Trends in the Regions

The prepaid electricity bond deal issued by the California Community Choice Financing Authority for the Clean Power Allliance was record-setting in size.

Skeptical lawmakers, a new administration in Baton Rouge, and construction change orders all meant repeated delays in commercial close of the P3.

The University of Chicago embarked on the Illinois Finance Authority's largest financing ever to transform its capital structure and fund major projects.

The projects funded by the deal align with the city of Alexandria's goal to reduce community-wide greenhouse gas emissions 50% by 2030.

The deal, which marks the city's largest special facilities revenue bond issuance, will help finance a terminal project at George Bush Intercontinental Airport.

The $4.5 billion of New York Transportation Development Corp. bonds sold for the P3 won the Northeast category of The Bond Buyer's 2024 Deal of the Year awards.

The Los Angeles school district was at the forefront of a Build America Bond refunding wave with its $2.9 billion deal.

The finance team burned the midnight oil to assemble and market one of the most complex deals in the municipal market this year.

Omaha voters approved six general obligation bond measures totaling $333.4 million last week, none of which required a tax increase.

The borrower is planning to use a convertible taxable "Cinderella" structure in the wake of a delay in securing tax exemption for a chunk of the deal.

Voters approved at least 168 local school bond measures for $42.8 billion, according to preliminary tallies, but dozens of bond requests will fall short.

Unless the state government makes changes to taxes or spending, there will be deficits of $587 million to more than $800 million starting in the next fiscal year.

With the rollout of a new final EPA rule, Midwest municipalities are seeking ways to finance lead pipe replacement efforts, including through revenue bonds.

Issuers in Southwest states led by Texas are hoping voters will approve billions of dollars of bonds in Tuesday's election.

The Philadelphia-based university straddles the higher education and healthcare sectors, but market demand suggests it's greater than the sum of its parts.

Pressure on the state budget level is being felt by both the University of California and California State University systems.

Large measures to authorize or support bonds are on the menu in several of the region's largest cities and suburbs.

After a strong jobs report this month drove mortgage rates higher, the Midwest is seeing more bonds financing loans to single-family and multifamily homebuyers.

The Harris County-Houston Sports Authority's CEO was ousted and its chair faces ouster as it prices a $330 million deal to restructure its bond debt.

The deal was the latest billion-dollar-plus transaction for one of the P3 airport terminal projects at John F. Kennedy International Airport.