Zoned for Opportunity: The Capital Stack Briefing for Development + Energy

Opportunity. Capital. Deal Flow.

December 15-16, 2026 |

Virtual Executive Briefings

The Capital Stack Briefing for Development + Energy

Bring your market instincts. We will bring the corridors, constraints, capital questions, and opportunity signals.

A Two-Part Ecosystem Executive Briefing

Opportunity. Capital. Deal Flow.

December 15-16, 2026 | 10:00–11:30 AM ET Each Day

Virtual Executive Briefings

Presented by the Oliver Bennett Agency in collaboration with the Economic Infrastructure Group, Green Building Worldwide, and Oliver UnZoned Media

Advance Access Pass ends September 18, 2026, based on availability.

Where Market Intelligence Becomes Executable Opportunity

25,332 eligible Opportunity Zone tracts; more than two terawatts awaiting interconnection; more than five years to commercial operation; and $875 billion in commercial mortgage maturities during 2026.

The next generation of development opportunity will be defined by more than location, zoning, or demand. It will be defined by the ability to identify where regulatory implementation, infrastructure investment, power availability, technology readiness, public funding, and capital strategy are converging—and where those forces can transform land into platform, entitlement into executable value, and early positioning into durable advantage.

Zoned for Opportunity: The Capital Stack Briefing for Development + Energy is a two-part executive program designed for senior developers, investors, landowners, lenders, infrastructure leaders, public-sector decision-makers, and advisors evaluating the next cycle of development and energy-adjacent opportunity.

Participants will gain a sharper framework for reading zoning, infrastructure, utilities, capital, technology, entitlement, and market risk together. The executives who understand these conditions before they are fully reflected in land values, financing costs, and competitive activity will be better positioned to identify, structure, and control the next generation of viable opportunities.

These briefings also serve as a strategic prelude to the upcoming National Unified Development and Transportation Summits, establishing the market, policy, infrastructure, and capital context that will shape the larger summit discussions.

Participation is limited to preserve the quality and relevance of the executive exchange.

Key Briefing Points:

• Speed-to-Power as a Corridor Advantage Why grid access and power timing are becoming corridor-level differentiators for capital and development.

• Freight Corridors, Logistics Growth, and Industrial Zoning Pressure How freight modernization is affecting industrial land, access strategy, and corridor competition.

• The Entitlement Risk Hidden Inside Infrastructure Corridors Where zoning capacity overstates real development potential because utilities, access, and public process lag behind.

• From Transit Corridor to Investable Geography What separates a corridor with policy attention from one that can support real execution.

• Public Funding, Corridor Readiness, and Private Advantage How grants, infrastructure sequencing, and corridor designation can improve private development positioning.

Zoning alone no longer defines development opportunities. A site may be entitled, well-located, or politically attractive, but if it cannot be powered, financed, permitted, serviced, or publicly defended, it may not be executable.

Register now to sharpen your development strategy before competitors fully price in these constraints.

Part One

The Capital Stack in the H.R. 1 Implementation Cycle

Opportunity Zones 2.0 • Energy and Transit Growth Markets • Corridor Readiness

Tuesday, December 15, 2026 10:00–11:30 AM ET

The United States development market is entering a new implementation and capital cycle. Federal tax policy, Opportunity Zone redesignation, energy priorities, housing mandates, zoning reform, transportation investment, and large-load demand are beginning to reshape how sites, districts, and projects are evaluated.

Part One establishes the market framework behind this shift.

The briefing will examine why certain corridors and districts are becoming more strategically important, why some locations are moving toward execution faster than others, and why traditional development analysis must now be expanded to include power, infrastructure, technology, public capital, and capital-stack readiness.

Rather than providing a generic policy overview, the session will help senior leaders interpret how regulatory and infrastructure changes may affect geography, project timing, investment strategy, and competitive positioning.

What Part One Will Help You Understand

• Where regulatory implementation is beginning to influence development geography

• Why certain corridors and districts are attracting greater capital attention

• How power availability and infrastructure sequencing are affecting site competitiveness

• Where Opportunity Zones 2.0 may intersect with transportation, energy, housing, and industrial growth

• Why some entitled locations remain difficult to finance or execute

• How public investment can alter private development positioning

• What executives should be monitoring before entering, acquiring, or advancing a market

Key Themes

• Regulatory Implementation

• Opportunity-Zone Positioning

• Infrastructure-Adjacent Growth

• Power and Technology Readiness

• Capital Stack Evolution

Part Two: Advanced Capital Stacking in Opportunity Districts

Integrated Incentives • Public-Private Finance • Energy-Adjacent Development • Execution Readiness

Wednesday, December 16, 2026 10:00–11:30 AM ET

Part Two moves from market recognition into capital structure, project positioning, and execution.

This advanced briefing will examine how sophisticated market participants are integrating Opportunity Zone strategy, energy incentives, infrastructure investment, transportation-led growth, public-private finance, utility coordination, technology, and development capital.

The session will move beyond identifying available programs. It will examine how different forms of capital and project support must be evaluated, sequenced, and aligned around the actual requirements of a site, district, or development strategy.

Participants will gain a more disciplined understanding of why the strongest opportunities may emerge in places where multiple forms of value are converging—but where execution will still depend on timing, structure, partnerships, diligence, and control.

What Part Two Will Help You Understand

• How to evaluate the complete capital environment surrounding a project or district

• How public, private, tax-advantaged, infrastructure, utility, and institutional capital may interact

• Why capital sources must be sequenced around project milestones and execution risk

• How energy and transit investments can influence development value and financing strategy

• Where capital-stack gaps can delay or prevent otherwise viable projects

• How to assess whether an opportunity is institutionally credible and investment ready

• What distinguishes a compelling narrative from an executable capital strategy

• How early positioning can support site control, partnerships, capital formation, and deal flow

Key Themes

• Advanced Capital Strategy

• Capital-Stack Strategy

• Transit-Led and Energy-Adjacent Development

• Public-Private Alignment

• Institutional-Grade Opportunity Positioning

• Execution Readiness

• Deal-Flow Development

Why Attend

• Executive-Level Market Intelligence

• Strategic, Not Generic

• Positioning Before Pricing

• An Integrated Ecosystem Perspective

• A Smarter Read on the Next Cycle

• Direct Relevance to Deal Flow

• Identify the corridors, districts, and capital strategies positioned to move from policy potential to executable development opportunity.

Registration

The market is moving from policy formation into implementation, designation, capital positioning, and execution.

Leaders who wait until opportunity is fully visible may encounter higher land costs, greater competition, constrained infrastructure capacity, slower utility timelines, and fewer strategic entry points.

Register now to sharpen your development and capital strategy before these conditions are fully priced into the market.

Advance Access Pass Registration Deadline

September 18, 2026, based on availability.

Register Now | Sponsorship Opportunities | Speaker Consideration

Briefing Facilitator:

About L. Charlie Oliver

Founder & Chairperson, Economic Infrastructure Group and Green Building Worldwide

CEO, Oliver Bennett Agency | Publisher, Oliver UnZoned Media |

Architect of the Zoned for Opportunity Briefings & Summits

L. Charlie Oliver is a market strategist, advisor, and platform builder working at the convergence of zoning, infrastructure, energy, capital, and place-based development. She is the founder and chairperson of the Economic Infrastructure Group and Green Building Worldwide, CEO of the Oliver Bennett Agency, publisher of Oliver UnZoned Media, and architect of the Zoned for Opportunity Briefings & Summits.

Across these platforms, Charlie helps senior executives, developers, investors, landowners, public leaders, and institutional stakeholders determine where regulatory change, infrastructure investment, energy readiness, and market demand are creating—or constraining—executable development opportunities.

Charlie has contributed to the national dialogue advancing contemporary zoning reforms supporting housing production, mixed-use density, transit-oriented development, and more integrated patterns of growth. 

She brings an execution-focused perspective to the market: assessing where reform creates genuine development capacity, where infrastructure or entitlement constraints undermine that capacity, and where emerging opportunities remain misunderstood, undervalued, or premature. Her approach connects regulatory intelligence with infrastructure conditions, market timing, stakeholder dynamics, and development feasibility.

Charlie’s professional background spans major institutional, corporate, financial, cultural, and civic environments, including the Ford Foundation, ABC, British Airways, American Express, Ogilvy, New York Life, New York Mortgage Trust, Rocket Mortgage, the Metropolitan Opera, private development teams, and national Chambers of Commerce. Across these settings, she has built a reputation for helping decision-makers connect policy, market intelligence, capital considerations, and execution with clarity and strategic discipline.

Her civic and public-policy experience includes chairing the Economic Development Committee (businesses, universities, governments, workforce organizations, and economic-development institutions) of the nation’s first federal Empowerment Zone, serving as a legislative consultant to private development firms and national Chambers of Commerce, and presenting testimony on zoning, infrastructure, housing, and energy—including New York City’s City of Yes for Housing Opportunity proposal.

Charlie has been invited to contribute to by the World Economic Forum and has appeared as a recurring speaker at the Global Power & Energy Blockchain Conference and the Equity Forum. She has also served on the boards of the Nick Bollettieri Foundation, the New York City Housing Authority’s LaGuardia Houses, and the Central Park Conservancy’s Harlem Meer.

Her leadership has supported extensive research, executive dialogue, and hundreds of forums addressing zoning, master planning, infrastructure, development, and economic opportunity.

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In addition to her formal education, Charlie holds advanced certifications in Real Estate Finance & Investment, Development & Land Use, Property Valuation, and Negotiation from New York University’s Schack Institute of Real Estate.

Leadership Conviction

The next generation of development opportunity will be defined by the ability to wield unique insight into where regulatory movement, infrastructure investment, energy readiness, and capital strategy are converging—transforming place into platform, entitlement into executable value, and early alignment into strategic advantage.

Place-Based Economic Leadership: Empowerment Zones to Contemporary Opportunity Models

Federal Empowerment Zones were created to stimulate investment, business formation, job creation, and community development in historically underinvested urban and rural areas. The initiative combined tax incentives, grants, public-private partnerships, and place-based economic strategies to strengthen local market conditions and attract sustained investment.

Charlie’s experience chairing the Economic Development Committee of one of the nation’s original federal Empowerment Zone established a defining foundation for her work and placed her at the forefront of the nationally significant model for place-based economic development. 

The role provided rare, hands-on insight into both the potential and the limitations of leveraging policy designation, public incentives, institutional mobilization, and private-sector participation to stimulate investment, create market activity.

That experience gives Charlie a direct and enduring perspective on today’s Opportunity Zones, transit-oriented development strategies, housing initiatives, infrastructure programs, and zoning reforms.

These frameworks can designate priority geographies and create the conditions for growth—but designation is only the starting point. Their real value is determined by whether policy, infrastructure, energy capacity, market demand, institutional alignment, and private-sector execution can converge to transform regulatory potential into viable sites, strategically positioned corridors, deliverable projects, and durable economic outcomes.

Discover how leading Developers, Investors, and Mission-Driven Capital are leveraging Opportunity Zones, Energy Incentives, and Transit-Oriented Strategies. This briefing reveals how legacy mechanisms are being repurposed under new federal priorities, and how investors, developers, and municipalities are compounding returns.

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