Federal grants and loans under new infrastructure funding laws will favor applicants with strategies to retain and attract skilled workers for “high-quality jobs," a move observers say is timed with escalating auto industry labor battles.
A high volume of transportation infrastructure work is keeping companies such as HNTB busy in Jacksonville, driven by an influx of new residents, says George Gilhooley, east Florida office leader for the infrastructure design firm.
Vulcan Materials Co. filed a request for arbitration with the World Bank back in 2018 over the disputed site, but the materials giant and the Mexican government still dispute valuation for the quarry and port facilities on the Gulf of Mexico.