As of 11am today, Bug-A-Boo Bay is under new ownership. The buyer is Randy Stodola. He is from the New Germany area. He has owned two bars there, his last one was Down South. He sold it in August of 2009. Down South was a Carribbean style bar/restaurant that he had fashioned after Alexandria’s very…
We had plenty of snow…I thought temperatures were unusually warm for Alexandria. From the KSAX newsroom…6 days below 20 degrees, and 6 days from 10-20 degrees below zero. It sure kills a lot of bugs at 10 below zero. Source: KSAX meteorologist Mark Anderson
This is interesting…you should take the time to read these articles…Housing Shortage?…I have said before that there will come a time here in Alexandria, when buyers cannot find the property that they are looking for…to some degree that has already started…judging by how many homes people look at before they do find one to buy. …
Reading the National Association of Home Builders Online for March 8, 2010, it had this to say: “For the week ending on Feb. 19, the Random Lengths composite index stood at $317 per 1000 board feet, its highest level since the first half of July 2006. that price was up more than 26% from the…
Last year, 2009, the Alexandria Building Department issued 1,244 permits on construction projects worth more than $50.2 million. That compares to 1,057 issued in 2008 on projects valued at $55.2 million. And in 2007, the projects totalled $56.9 million. The A.B.D. (Alexandria Building Department) said that 22 new homes were constructed within the city and…
In reading these comments, I thought that it would be best to share them: “employment losses have steadily declined over the past six months. In fact, private sector jobs (ex-construction) have risen over the past two months….The stark reality of the unemployment situation is that higher education levels are associated with lower unemployment-and vice versa…
Alex City Assessor Report.2009I received this report from the City Assessor of Alexandria. It is a very good culmination of research data, done by the city assessor on the local housing market inside of the city limits. It shows that there was an overall decrease in value of 9% but the median is still well…
