Kawit Promrat

As data center development continues to expand across key markets in the United States, developers and investors are placing increased focus on zoning, entitlement, and litigation risk considerations earlier in the project lifecycle. Recent high-profile developments across the country highlight how substantive, procedural, and timing-related issues have become focal points for challenges to data center approvals.

Ryan Streeter & Kawit Promrat RealClearPolicy March 25, 2021 An unforeseen outcome of the pandemic is what we might call “urban heartland chic.” As the media focused intently last year on people leaving expensive and increasingly unworkable large coastal cities in a season of disease and unrest, lower-cost, better-performing cities never looked better. No longer bound to their city of residence by their jobs, many Americans packed the U-Haul and headed for saner pastures.

An unforeseen outcome of the pandemic is what we might call “urban heartland chic.” As the media focused intently last year on people leaving expensive and increasingly unworkable large coastal cities in a season of disease and unrest, lower-cost, better-performing cities never looked better. No longer bound to their city of residence by their jobs, many Americans packed the U-Haul and headed for saner pastures.