(THIS IS A TEST BLOG. THE CONTENT WAS TAKEN FROM DELTA AIR LINES BLOG.) Earlier today, Delta crew members flew from Atlanta into New York-JFK. Flights began bringing the first customers in since New York operations were suspended Sunday evening. The first was flight 2350 from Atlanta arriving at 12:02pm followed by Delta flight 269 from […]
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A Run Along the Eastside Trail of the Atlanta BeltLine
Allen Post, author of the columns on Sprout Space in March 2012, writes this week about his experience with the new section of the Atlanta BeltLine. The photo is from Ryan Gravel, a senior urban designer for Perkins+Will, who conceived of the BeltLine while earning his master’s degree in architecture at Georgia Tech. Read more and […]
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Boomerang Buyers Ready to Enter the Market Again
Everyone loves a comeback story. A recent article in the Wall Street Journal reported on buyers that are making a comeback – “boomerang buyers.” These buyers aren’t new to the market but they are experiencing home buying differently the second time around – with a foreclosure in their past. While it seems like just yesterday […]
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Facebook is a breeze for my Mom. Maybe it’s time she “liked” the bourbon pages! Many people say they join Facebook to keep up with their kids. I’m just trying to follow my Mom, who celebrates her 96th birthday Wednesday. While many Atlantans will be handing out candy to Halloween trick-or-treaters, my family will be […]
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Election Outcome Doesn’t Really Affect Home Prices? Or Does it?
With polling results reflecting an extremely close presidential race, we are not predicting a winner. But one thing we can predict is that no matter whether there will be a moving van driving up to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in January or the Obamas will be in residence, the housing market may suffer. The cyclical nature […]
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HIPAA Risks and Social Media
By David Martin, President and CEO of VeinInnovations Is your practice using social media to stay in touch with patients and reach out to new ones? If so, you’re one of many in the medical community expanding into digital society. The New York Times recently profiled a doctor who goes one step […]
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You Can Hurry Creativity, Cut Design Time By Overlapping Phases
In this third part of a series on the planning and strategy of healthcare design, Amanda Mewborn discusses how she works with the architects at Perkins+Will and their healthcare clients on efficient design that enhances the quality of the patients’ experience. When I first joined Perkins+Will, I understood that I would have two main roles: […]
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Responses to Clients on Social Media Critical for Building, Maintaining Relationships
As we inched along this past Sunday night in the security line in what seemed like an endless corridor at Logan Boston Airport, my wife Jan tweeted our frustration on her cell phone. Not a major crisis, mind you. Nevertheless, a communications professional somewhere was monitoring comments and responded within a minute or two with […]
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Technology Trends: The Robotics Revolution
At a business conference last week in Park City, Utah, I heard a terrific speaker, Erik Peterson, Director, Global Business Policy Council, A.T. Kearney. Unlike the President during last week’s debate, Mr. Peterson did not seem to be adversely affected by the thin mountain air. In his presentation, Mr. Peterson identified four significant trends in […]
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Hospital Can Treat Emergency Room Patients Faster with Analysis of Treatment Process
Amanda Mewborn of Perkins+Will worked with a client on to understand process changes in the emergency department of a hospital, and used analytics to determine the impact of those process changes on the physical space. A large community hospital with more than 100,000 emergency visits annually struggled with patient waiting times, and decided to make […]
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Piedmont Sets a High Standard with the New Newnan Hospital
Recently, Amanda Mewborn of Perkins+Will visited Piedmont Newnan Hospital to see how the new hospital is providing world class care to the Coweta County community located about one hour south of Atlanta. Piedmont Newnan Hospital in Newnan, Georgia, about one hour south of Atlanta, is a showplace of the latest community acute care hospital design […]
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New Learning Environment Geared Towards Success in Workplace
In this last column in a series on K-12 design, Barbara Crum, Principal and Market Sector Leader for K-12 at Perkins+Will, discusses a new type of learning environment that mirrors a traditional work place. The Center for Advanced Professional Studies (CAPS) in Overland Park, Kansas, provides high school juniors and seniors with unique educational programs […]
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Innovative School Designs Support 21st Century Learning
In this second of a series on K-12 design, Barbara Crum, Principal and Market Sector Leader for K-12 at Perkins+Will, discusses the concept of project-based learning and how it was incorporated into the design of Coahulla Creek High School in Dalton, Georgia. Most of us went to high schools with the same design: long corridors […]
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Inside Atlanta PR – Profiling the Profiler
Profiling the profiler: Inside Atlanta PR columnist Chris Schroder is quizzed by last week’s interview subject, Betsey Weltner Betsey: Chris, thank you for letting me turn the tables on you. Like all of the public relations practitioners featured in your column in the SaportaReport, you have an interesting career story as well as many interests […]
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Why the Housing Recovery Matters
Recently news outlets have been reporting small gains across the country in the housing market. Home prices improved in 20 cities, including Atlanta, and reporters were quick to add that an improving housing market will benefit the economy as a whole. No one followed up with an explanation of why a healthy housing market has […]
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A Total Transformation: Benjamin E. Mays High School
In the first of this new three-part series. Barbara Crum, Principal and Market Sector Leader for K-12 at Perkins+Will, discusses the transformation of Benjamin E. Mays High School in Southwest Atlanta. Perkins+Will won an Atlanta Urban Design Commission Award for the project in June 2012. If you’ve ever been involved in a home renovation then […]
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Consumers – Data confirms Optimal Time to Buy
The Metro Atlanta Housing Market has entered a rare phase in normal housing cycles. Gradual diminishing benefit generally follows after this point is reached. Current housing data confirms housing prices are on the rise, inventory is significantly reduced, and historically low mortgage rates although slightly higher are still available. The down side risk of single […]
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Charlie Hayslett converted a government reporting career into a successful public affairs career
Charlie Hayslett was more than a decade into his career as a newspaper reporter when Bob Cohn of Cohn & Wolfe PR firm called him one afternoon and asked, “Have you had enough of the newspaper business?” “You happened to have called me on a day when the answer is ‘Yes’,” Charlie told him. That’s […]
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3 Common Misconceptions About Buying a Home
By J.D. Crowe, Senior Vice President of Southeast Mortgage Working in the mortgage industry, I can’t believe how many customers are pleasantly surprised at their ability to purchase a home. Likewise, it is unnerving to hear how many misconceptions there are about what it takes to purchase in this economy. Here are some of the […]
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Designing Refuge: A Hospice Case Study
In part four of this series on hospice design, Ila Burdette of Perkins+Will illustrates how a thoughtful hospice design benefits patients, caregivers and families while also attracting community interaction. Willson Hospice in Albany, Georgia illustrates the latest hospice design trends we have covered in the past three columns. The new 34,000-square-foot facility includes a 15,000-sf […]
