As more and more people demand local and or ganic food, there are increasing opportunities for new farmers. The growing organic market can provide the opportunity, but it is challenging to start your own farm without proper planning.

A new report from Croatan Institute highlights how the Soil Wealth Area model can facilitate more investment in regenerative agriculture, enhance conservation, and support resilient rural economies. The report provides specific recommendations for...

States across the country are starting to gather data and use evidence to systematically evaluate tax incentives. To illustrate what sort of evaluations states are conducting, NCSL created a database of state tax incentive evaluations. Evaluations...

Baker Tilly is sharing their inaugural Wisconsin TIF Data Book. This report summarizes key metrics, trends and insights on Tax Increment Financing (TIF) in this state. TIF is the most powerful economic development financial tool for Wisconsin...

This interactive data tool from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis shows total SSBCI investments, percent of investments in LMI and rural areas, investments by MSA, investments by loan programs, CDFIs, and more.

States saw steep declines in revenues in the second quarter of 2020, though some of this was caused by shifting revenues into the next quarter and next fiscal year. Consequently, most states ended the 2020 fiscal year uncertain about their fiscal...

This map includes states where projects are eligible for Retroactive PACE financing and includes a summary of state-by-state guidelines.

John Wooten, Philip Angelo, Colin Kalvas, Ryan Kozak, and Dennis Reilly present Bond Financing for Healthcare & Housing Projects

The Section 184 Indian Home Loan Guarantee Program was created by the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 to address the lack of mortgage lending in Indian Country. This brochure from the FDIC briefly reviews the background, purpose, and...

On September 30, 2019, HUD awarded more than $314 million to 77 state and local government agencies and more than $5 million in six tribal communities to identify and address home health and safety hazards. This document is a description of each...

Rebecca Mitich with Husch Blackwell LLP presents an Opportunity Zones case study from Milwaukee, WI.

Dennis Reilly with the Wisconsin Health & Educational Facilities Authority (WHEFA) presents on the financing programs they offer and several case studies of Hospitals they have assisted through bond financing.

Daniel Lindstrom and Karl Frantz present on TIF and making the best deal for your community at the Wisconsin American Planning Association Annual Conference

This report provides a summary of tax incremental financing (TIF) in the greater La Crosse region, with a focus on the City of La Crosse. Several key findings and policy considerations are highlighted in the report.

Al Rolek, Brandt Johnson, and Sean Lentz from the City of River Falls give a presentation on Tax Increment District (TID)

Tax Increment Finance 101 from Seth Hudson at Cedar Corp

Matthew Dregne from Stafford Roesenbaum LLP discusses TIF at the League of Wisconsin Municipalities

The changes and trends in the affordable housing industry have a large impact on Wisconsin communities. Continuing to provide an adequate number of homes affordable to low and moderate income households is increasingly difficult. Luckily, there are...

Rebecca Mitich with Husch Blackwell discusses the new tax law, its implications on development finance with a special focus on Opportunity Zones and their potential impact in underserved communities.

Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing supports the expansion of energy efficiency, solar, water, wind power and other renewable energy installations for the benefit of commercial buildings. PACE programs capitalize reduction in energy...

Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing supports the expansion of energy efficiency, solar, water, wind power and other renewable energy installations for the benefit of commercial buildings. PACE programs capitalize reduction in energy...

Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing supports the expansion of energy efficiency, solar, water, wind power and other renewable energy installations for the benefit of commercial buildings. PACE programs capitalize reduction in energy...

Andrea Roschke with Von Briesen & Roper shares the boundary map for the Village of Mount Pleasant's proposed TID.

TIF is perennially one of the nation’s most effective and popular development finance tools, but also one of its most misunderstood and controversial. TIF is a very flexible, with multiple variations as to the specific revenue sources it can...

The changes and trends in the affordable housing industry have a large impact on Wisconsin communities. Continuing to provide an adequate number of homes affordable to low and moderate income households is increasingly difficult. Luckily, there are...

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

This application is for the Mississippi River Regional Planning Commission EDA Revolving Loan Fund.

This RLF plan was produced for the Southwestern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission.

This fact sheet is used to market the Door County Economic Development Corporation EDA Revolving Loan Fund.

This flyer is used to market the Racine County Economic Development Commission EDA Revolving Loan Fund.

This application is for the Kenosha Area Business Alliance EDA Revolving Loan Fund.

This application is for the Impact Seven Financing EDA Revolving Loan Fund.

Baker Tilly produced this report with the purpose of estimating the economic and fiscal impact of recent changes to Wisconsin’s historic tax credit, enabling projects to claim the 20% award versus the 5% HTC award. The approach in this report looks...

This report, produced by Baker Tilly, analyzes the State of Wisconsin's 5% Historic Tax Credit (HTC) which applies to qualified rehabilitated expenditures on building projects and renovations across the state. On January 1, 2014, the credit was...

In 2011 Wisconsin adopted the Manufacturing and Agriculture Credit (MAC), which provides credits which largely offset the taxes faced by businesses in those sectors in the state. While manufacturing employment has grown since the MAC took effect in...

Dennis Reilly, Executive Director of the Wisconsin Health & Educational Facilities Authority (WHEFA), discusses WHEFA's approach to non-profit healthcare finance.

The primary finding of this study is that the Fund for Lake Michigan has had a very positive, demonstrable economic impact in the southeastern region of Wisconsin. Data suggests that, if funded in the same manner, the Fund should continue to have a...

Grant Chromy from Milwaukee Economic Development Corporation covers the redevelopment of 26 acres freed up after the demolition of a freeway.

Mary Perry and Kathryn Berger (Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation) discuss the latest matters related to economic development in Wisconsin, along with a look at the variety of financing programs available from the state.

Keenan Grenell (Manufacturing Diversity Institute) discusses how small businesses are financed and the various access to capital challenges they face. Of special focus is MDI's Micro Equity Fund funded by WHEDA.

Wendy Baumann (WWBIC) discusses how small businesses are financed and the various access to capital challenges they face. Baumann discusses WWBIC's services: business and financial education programming, micro and small business loans, one-on-one...

Frank Demarest (U.S. Small Business Administration) discusses how small businesses are financed and the various access to capital challenges they face. Demarest explores SBA's 7(a) Loans, 504 Loans, Micro Loans, and more.

Milwaukee is one of very few cities in the country to demolish a freeway to connect neighborhoods and open valuable land for development. Lori Lutzka, Mary Schanning, and Vanessa Koster (City of Milwaukee) explore recent and proposed Park East...

Sherry Gerondale (WHEDA) discusses conduit bonds and unique projects and financing mechanisms accomplished through WHEDA.

Dennis Reilly (WHEFA) discusses conduit bonds and unique projects and financing mechanisms accomplished through WHEFA.

Tax Credits have been widely used in Wisconsin as a method to influence businesses to take certain actions, such as locating to specific underserved areas, rehabilitating historic properties, expanding business’ research and development, investing...

Bond financing remains the bedrock development finance tool for economic development. Lynda Templen (Husch Blackwell LLP) and Elizabeth Blutstein (Quareles & Brady LLP) discuss the history of bond finance in Wisconsin and focus on how this...

This month’s CDFA // BNY Mellon Development Finance Webcast Series unlocked the financing tools that support new, expanding and relocating manufacturers.

This month’s CDFA // BNY Mellon Development Finance Webcast Series featured David Misky of the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Milwaukee, Bill Calderon of Hawes Hill Calderon LLP, and John Stoecker of California Municipal Finance Authority,...

During this CDFA // BNY Mellon Development Finance Webcast, hear from financing experts as they share capitalization options available for water infrastructure.