Day 3; 10/2/13

         The third day was by far the most interesting so far. Mr. Koto came by and told me that he wanted me to see more of the job then what desk jockeys see. By the way, the is not the exact thing that he said. The first area I was taken to was a site in Montclair to see how excavation is going. After that we looked at a ground water cleaning station by a shop rite. Can't much about the actual project since it is company information but I picked up interesting information to and form the areas. The first thing I learned is why one always see stores of a similar bland near each other. Examples would be why there are always multiple car dealer ships, banks, or corner shops near each other. Basically once a certain store gets a contract to a town they will then get set up. But then, another company will go to the town and say that it isn't fair to the people if they only have one store to buy stuff for and that is limited competition. This leads to other stores building up near the first one. It turns out that to a company, hurting another companies profits is more important than boosting your own. I also learned that stores don't like owning land. So, all those malls that you see aren't owned my the stores that are on top of them. They are only leased for 99 years. After driving with Mr. Koto, I got back to the office in time for lunch. After lunch, Mr. Raina came up to me with another task. He has another project in a town called Hawthorne. However, the person who is building is making a combination type of building that can qualify as residential and industrial. As a result, Mr, Raina needed me to go through Hawthorn rules in order to make a zoning table. A zoning table basically describes the rules and constraints one much follow if they are to make a building. These rules change from town to town and they change for various building purpose. That took me until the end of the day. The entire day took around 8 hours. Please note that I am going to spot saying the total amount of ours per day since most days are around 8 hours.