The Topeka city council will consider a tax increment financing district for a 13-acre area on the northwest corner of S.W. 29th and Fairlawn.

Oklahoma City's city council agreed Tuesday to provide up to $225,000 in job-creation incentives for HealthSmart, a national administrator of health plans for self-funded employers.

A new financing tool, Property Assessed Clean Energy funding, is helping redevelopers convert a former paper warehouse in Kansas City's Crossroads Arts District to apartments. The Walnut Terrace apartments will be at 1721 Walnut St. KEM Studio.

Overland Park City Council voted to establish tax increment financing (TIF) and a STAR bond district for the controversial Brookridge redevelopment project.

Village South, a mixed-use development proposed in Edwardsville, has expanded. The Edwardsville City Council helped the developers by granting $10 million in tax-increment financing and approving a 1-cent community improvement district sales tax.

Authorities have made the last payment on state-backed bonds used to develop the Village West shopping district in Wyandotte County. Retirement of STAR bonds for the Village West development in Wyandotte County is expected to free $12 million in sales tax revenue annually.

Pittsburg City Commissioners approved the city investing $1.5 million in a student housing project. The money will come from the revolving loan fund in two installments of $750,000. Although it comes from the revolving loan fund, the money is a contribution and will not be repaid.

 A $120 million tax increment financing district, including $60 million for two schools, was unveiled Monday as part of plans to create a mixed-use neighborhood at the former Downtown Airpark along the Oklahoma River.

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