Jeffrey Kanige//September 18, 2023//
Over the past couple of years, Congress and the Biden administration have aimed a firehose of federal funds at infrastructure projects around the country, including in New Jersey. But economic development experts here worried that the waves of cash would crash on the seawall created by the Garden State’s regulatory and permitting bureaucracy.
Lately, though, that pessimism has seemed misplaced. The most prominent infrastructure work – at the Gateway Project – is apparently about to get underway. So it’s fair to ask now whether shovels are going into the ground elsewhere around the state.
In this edition of NJBIZ Conversations, Dennis Toft, a member of CSG Law and chair of the firm’s Environmental Law practice, discusses the latest moves on the infrastructure front, permitting, new flood rules and brownfields redevelopment.