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Land Costs Make For High-Cost Housing Starts, Chester Smolski
Land Costs Make For High-Cost Housing Starts, Chester Smolski
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"Here in the Northeast, where housing prices are among the highest in the nation, it is difficult to find measures to reduce the price of housing to make it more affordable. Even with talk of an impending recession, house prices have moderated only slightly, and the real estate business finds itself in a very troubled state."
Quit Complaining, America--Be Thankful, Chester Smolski
Quit Complaining, America--Be Thankful, Chester Smolski
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"I woke up this morning and saw the sun's rays bouncing off of my car parked in the lot across the street. I wish that I had a two-car garage so I could keep both cars indoors."
Charting Migration And Miscalculation, Chester Smolski
Charting Migration And Miscalculation, Chester Smolski
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"There was cause for celebration last March 6 at the Department of Commerce building in Washington, D.C. The achievement was the recording of 250 million on the bureau's "population odometer," a device which records the population of this nation at any moment.
Based upon average births, deaths, immigration and emigration, a number is added every 14 seconds to the odometer, for a daily increase of about 6300. It was expected that the population total of 250 million would be confirmed with the results of the April 1 census. But preliminary figures indicate that the country has not yet reached this …
Public Is Walking Away From Street Malls, Chester Smolski
Public Is Walking Away From Street Malls, Chester Smolski
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"It seemed a radical idea: Close off a street to vehicles in the heart of the downtown and open it only to a single use, that of the pedestrian. In today's parlance, this user-friendly pedestrian street or mall would make the shopping experience more enjoyable, safer, lead to more socializing and make it easier for the pedestrian to shop and buy more. And for a while it worked."
Demographics Will Dictate The Future Of Business, Chester Smolski
Demographics Will Dictate The Future Of Business, Chester Smolski
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"If one could predict the future numbers of a population with some accuracy, that projected data would be most valuable, especially to business."