Scot Patrick O’Brien and Alexandre Denault wrote an article for Invest In The USA trade association magazine addressing proposed Qualified Opportunity Zones IRS regulations and their impact. They also analyzed how investments from opportunity zone funds can be made into new EB-5 projects, and how investments from new EB-5 new commercial enterprises can be made into opportunity zones.

The authors wrote, "Since the QOZ Program was created on December 22, 2017, a growing number of opportunity zone funds have been created [...] The newly raised funds are able to invest in any of the 8,700+ certified opportunity zones, and Yardi Systems reports that the range of commercial real estate investment in the opportunity zones is possibly between $30 - $100 billion."