Orlando took the next step in its ambitious $1.1 billion Community Venues Program, moving forward toward a contract to start some interim renovation work at its aging Citrus Bowl, but it also ran into trouble.
The Florida Dept. of Transportation moved one step forward on its high-speed rail project, but politicians in Tallahassee proposed and approved a massive raid on the state's transportation fund.
ABC economist Aniban Basu recently told a group of Orlando-area builders that the economy is improving, but that things may get worse before they get better.
Readers responded in a big way to the question I asked in my recent blog post about President Barack Obama's impact on the construction industry. Additionally, more than 500 people voted in our corresponding web poll.
President Barack Obama has been in office for more than a year now, and the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act just had its one-year anniversary. Still, construction's unemployment rate is nearly 1 in 4. With that in mind, we ask: What has been President Obama's impact on the industry?
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