Permit Advisors is at RECON This Week: Why You Need to Talk to a Building Permit Expediter

The largest conference is this week and Permit Advisors, your favorite building permit expediter, will be walking the floors, speaking to architects, and having a great time! Let’s talk about why you need to talk to me while we’re at RECON this year: Building Permit Expediters are Popping Up Everywhere: Now that the recession is officially over and construction is starting back up, new building permit expediters are popping up and not all that glitters is gold, as they say. Some of these new shops are one-man teams that don’t have the bandwidth to handle manage your projects, especially with …

May 22, 2017 By admin

What the NASDAQ Is Saying About Retail Declines

It’s made national news: the NASDAQ is reporting decreased revenue for the retail space with the likes of JC Penny and Kohl’s being hit the hardest. This is leaving many to ask their building permit expediter: what is the NASDAQ really saying with these decreases? I get these questions for two main reasons: 1) I wrote an article about the retail decline being a myth and 2) fear that their projects, aka hopes for a future upturn in profit, won’t be approved by cities. Let me answer the first objection first: the retail decline is a myth. I will get …

May 22, 2017 By admin

Road to RECON: 3 Reasons You Need to Talk to Your Building Permit Expediter

In the next week, everyone from our industry will be attending ICSC’s RECON convention in Las Vegas, Nevada. The show is a chaotic, fun, and insightful event where roughly 60,000 people descend onto Frank Sinatra’s favorite city. Amidst all the hype, the break-out sessions, and the fun, you should make time to talk to your building permit expediter. With the development landscape turning around it is easy to get caught up in the speed of projects and forget the lessons the last decade taught us. As development picks up, jurisdictions get pickier on projects: The truth is, when you build, …

May 22, 2017 By admin

Knowing Which Liquor License to Get for Your Restaurant

Getting a liquor license for your restaurant, bar, or convenience store is expensive, complicated, and takes time. Permit Advisors will explain piece-by-piece the process to make it easier for you begin the process from a knowledgeable standpoint. As always, before we begin we advise you to get a solutions firm on your team before attempting to get a liquor license. Call us at (310) 275-7774 and we will set up a consultation to help you get a feel for what will be needed with your project. The Types of Liquor Licenses Did you know that there are a dozen different …

May 8, 2017 By admin