Professionals
Monthly Barbecues Are Back
Please join us at any of our three lumberyard locations.
We enjoy hosting monthly barbecues for building industry professionals. These get-togethers take place usually the last week of the month at each of our lumberyard locations. The food is good and plentiful. The company is great and we hope you will bring along others from your organization.
Take a lunchtime break the last week in February at Dolan's. Read more for dates and times.
When cities and counties increase developer fees, logic suggests that new construction will decrease. Less homes and commercial property means fewer businesses and less tax revenues. Yet in some California areas the fee wars continue and in others, common sense is proving its worth.
It was a full house of building industry professionals on December 10, 2009 in Walnut Creek. The Katz Roadshow with Gary Katz, sponsored by Dolan's, drew 175 builders, contractors, carpenters and apprentices for a day-long clinic, "Finish Carpentry." Co-sponsors included WindsorONE®, Festool®, Stabila® and Andersen® Windows & Doors.
California builders received encouragement on October 14, 2009 when the state Senate approved extension of the successful $10,000 tax credit that stimulated thousands of new-home sales this past spring and summer. The Senate voted 35-1 to reauthorize the use of $30 million in credits not awarded during the first program. That should allow the state to give tax credits to about 4,300 more buyers of new unoccupied homes.
Here's another example of a Washington D.C. council establishing one-size-fits-all rules that don't consider variations on the size of a new home construction project or remodels.
