In 2011, the CDFA Board of Directors created the CDFA Lifetime Achievement Award to recognize individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to the development finance industry throughout their professional career. CDFA is very proud to recognize year's recipient, Arthur Cohen, a Partner at the New York City offices of Hawkins Delafield & Wood LLP.

New rules are forcing states and localities to calculate how much revenue they're losing to business deals -- and whether they pay off. It's something Washington state has been doing for a decade.

St. Louis' Tax Increment Financing Commission supported $19.4 million in tax breaks for the City Foundry project, but weren't sold on the developer's tax abatement request. The Lawrence Group wants a decade of full property tax abatement and 50 percent off for 15 additional years.

The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board wants to amend several of its rules to both create a municipal advisor client complaint process as well as update and streamline its current requirements related to dealer customer complaints.

Sales of municipal bonds and notes soared to a record $52.5 billion in October, the biggest month of issuance since records began in the 1980s, according to Thomson Reuters data.

This report was put together by the California Association for Local Economic Development (CALED). The report discusses the New tax increment financing tools. Tax increment financing (TIF) tools work by transferring the property tax revenues that flow from a designated project area to the city, county, and other taxing entities.

The private developers of a Florida intercity passenger train system unveiled a new financing strategy they said will moot two pending federal lawsuits nearing conclusion in Washington, D.C.

Making a big leap west, Missouri-based Gilmore & Bell PC snared an eight-lawyer public finance team from Ballard Spahr LLP's Salt Lake City office.

CDFA is seeking development finance advisors for the Brownfields Technical Assistance Program. Complete this brief RFP to be eligible to partner with CDFA in assisting communities with their redevelopment projects.

With the 2016 elections now behind us, it's time to evaluate the current development finance landscape and unpack how the election results will affect our industry going forward. Learn from CDFA's Capitol Hill insiders about the post-election development finance landscape.

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