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The City of Bakersfield, welcome to Urban SDK! Urban SDK's traffic management platform will provide city officials with on-demand traffic speeds and roadway volumes to identify areas of vulnerability, and validate where traffic calming measures are needed. Manual data collection methods on neighborhood roads and around school zones are quickly becoming obsolete given bandwidth constraints & public expectations; city engineers will now rely on Urban SDK to pinpoint roadways that have the highest rates of speeds and fall within their traffic calming parameters. This knowledge will enable smart deployment of law enformenct resources, and potentially permanent traffic calming implementations. #govtech #ss4a #visionzero #cloudsoftware #trafficmanagement

Congrats to the good folks at Western SC | Economic Development Partnership and the South Carolina Department of Commerce! Their hard work, as is often the case, was a huge factor in getting Columbia Vehicles to locate in Aiken/SC! For those not immediately tangential to this deal like we were, I thought it might be interesting to overview from a broker's perspective how deals like this come together. - In this deal, we represented the seller. (I've included a Case Study and Video as reference for the steps we took in representing our client). Our fundamental goal as fiduciaries for our client, Fenix Manufacturing Solutions, was to maximize their return on the building. Ultimately, we ended up with two different prospective buyers at the table, both of which would've been impactful for our community. Of particular note here is the $/SF that we were able to demand for the facility, given market factors at play including limited availability of facilities. We negotiated hard using the data at our disposal. Additionally, we were able to close quickly (64 days). Glen Caulk with Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough did an tremendous job representing the seller as attorney. - Video Overview Here: https://lnkd.in/ePBvZNaT - Case Study: https://lnkd.in/eXDdAdwQ - Damien Lanclos, CCIM represented the buyer, Columbia Vehicles. His role was to locate the best facility for his client, whether in the CSRA, or some other market. Damien was thorough and pushed hard for his client. Upon putting the property under contract, Damien worked diligently on behalf of his buyer to investigate the property via typical due diligence assessment and more specifically, regarding environmental concerns. Damien leveraged the Property Condition Assessment on the property to push for a reduction in the sales price, which he ultimately received. Additionally, Chris Driver and Hull Barrett, PC represented Columbia Vehicles on this deal as attorney, and were a pleasure to work with. - Western SC | Economic Development Partnership and the South Carolina Department of Commerce ensured the site was competitive nationally, balancing tax incentives with substantial community and economic benefits. There are relatively stringent requirements related to the quality and pay of jobs that are produced. While the taxes paid by the entity end up reduced, the jobs produced and the ripple effects of the income spent in the community more than offset any incentives. (I don't have visibility to what those were). This deal not only represents a significant transaction but also a strategic investment in our community’s future, demonstrating the powerful impact of collaborative economic development! #economicdevelopment #CommercialRealEstate #IndustrialRealEstate #Manufacturing #SiteSelection

“The cost of running a city is the linear feet of everything … of sewer and water and sidewalk and roads …” In order to create more sustainable and affordable places to live, cities need to continue improving how they plan for and account for their infrastructure. #localgov #municipalfinance #cityplanning

Austin Hill and polesitter Cole Custer were fast all race long in the NASCAR Xfinity Series Crown Royal Purple Bag Project 200 at Darlington Raceway, but Justin Allgaier was faster. In this video, Hill and Custer recap their top-three day: https://lnkd.in/ey_Uvfak #NASCAR | #racing | #autoracing | #racinglife | #racingnews | #motorsports | #motorsport | #sports | #sportsnews | #sportsbiz | #sportsbusiness | #sportsindustry | #sportsjournalism | #journalism

Lower Speed Limits in Long Beach! 🚦Understand the legal implications and considerations for drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians with insights from the Law Offices of Robin D. Perry & Associates. Let us help you navigate the road ahead. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/ghbQ6nUp

Today marks a significant milestone in assistive technology history. For people who are blind, the use of braille equals literacy. And aside from physical hard copy braille, which is expensive and takes a long time to produce, the use of refreshable, electronic braille displays enabled blind people to receive braille when connected to other tools running a screen reader. These displays are often 20-40 characters long and give access to the written word in a single line experience. As this has provided more access to braille in general, it can obviously be challenging for readers to identify things like spatial formatting, page structure, and creates real challenges when trying to work on STEM subjects one line at a time. Today the Monarch, the world's first Dynamic Tactile device capable of displaying both 10 lines of 32 braille characters, and tactile images on the same surface, is officially available for purchase. I have had the privilege over the past 4 years of being one of the leads on this project here at the American Printing House for the Blind. I say one of the leaders, because this project took partnerships across the board and around the world. From our partnership with HumanWare as an equal investor, to the partnership with the NFB to ensure we kept the blind user at the center of all we did, along with aligning our advocacy efforts to the federal government. In addition there have been tech innovation partnerships with DOT Inc who designed the braille cell tech that is used in the Monarch's tactile display, to the eBRAILLE standard development taken up by the DAISY Consortium and over 40 organizations around the world. Students around the country and world will begin receiving Monarch tactile displays, and soon we at APH will begin distributing their textbooks in a digital format. The federal government funds textbooks for students in K-12 here in the states and we have received early notice from the Senate languge for our appropriation bill that there is bipartisan support to increase APH's federal appropriation to fund Monarch's for any blind child who could use one in America. This still needs to be voted on, and with the political uncertainty in our country, a lot can still happen, but we are beyond excited to see Monarchs flying today, and to see the excitement by congress to potentially provide funding to eliminate the cost barrier of this expensive technology for our students. As I told my team today. "There's always more work to do but if we can't stop and celebrate the victories we've been working so hard for, then what are we really doing?" Here's to the next generation of braille readers and i can't wait to see how this new tactile tech improves their access to digital information!

A great safety culture: when people continue to work safely, and do the right thing, even when no one is watching. Relentless Integrity; Courageous Leadership; Continuous Innovation

#teamtrigon will be at the Last Mile Conference tomorrow - if you’re heading there please grab James, Benjamin or Mark to learn more about our taxonomy aligned projects for Bloom - Urban Warehouses delivering relatable & demonstrable ESG outcomes! #LMC #ESG

New on the blog: How to navigate North Texas — by car, bike, bus or train. In our latest post, we’re covering DFW transportation do’s and don’ts: https://bit.ly/44VjQTa.

New on the blog: How to navigate North Texas — by car, bike, bus or train. In our latest post, we’re covering DFW transportation do’s and don’ts: https://bit.ly/44VjQTa.