Rome City Commissioners are expecting requests for as many as three new Tax Allocation District financing plans for new developments.

The Trolley Line Trail is one of the many projects that may get a financial boost if Atlanta voters approve the Transportation Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax, or T-SPLOST. Part of the revenue from the tax would go to the Atlanta BeltLine. But there is also a slice of funding that would be dedicated to smaller, neighborhood trail projects, like the Trolley Line.

The Sandy Springs City Council recently authorized its legal staff to pursue "all legal avenues" against the Fulton County Perimeter Community Improvement District and consultant CH2M Hill Inc. to protect the city in a dispute over nearly $2.8 million in federal highway funds.

Macon county, GA, has received a $3.6 million construction bid to build multipurpose fields, sidewalks, a playground and pavilions at the Willie Smokie Glover Drive park. Approval from the Macon-Bibb County Commission could come in the next several weeks, and construction by International City Builders could start by early September.

The city of Columbus is planning to buy five parcels of land on and adjacent to Cusseta Road, including the notorious former Club Majestic, "to eliminate slum and blight," Columbus Council decided this week.

A recently announced federal grant will pump $10 million into Atlanta's Martin Luther King Jr. Drive corridor to improve mobility and safety, while enhancing the aesthetic feel of the seven-mile corridor that stretches from the mouth of a brand new football stadium to the western border of the city.

Community Improvement Districts (CIDs) are a type of special assessment district used in Georgia to concentrate funds in a particular location. Since their authorization in 1985, CIDs have been applied widely across the state to promote public improvement.

In partnership with GEDA, join the CDFA Georgia Financing Roundtable and our expert panelists to explore the prevalence of CID projects in Georgia and how they are being used to finance revitalization in communities all of sizes.

CDFA is pleased to announce the release of the Annual Volume Cap Report: An Analysis of 2015 Private Activity Bond & Volume Cap Trends. The report provides complete data of the use of volume cap and the issuance of cap-subject private activity bonds nationwide and is featured in The Bond Buyer. Read the Annual Volume Cap Report and explore CDFA's interactive and searchable National Volume Cap Map.

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