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Efficiency used to be the goal. Now resilience is the business model. As tariff risk and chokepoints reshape logistics, companies are holding more inventory, diversifying suppliers, and paying for flexibility instead of chasing the lowest cost. That shift changes working capital, site strategy, and real estate demand—especially for warehousing and last-mile hubs. In 2026, “just-in-case” isn’t a temporary hedge. It’s how serious operators stay alive.

With federal resilience funding expanding and major award rounds underway, agencies must prioritize what to climate-proof first. The key is aligning land use so transportation isn’t trapped in endless repair cycles.

Terminal upgrades are only half the story. The next decade will be won by airports that fix access, manage the curb, and prepare for aviation’s climate transition.

If the 2010s zoning fights were about apartments, the 2020s fights are increasingly about infrastructure disguised as real estate. Data centers—driven by cloud computing and the AI boom—are land-intensive, power-hungry, and politically explosive when they land near neighborhoods. Zoning is now the front line. Northern Virginia is the case study because it’s one of the world’s most concentrated data center regions. As expansion accelerated, the conflict shifted from abstract

Local control is the mythology of American zoning. But in 2025, the real story is state power—especially in California, where the state has increasingly treated housing scarcity as a statewide economic emergency rather than a neighborhood preference. The result is a new zoning reality: your city’s plan may be less powerful than the state’s housing statutes. Start with SB 9, California’s lot-split and duplex law. It was designed to legalize small-scale infill in single-family

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