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The Port of Greater Cincinnati Development Authority has received a $400,000 grant from Duke Energy for work to create development-ready sites that ultimately will attract new investment from industrial and logistics companies.

The city's board of control approved funds through the Youngstown Initiative program to assist several area companies with equipment purchases and facades. Council members also approved a 10-year, 75% tax abatement for VAM USA, the Vallourec subsidiary that is considering Youngstown for an $81.5M pipe-threading mill at their Ohio Works Industrial Park.

The recent Ohio state budget included an amendment to the Sunshine Law that creates a new exception to the general rule that public bodies hold open meetings. The new exception allows a public body to enter into an executive session to consider certain confidential information related to economic development initiatives administered by a local government.

The Ohio Development Services Agency awarded $33 million in Ohio Historic Preservation Tax Credits to rehabilitate 31 historic buildings in 10 communities across the state. The projects are expected to leverage nearly $400 million in private investments.

Cincinnati's successful historic rehabilitations inspire officials such as Stephen Leeper, president and chief executive of Cincinnati Center City Development Corp. and David Goodman, director of the Ohio Development Services Agency, to hail the payoffs of the long-standing program.

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The Ohio Incumbent Workforce Training Voucher Program is an employer-driven program designed to provide direct financial assistance to train workers and improve the economic competitiveness of Ohio's employers. The Voucher Program is designed to offset a portion, via reimbursement, of the employer's costs to upgrade the skills of its incumbent workforce.

These presentations on a variety of economic development topics made up the inaugural conference of the Cincinnati USA Partnership for Economic Development.

The Center for Neighborhood Technology put out this report on the growing effort among planners, real estate professionals, and economists to identify not only the economic benefits of alternative transportation modes in and of themselves, but also the impact that they have on housing prices and value retention. The real estate mantra of "location, location, location" is more important than ever.

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