Various communities throughout the United States suffer from excess nitrogen infiltrating their watersheds and contaminating their aquifers and other water resources. The source of the excess nitrogen is invariably human and animal waste that is not properly treated before its re-introduction to the environment. The result is a decades-long leaching of excess nitrogen through the soil which contaminates local ponds, lakes, streams, rivers and ultimately entire watersheds and coastlines. Nitrogen-fed algae are choking extensive watersheds to death and affecting the fishing industry, resorts, beaches and valuable public & private property.

Contaminated watersheds are frequently attacked by various brown/red/blue/green algae tides that destroy fishing habitats and industries including shell fishing, fishing and tourism. This chemical and biological destruction can be mitigated and reversed by proper treatment at the source of the problem – excess nitrogen.

Federal, state and local municipal government efforts to address the excess nitrogen contamination at its source are handicapped by a lack of funding. State and local governmental budgets are severely restricted by taxpayer revolts and prior electoral commitments to various pension and welfare benefit plans, along with increasing community requirements. These tax restraints and prior benefit commitments result in a lack of tax-based capital for investment in traditional municipal infrastructure, especially wastewater treatment facilities.

Lightower Capital Partners will provide its clients with sole source, fully integrated, turn-key infrastructure solutions that combine engineering, equipment/technology management, low-cost flexible financing and environmental oversight to targeted owners, operators and communities.

​The many advantages of the Lightower Capital Partners’ one-stop shopping approach includes reduced long-term financing costs, lower O&M costs, reduced project life-cycle costs, reduced environmental liability exposure and independent environmental oversight.

Lightower Capital Partners seeks to provide a sole-source, fully integrated, turn-key sewage treatment plant solution for local governments and municipalities as well as private owner/operator/developers. Lightower Capital Partners’ solution combines engineering, equipment/technology management, low-cost flexible financing and environmental oversight to targeted communities and private owner/operators in a transparent joint-venture with appropriate stake holders in exchange for a long-term utility-like franchise service agreement.
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The advantage of the Lightower Capital Partners’ approach includes reduced long-term financing costs, lower annual O&M costs, a reduced legal liability and environmental risk exposure and independent environmental oversight. The result is a more cost-effective, public/private solution to the Excess Nitrogen Problem.

Lightower Capital Partners seeks to solve the environmental infrastructure issues facing municipalities, real estate developers, businesses, communities, hospitals, school systems and infrastructure operators. Our approach not only differentiates us, but also drives our success. We provide a broad range of merchant banking services and asset-specific solutions to help organizations resolve infrastructure challenges, comply with environmental regulations and optimize financial returns and asset life-cycle performance.

Lightower Capital Partners is an ESG-focused (Environmental-Sustainable-Good Governance) merchant bank comprised of former Goldman Sachs professionals dedicated to providing project development, financial advice and infrastructure solutions to private entities and state, county, and local governments.

​The Lightower Capital Partners Team includes experienced infrastructure developers, investment bankers, project finance practitioners, capital market professionals, civil / environmental / chemical engineers, Big Data analytics scientists, transaction-oriented attorneys and public outreach experts. All our team members have multi-decades of experience in their areas of expertise.

​Lightower Capital Partners seeks individuals and public and private organizations that wish to enhance or maintain their local infrastructure. Our project-specific solutions address a wide range of challenges to aquifers, watersheds, wastewater systems, transportation, energy, and coastline resiliency due to aging infrastructure, population growth, nitrogen infiltration, and decades of neglect.

​Our firm provides the development expertise, engineering services and deep financial markets experience needed to address and resolve the most challenging issues encountered in complex infrastructure projects.

Lightower Capital Partners’ clients include those private sewage treatment plant (“STP”) owner/operators who are reviewing the development and construction of new STP’s and /or the replacement and/or repair of their current STP’s. Public sector owner/operators of STP’s include local municipalities and similar entities such as school districts and sewage treatment districts. Private Sector owner/operators include local real estate developers or Homeowner/Property Owner Associations.
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Lightower Capital Partners’ clients include the largest generators of excess nitrogen such as commercial, industrial, multi-family, hospitals, schools, military bases, planned unit developers and business districts. Commercial real estate developers include Lightower Capital Partners in their project development planning as they would any other telecom, electric and/or gas utility.