Transformation and Connection: Athens hosts the 2025 Georgia Planning Association (GPA) ConferenceLast week Jonathan Gelber (VP), Tate Wilson (Director), and Gabby Oliverio (Sr. Consultant) joined planners from across Georgia in Athens for the annual fall Georgia Planning Association (GPA) Conference. This three-day event brought planning professionals...
In his recent Pondering Place post, KB Senior Consultant Trevor Butler writes about the patterns behind great places in the Atlanta area. These are the places that work like ecosystems. Housing, retail, civic space, and transportation all depend on each other. Where people linger, meet friends...
I’ve been turning over a question lately that keeps surfacing in different forms, in different places: What are cities for? Not just how they function, or how they grow, but what purpose they serve, and for whom. Trevor Butler, a member of our team here at...
Last week, several of our team members joined hundreds of housing, planning, and real estate professionals in Downtown Atlanta for the Urban Land Institute (ULI) Housing Opportunity Conference. Senior Consultant, Trevor Butler, shared some of his key takeaways. Overall, the word that came to my mind...
This year's Urban Land Institute (ULI) Housing Opportunity Conference will be hosted February 25-26 here in Atlanta! As outlined by ULI, this conference convenes a mix of housing industry professionals including private and nonprofit real estate developers, public officials, urban and regional planners, housing advocates, architects,...
Amidst a housing crisis, Atlanta looks to convert underutilized office spaces to residential units. As offices across the country remain underutilized since the COVID-19 pandemic, cities look for innovative ways to transform these spaces. Downtown Atlanta is a primary example of this trend. In a study...
Georgia is in the midst of an ever-growing housing crisis. The state’s population has grown at one of the fastest rates over the past decade thanks to robust and successful economic development efforts, a beautiful climate, and other attractive attributes; however, housing production and preservation,...
Written by: Trevor Butler Edited by: Alex Seidenberg The conversation surrounding housing affordability has transcended its historical confines within coastal markets, now echoing loudly in almost every major city across the United States. The recent ULI Housing Opportunity Conference held in Austin, Texas, served as a microcosm...
Greetings Friends – Happy New Year from all of us at KB Advisory Group. As we embark on another trip around the sun, we look forward to celebrating our firm’s 23rd anniversary in October. (Personally, I’m looking forward to celebrating the Big 5-0 in July). I hope...
With the holiday season upon us, it’s important to give thanks and think about how we can give back. The holiday season often fosters a greater sense of giving, and we as a firm believe it is important to do so. This month we want to...