advantage of using laptop computers: a greater ability to handle bandwidth.

Since Lennar’s deal to acquire U.S. Home last spring, there has been a long void in home builder acquisition activity. But the cork just popped out of that bottle

As reported in Upfront in July, there is a movement afoot to develop an overarching standard for green building. The ultimate goal of this process, say its organizers, is nothing short of market transformation.

Stricter air quality standards published by the EPA in 1997 under the provisions of the Clean Air Act are among the most compelling, most contentious and potentially most costly clean air rules ever undertaken by EPA.

If there ever was a patron saint of urban revitalization, it was James W. Rouse. As a developer and builder, he has a huge legacy for large-scale projects, mainly in core urban areas, that seemed risky at the time but always succeeded.

Long gone have been the days of Ward, June, Wally and the Beav as the typical model of the all-American family.

The Internet is the after-school activity of choice for kids today; instant messaging with friends, music web sites, and kid-friendly destinations like Nickelodeon and ZoogDisney. That is the safe side of the Internet.