BP's Lightsource bp is moving its Big Bronco solar-and-storage project forward in Adams County, Colorado. The project totals roughly 300 megawatts of solar paired with 300 megawatts of battery storage and is backed by a reported $675 million in private investment. Public figures estimate $39 million in new local tax revenue and about 400 jobs at peak construction. By most accounts, it has been a smooth ride: willing landowners, a site that steers clear of sensitive areas, and little of the organized community opposition that stalls so many energy projects.

In Central Oregon, the Deschutes River lives two lives. The stretch through Bend looks healthy. A mile or two downstream, roughly ninety percent of it vanishes into pipes and canals. A recent investigation by OPB and ProPublica followed the water to determine where it goes and who benefits.

In Lawrenceville, a developer plans to build 15 apartments on a 3,300-square-foot lot on 49th Street, next to Stinky's Bar and across from the Locomotive Lofts. It's tiny by headline-making standards, yet it now faces a formal protest before Pittsburgh's Zoning Board of Adjustment, backed by a neighborhood attorney, a

What Arizona’s development battles reveal about the opposition every developer is about to face.

The Denver demolition debate isn’t really about wrecking balls. It’s about who bears the political risk of a vacant lot, and that’s a question developers must answer before the first permit.

Arizona’s Senate has advanced a bill that would let small modular nuclear reactors be sited next to data centers and on retired coal sites across the state’s rural counties.

Across the country, data center developers are learning a hard lesson the rest of the land use world internalized decades ago.