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Leveraging Government-Owned Land for Affordable Housing

The current housing crisis in Florida is well recognized. One promising solution is the use of surplus or under-utilized government-owned land for the development of new affordable housing. By leveraging their land holdings...more

Overview of Handback Provisions in P3 Agreements: Lessons Learned from UK Projects

Public-Private Partnerships (P3s) are an increasingly common method of delivering public infrastructure. When structured properly, P3s allow governments to leverage private-sector expertise and resources to deliver essential...more

Exporting Florida’s P3 Successes (And Which Should We Import?)

Earlier this month, the Biden administration agreed to provide financial support to Brightline West, which will be a privately operated high-speed inter-city rail system connecting Las Vegas and Southern California. As its...more

P3's and Educational Facilities

P3’s are often thought of as delivery mechanisms for large infrastructure projects such as roads and bridges, but P3s are more and more frequently being utilized to deliver a wide range of social infrastructure. A recent...more

Using P3s to Further Environmental Policy

We have previously written about opportunities for public-private partnerships (P3s) for the development of social infrastructure (i.e., city halls, libraries, courthouses, and other government buildings), and also how P3s...more

Mastering the ABCs of P3s in Florida

One of the most significant transit projects in Florida history reached a new milestone last month when the Brightline rail system expanded its service from South Florida to Orlando. Brightline marks the first privately...more

Infratech: New Opportunities for Public/Private Partnerships and Unsolicited Proposals

Infratech, an amalgamation of “infrastructure” and “technology,” refers generally to the development and implementation of new technologies in infrastructure.  Just as refrigerators and other household appliances have...more

Public-Private Partnerships are Energizing Higher Education Institutions

In our last post, we discussed how in recent years colleges and universities have been among the most successful users of the public-private partnership (“P3”) model. The uptick in higher education P3 utility projects comes...more

As Public Funding Dwindles, Colleges and Universities Turn to Private Sector Partners

Historically, the federal government played the dominant role in funding large infrastructure projects across the country - in many cases funding all or nearly all of project costs. In recent decades, however, public funding...more

2022 Guide to Developing and Investing In South Florida Real Estate: What Out-of-State and Overseas Investors Need to Know

Estimates suggest that 1,000 people are moving to Florida each day, with most of them heading to South Florida. For developers and investors lured by the meteoric growth and favorable business conditions, it’s crucial to...more

What is a Public-Private Partnership? (And why we should think broadly about it)

Ask ten people in the industry to define a public-private partnership (P3), and you’ll probably get twice as many definitions. The World Bank’s PPP Knowledge Lab defines a P3 as "a long-term contract between a private party...more

Opportunities for Social Infrastructure P3s (Yes, Including Colleges and Universities)

Earlier this summer, Plenary Properties Merced completed construction on the well-known UC Merced 2020 campus-expansion project—a $1.2-billion, 1.2-million-square-foot social-infrastructure P3 that has been called the largest...more

COVID-19 Relief: The Time is Now for a Federal Infrastructure Bill

Although the federal government is pouring trillions of dollars into the U.S. economy through stimulus checks and various small business lending programs, these solutions provide only short-term relief and do not provide any...more

The Time is Right for an Infrastructure Bill

We previously wrote about the role that P3s can play during a recession and the (albeit limited) infrastructure funding included in the CARES Act. At the time, Congress was continuing to discuss a new, infrastructure-focused...more

Government Innovation During a Pandemic

During this current COVID-19 crisis, a great deal has been written on what government is not doing (or not allowing others to do). But the same attention is often not given to what government is doing. The reality is that...more

Emergency Public Contracting Procedures, Part 3: Other South Florida Jurisdictions

As discussed in our previous posts on emergency contracting procedures in Miami-Dade County and the State of Florida, the spread of COVID-19 has added many new goods and services to government procurement lists. Not only are...more

The CARES Act and Other New Opportunities for Public-Infrastructure Improvements

To be sure, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act is not focused on funding infrastructure. Although infrastructure spending has been part of the stimulus discussion since its inception, the CARES Act...more

Thinking About Public-Private Partnerships During an Economic Crisis

For good reason, COVID-19 is dominating the current news cycle, and we will not attempt to either summarize or contribute to the many ongoing discussions regarding the potential magnitude and duration of the economic crisis...more

Emergency Public Contracting Procedures, Part 2: State of Florida

As we explained in our previous installment of this series, the impact of Covid-19 continues to create an acute strain on all areas of society. The declaration of a state of emergency by the governor and all of the resulting...more

Emergency Public Contracting Procedures, Part 1: Miami-Dade County

The coronavirus pandemic is taxing government services and infrastructure in numerous ways, and many of the resulting shortages are well-publicized in the media.  Some of those needs are intuitive—increased hospital capacity,...more

P3s to Combat Climate Change

We recently wrote an op-ed about the role that P3s can play in mitigating the effects of climate change.  In that piece, we explained that an availability-risk model could be used to offload many of the risks associated with...more

Stipends in P3 Procurement: Why Pay the Losers?

The procurement process for a public-private partnership differs in many respects from the ordinary public-procurement process for goods and services. To be sure, P3s are often large-scale and high-profile, with sophisticated...more

Why a Public-Private Partnership? (Grantor Series, Part 1)

This is the first in a series of posts we’ll be writing for governments thinking of utilizing the P3 model to deliver a public project. (In P3 speak, the government is referred to as the “grantor.”) In future posts, we’ll...more

Aclaración acerca de los peajes y los P3

El Departamento de Transporte de Alabama acaba de dar a conocer la comunicación estilo “Myth Busters” (Destrucción de mitos) en respuesta a críticas recientes en contra de los planes del organismo de ejecutar un proyecto de...more

Contratación para P3

Anteriormente, hemos analizado la forma en que el aprovechamiento de los conocimientos especializados y el financiamiento del sector privado a través de una P3 puede brindar muchos beneficios al público, entre ellos, la...more

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