The CDFA – Frost Brown Todd Infrastructure Finance Webcast Series will address current trends in financing the nation's most pressing infrastructure needs along with strategies for assembling capital, structuring the deal, and addressing critical financing gaps.

Kresge Social Investment Managing Director Kimberlee Cornett interviewed GCRA's President and CEO Laura Brunner to find out how this unique organization became a recipient of an impact investment and how it views its role as both an industrial and business developer as well as a neighborhood developer in Cincinnati.

A wave of local construction and redevelopment projects has been revitalizing the Rochester region over the last decade. But construction projects come at a high cost. Banks tend to be the go-to source for financings projects, but some companies are using nontraditional ways of acquiring funding.

Even after refinancing a burdensome debt load, the Louisville Arena Authority would pay more per year to retire new bonds for the KFC Yum! Center than under its current plan, according to a WDRB News analysis of documents made public last week.

A local developer has been awarded $15 million in new markets tax credits to help finance a major overhaul of a historic cargo warehouse on the South Side. Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency and the Urban Redevelopment Authority supported the effort to secure the tax credits.

On the former rail yard, more than $250 million in investments have created 450 construction jobs and 750 permanent jobs so far — many of them covered by local hiring agreements. And this week brings another announcement of a partnership to develop 50 more acres of industrial land, with potential for up to 1,000 more jobs.

Chris Burnham, CEO of the Development Finance Authority of Summit County, says their new strategic plan will increase focus on the subsidiary Development Fund of the Western Reserve.

As Hurricane Harvey's floodwaters begin to recede in Texas and Louisiana and Hurricane Irma bears down on Florida, we are just beginning to focus on the many tasks ahead. The focus of this comment is the consideration of public assets in everyday life; the prospects for accomplishing the rebuilding with municipal financing, and the effect on credit quality for the credits affected by these forceful and devastating storms.

 A Florida judge declined to validate bonds proposed by two community development districts, saying they failed to properly apportion special assessments they planned to charge homeowners.

During this installment of the CDFA//BNY Mellon Development Finance Webcast Series, you'll learn from SBA 504 Loan Program experts how to apply for financing, who should consider applying, and examples of businesses that have successfully used the 504 program in the past to grow and develop.

In this CDFA webcast, hear from HUD officials and experienced users of the Section 108 program on how the program has been used around the country, and how it can be layered with other development finance tools to support community development.

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In this webinar, our experts focus on projects that took a health-based approach to restoring hazardous properties by reinventing them as parks, healthcare facilities, and grocery stores.

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