What's Happening in Local Land Use | Q2 2026
Tracking three months of notable land use and zoning decisions with Shovels Decisions
Thesis Driven Deep Dives examine a single company or model until the economics are legible: what it does, how the money works, why the strategy might scale and where it breaks. Subjects range across proptech and AI platforms, niche asset class operators, development and construction companies, and the investors backing them, each built on interviews with the people running the business.
Deep Dive into Giovanni Bonelli Group, an investment platform for Mediterranean wineries, villas & hotels
EliseAI runs leasing across 2 million US apartments. What the product does, why the biggest operators keep buying it, and where the AI leasing race goes.
Nate Helbach is aiming to succeed where other construction tech innovators have failed
A deep dive into Alpaca's foray into real estate private equity aiming to take OpCo-PropCo models into the mainstream
Covering the future of real estate and the people creating it