Ecosystem building, which prioritizes collaboration and growth among local entrepreneurs and organizations, is increasingly being recognized as a key regional economic development strategy. To serve ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly altered state economies. At this point, it’s clear that some of the changes will last, with significant implications for how governments should think about the ...

PACE leaves your current tax revenues intact. Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing is an economic development tool that does not subtract or redirect a political subdivision’s existing tax ...

There continues to be a great deal of discussion about encouraging economic development in Western New York. Day care services play an important role in the ability of mothers and families to work.

Tax Increment Financing (TIF) is a very valuable economic development tool for cities and counties. The following will be an attempt to have you understand how TIF operates. The process is difficult ...

Economic development is one of the few government programs on which Hoosiers seem comfortable spending big money. Although exact numbers are hard to pin down, Indiana state and local governments each ...

The recent research by West Virgnia University, which developed a Zillow-inspired software to repurpose former mine lands for economic development, brings a fresh perspective on revitalizing ...

For the first time in eight years, a city tax panel gathered at Jefferson City Hall. The city's tax increment finance (TIF) commission has not had an official meeting since 2016 for lack of a TIF ...

Any port authority in Richland County would have nothing to do with water. Port authorities can be useful economic development tools for local governments. With a wide range of powers provided by the ...