Northeast

Carmen Taveras is the agency's first chief of real estate, economic development, and transit-oriented development

Over the past three years, TD Securities has expanded its New York City-based team of public finance and sales and trading professionals.

Fitch Ratings upgraded the private institution in Biddeford, Maine, to A-plus from A-minus.

Longwood Gardens Inc., the late DuPont Co. chief Pierre S. du Pont's intensively planted Chester County estate that has become a top Pennsylvania tourist attraction, is planning a major expansion, bond documents show.

General Treasurer Seth Magaziner announced measures to encourage Rhode Island residents to buy state bonds.

LIPA's $820 million capital plan for 2020 includes $559.7 million of bonds.

The agency's repair backlog is measured in the tens of billions of dollars.

The question of how to pay for the governor's $21 billion, 10-year transportation bill points to the political third rail of highway tolls.

Montreal businessman Anthony McCord will arrive next month as New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority's chief transformation officer to address the authority's myriad operational and capital funding challenges.

The $1 billion bi-state agreement includes building a wider bridge over the Potomac and adding tolled express lanes.