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Development, Infrastructure, Government
enr.com reported on October 14, 2026, that the emergency repair of a failing embankment on PR 110 at KM 10.2 in Moca, Puerto Rico, was named its 2026 Texas & Southeast Best Project in Specialty Construction.
Source: enr.com and RED Atlas
Commercial, Industrial, Government
PR Footwear, a subsidiary of Illinois-based Belleville Boot Company, will make military boots at the former Eagle Industries del Caribe plant in Lares and plans to create up to 300 full-time jobs over the next three years, sanjuandailystar.com reported on October 6, 2026. The Lares plant and a second facility in San Sebastián will be the company's first manufacturing operations in Puerto Rico, according to the outlet.
Source: sanjuandailystar.com and RED Atlas
Infrastructure, Government
The rehabilitation of the Maricao Fish Hatchery, closed for nine years since Hurricane María, is moving forward with $13,195,957.41 in obligated funds, elvocero.com reported on October 4, 2026. During a visit to the site, the House Speaker, a state representative, the mayor of Maricao and an undersecretary of Puerto Rico's Department of Natural and Environmental Resources discussed where the project stands.
Source: El Vocero and RED Atlas
Residential, Infrastructure, Government
A resident of the Aguas Blancas sector of Yauco, Puerto Rico, received a new home on October 4, 2026, through a Southern Consortium initiative that rehouses families displaced by the earthquakes, periodicoelsolpr.com reported.
Source: periodicoelsolpr.com and RED Atlas
Government, Tax
Puerto Rico's Municipal Revenue Collection Center and the mayor of Salinas will hold a "CRIM en tu Municipio" service day in the town on Friday, October 23, 2026, where residents can handle property paperwork, request tax exemptions and arrange payment plans for real property debts, elvocero.com reported.
Source: El Vocero and RED Atlas
Residential, Development, Government
Puerto Rico's governor said on Wednesday, October 7, 2026, that the average time to process a Consolidated Construction Permit fell from 107 days in 2024 to 62 days in 2026, a 42.1 percent reduction, sanjuandailystar.com reported. She gave the figures at the annual convention of the Puerto Rico Builders Association, held at the Condado Vanderbilt hotel in San Juan.
Source: sanjuandailystar.com and RED Atlas
Residential, Government, Legal
The Office of Government Ethics has filed an ethics complaint against an employee of Puerto Rico's Department of Housing in the Arecibo Region, alleging he accessed and changed his own title-regularization application for a property in Adjuntas, noticel.com reported on October 9, 2026.
Source: NotiCel and RED Atlas
Land, Government, Legal
Two companies, Hacienda Campo Rico and Caribbean Golf Academy, have filed a 28-page memorandum with the Senate Committee on Tourism, Natural Resources and Environmental Affairs alleging that the permits director at the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources gave lawmakers misleading information about the permit renewal and expansion of the Carolina municipal landfill, sanjuandailystar.com reported on October 15, 2026.
Source: sanjuandailystar.com and RED Atlas
Barceloneta - Development, Infrastructure, Government
A municipal community center at Ave. MUÑOZ RIVERA, Núm. 75, Bo. PALMAS ALTAS Barceloneta, Puerto Rico 00617 has an approved environmental clearance for interior work. The work is a project of rehabilitation and improvements to rooms the town uses for community services.
Source: RED Atlas
Residential, Government
A woman in her eighties facing an eviction order from the two-bedroom house she has rented for 27 years in Urbanización Roosevelt, Hato Rey, San Juan, has completed the paperwork to begin the search for a permanent home and has shown interest in a unit at one of the housing projects presented to her, elvocero.com reported on Thursday, October 15, 2026. The Puerto Rico Department of Housing will coordinate a visit by her lawyer to the available unit in the complex she chose, a department spokesperson told the outlet.
Source: El Vocero and RED Atlas
Government
Cataño's incoming municipal administration will create a Demographic Task Force to find structures and spaces that can become housing, the town's new mayor wrote in a column in elvocero.com on Friday, October 16, 2026, as the administration prepared to take office on Saturday, October 17.
Source: El Vocero and RED Atlas
San Juan - Development, Infrastructure, Government
The Department of Natural and Environmental Resources (DRNA) is rehabilitating the De Diego flood-control pump station in Santurce, San Juan, and the project has cleared two early reviews, according to filings in the government permits portal that RED Atlas tracks. The station is at Ave. De Diego, Parada 22, at the corner of Calle Julián Blanco and Calle Estrella. The filings place the work in the department's capital improvements program to rebuild facilities damaged by Hurricane María (federal disaster 4339-DR).
Source: RED Atlas
