12.29.08
Start 2009 off Right
November saw a turn around in the Environmental area. I had few more environmental due diligence projects on commercial re sale properties. This may be an indicator that at least the resale market is starting to pick up. Also, I picked up a new Client this month, a shopping center property management company. This shopping center has been having groundwater issues for the past nine years and is listed on the States Hazardous Site Index – a dry cleaner operated at that center for 10 years and accidentally released dry cleaning chemicals to the soil and groundwater. My company is now responsible for monitoring the conditions, and I have proposed a method to clean up the site and to have it removed from the State’s list of hazardous sites. Because of what I had done so far, I was awarded another shopping center to clean up. I will keep you posted with that.
December has been an interesting month for me and my company. As many companies, including environmental consultancies, stumbled and failed during 2008, I saw a glimmer of hope of things starting to turn around. During this month, I had a repeat client whom I haven’t done any work for in a couple of years, has involved me with a large-scale redevelopment project. My continued networking with other small consultant firms appears to have paid off as well. Although there seems to have been a decline in the environmental due diligence on commercial resale, I am expecting the pendulum to swing the other way. I know that there are still people out there with money that want to invest while the prices and interest rates are low, and I want some of it.
Being that this is my first blog I am still wondering just how much information you will want to sate that hunger for knowledge? So, I will keep this short.
