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The Campaign to Cancel Puerto Rico’s Electricity Grid Concession (2026 Update)

Puerto Rico’s energy sector reforms have, for years now, been the most challenging and politically contentious infrastructure reforms in the United States. Now, the concessionaire operating and rehabilitating the island’s grid is fighting to prevent its concession contract from being outright cancelled via a series of lawsuits from the government. Whether the concession survives will […]

Dulles Airport Renovation Gets White House Attention

The potential P3 to renovate Dulles Airport appears to be progressing quickly, in part because it has attracted a unique political champion: President Trump himself was reportedly been taking meetings and fielding pitches regarding the project in February. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has also reportedly been directly involved in the discussions. The meetings in February […]

Commercial Close for Ontario Science Center P3

A long-awaited public-private partnership (P3) to build a new Ontario Science Center has finally reached commercial close. The project, which was procured by Infrastructure Ontario (IO), will design, build, finance and maintain the new science center as a key component of the province’s efforts to redevelop Ontario Place in Toronto. Once the construction is completed […]

Metro Chooses Tunnel for Sepulveda Transit Corridor

LA Metro has finally selected a project alternative for the massive Sepulveda Transit Corridor project, and it will be a heavy rail line tunneled through the Sepulveda Pass. If the project is eventually procured as a Public-Private Partnership (P3), it will almost certainly be in the running for the largest in U.S. history. Metro’s selection […]

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 […]

Will Dulles Airport Makeover Be America’s First Major Airport P3?

Several months ago I received an email from an airport consultant in the U.K. He was preparing a global report on the prospects for whole-airport long-term P3s and wanted my outlook for the United States. I wrote back that no such projects were on the U.S. horizon, and I noted my recent policy paper explaining […]

Shortlist Already for Penn Station Redevelopment

When the Trump Administration took over delivery of the Penn Station redevelopment project last April, it promised to move forward with a procurement quickly for the long-delayed megaproject. It appears to be doing just that. Amtrak has already shortlisted three potential master developer teams and started the RFP process. Amtrak executive Andy Byford, who is […]

P3 Considered for American Legion Bridge, Again

A productive meeting between U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and Maryland Governor Wes Moore in January yielded an interesting, though certainly not novel, idea: a P3 to deliver the reconstruction of the American Legion Bridge. The joint statement released after the meeting reads, in part: “Specifically for the American Legion bridge, we agreed about the […]

GDOT Completes NEPA for I‐285 Top End

In January, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) published a Notice of Final Agency Action in the federal register for the environmental study of the I-285 Top End Project. The notice marks the end of environmental permitting for the project under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) published a Record […]