bet it didn’t take John D. Rockefeller a decade to build his refineries....
That was then. In my Long Island town it’s taken longer to build a four story parking garage at the LIRR station than it took to build the Empire State Building.
Some friends are building their retirement house in the Carmel Valley (inland from Monterey, CA). It took them *two years* to get the permits.
Mutual friends I just saw asked how long it would take us to get permits for something like that. I’m in the Atlanta area. I told them if I had plans and the land was already appropriately zoned (likely), probably two weeks at worst.