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Citywide Zoning Text Amendments: “Gentle Density” at Scale (and Why It’s the New Power Tool)
The biggest housing reshuffles in America aren’t always announced with a flashy “rezoning map.” Increasingly, they arrive as something more technical—and more consequential: citywide zoning text amendments. These are rulebook rewrites that change what’s legal everywhere at once , turning “maybe, with a variance” into “yes, by-right” for small-to-mid intensity housing types. That’s what “gentle density at scale” really means. Not a handful of tower sites. Not a few corridor up
Jan 123 min read


NSW’s Renewable Energy Zone Blueprint: A Template for Grid-Scale Transition
New South Wales is turning climate ambition into a hard infrastructure program. The state has legislated a 70% emissions reduction target by 2035 (from 2005 levels) on the way to net zero by 2050, anchoring its strategy in a network of Renewable Energy Zones (REZs) that bundle generation, storage, and transmission at regional scale. Under the NSW Electricity Infrastructure Roadmap , five REZs are being rolled out as “clean energy industrial parks” that concentrate high-qual
Jan 122 min read


Private Credit’s Takeover of CRE Debt: New Gatekeepers, New Terms
The quiet power shift in commercial real estate (CRE) isn’t just about interest rates, cap rates, or vacancy. It’s about who now controls the debt dial. As bank lending standards tightened after 2020, private credit stopped being the “ alternative ” and moved directly into the center of the capital stack. What started as gap-filling mezzanine and bridge capital has scaled into senior and whole-loan territory—redrawing pricing, covenants, and execution speed across the market
Nov 9, 20254 min read
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