While hundreds of infrastructure projects languish for want of funding, experts say that last year alone, the top 30 global infrastructure equity funds raised enough capital to finance $724 billion dollars’ worth of these projects. Funding is not a problem! Interestingly enough, the United States was home to five of the top 10 and 10 […]
Finding something on which U.S. voters can agree is a difficult task these days. Here’s an exception. The majority of registered voters participating in a recent national survey agree that the nation’s infrastructure – from roads and bridges to railways, dams and water pipelines – is in dire need of repair. According to the results […]
Last month, President Obama signed a bill that had reached his desk. The new statute had only one objective – to improve the federal government’s slow responses to Freedom of Information (FOIA) requests. The intent of the congressional sponsors was clearly to make government more transparent to the people it serves. If that can be […]
Every city seems to want more parks. And, when real estate is at a premium and park land is scarce, officials often develop parks in very strange places. New York City, the nation’s largest city, recently announced plans to convert vacant underground space in a subway station into a park. This very strange space, which […]
The doors of opportunity are opening for private investors in the municipal water market in the United States. With the country facing a water infrastructure funding gap of $532 billion over the next 10 years, private-sector investments and public-private partnerships (P3s/PPPs) are expected to play a growing role in ownership, management and operation of municipal […]
Innovative cities and economic development organizations are collaborating to stimulate growth, improve public health and enhance tax revenue. And, they are doing it at very little cost. Sounds almost too good to be true…but it’s all happening when urban parks and green spaces are developed and maintained. Studies show that urban parks and green spaces […]
Millions of dollars’ worth of government contracts and increased opportunities for an infusion of private capital through public-private partnerships (P3s) in the United States will result from the announcement today of the recipients of $500 million in Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grants. Forty communities in 32 states and two U.S. territories were awarded […]