Infrastructure

Solvency for the beleaguered unit is a tall order for the new H+H chief, given myriad challenges from within and afar.

The newly updated Congressional Research Service report may be used as a resource by lawmakers if infrastructure legislation with private activity bond provisions is introduced.

Chicago has mollified American Airlines enough for the airline to throw its support behind a new airline lease agreement.

As the New York City Housing Authority crisis festers, streamlined project delivery could help speed up emergency repairs and fund other capital needs.

Export industries may suffer, and Increases in steel and aluminum prices would hinder infrastructure projects.

Democrats are frustrated that President Trump's infrastructure plan would require state and local governments to come up with the majority of funds for infrastructure projects.

Natchez moved a step closer toward the refinancing of more than $7 million in debt on the Natchez Convention Center, though one citizen voiced concerns Tuesday regarding the process.

Concerns about Trump's infrastructure plan and the president's proposal to eliminate TIGER grants surface at Senate Commerce Committee panel hearing.

The Trump plan proposes only a 20% federal share, leaving local governments to come up with 80% of their own money or in partnership with the state and private investors.

More than 64% of the funding under the TIGER program was awarded to rural projects – a record amount since the program started.

S&P Global Ratings said revenues are not increasing to match the New York regional transit agency's expenses.

Council Speaker Corey Johnson spelled out several conditions for such an increase to MTA Chairman Joe Lhota.

Despite the absence of adequate federal funding levels, the plan advances a vision — greater involvement of the private sector with public infrastructure — and then details how the federal government will pursue this new infrastructure paradigm with its vast authorities.

The declaration could expedite contracting for repairs at NYCHA units through limited city use of design-build project delivery.

The $1 trillion infrastructure plan unveiled by Senate Democrats would be paid for by a rollback of some of the recently enacted Republican tax law provisions.

As the New York City Council held its first hearing on Mayor de Blasio’s $88.67 billion preliminary budget, "Washington" and "Albany" loomed over the proceedings.

Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao confirmed a report that President Trump lobbied House Speaker Paul Ryan against putting any funding for the project in an omnibus spending bill.

Lee County's Board of Supervisors has given the final green-light to issue $7.3 million in bond debt, with an eye toward using about half that amount within a few months time to purchase land intended for use as an industrial park.

Mayor Kirk Caldwell's plan to use city money to pay a share of the cash-strapped East Kapolei-to-Ala Moana rail project is already raising objections from at least two members of the City Council, the body that he needs to OK the major policy shift.

The cost of certification and disclosure requirements over the life of the bonds are cited as potential holdups.