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👉 Pro Tip: If you want to find RFP opportunities before your competitors do, your best bet is to start listening to city planning meetings. RFPs and funding allocation are some of the most common subjects discussed in local government. But what many developers don't realize is that these discussions precede upcoming RFPs—often months ahead of the official issue. Take Falls Church, VA. City council members have been openly discussing the details of an upcoming developer RFP since November 2025. The RFP hasn't dropped yet (it's expected to be issued this summer) but council meetings and public feedback sessions have already revealed key details about what the city is looking for: 🏠 Mixed-use development with a long-term affordable housing component 💰 A city subsidy of ~$6M projected by 2032 🏗️ A fresh start after their original development partner, Wesley Housing, withdrew in 2024 These conversations tell us that the city is looking for long term partners. Developers can start the conversation now while the window is open—or compete with a crowded field once the RFP goes public. If you want to stay ahead of opportunities like this one, talk to us about GatherGov👇 #GatherGov #RFP #AffordableHousing #LocalGov

Why do projects get rejected? ➡️ Because they have inadequate community engagement. Yesterday, Miami-Dade County deferred a decision—for the third time—on a land-use amendment for a 540-home planned community. Despite the planning staff recommending this amendment for approval, commissioners have chosen to defer their decision in face of fierce and organized community opposition. The future of this project now depends on the developers making significant concessions. So what went wrong? 🗳️𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐰 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭. The developer spent years negotiating with the ~80 homeowners directly bordering the site. But 1,500+ homes in the wider community felt shut out leading to nearly 3,900 protests being filed against the project. 🌳𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐧'𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐞𝐬. Despite submitting a traffic study and getting wildlife permits from the FWC, community members weren’t convinced that the project wouldn’t add stress to congested roads and disrupt an active urban bird rookery on the property. 🤝𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐧’𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚 𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜 𝐛𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲. These two issues compounded with the nature of the project—while luxury gated homes north of $1M would be developed, the project had no public park or green space offering for the community. Commissioner Cohen-Higgins’s advice to the developers summarized the overall sentiment, "go back and work with the neighbors because I think it's good policy. I think it's good government to have developers work with and consider the neighborhood that they are entering into.” GatherGov is tracking projects like this across Miami and beyond as they move through council meetings—giving developers an unprecedented view of their market. Interested in a demo? Let's talk → https://lnkd.in/eqG3QXiw #RealEstate #LandDevelopment #Entitlements #CommunityEngagement #MiamiDade #UrbanPlanning #Zoning

👉 📢 9.9 acres!! If you want to understand what’s actually getting built in a city, the best place to look isn’t a press release ... it’s a planning board meeting. Here's a recent meeting in West Palm Beach where they discussed a a 9.9-acre redevelopment. It’s being led by Related Companies with Urban Design Studio and includes a mix of multifamily, a school, commercial space, and a church—an interesting example of how underutilized church land is starting to get rethought. It was approved unanimously; it’s easy for things like this to go unnoticed if you’re not deep in the weeds of local meetings. #CommercialRealEstate #GatherGov #LocalGovernment #RealEstate #RealEstateDevelopment

You can tell a lot about a city by what happens in its council meetings. But who has time to sit through hundreds of hours of public hearings to find out? Take Anaheim, CA. Since January 2024, more than 211 agenda items have moved through city hall. 97 of them were approvals for development projects, with commercial retail and institutional senior care appearing most frequently. Council has approved the vast majority of items, with only 5 denied or withdrawn. Discussions in the city hall paint a picture of a development-positive city where major anchors like Disneyland fuel demand for complementary sectors. All of this information is public. But until now, extracting it meant combing through agendas and recordings across thousands of jurisdictions. At GatherGov, we collect and structure local government data, helping real estate professionals forecast entitlement risk and identify upcoming pipeline before it hits the market. #CommercialRealEstate #PropTech #LocalGovernment #GatherGov

👉 We usually don’t go this far back for our clients (yet) but today we found something incredible: South Bend, Indiana town council meeting minutes from 1865 🕰️ the same year the municipality was incorporated, pop. 8000 While the council hashed out local decisions, the world was experiencing: 1️⃣ The end of the U.S. Civil War 2️⃣ Lincoln’s assassination 3️⃣ Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland hitting bookshelves Meanwhile, South Bend was quietly building the foundations of a city that would host Notre Dame and Studebaker (massive wagon maker for the US army back in the day) History hides in plain sight. Find local municipal conversations at www.gathergov.com #History #Indiana #LocalGovernment #Community ➡️ https://lnkd.in/esiV3XxV

Here are the AI for CRE Collective's Top 20 AI Tools for March 2026. We built the largest database of AI and tech tools for commercial real estate. Over a year of testing & demoing. Our goal is to demo every single CRE AI tool & every AI tool that is relevant for CRE. So we put together the Collective's first ever monthly Top 20 AI Tools list. How we ranked them: 1) Our personal experience testing each tool 2) What our 600+ members actually use 3) Conversations I have with CRE pros daily 4) Demo performance (some tools look great but actually suck) Full Top 20 below (not in any order). We'll update this list every month as we test more tools and get feedback from our community. Let us know your thoughts! Want to join the largest AI for CRE members only group? Link below.

📢 Everyone's talking about the data center backlash. But what about the municipalities that actually want them? 🟢 Matanuska-Susitna Borough in Alaska just put out an RFI looking for data centers and high-energy industrial tenants to lease borough-owned land. Why? Like many Alaskan boroughs, Mat-Su has large, underutilized energy assets and they want tenants who bring property tax revenue and economic development. Mat-Su Borough isn't an outlier. There are many municipalities across the country actively courting data center developers. This means shorter entitlement timelines and a jurisdiction that's working with you, not against you. The challenge is finding them before your competitors do. At GatherGov we monitor 5,000+ jurisdictions to surface RFIs, partnership opportunities, and development signals before they hit the mainstream, so you can move first. #DataCenters #RealEstate #AI #CommercialRealEstate #GatherGov #LocalGovernment

🏜️ Phoenix is doing everything in its power to support affordable housing. This ambition was on full display at the February 10th policy meeting on the city’s “2026 Strategies to Address Homelessness” plan. Over the course of the 2.5-hour discussion, one message came through consistently from city leaders and staff: the shortage of affordable housing is a primary driver of homelessness. To address this, the City of Phoenix is advancing multiple policies aimed at increasing the supply of affordable units, including: 💰 Funding new development through the Housing Trust Fund and other tax incentives 🏙️ Allowing housing development on city-owned land 🏠 Promoting Community Land Trust programs to preserve long-term affordability But the strategy doesn’t stop there. City leaders also signaled interest in legislative changes to streamline development processes including zoning reform to make it easier and faster to bring new housing projects online. Together, these policy shifts and clear mandates from City Hall are poised to have a meaningful impact on Phoenix’s housing market. As the city moves aggressively to expand supply, developers and builders will find growing opportunities in one of the fastest-growing cities in the country. We track policy actions in Phoenix and 5,000+ cities and counties nationwide, delivering real-time insights when opportunities like this emerge. Let’s talk about how we can support your workflow → https://lnkd.in/eqG3QXiw #Housing #AffordableHousing #RealEstate #LocalGovernment #GatherGov

👇⚡This Atlanta county does not want data centers … yet Data centers are growing faster than local authorities can regulate them. Until recently, many municipalities weren’t even familiar with the asset class. In places like Loudoun County, early growth happened in part because data centers were wrongfully categorized as a by-right office use Those kinds of loopholes helped the industry scale quickly. But the recent acceleration in development has forced more communities to pause and reassess. ➡️ Georgia is at the center of that shift. A one-year statewide pause on data centers is being discussed in the legislature. At the same time, local governments are imposing short-term moratoriums to buy time to draft new rules. In DeKalb County, commissioners recently voted to extend an existing moratorium through March. A scheduled vote on new regulations was deferred to May. Why? Because public opposition is steep. On paper, the revenue is attractive. Meeting records reference scenarios where a single large facility could generate more than $20M annually, along with proposals for how to distribute those funds locally. But those policies will only move forward if the county can overcome public sentiment. As one resident said during a January 27 hearing: “We should not jeopardize what little remains of that suburban fabric through unchecked large-scale data center development.” This tension between fiscal upside and community identity is what ultimately determines whether a market opens or closes. Moratorium extensions and escalating pushback are early indicators of entitlement risk. They signal how viable a market will be long before a final vote is taken. At GatherGov, we track these conversations in real time so you can see where policy is tightening and where projects are likely to stall. Before you underwrite a market, it’s worth listening to what city hall is debating. Start here → https://lnkd.in/e_FRcSKy #DataCenters #RealEstate #AI #CommercialRealEstate #GatherGov