Tommy DobczykOpportunity Zone Advisor, OZ Wizard · Director of Development | Certified Opportunity Zone Advisor

Building Dreams: Unpacking Infrastructure Costs & Sewer Surprises! #shorts

15 Mar 2026 · 1 min

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Tommy Dobczyk breaks down the hidden costs of developing a project called Snowflake. Road construction alone runs $20 million, but add water, electric, and sewer infrastructure on top. A major headache: single-family homes need 6-inch sewer pipes while apartments use 4-inch ones, and fitting the bigger pipe into a smaller system creates serious design problems.

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Are you in the deal room? I have no intention of doing Snowflake until it wants to be done the way that we're going to be able to do it, you know, though, because again, it may be just $20 million in roads today, but that also includes water, electric, sewer, right? So again, running into, running into high-level problems. When you build out the sewer system for, for your multifamily, you're using a 4-inch pipe. When you're, when you're building out your apartments, you can use a 4-inch pipe. But when you do your single family, it needs to be 6. So now I can't run a 6 into a 4.