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| October 12, 2021 | Florida Grants Winter Haven $9.4m for Industrial Park Roads | Gov. DeSantis announced the grant while in Winter Haven, adding that block grants and funding in Polk County have amounted to “almost $60 million in investment in 2021 alone.” New jobs supporte ...Read more |
| September 28, 2021 | PennEast Pipeline Canceled Due To Regulatory Roadblocks | The development comes as gas prices in the US are at a seven-year high, prices in Europe and Asia are rising. As Reuters ...Read more |
| September 23, 2021 | Infrastructure Investments Will Boost GDP and Employment Across Sectors | While the bill has passed the Senate, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is expected to bring the bill to the floor for a vote on Monday. The study showing the economic boons the bill would bring was ...Read more |
| September 7, 2021 | Oregon’s Port of Coos Bay to get New $1b Container Facility, Rail Upgrades | The Port of Coos Bay in Oregon is just one of three major ports on the West Coast, so improvements to it are always welcomed. Earlier this month, the port entered into a memorandum of underst ...Read more |
| September 2, 2021 | Contract for DC’s Black Lives Matter Plaza Awarded to White-Owned Firm | Black Lives Matter Plaza is a two-block pedestrian street in Washington, DC, named in 2020 by DC Mayor Muriel Bowser after the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Mayor Bowser showed her ...Read more |
| September 2, 2021 | What’s the point of Amtrak? | The $1 trillion infrastructure bill, if made into law as in its current form, will give $66 billion in new funding for Amtrak, which has a wish list of more than 50 new routes it wants to construct ...Read more |
| August 31, 2021 | One Month After Ground Broke on Levee Project, Ida Shows Its Urgency | We recently reported on a groundbreaking ceremony attended by the Governor of Louisiana, John Bel Edwards. As we wrote at the time, officials said the levee would “will protect 60,000 residents o ...Read more |
| August 18, 2021 | Texas Wraps Up Phase 1 of $527m Highway Project Near San Antonio | The HOV lanes, which are between Stone Oak Parkway and Loop 1604 near San Antonio are part of the first phase of a two-phase, $527 million regional project, called the US 281 North Expansion Projec ...Read more |
| August 16, 2021 | US Blew $30b on Afghanistan Construction Programs | Here at Contractor News, we like to talk a lot about what we call the three C’s: contracting, construction, and corruption. Though we typically cover domestic issues, Afghanistan is a story that ...Read more |
| August 5, 2021 | LA Transit ‘Mega Project’ to Link San Fernando Valley to West Side, LAX | The project would ultimately connect the San Fernando Valley, the Westside and LAX with high-capacity transit. Sepulveda Transit Corridor Partners includes Bechtel, Meridiam Infrastructure an ...Read more |