Arizona mayors and economic developers are making a renewed push to allow for tax increment financing incentives for real estate developments and other projects.

The 1889 Institute recently published a paper concluding the that when it comes to TIFs, Oklahoma desperately needs greater transparency, stricter limits on how funding can be spent, and more strictly limited lifetimes and revenue sources, along other reforms mentioned in this paper.

Learn how to structure a TIF that eases the financial pressure on your brownfield project and how communities can blend the use of TIF with other financing tools to help bring your brownfields back into productive use.

The proposed $6.9 billion Port Covington development project in Baltimore would include the largest tax increment financing district in the city's history and would be financed in part with $660 million of bonds backed by the increased property tax revenues.

This map from a local radio station shows the location and incentive amount of each TIF agreement in place in Louisville. At present, there are 19 tax increment financing agreements throughout Louisville, totaling nearly $2.5 billion in developer incentives.

The Southern Illinoisan explains the process of setting up a TIF district, from explaining the conditions that qualify an area as a TIF district through passing of a TIF ordinance.

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