Reviews for From the Ground up: The Business of Building in an Age of Money

The average rating for From the Ground up: The Business of Building in an Age of Money based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-02-25 00:00:00 Stephen Simmons Good primer on how the various players come together in the elaboration of a major commercial property in the United States, and the challenges they confront - investors, bankers, developers, architects, engineers, contractors, elected and unelected officials, lobbyists, artists, and users and eventual entities own in or renting the final product. When you think of it, it is an amazing process, full of surprises, whose success ultimately depends on luck and the actor's experience, leadership, and the ability to get along with eachother.

Review # 2 was written on 2009-03-10 00:00:00 David Fleming A solid journalistic review of what it takes to build a skyscraper downtown in the 1980s. The answer? Fungible tax breaks and compliant zoning regulations. It also provides a very satisfying balance between the financial, political, and physical aspects of building, and lucky for the author the builders he features made plenty of great boneheaded moves to keep the story itself exciting.