Zoned for Opportunity:

The Capital Stack Briefing for Development + Energy

Bring your market instincts. We will bring the corridors, constraints, capital questions, and opportunity signals.

A Two-Part Ecosystem Executive Briefing

Opportunity. Capital. Deal Flow.

September 23-24, 2026 | 10:00–11:30 AM ET Each Day

Virtual Executive Briefings

Presented by the Oliver Bennett Agency in collaboration with the Economic Infrastructure Group, Green Building Worldwide, and Oliver UnZoned Media

Advance Access Pass ends July 31, 2026.

Where Market Intelligence Becomes Executable Opportunity

25,332 eligible Opportunity Zone tracts; more than two terawatts awaiting interconnection; more than five years to commercial operation; and $875 billion in commercial mortgage maturities during 2026.

The next generation of development opportunity will be defined by more than location, zoning, or demand. It will be defined by the ability to identify where regulatory implementation, infrastructure investment, power availability, technology readiness, public funding, and capital strategy are converging—and where those forces can transform land into platform, entitlement into executable value, and early positioning into durable advantage.

Zoned for Opportunity: The Capital Stack Briefing for Development + Energy is a two-part executive program designed for senior developers, investors, landowners, lenders, infrastructure leaders, public-sector decision-makers, and advisors evaluating the next cycle of development and energy-adjacent opportunity.

Participants will gain a sharper framework for reading zoning, infrastructure, utilities, capital, technology, entitlement, and market risk together. The executives who understand these conditions before they are fully reflected in land values, financing costs, and competitive activity will be better positioned to identify, structure, and control the next generation of viable opportunities.

These briefings also serve as a strategic prelude to the upcoming National Unified Development and Transportation Summits, establishing the market, policy, infrastructure, and capital context that will shape the larger summit discussions.

Participation is limited to preserve the quality and relevance of the executive exchange.

Key Briefing Points:

• Speed-to-Power as a Corridor Advantage
  Why grid access and power timing are becoming corridor-level differentiators for capital and development.

• Freight Corridors, Logistics Growth, and Industrial Zoning Pressure
  How freight modernization is affecting industrial land, access strategy, and corridor competition.

• The Entitlement Risk Hidden Inside Infrastructure Corridors
  Where zoning capacity overstates real development potential because utilities, access, and public process lag behind.

• From Transit Corridor to Investable Geography
  What separates a corridor with policy attention from one that can support real execution.

• Public Funding, Corridor Readiness, and Private Advantage
  How grants, infrastructure sequencing, and corridor designation can improve private development positioning.

Zoning alone no longer defines development opportunities. A site may be entitled, well-located, or politically attractive, but if it cannot be powered, financed, permitted, serviced, or publicly defended, it may not be executable.

Register now to sharpen your development strategy before competitors fully price in these constraints.

Part One

The Capital Stack in the H.R. 1 Implementation Cycle

Opportunity Zones 2.0 • Energy and Transit Growth Markets • Corridor Readiness

Wednesday, September 23, 2026
10:00–11:30 AM ET

The United States development market is entering a new implementation and capital cycle. Federal tax policy, Opportunity Zone redesignation, energy priorities, housing mandates, zoning reform, transportation investment, and large-load demand are beginning to reshape how sites, districts, and projects are evaluated.

Part One establishes the market framework behind this shift.

The briefing will examine why certain corridors and districts are becoming more strategically important, why some locations are moving toward execution faster than others, and why traditional development analysis must now be expanded to include power, infrastructure, technology, public capital, and capital-stack readiness.

Rather than providing a generic policy overview, the session will help senior leaders interpret how regulatory and infrastructure changes may affect geography, project timing, investment strategy, and competitive positioning.

What Part One Will Help You Understand

• Where regulatory implementation is beginning to influence development geography

• Why certain corridors and districts are attracting greater capital attention

• How power availability and infrastructure sequencing are affecting site competitiveness

• Where Opportunity Zones 2.0 may intersect with transportation, energy, housing, and industrial growth

• Why some entitled locations remain difficult to finance or execute

• How public investment can alter private development positioning

• What executives should be monitoring before entering, acquiring, or advancing a market

Key Themes

• Regulatory Implementation

• Opportunity-Zone Positioning

• Infrastructure-Adjacent Growth

• Power and Technology Readiness

• Capital Stack Evolution

Part Two: Advanced Capital Stacking in Opportunity Districts

Integrated Incentives • Public-Private Finance • Energy-Adjacent Development • Execution Readiness

Thursday, September 24, 2026
10:00–11:30 AM ET

Part Two moves from market recognition into capital structure, project positioning, and execution.

This advanced briefing will examine how sophisticated market participants are integrating Opportunity Zone strategy, energy incentives, infrastructure investment, transportation-led growth, public-private finance, utility coordination, technology, and development capital.

The session will move beyond identifying available programs. It will examine how different forms of capital and project support must be evaluated, sequenced, and aligned around the actual requirements of a site, district, or development strategy.

Participants will gain a more disciplined understanding of why the strongest opportunities may emerge in places where multiple forms of value are converging—but where execution will still depend on timing, structure, partnerships, diligence, and control.

What Part Two Will Help You Understand

• How to evaluate the complete capital environment surrounding a project or district

• How public, private, tax-advantaged, infrastructure, utility, and institutional capital may interact

• Why capital sources must be sequenced around project milestones and execution risk

• How energy and transit investments can influence development value and financing strategy

• Where capital-stack gaps can delay or prevent otherwise viable projects

• How to assess whether an opportunity is institutionally credible and investment ready

• What distinguishes a compelling narrative from an executable capital strategy

• How early positioning can support site control, partnerships, capital formation, and deal flow

Key Themes

• Advanced Capital Strategy

• Capital-Stack Strategy

• Transit-Led and Energy-Adjacent Development

• Public-Private Alignment

• Institutional-Grade Opportunity Positioning

• Execution Readiness

• Deal-Flow Development

Why Attend

• Executive-Level Market Intelligence

• Strategic, Not Generic

• Positioning Before Pricing

• An Integrated Ecosystem Perspective

• A Smarter Read on the Next Cycle

• Direct Relevance to Deal Flow

Identify the corridors, districts, and capital strategies positioned to move from policy potential to executable development opportunity.

Registration

The market is moving from policy formation into implementation, designation, capital positioning, and execution.

Leaders who wait until opportunity is fully visible may encounter higher land costs, greater competition, constrained infrastructure capacity, slower utility timelines, and fewer strategic entry points.

Register now to sharpen your development and capital strategy before these conditions are fully priced into the market.

Advance Access Pass Registration Deadline

July 31, 2026

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Briefing Facilitator:

About L. Charlie Oliver

Founder & Chairperson, Economic Infrastructure Group and Green Building Worldwide

CEO, Oliver Bennett Agency | Publisher, Oliver UnZoned Media

Architect of the Zoned for Opportunity Briefings & Summits

L. Charlie Oliver is the founder and chairperson of Economic Infrastructure Group and Green Building Worldwide, CEO of the Oliver Bennett Agency, and publisher of Oliver UnZoned Media. She is the driving force behind the Zoned for Opportunity Briefings and Summits—a high-level intelligence and convening platform where policy meets profit, zoning becomes strategy, and development opportunity is translated into scalable investment.

Charlie has contributed to the national momentum advancing contemporary zoning reforms designed to support affordable housing, mixed-use density, transit-oriented development, and integrated growth. Her work sits at the center of a critical market shift: how policy intent becomes market reality, where reform creates new development capacity, where execution breaks down, and where opportunity is still being misread or underpriced.

Operating at the intersection of deregulation, capital strategy, place-based development, infrastructure, and the future of the built environment, Charlie brings a rare inside-out perspective to the market. Through her advisory work, she represents national retail, commercial, and development interests, guiding site selection, market entry, expansion strategy, and development positioning within complex zoning, land-use, and transit-oriented environments.

Her professional background includes executive and advisory roles across major institutional, corporate, financial, cultural, and civic environments, including the Ford Foundation, ABC, British Airways, American Express, Ogilvy, New York Life, New York Mortgage Trust, Rocket Mortgage, the Metropolitan Opera, development teams, and national Chambers of Commerce. Across these sectors, she is known for helping leaders connect policy, capital, market timing, and execution with clarity, discipline, and strategic foresight.

Chair Oliver is known for translating zoning reform, transit-oriented development, and capital strategy into actionable market insight. She has been invited to speak before the World Economic Forum and has been a recurring voice at the Global Power & Energy Blockchain Conference and the Equity Forum.

Through the Economic Infrastructure Group, Charlie extends this work into the next generation of buildings, energy alignment, resilience, infrastructure adjacency, and performance-driven development. Her work helps executives, developers, investors, policymakers, and market leaders understand how the next era of value creation will be shaped by the convergence of zoning, infrastructure, energy, capital, and execution.

At the center of her work is a clear conviction:

The next generation of development opportunity will be defined by the ability to identify where regulatory movement, infrastructure investment, and capital strategy are converging to transform place into platform, entitlement into executable value, and early alignment into outsized advantage.

Discover how leading Developers, Investors, and Mission-Driven Capital are leveraging Opportunity Zones, Energy Incentives, and Transit-Oriented Strategies. This briefing reveals how legacy mechanisms are being repurposed under new federal priorities, and how investors, developers, and municipalities are compounding returns.

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