Drilling for Liquid Gold. Water, That Is.
Tragedy struck suddenly from the sky in Tuscaloosa on April 27, 2011, when an EF-4 tornado ripped through the town with...
Standout Projects: Flagship Reconstruction
When Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans and the surrounding Gulf Coast communities in August 2005, she took with her portions of the...
Standout Projects: Top-in-Hemisphere Green Merits
The eight-story, 85, 000-square-foot Perkins + Will Office Building at 1315 Peachtree may be located in Atlanta, but it was Alabama...
Standout Projects: Polishing the Mobile Skyline
On October 17, 1965, the Mobile Press-Register ran a full page ad: “Towering to a skyline-splitting height of 424 feet above...
Martin Marietta's Mad Men Blitz Kiboshed
In the spring of 2010, Vulcan Materials Inc. CEO Don James was seriously studying the next big deal—a merger by the Birmingham-based...
Cross Section of an Alabama Mainstay
From church pews to utility poles to executive toys, Alabama’s wood and wood products industries are hanging on during a tough economy....
Extravagant Bargains
Investor Warren Buffet is known for his house nearly as much as his billions. According to Forbes, Buffet is the third-richest person...
Seven Real Estate Winners
The Alley, Montgomery Sometimes a big deal can occur in a small space—like a back alley, for example. That...
Shot in the Dark
Construction of the 14, 000-square-foot luxury lodge was completed in 2007, on the...
Aggressive Strategies in Hard Times
Few business sectors have been hit as hard as the construction industry by the economic downturn that began in 2008. The Associated General...