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Regardless of where you live in the United States, one thing is likely true.  There is a highway, bridge, state road or some other modicum of vehicular transportation in disrepair.  After suffering through one of the worst (in terms of snowfall and damage) winters in the Mid-Atlantic’s history, those potholes, sinkholes, bathtubholes and entire-kitchen-holes are getting greater in number.  The bottom line is that the United States’ aging infrastructure is in need of massive repair.

So how do we go about fixing this problem? A private equity fund may have to buy our bridges and invest ongoing capex in them, lest they become Palin-esque and lead to nowhere. Read the rest of this entry »

Does “Green” Translate into $Green$?

Will Upgrading Properties Lead to Increased Returns?

As if landlords didn’t already have enough to worry about, dealing with delinquent rent payments, having to offer concessions left and right to increase occupancy, and wondering what they will do when their current loan balloons, they now may have to increase their capital expenditure budgets and rework their ARGUS models too. Why you ask?  Well if new legislation in Philadelphia gets passed this fall, and then catches on in other major cities with older infrastructure, landlords may have to pay for exterior building maintenance. Read the rest of this entry »