Combining multiple incentives successfully requires attention to detail and often some creative structuring. Identifying program requirements and balancing the applicable incentives are steps that must be established early on for any potential...

Urban communities like Austin and Dallas are not the only places looking for help to fund economic development. Texas is filled with rural communities and small towns that are also in need of financing strategies. These areas face unique development...

The 2017 CDFA Michigan Financing Roundtable Webinar discusses the latest and greatest in Development Finance across the state. The webinar includes two sessions: Development Finance Current Events Review and The Michigan Bond Market. Experts, Craig...

With the 2016 Presidential election finalized, the development finance industry is excited to move forward with recommendations and innovative strategies for unlocking access to capital. The ideas offered in this transition paper provide a roadmap...

League of Minnesota Cities provides a guide on the requirements for a city to establish criteria for awarding business subsidies and various development agencies cities may create. An overview of state and federally sponsored programs for...

Toby Rittner of CDFA covers an Overview of Development Finance at the North Carolina Conference.

Tom Seasoltz (Altoona-Blair County Development Corporation) discusses strategies for managing a development finance agency, opportunities for investment, and thoughts about the pressing matters facing development finance agencies in Pennsylvania.

Toby Rittner of the Council of Development Finance Agencies speaks on Opening the Development Finance Toolbox.

Eloisa Klementich from Invest Atlanta discusses Invest Atlanta's financing capacity and toolbox.

Blake Sharpton of Butler Snow LLP talks about Development Authorities and their Financing Capacity in Georgia.

This guide from the U.S. EPA provides guidance and technical assistance to localities and brownfields practitioners on leveraging resources for brownfields revitalization. This guide explores how communities can prepare to successfully leverage...

Toby Rittner of the Council of Development Finance Agencies presents on the development finance toolbox for the Tennessee Economic Development Finance Course.

As part of the Brownfields Technical Assistance Program, this report from CDFA staff and technical advisors provides redevelopment recommendations for the Kalispell Core Area and Glacier Rail Park located in Kalispell, Montana.

As part of the Brownfields Technical Assistance Program, this report from CDFA staff and technical advisors provides redevelopment recommendations for the Dimmick Campus site located in Josephine County, Oregon.

Gene King of Sequence Holdings LLC, discusses in detail various capital access methods and structures for small and middle market companies.

During this CDFA Kentucky Webcast in partnership with the Bluegrass International Fund, CDFA President & CEO Toby Rittner unlocks the development finance toolbox in the Bluegrass State.

Incentive zoning is a planning tool that local governments use to entice developers to provide a public good by offering incentives. The incentives seek to offset the cost to developers of the public goods. In this issue brief the authors describe...

Toby Rittner of CDFA teaches the Tennessee Economic Development Finance Course by going over the many different financing tools in the toolbox.

As part of the CDFA Brownfields Technical Assistance Program, this debut webinar highlights communities that have successfully employed the development finance toolbox to transform former brownfield sites into economic assets. Learn how tools such...

This report, produced by CDFA for the World Bank, is intended to provide information to communities and countries interested in identifying potential financing tools for the remediation and redevelopment of contaminated industrial sites. Specific...

Toby Rittner, President & CEO of CDFA, introduces The Toolbox Approach with respect to development finance.

Stephen Friedman, President of SB Friedman, cover the ways individual development finance tools can be combine to create the extraordinary deals that bring about amazing developments. From TIF and special assessment to the full municipal credit and...

Albert Lemus with Lowe Enterprises shares four case studies of projects in California that utilized the state's new market tax credit program.

A basic understanding of using tax credit programs for economic development is given by Beth Mullen of CohnReznick.

Emily Jarrett shares California Pollution Control Financing Authority's capital lending opportunities for small businesses.

Bob Gamble of Public Financial Management gives an introductory overview of bond financing.

Toby Rittner with CDFA sets the stage to help the audience build their core knowledge of the basic principles of development finance.

Larry Kosmont, CEO of Kosmont Companies gives a comprehensive look into the targeted tools of California.

During the first-ever CDFA Arizona Financing Roundtable Webcast, CDFA President & CEO Toby Rittner and T.J. Jennings, Vice President of Capital Strategies at the Arizona Commerce Authority explore the depths and potential for unlocking the...

In the first installment of the CDFA-Stifel Small, Medium and Rural Community Development Finance Webcast Series, speakers Laura Radcliff, Jason Rittenberg, Nick Walters and John Connelly focus on funding tools that make economic development more...

Toby Rittner with CDFA explores the full spectrum of development finance tools, trends in the use of specific tools, bedrock vs. targeted tools, and much more from the development finance toolbox.

Toby Rittner with CDFA breaks down tax increment financing (TIF), the process of creating TIF districts, special assessments and districts, the tool's ability to catalyze investment, best practices when implementing TIF, and much more.

During the first-ever CDFA Florida Financing Roundtable Webcast, Toby Rittner with CDFA and Sherod Halliburton with Manatee County Federal Credit Union explore the depths and potential for unlocking the development finance toolbox in the Sunshine...

The State of California Business Investment Guide serves as a reference document to highlight strategic business advantages, new state-sponsored initiatives, incentives, as well as existing technical and financial assistance programs which are...

Development finance is the heart of economic, energy, infrastructure, technology, and environmental development. Without core financing tools, such as bonds, tax credits, and access to capital, development projects simply cannot move forward. Within...

Development finance is the heart of economic, energy, infrastructure, technology, and environmental development. Within Oregon, dozens of unique and innovative financing programs exist to support business, industry, real estate, and community...

Development finance is the heart of economic, energy, infrastructure, technology, and environmental development. Without core financing tools, such as bonds, tax credits, and access to capital, development projects simply cannot move forward. Within...

Development finance is the heart of economic, energy, infrastructure, technology, and environmental development. Without core financing tools, such as bonds, tax credits, and access to capital, development projects simply cannot move forward. Within...

During this webcast, Eric Metz and Ben Feingold of Los Angeles Streetcar, Inc. and Rick Gustafson of Shiels Obletz Johnsen, Inc. discussed how the necessary financing was assembled for two streetcar projects and the broader economic impacts that...

Transit oriented development brings together the tenets of smart growth and sustainability, looking at how public transportation, real estate, housing, and retail development interconnect. Cities large and small and many metro regions across the...

Development finance is the heart of economic, energy, infrastructure, technology, and environmental development. Without core financing tools, such as bonds, TIF, tax credits, and access to capital, development projects simply cannot move forward....

Development finance is the heart of economic, energy, infrastructure, technology, and environmental development. Without core financing tools, such as bonds, TIF, tax credits, and access to capital, development projects simply cannot move forward....

Toby Rittner, President & CEO Council of Development Finance Agencies, discusses CDFA, development finance trends, best practices, case studies, and a wide variety of development finance programs.

This overview of development finance tools available in New York City is presented by Jonathan Gouveia of NYCEDC.

This presentation by Marty Marasco of the Altoona-Blair County Development Corporation discusses the toolbox approach to development finance and offers project examples.

Project finance, the CDFA Policy Agenda, the EB-5 visa program, and a number of other development finance tools are covered in Development Finance Perspectives, Issue 1 | 2012. The cover of the issue features photos of projects from CDFA members....

This article, appearing in the first issue of Development Finance Perspectives and written by CDFA President & CEO Toby Rittner, makes the case for economic development authorities (EDA) to use the Development Finance Toolbox. The toolbox approach...

The Practitioner's Guide to Economic Development Finance is the only comprehensive resource dedicated to building and utilizing the development finance toolbox. The Practitioner's Guide provides the insight and practical information needed to...

This report summarizes the different programs run by City of Cleveland for economic development. It lists all of the projects the city participated in during 2009.