San Francisco Bay Area

Construction 2.0: How One SMB Runs Without PCs

By admin • Aug 10th, 2011 • Category: Pacific heights, San Francisco Bay Area

Silicon Valley Builders Group arms its highly mobile team with smartphones and tablets for real-time productivity and collaboration. Check out the business case for leaving the PC behind.
By Kevin Casey InformationWeek
August 09, 2011 05:53 PM
Could the iPad soon be as common a sight on construction jobs as the hard hat?
It will if the industry [...]



End to San Francisco redevelopment

By admin • Jul 15th, 2011 • Category: San Francisco Bay Area, Surety Bonds

End to San Francisco redevelopment may be near

Although the Transbay Transit Center project is overseen by the Transbay Joint Powers Authority, some funding depends on revenue from Redevelopment Agency projects on state land in The City. (Examiner file photo)

As state budget wrangling continues in Sacramento, San Francisco’s Redevelopment Agency is [...]



Housing Number Mixed

By admin • Dec 25th, 2009 • Category: San Francisco Bay Area

New homes fell 11.3% in November to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 355,000 as a popular tax break for first-time homeowners was set to expire, the Commerce Department estimated Wednesday.
It was the lowest sales pace since April and followed months of steadier sales boosted by the tax break that was set to expire on [...]



Housing Starts Update

By admin • Sep 22nd, 2009 • Category: Pacific heights, San Francisco Bay Area, Walnut Creek

Sept. 17 (Bloomberg) — Builders in the U.S. broke ground on fewer single-family homes last month as the expiration of the government’s tax credit for first-time buyers approached.
Single-family projects dropped 3 percent, the first decrease since January, while work began on 25 percent more multifamily units such as apartments, figures from the Commerce Department showed [...]



An Overview of License & Permit Bonds

By admin • Jun 5th, 2008 • Category: San Francisco Bay Area

Because businesses are governed by rules, regulations, and laws, most must have permission from a government office to operate. They get this permission by filling out applications and paying for their licenses. In addition, the majority must also supply a bond of some kind. This bond is a promise—backed by a fee—that the business and [...]