Jorge Mora
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And a lot of cities, of course, across the U.S., Shaquille, are in that same position.
I mean, one of the deals that the infrastructure project had been involved in was, of course, the redesign, redevelopment, if you will, of LaGuardia Airport in New York.
And Shaq, I mean, as somebody who spent 19, 20 years in the NBA, I'm sure you've been to pretty much every airport in the United States and beyond.
When you look at the infrastructure in the transportation space, what does it say to you?
great teammates you know along with colby i'm winning in the broadcast with your best friend charles barkley so i want to also win a championship in the infrastructure space so horry i am curious that with regards to the projects uh going on through the uh investment infrastructure fund i mentioned of course what went on in la guardia also a big project at jfk uh hartsfield down in atlanta is your focus going to primarily be in i guess the aviation space or are you looking to do something more broadly
We're going to be looking at other spaces.
I mean, the transportation space in particular is one of our core focuses.
And we also recently did an investment into the energy space.
Unfortunately, we can't disclose it, but it was a large, almost $100 million investment.
And then we're also going to look at digital.
What we try to do is we try to pair the competencies that we have in-house with the different sectors we're investing in.
In the digital space, we happen to have a senior advisor who has done an enormous amount of investing in digital for the last 25 years.
In transportation, we happen to own a design engineering firm that has worked in close to 100 airports in the US.
And so we're trying to stick to what we know, where we can bring some added value.
And then by having Shaquille as one of our founding partners, we can really focus on the community engagement into those big projects.
We mentioned LaGuardia a couple of times.
If you've flown in or out of LaGuardia, you can see that there's all these local businesses that are in the terminal, restaurants, et cetera.
And it also has the impact on the employment in the community.
Our value add is that we're going to try to bring that organic and more natural connectivity that a group like Jack Mel can bring to a project like that when partnering with large infrastructure investors, either strategic or financial.
Well, expand on that a little bit, because, I mean, as someone who goes to LaGuardia almost every other week, it's very obvious that there is an intent with that redesign to highlight local businesses.