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Private Investors Can Build Bridges
The delayed-again Gordie Howe International Bridge connecting Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, is North America’s latest infrastructure boondoggle. Built on the Canadian government’s tab but involving U.S. oversight, the bridge had a budget at project launch in 2017 of $4.4 billion.
The billion-dollar remote work opportunity that rural America can't reach
Unless governments focus on adoption—not just access—they risk funding infrastructure that goes unused, while rural Americans remain cut off from healthcare, education, and the growing remote job market that today represents nearly a quarter of the U.S. workforce.
How to Make Homeownership Possible for the Next Generation
The United States is in a housing crunch, with a national shortfall of supply, high prices and interest rates scaring off many potential buyers. The country faces a housing shortage estimated at between 4.5 million and 7 million homes – and the gap is only growing.
How Private Capital Could Be the Key to Rebuilding America
Private capital investment in infrastructure could be a more efficient and effective alternative to government funding, potentially stimulating the economy during uncertain times, creating jobs and delivering projects on time and within budget.
Why American Public Schools Are In Ruins -Literally
On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Education announced it was reducing its workforce by about hal...
Want An Effective Management Strategy For Hybrid Workplaces?
It looks like mandatory hybrid office-remote plans are increasingly the preferred policy for companies and their employees across North America. That could spell operational trouble as traditional management structures collide with a fragmented, in-again out-again workforce, potentially hampering productivity and slowing response times.
How to get rural American communities back in fighting shape
The residents and elected officials of rural "left-behind" communities face significant challenges as they play economic catch-up to more prosperous cities and suburbs. The rise of remote work in the wake of the pandemic means more fami...
Opportunities In U.S. Infrastructure: Funding the Massive Capital Gap
Americans who believed we solved our infrastructure problems with the 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law are in for a rude awakening. The fact that Congress is being asked for billions to rebuild the collapse...
How can schools save their buildings?
Across the U.S., students are sitting in freezing, molding, and all too often dangerous classrooms, as school buildings, one of America's most underfunded infrastructure areas, go ignored. School districts, in dire need of a capital infus...
Private Capital Can Save America's Crumbling Roads and Bridges
Even with the landmark $1.3 trillion 2021 infrastructure bill under its belt, the Biden Administration returned to Congress this summer to ask for more money to repair Maryland's critically damaged Francis S...
Real Estate Industry Requires New Talent With Upcoming Transformation
Real estate investment, traditionally reliant on meticulous spreadsheet analysis combined with a touch of intuition, is on the brink of a significant transformation that will redefine the industry over the next five years.
Say goodbye...
Why Ground Lease REITs Are Building in Popularity
Numerous publicly traded real estate trusts (REITs) have faced challenges in the past year, with returns largely trailing stock market indexes. But REITs that are focu...
An Analysis Of The Effect Of Ground Leases On Overall Property Values
Surveying the landscape of property development in the last half-decade reveals a notable turbulence within the sector. Numerous narratives in the mainstream business press highlight not not only stumbling projects on a domestic level but also on a global scale. Now, more than ever, efficient capital deployment is critical, and novel approaches are in order.
Hospitality Ground Leases
The hospitality industry is facing a critical moment. As interest rates fluctuate, many hospitality groups find themselves squeezed by increasing debt service expenses, a consequence of the Federal Reserve's efforts to combat inflation. Ground...
Cash Flow Crunch Prompts Renewed Interest In Land Leases
Property owners and developers of some relatively high-profile assets - like the Hard Rock Casino in Rockford, Illinois - have been turning to sale-leaseback deals of the land their buildings sit on in an attempt to mitigate interest rate sho...
Bright Spots Amid Commercial Real Estate Struggles
The landscape for commercial real estate may look dismal from afar with high interest rates and an office space market still in shakeout mode, but pockets of opportunity remain for investors with the right approach and strategy.
Some...
Return-to-office mandates: Why tax breaks are not a reason for companies in states such as Texas, Utah, and New Jersey to force employees back
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. businesses were receiving an average of $30 billion annually in local and state tax incentives, much of it for creating jobs that directly benefit local economies. Those agreements typically required workers to...
Solving The Current Commercial Real Estate Crisis Will Take Private-Public Partnerships
The dark clouds over the commercial real estate market - and office buildings in particular - continue to gather as regional and community banks cut their loan exposure to the sector. Regional and community banks continue to dump commercial r...
A Simple Idea To Ease The Housing Affordability Crisis
Here's a big idea to address America's worsening housing affordability crisis: Let more Americans own their home without buying the land underneath it.
If that sounds crazy, it shouldn't. It's been a widely used and successfu...