Florida is considering amping up its spending on improvements to transportation systems, with a focus on roads and bridges. Gov. Ron DeSantis has unveiled a $14.8 billion transportation infrastructure package as part of his 2025-26 “Focus on Fiscal Responsibility Budget.” The proposal includes major investments in highways, rural roadways and the state’s growing aerospace and […]
New York City, San Jose and San Francisco top nationwide list ranking cities’ tech economies, capacity and ability to attract new young talent, according to a recent New York University (NYU) report. The new 2024 report for the Cities Emerging Technologies Index, developed by NYU’s School of Professional Studies (SPS), evaluates how well major U.S. […]
Loudoun County, Virginia’s third-most populous county, is answering the call for public schools and capital projects under a new budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2026 (FY 26). The new budget, considered by the county’s Board of Supervisors, would spend $4.7 billion in the next fiscal year, which begins July 1. The proposal would invest nearly […]
The Chicago Plan Commission has adopted a blueprint for transit-oriented development to complement projects that are bolstering mass transit in a historically Black and low-income part of the city. The 95th Street Corridor plan for Equitable Transit-Oriented Development includes a roadmap for types of new dwellings and mixed-use developments to build near stops along a […]
New York State is investing more than $150 million to transition public college and university campuses to cleaner, greener and more sustainable energy sources. As part of this investment, the state will deliver approximately $100 million in grants to the State University of New York (SUNY) system, including a significant funding boost for climate resiliency […]
New York’s primary economic development agency is searching for a firm that can give the state-owned site of a former long-term care center in the Hudson Valley Region new life as a housing development. Empire State Development (ESD) recently released a request for proposals (RFP) for the purchase and redevelopment of the former Taconic Developmental […]
California is on the verge of making major investments to safeguard against water shortages, if state officials can agree on how to spend newly available dollars. At a recent meeting of the California Water Commission, officials weighed approaches for allocating more than $525 million in water storage funding after a major reservoir expansion project unexpectedly […]