Today’s Top 5 Headlines and their Links on CRE, Atlanta Office Space, Green, and all things interesting

December 23, 2009
By Patrick Braswell

Today’s Top Headlines and the Links to their Articles (December 23, 2009):

- Proposed Tax Change for Real Estate Partnerships Has Investors Seeing Red - Several major commercial real estate groups are fighting a proposed federal tax provision that they say would have a devastating effect on real estate investment partnerships.  More Taxes?  Got to pay for all of the new spending…

- NASA’s first LEED Gold certification - The Flight Projects Center at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is the first NASA building to earn LEED Gold certification.  (See Video) – Do you think that the next space station will be LEED Certified?

LEED’s First Lawsuit -  Southern Builders v. Shaw has surfaced as one of the first major lawsuits regarding LEED certification. The suit illustrates the critical importance of clear contract language for each stakeholder on a green construction project.

- Georgia Entrepreneurs In A Great Position - Metro Atlanta was far ahead of all other Metropolitan Statistical Areas with an average of 740 per 100,000 adults creating a new business each month.  If any of the new business owners need to find some office space, you know who to contact.

- 9 Tips For Being Organized - Top 10 Tips for Becoming More Organized—perhaps one or two of the suggestions can help you reclaim your home and office and restore them to the places of peace and efficiency they’re meant to be.  A good read before the beginning of the year.  New Year’s Resolution?

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