New tech platform lets city leaders tell their development needs to the real estate community
[{"id": "dgii4z9", "text": "Cities: \"We need affordable housing.\"  \n\nDevelopers: \"How about you eliminate your fees and fast track the approval process so that such a project might actually be economically viable?\"  \n\nCities: \"Yeah, uh...no.\"", "replies": [{"id": "dgj3opp", "text": "Haha. Yeah, I am sure that happens a lot. What I found out was that the majority of the holdup for developers is risk, not viability or process speed. Submitting plans for a project is expensive and expenses for construction projects are increasingly front-loaded. The organizations that are going to propose a development want to be relatively sure that the process will pass. As we all know, politics can be very uncertain.", "replies": [], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}]