In my Savannah Morning News column today, I focus on the monetary value of on-street parking: New parking on Price will spur economic activity. A single parking space near a vibrant retail area could result in tens of thousands of…
There literally isn’t anything in the latest Savannah area MLS data that jumps out at me. (The numbers are typically available on the 9th of each month but I’m just now looking closely at them.) The total number of sales…
I predicted over a week ago that we should see average gas prices in the Savannah area fall eventually to $3.30 per gallon or less. But the price of crude has been bouncing around a bit, which could make that…
I posted a couple of weeks ago about the looming changes to Price Street in Savannah, which will likely turn from a horrid two-lane, one-way speedway to a much friendlier street with one lane of vehicular traffic, a bike lane,…
[UPDATE, 4/4/12: This high school is now officially called New Hampstead High School, after the name of the New Hampstead development that has been almost completely stalled since the housing bust.] The Savannah-Chatham County public school system is moving ahead…
As a real estate agent friend noted in a mass email, historic properties are still selling in Savannah. The fundamentals are certainly pretty lousy — too many listings and too few buyers, too many vacant condo conversion attempts — but…
I wrote about Green Bridge Farm, a sustainable community in Effingham County, in a post a few weeks ago. Yesterday I went out again to Green Bridge Farm for the open house for Clayton Homes’ i-house, a zero energy home…
The passenger numbers from Savannah/Hilton Head International certainly aren’t the most important numbers that I follow. But the figures are interesting, and they’re clean in the sense of being valid for year-over-year comparisons. They’re also easy to find on the…
For one of my first meals after I moved to Savannah in 1995, I met some new friends and colleagues at Vinnie’s at the west end of City Market on Franklin Square. I’ve been there countless times over the years,…
[UPDATE, 8/23: For updated information on the payment policy for bands, go here.] In a post recently about John Mellencamp’s overpriced tickets to play the Johnny Mercer, I asked how much live music is really worth. Well, there’s an interesting…
The city of Savannah is moving ahead with the planned conversion of Price Street from two lanes one-way with no on-street parking to a new concept with one lane of traffic, on-street parking where conditions allow, and a bike lane.…
An interesting piece on Sunday in the NYT: Poe Museum Is Threatened With ‘Nevermore’. (Since I started this draft, the title has changed: Fiscal Woe Haunting Baltimore Poe House). From the piece: For a second year city leaders have chosen…
Well this is sort of depressing news. The 36-year old rapper Antwan Patton, better known as Big Boi and half of Outkast, was arrested in Miami. According to CNN, bonds of $16,000 were set. Big Boi is a Savannah native…
Adam Van Brimmer has another interesting and detailed piece about a specific sector of the Savannah housing market today in the Savannah Morning News: Berwick victim of poor timing; will be a ‘viable’ market as economy improves, Realtors say. The…
