Here's what we're reading this week about the projects, people and policies driving local development:
🅿️California removed parking minimums near transit statewide, but local residents and lenders are still forcing new projects to include more parking than required, reducing the ability of the new legislation to address housing cost and providing more new housing units
by Jack Skelley, Urban Land Institute, Jan 3, 2023
by Ryan Mulligan for the Philadelphia Inquirer, Updated Dec 20, 2022
by Michael H. Reed and J. Shane Creamer Jr., for the Philadelphia Inquirer, Updated Dec 28, 2022
Black Squirrel graduated its first cohort of minority and female developers who completed its Philly RiSE program, taking small, largely self-taught neighborhood based developers to the next level, including preparing them to redevelop vacant properties held by the city’s Land Bank
by Michaelle Bond for the Philadelphia Inquirer, Updated Dec 28, 2022
by Clifton Jackson for Billy Penn, Dec 28, 2022
New laws go into effect starting January 1 to protect property owners adjacent to construction sites
by Michaelle Bond for the Philadelphia Inquirer, Updated Dec 26, 2022
by Mackenzie Hawkins, Dec 14, 2022
Construction Management firm Hill International has been bought by privately held, New York based Global Infrastructure Solutions, but will maintain its brand identity within the parent company
by Ryan Mulligan for the Philadelphia Inquirer, Dec 28, 2022
🏘️🚆The diversity of existing and new businesses and range of new housing has kept King of Prussia growing through the pandemic, and in anticipation of the King of Prussia SEPTA rail extension
by Paul Schwedelson for the Philadelphia Business Journal, Dec 27, 2022
by Ashley Fahey, Editor, The National Observer: Real Estate Edition, Dec 8, 2022
by Kimberly Haas, Dec 16, 2022