As is the case in numerous other metropolitan areas around the country, Little Rock’s busy construction market is having to adapt to the shortage of labor to fill critical positions while navigating material scarcities, says Chris Handley.
While the construction outlook for Anchorage and Alaska in general seems to have peaked somewhat, Storter says there are three big drivers for infrastructure development: the Alaska Dept. of Transportation, the US Army Corps of Engineers and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration.
Contractors in the Tucson area are “extremely busy,” Goodwin says, and Southern Arizona has had larger construction projects in the last 12 months than in the same time period since 2013.
A surge of new residents is driving new residential and related work, with a new form-based code to incentivize affordable housing as local government invests in the city’s core