The National Association of Home Builders, in its Winter 2007Land Development magazine, takes a look at Tax Increment Financing and special district financing and how these tool can help address infrastructure needs and promote redevelopment.

Gregory Hummel of Bell, Boyd & Lloyd compares the use of TIF in three different Illinois cities. Also includes a walkthrough of the TIF process in Illinois.

John R. Orrick, Jr. of the law firm Linowes and Blocher LLP wrote this article explaining TIF and how to apply it. He discusses District based TIF projects, special taxing districts, as well as additional considerations including bond financing...

Greg Hummel of the firm Bell, Boyd and Lloyd presented at the CDFA Annual Summit, case study examples of how TIF has been used to transform several communities in Illinois.

David Roger with Bricker & Eckler, Brad Sprague and Jerry Arkebauer with Argus Growth Consultants presented at the CDFA Annual Summit about several case study projects and their results from using tax increment financing.

John Fonner, Executive Director of the Butler County Transportation Improvement District, Andrew Brossart from Fifth Third Bank, Chris Breda of Property Advisors and Price Finley from Argus Growth Partners talk about Butler County Transportation...

Stephen Heaney and Ken Powell of Stone & Youngberg, LLC talk about some of the trends in special district financing and how they work with TIF projects during their presentation at the CDFA Annual Summit.

Steve Heaney and Ken Powell, Managing Directors at Stone & Youngberg LLC produced this article for the National Association of Home Builder's Spring 2007 magazine. Their article looks at issues in financing home building. They make some...

Bill Calderon and Barron Wallace talk about the Texas TIRZ statute and how tax increment financing works within state.

This resource is a high-gloss look at BIDs in New York City.

This resource gives readers a understanding of how special district financing works in Highlands County, Florida. The handbook defines special districts, how to create new districts, work in already created districts, special assessment district...

Like many other states with tax increment financing, in New Jersey property tax is the primary source of increment available for these districts. Though state law permits the application of non-property taxes for RAD financing, localities are...

The International Downtown Association provides a number of resources for understanding how to implement Business Improvement Districts (BIDs). These publications cover the ABCs of BIDs and the impact of BIDs on revitalization efforts.

Website provided by the Municipal Research & Services Center of Washington that provides an overview of the state’s Parking & Business Improvement Areas (PIBA) program. Includes links to state statues, rules and regulations and sample PIBAs from...

Publication by the Urban Land Institute that includes the latest information on BIDs. The guide covers best practices for planning, organizing, and financing BIDs; the services they provide; and how they are operated and managed. A leading expert,...

Article by Lawrence O. Houstoun, Jr., AICP detailing the use of BIDs for urban entertainment and cultural center development. Highlights the role of BIDs in the urban redevelopment process and reviews the costs and benefits of such programs.

Article by Heather Mac Donald from the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research as published in the May 1996 edition of the Civic Bulletin. This article details the success and achievement of the BID programs across the country and provides a good...

This review of BIDs was prepared as part of the 'Privatization and Devolution: Challenges for Urban Public Management' course from Cornell University in June 2002. The article provides a solid overview of the use of BIDs to provide economic...

This research piece provides a detailed overview of the use of BIDs covering the history, present status and future of the use of BIDs. The piece also provides several good examples of BIDs in action and theoretical fodder for the support of this...

These fact sheets describes various special districts in California. Each sheet explains a different type of property tax, from Mello-Roos and Assessment Districts, to Vehicle Parking districts and more text explains a different type of property...

High quality sample report from the City of Los Angeles Downtown BID.

Special Districts in Florida are very similar to counties and municipalities. However, special districts are units of special-purpose government as opposed to units of generalpurpose government. Florida’s laws generally treat them alike. A special...

One page overview describing how BIDs work in California. Good example of effective marketing piece highlighting the basics of a BID program.

Detailed best practice publication from the City of New York highlighting some of the best case studies from the city's Business Improvement District (BID) program.

High quality step by step guide to starting a Business Improvement District (BID)in NYC that easily replicable for other cities across the country.

Sample BID annual report from the City of Los Angeles Downtown BID.

Presentation by Jerry Mitchell, Baruch College, City University of New York on the use of Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) and innovative service delivery for special districts.

This site provides procedural information related to dozens of different types of special tax districts, including those for infrastructure, public facilities and public services, and more specific applications such as stadiums, theme parks,...

Retail and market analysis from the Times Square Business Improvement District (BID) in New York City. Good example of measuring retail sector and market impact of geographic BID area.

Presentation by Ken Powell & Stephen E. Heaney from Stone & Youngberg on their model of combining tax increment finance and special district financing.

A Maine law enacted in 2003 allows municipalities to create affordable housing development districts to support the development of affordable housing in their communities. An affordable housing development district allows a municipality to provide...

Content rich webpage featuring BID information and resources from around the world and the U.S. from the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Guide to establishing a BID in Massachusetts from the Massachusetts Department of Housing & Community Development