Redevelopment is where economic growth meets the buildings a community already has, and increasingly, it's the only game in town. Anthony Romanello, S.I.R. Managing Partner, shares why the vacant retail boxes and dated office buildings hiding in plain sight may be the most consequential opportunities on any city's map.

Every morning, we hire a brilliant strategist who has never heard of us. They read what we left out for them, do remarkable work, and are gone by evening. Ried Watkins, S.I.R.’s Director of Artificial Intelligence, takes a honest look inside how our team runs AI agents: what they're spooky good at, what a knowledge file can never hold, and why someone with real judgment still decides what goes in it.

S.I.R. examines what the history of energy can teach us about artificial intelligence. As AI shifts from software to something closer to a utility, this piece traces the parallel to electrification, the power and capacity constraints shaping the buildout today, and the problems communities have never had the people to attempt, until now.

Today, S.I.R. is proud to announce that Anthony J. Romanello, one of Virginia’s most respected local government and economic development leaders, has joined the firm as Managing Partner to help cities, counties, and regions turn strategy into measurable, long-term results.