Thursday, September 1, 2:00-3:30pm Eastern
Join CDFA, our technical assistance partners, and experienced brownfield communities as we discuss tax increment financing and how it can be used to compliment the redevelopment and cleanup of your brownfield project.

This recently released toolkit from Participatory Budgeting Project, the University of Illionis at Chicago, and Blocks Together provides valuable information for organizations and residents interested in maximizing the community benefits from TIF through more participatory decisionmaking processes.

As reported by vtdiggers.org, city voters in Burlington, VT will be asked whether the Queen City should issue $22 million in bonds to pay for new streets through the current Town Center mall.

According to the Daily Journal, the loan allowed the city to keep three of its TIF districts in place longer, after state law set an expiration date for those taxing districts if they have no debt, and the money borrowed could go to larger projects the city had been considering.

Under a proposed city development deal, medical radioisotope startup SHINE Medical Technologies would move its corporate headquarters and at least 80 employees to office space in the heart of downtown Janesville. The owners of the building are seeking a tax-increment financing loan totaling $384,100 to to help them renovate the vacant top floor of the building, according to the Gazette Xtra.

The Oklahoma City Council took another step toward creating a tax increment financing district for the Wheeler neighborhood near downtown, just south of the Oklahoma River, reports KGOU.

According to Sauk Valley, City Council began the process of forming a tax increment financing district in Oregon, IL, an economic tool that Oregon has never had before.

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