Infrastructure

The initiative aims to figure out ways to finance infrastructure as state and local governments weather the pandemic.

City Council reservations torpedoed Mayor Adrian Perkins' request to ask voters for $207 million of general obligation bond authority.

Miami Mayor Francis Suarez talks with Chip Barnett of The Bond Buyer about what makes the Magic City so appealing to companies and investors alike right now. He discusses the attractiveness of its business climate, the city’s financial strengths, efforts to fight climate change and the diversity and resilience of its residents. (7 minutes)

Mayor Adrian Perkins put the bond proposals before the City Council and asked for a vote on a special April 24 election on four bond referendums.

“I couldn’t be more pleased to learn that Alabama will be the new home to the United States Space Command," said Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey.

The new Democratic Senate majority makes the path to enacting muni-friendly policy easier than it has been for years.

A new policy framework supports “enhanced bond financing incentives that can be used to improve water quality and reduce other environmental stressors.”

John Hallacy, founder of John Hallacy Consulting LLC, talks about the most important opportunities and challenges the municipal bond market will face in 2021. He gives his estimate on where muni volume may be headed, discusses the possibility of a federal infrastructure program and talks about what to expect under a Biden Administration. Chip Barnett hosts. (Recorded Dec. 22; 22 minutes)

After one of the worst sell-offs in municipal market history as COVID-19 began its rampage in March, the market rebounded to set the all-time record.

The bi-state agency may face further cuts to its capital program after receiving no funds in the second round of federal coronavirus relief.

The president-elect takes a much more expansively realistic view on the synergistic relationship between infrastructure investment and the middle class.

Sources see ways to get more investment in infrastructure with municipal bond provisions, but bipartisanship will be essential.

Fitch Ratings upgraded bonds supporting the Maryland light-rail transit project after the sides reached an agreement that protects bondholders.

Several factors have combined to position an innovative approach — the public-private partnership, or P3 model — as a crucial emerging tool for public entities nationwide.

The state will use a public-private partnership to replace the 68-year-old Interstate 10 bridge over the Calcasieu River between Westlake and Lake Charles.

The toll road operator parters with three international investors to sell half of its U.S. express lane assets in Northern Virginia while eyeing additional highway projects around nation's capital, including a Maryland P3.

The legal wrangling over whether the state can control expressways in Miami-Dade County is expected to rage on well into 2021.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is proposing a scaled down 2021 budget that includes additional borrowing for its capital program.

The project will construct a new 11-mile east-west freeway south of Lincoln, Nebraska, and it will be financed in a way that doesn’t infringe on state borrowing limits or expose investors to undue credit risk.

Law firm appoints Robert Labes to head its public and infrastructure finance practice group with hopes for expansion if an infrastructure bill comes to fruition.