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PWF Interview: Nossaman’s Brandon Davis on Airport P3s, LA Infra, Enabling Legislation

Los Angeles is a city of extremes, in infrastructure and everything else. With the Olympics and World Cup approaching, the city has passed unprecedented levels of transportation funding and is home to some of America’s pioneering megaproject public-private partnerships, including two at LAX.  It is also an extraordinarily challenging development environment, for infrastructure and everything […]

Virgin Islands P3 Legislation Introduced, Advisor Selected for Airports P3

The U.S. Virgin Islands advanced its major brownfield airports P3 in December, hiring Stantec as the Technical Advisor for the ongoing procurement. Stantec will also provide comprehensive consulting services for the Virgin Islands Port Authority (VIPA) on ongoing development projects at the airports. VIPA is aiming to select a preferred proposer for the P3 in […]

Tennessee Passes Choice Lanes Enabling Legislation

In the span of a mere few months, Tennessee’s “Choice Lanes” initiative has gone from an initial proposal from Governor Bill Lee to enabling legislation. Governor Lee first proposed the program in December, and on March 30th, the state legislature passed the Transportation Modernization Act to enable the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) to evaluate […]

Tennessee Choosing Choice Lanes

They’ve been referred to as managed lanes, express lanes, and High-Occupancy Toll (HOT) Lanes. In Maryland they will be called OP Lanes. Now, in Tennessee, they’ve come up with a new name for a project that adds lanes with dynamic tolling along an existing highway network: “Choice Lanes.”

Colorado Law Provides Broad Authorization for Social Infra P3s

Colorado Senate Bill SB22-130 has now officially become law. The legislation provides a broad authority for all branches of the state government to enter into P3s for social infrastructure. The law does not modify existing P3 authorities for the state department of transportation or institutions of higher education.