The city also enjoys consistent annual population growth and ongoing large business activity/investment.  

Meanwhile, the U.S. needs 145,000-200,000 new jobs each month to keep up with population growth, spurred by increased immigration.ConclusionWhile job market momentum has slowed, it's not breaking.

What is this developers fee I see talked about?

Now really looking to develop and new builds.

If the lender won't budge you can always refinance the parcel containing the existing home and remove the developable parcel from the new loan request.

When you buy a lot it is like buying a piece of the pie of someone's development. 

However, I handle the biz development. 

I did a investment lending to a company for land development project.

Specifically, there's job growth (Intel, Honda, Amazon, Nationwide, etc) and the population is growing (unlike Cleveland or Cincy).

However, they let us know that they've hired a skilled team of developers and started working on the platform.