tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20042648933934667632024-02-07T15:58:30.280-06:00Economic Development and City Planning NewsMost of my new posts will be on http:\\cityplanningnews.comC Hullingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14815089043570782387noreply@blogger.comBlogger258125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004264893393466763.post-4870124836627164112013-03-20T12:39:00.004-05:002023-05-11T15:20:01.062-05:00Future Posts to PlanningNews.blogspot.com<br />
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C Hullingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13782759243128511853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004264893393466763.post-85020838750376094682013-01-03T06:49:00.002-06:002013-01-03T06:49:14.382-06:00AIA Chicago Firm of the Year!<span style="font-size: large;">Congratulations. Well done.</span><br />
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The American Institute of Architects (AIA) Chicago Chapter has awarded Farr Associates its highest honor. The Firm of the Year Award recognizes the outstanding collective achievements by a firm and overall excellence in its body of work. It honors outstanding contributions made in the areas of design, research, planning, technology, and architectural practice. The award also acknowledges the distinctive characteristics or personality of the firm and its operations, this year, citing Farr Associates' culture of connecting architecture with urban planning.Farr Associates was selected based on the "<i>firm's committment to sustainability far surpassing industry norms and an impressive optimism of the future of our cities. Seven LEED Platinum projects, two net-zero projects, and numerous publications on the subject of Sustainable Urbanism clearly show that Farr Associates is advancing the profession."</i><br />
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Farr Associates' design for Harmony House for Cats is the Midwest's most sustainable cageless, no-kill animal shelter, earning LEED-NC v3.0 Platinum this month. Located in Chicago, the 7,100 square foot project is the City's first design for a net-zero energy commercial building and features a 30KW photovoltaic system, and 20 solar hot water panels that not only provide hot water for the shelter's cleaning needs, but also augment the 14-well geothermal system by charging the ground with excess heat during summer months. The courtyard design creates a beautiful daylit solution, reducing energy bills, and gives shelter inhabitants (150 cats) and volunteers (numerous humans) a gorgeous view to the landscaping--and passersby an immediate view of adoptable cats and kittens.</div>
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Harper Court, a new mixed-use development initiated to replace an urban-renewal-era shopping center in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood, has earned a LEED for Neighborhood Development (ND) Gold rating from the USGBC, an Illinois first. Farr Associates led the project's LEED-ND certification and served as the project's master plan and urban design consultant in collaboration with Hartshorne Plunkard Architecture. The master plan described a vibrant urban place with mixed used-buildings defining a first-of-its-kind multi-purpose street. Developed through a partnership among Harper Court Partners, LLC, the City of Chicago and the University of Chicago, at full buildout Harper Court will provide 1.1 million square feet of new mixed-use space on ±3.96 acres, including 250,000 square feet of commercial uses, a new hotel, and up to 425 residential units. The LEED-ND certification recognizes the inherent sustainability of mixed-use transit-served urban development, enhanced with green infrastructure and buildings. </div>
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Increasingly municipalities are implementing sustainability plans by adopting sustainable subdivision, zoning and building codes. Here are three recently adopted codes prepared by Farr:<br />
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<b>Dublin, Ohio</b> adopted the Bridge Street Corridor Development Code. An outcome of a larger master planning process for the area, this form-based code was developed with the goal of creating a vibrant, walkable environment with a dynamic mix of land uses and housing types within the 800-acre district.<br />
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<b>Billings, Montana</b> adopted the East Billings Urban Revitalization District Code. This form-based code will guide the sustainable redevelopment of the area into a walkable, flexible light industrial and mixed-use area.<br />
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<b>Aurora, Illinois</b> adopted an alternative energy ordinance that establishes requirements and streamlines the process for property owners installing solar and wind energy systems within the city.<br />
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C Hullingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13782759243128511853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004264893393466763.post-19947015421360321602012-11-29T07:57:00.001-06:002012-11-29T07:57:57.490-06:00SynergiCity<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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such as Detroit, St. Louis, and <i><b>Peoria</b></i> must redefine themselves to
be globally competitive. This revitalization is possible through environmentally
and economically sustainable restoration of industrial areas and warehouse
districts for commercial, research, light industrial, and residential uses. The
volume's expert researchers, urban planners, and architects draw on the
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District in Durham, North Carolina, and the Milwaukee River Greenway--to set
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Gillem, Robert Greenstreet, Craig Harlan Hullinger, Paul Hardin Kapp, Ray Lees,
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neighborhoods to city hall or private developers, this book shows that the
solution to many cities' plights lies within them. Empowering residents to take
control of and build on community assets, engaging them in community-based
organizations that can spearhead revitalization and build real quality of place,
yields real results. To the extent that they adopt a holistic approach to
planning and build on a city's intrinsic strengths, they can accomplish
miracles."--from the foreword by Richard Florida</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Craig Harlan Hullinger
AICP</span></b></span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.peoriamagazines.com/ibi/2010/jul/synergicity"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">http://www.peoriamagazines.com/ibi/2010/jul/synergicity</span></span></a></div>
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C Hullingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13782759243128511853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004264893393466763.post-83770111354384029852012-10-26T11:57:00.001-05:002013-03-20T12:39:36.382-05:00Future Posts<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 21px;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5400348437967600146" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPBU4Jd_lwkMuAa46Rnf66WRCHsUCE4GzvZutM1NfJqeVa6zBdI24W0cMM4aqQQZMQbVjKfo3-p4y59bXzN6wVMMFHpQq1vUjoUe-Zl6XdlzddCEuAk3HZtH8-PtsWDFn9fqU5rlj3y2s/s320/Civic+Center.bmp" style="float: right; height: 214px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; width: 320px;" />The City of Peoria has many quality sculptures. The City is also leading the expansion of “Green” Technology and Sustainability. A Green Sculpture Park could be developed that would be artistic and “green”, incorporating recycled materials, wind and solar energy, etc. into the design. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 21px;">The Green Sculpture Park Could start small on the green space at the Civic Center, then expand down Fulton Street to Build the Block and the River.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 1.4;">Excellent article about how "<a href="http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/10/why-manufacturing-still-matters/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">Manufacturing matters</a> by Professor <em style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; line-height: 21px;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/ref/business/economy/laura-dandrea-tyson-bio.html" style="color: #666699; text-decoration: none;">Laura D’Andrea Tyson</a>. </em>Manufacturing is very important to our economy. Our success in finance and technology is our strong suit as a nation, but we need all parts of our economy functioning well for success. A part of a good and improving society is a job for all our citizens. We need jobs that fit the ability of all our people.</span><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/10/why-manufacturing-still-matters/" style="color: #888888; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none;">http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/10/why-manufacturing-still-matters/</a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 1.4;"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Peoria NEXT is an organization of The Heartland Partnership that aims to facilitate Discovery, Innovation and Commercialization of new technologies through collaboration and creativity for economic development. The organization turned 10 years old on September 11, 2011 and has grown tremendously since its inception. Peoria NEXT named it's new CEO, Grant Brewen, in November 2011 and looks forward to conitnued growth in the technology commercialization arena. </span><div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The newly formed</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Iowa Economic Development Authority</b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">(formerly IDED) will use the best aspects of the public and private sectors to create a dynamic, results-driven partnership with programs and incentives that will meet the needs for business growth. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This model marks a new direction in economic development for the state and consists of two arms – the Iowa Economic Development Authority and the Iowa Innovation Corporation.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The authority is a quasi-government agency that replaces the existing Iowa Department of Economic Development and will perform its current duties. The authority will have a more focused set of incentives, providing maximum flexibility to meet the needs of potential employers.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The second entity, the Iowa Innovation Corporation, will serve as the private sector side of the economic development equation and will work to attract investors and investment capital. A non-profit, the IIC will solicit funds for various sources in the private sector to be used for its job creation efforts.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Iowa has set bold economic development goals for the coming years: Create 200,000 private-sector jobs and raise family incomes by 25 percent. This new approach to economic development will focus on innovation and growing high-paying jobs that will support Iowa’s future.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">One key economic cluster that will help the state reach these goals is the advanced manufacturing industry. Newly released numbers by the Battelle Memorial Institute, reveal that advanced manufacturing employs 13 percent of all Iowa private-sector jobs. It also accounts for 33 percent of Iowa’s private-sector economic output and generates 78 percent of its patents. During 2009, advanced manufacturing employed around 156,000 people.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The report also identified biosciences and information technology as key areas for the state. <u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 26pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The following information is a cursory view of Economic Development Incentives that are available to municipalities in the State of Illinois. All incentives are, foremost, at the discretion of the municipality. Municipalities should have policies in place that describe when and under what circumstances they will award incentives. Incentives should always be granted for the public good and should only be granted to make the project work. Communities should assure that, “but for” the incentive the project is not financially possible. Many times this will mean that the community reviews the pro forma of the developer to determine the level of the incentive. The community should evaluate the amount of the incentive in proportion to the financial risk of the developer.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tax Increment Financing—65ILCS, 5/11-74.4.1 et.seq.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TIF is perhaps the best-known incentive available to communities in Illinois. When a community institutes a TIF district it freezes the existing Equalized Assessed Valuation for all taxing districts for the next twenty-three years or until the TIF dissolved. Any increase in the EAV and its resulting property tax are applied toward development of the district.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Communities can use the increment to support a myriad of economic development activities; the most common is for the development of infrastructure. In addition, TIF can write down the purchase of the land, pay for preparation of the land (including grading for drainage and demolition), and pay for the following and other costs: partial interest costs, rehabilitiaion and lease hold improvement costs, relocation costs, and landscaping, etc.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Business District—65-ILCS 5/11-74.3-1</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A Business District can be established for a particular site or series of parcels. The municipality then implements an additional sales or hotel motel tax to a maximum of 1%. The proceeds from this new sales tax are applied to costs of the development of the site. Eligible costs are similar to that of TIF.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sales Tax Revenue Sharing</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Municipalities may enter into agreement to share or rebate any portion of any retailer’s occupation tax that is generated by the development for a finite period of years. The municipality must make findings related to the property and in general the abatement should serve a public purpose as creating development in adjacent areas or creating or retaining jobs, enhancing the tax base of the municipality.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Property Tax Abatement--35ILCS 200/18-165</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The community can provide a maximum of $4 million dollars in tax property tax abatement within a ten-year period for commercial and industrial development. The municipality may be joined by other taxing bodies in providing this abatement. Normally there is an agreement based on all or part of the property taxes being rebated over a number of years.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Special Services Area or Special Assessment</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">An area is created where a special assessment is placed against property to finance certain public improvements or services. This incentive has become popular in recent years to incent the development of housing. In this case the developer requests that public infrastructure (in the past, mostly financed by the developer) be financed by the community. The community publicly finances this infrastructure at a tax-exempt rate and applies an assessment to the property. These bonds incent development by removing the costs of infrastructure.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Enterprise Zones</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Illinois Enterprise Zone Act creates a specific area jointly designated by the State and local government that allows various tax incentives and other benefits to stimulate economic activity and neighborhood revitalization.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The following are among the incentives that are available in an enterprise zone: Investment Tax Credit, construction material sales tax deduction, machinery and equipment sales tax exemption, utility tax exemption, jobs tax credit, tax abatement income tax deduction for financial institutions on loans for development in enterprise zone, corporate contribution deduction.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Revolving Loan Fund</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The municipality subsidizes private loans through a revolving loan fund.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">General Municipal Assistance </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The municipality may provide a number of incentives for economic development in the general course of doing business. They may reduce or eliminate fees that apply toward development. They may work with the developer to minimize the time taken to process development.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">State Incentives</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Both the State and Urban Counties provide for Community Development Block Grant Funds or the CDAP program for the State. (See the Department of Commerce and Community Affairs Web site)</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity administers the EDGE Tax to reduce the cost of doing business in Illinois when compared with similar costs in other states allowing for tax credits.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Environmental Protection State has a Brownfield clean up program that offers a variety of incentives.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Illinois Department of Transportation is administers funds for roads to support economic development.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Illinois Development Finance Authority provides Industrial Revenue Bonds.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The State of Illinois Web site provides access to all departments and their programs.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Typical Low Interest Loan Programs</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Industrial Revenue Bonds</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Very large loans (must be greater that $1.5M) for significant manufacturing and industrial projects, used to acquire fixed assets. Can be issued by the City of Peoria. Can finance up to 100% of the total project costs at below-prime rates (fixed or variable terms). Call the City of Peoria's Department of Economic Development at (309) 494-8640 or get more info at </span><a href="http://www.il-fa.com/products/ind_irb.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #5588aa; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">www.il-fa.com/products/ind_irb.html</span></a><br /><a href="http://www.il-fa.com/products/ind_irb.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #5588aa; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a><br /><a href="http://www.il-fa.com/products/ind_irb.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #5588aa; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Enterprise Zone Participation Loan</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Works much like the IFA's Participation Loan, but is limited to businesses expanding or locating in an Enterprise Zone. Funds can be used for purchase and installation of machinery and equipment, working capital, purchase of land, construction or renovation of buildings. Cannot be used for debt refinancing or contingency. For DCEO's portion of the loan, the interest rate on variable-rate loans is 2% below indexed rate. Fixed and adjustable rates are similar to US Treasury notes, plus 0-1%. Borrower cannot employ more than 500 FTEs. More info:</span><a href="http://www.illinoisbiz.biz/dceo/Bureaus/Business_Development/Loan+Programs/ezp-plp.htm" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #5588aa; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">www.illinoisbiz.biz/dceo/Bureaus/Business_Development/Loan+Programs/ezp-plp.htm</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Revolving Line of Credit</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Allows businesses to borrow the amount of money needed to meet the demand and to repay the loan from the sales revenues. Line of credit established for between $10K and $750K, but not more that 25% of total project. Attractive interest rates, but all review and terms set by lead lender. Must not employ more than 500 FTEs. Three year maximum term. More info:</span><a href="http://www.illinoisbiz.biz/dceo/Bureaus/Business_Development/Loan+Programs/rloc.htm" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2288bb; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">www.illinoisbiz.biz/dceo/Bureaus/Business_Development/Loan+Programs/rloc.htm</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> .</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Manufacturing Modernization Loan</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Secondary financing of between $10K and $750K for manufacturers who are retooling, upgrading machinery, or expanding. Must constitute 25% or less of total financing package. Sub-prime rates, maximum term of 10 years. More info:</span><a href="http://www.illinoisbiz.biz/dceo/Bureaus/Business_Development/Loan+Programs/mmlp.htm" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #5588aa; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">www.illinoisbiz.biz/dceo/Bureaus/Business_Development/Loan+Programs/mmlp.htm</span></a><br /><a href="http://www.illinoisbiz.biz/dceo/Bureaus/Business_Development/Loan+Programs/mmlp.htm" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #5588aa; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a><br /><a href="http://www.illinoisbiz.biz/dceo/Bureaus/Business_Development/Loan+Programs/mmlp.htm" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #5588aa; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Illinois State Treasurer</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">State Treasurer's Economic Program</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Treasurer will deposit up to $25K into the business' bank at below market rates for each full-time employee created or retained. That bank, in turn, can lend those funds to the business at below prevailing rates for a term of between 1 and 5 years. More info:</span><a href="http://www.state.il.us/treas/Programs/step.htm" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #5588aa; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">www.state.il.us/treas/Programs/step.htm</span></a><br /><a href="http://www.state.il.us/treas/Programs/step.htm" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #5588aa; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a><br /><a href="http://www.state.il.us/treas/Programs/step.htm" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #5588aa; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Economic Recovery Loan Program</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Similar to the STEP program directly above, but the limit to be deposited is up to $50K per job created or retained. More info:</span><a href="http://www.state.il.us/treas/Programs/ER.htm" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #5588aa; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">www.state.il.us/treas/Programs/ER.htm</span></a><br /><a href="http://www.state.il.us/treas/Programs/ER.htm" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #5588aa; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a><br /><a href="http://www.state.il.us/treas/Programs/ER.htm" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #5588aa; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">US Small Business Administration</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SBA 504 Loan</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Provides businesses with long-term, fixed-rate financing for major fixed assets, such as land and buildings, not to exceed 40% of total financing package. Requires 10% equity participation by business. For most businesses, the loan is $50,000 per job created, up to $1.5M. For "small manufacturers", the loan can be $100,000 per job created, up to $4M. Interest rate tied to 5- and 10-year US Treasury issues. Term is 10 or 20 years. More info: </span><a href="http://www.sba.gov/financing/sbaloan/cdc504.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #5588aa; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">www.sba.gov/financing/sbaloan/cdc504.html</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">7(a) Loan Loan guaranty</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> for prime lender. All financing is handled through the lender, with partial guaranty by SBA in case of failure to pay. Applicants must meet certain qualification set out by SBA. Maximum loan is $2M (75% guaranty). Terms: maximum of 25 years for real estate and equipment, 7 years for working capital. Interest rates may be fixed or variable and may not exceed the prime rate by a certain number of points (depends on size and term). More info: </span><a href="http://www.sba.gov/financing/sbaloan/7a.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #5588aa; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">www.sba.gov/financing/sbaloan/7a.html</span></a><br /><a href="http://www.sba.gov/financing/sbaloan/7a.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #5588aa; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a><br /><a href="http://www.sba.gov/financing/sbaloan/7a.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #5588aa; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Business Development Fund Secondary financing</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, not to exceed 33% of total financing package. Theremust be at least 10% equity participation from business. City will lend $10,000 per job created and/or retained, not to exceed $150,000. Fixed interest rate 4% below prime (but not lower than 4%). The term mirrors that of the primary lender.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">More info: </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fci.peoria.il.us%2Fservices%2Fdepts%2Feconomicdev%2F2004%2520BDF%2520app.pdf" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #888888; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ci.peoria.il.us/services/depts/economicdev/2004%20BDF%20app.pdf</span></a><br /><a href="https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fci.peoria.il.us%2Fservices%2Fdepts%2Feconomicdev%2F2004%2520BDF%2520app.pdf" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #888888; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">County G.A.P. Loans Secondary</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> financing, not to exceed 40% of total financing package. There must be at least 10% equity participation from business. County will lend $10,000 per job created or retained, not to exceed $150,000. Fixed interest rate 3% below prime (not lower than 3%). Term will be one year for each $15,000 loaned (7 years maximum for loans for inventory and working capital).</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Illinois Finance Authority Participation Loan</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> IFA will work with prime lender to purchase up to 50% ($1M max) of a loan for purchase of land or buildings, construction or renovation of buildings, and acquisition of machinery and equipment. Interest rate is 2% below the lender's rate, leading to a blended rate (lender may take up to 1% as servicing fee). 10 year maximum term (if lender term is longer, balloon payment required after 10 years). More info: </span><a href="http://www.il-fa.com/products/ind_part.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #5588aa; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">www.ilfa.com/products/ind_part.html</span></a><br /><a href="http://www.il-fa.com/products/ind_part.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #5588aa; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a><br /><a href="http://www.il-fa.com/products/ind_part.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #5588aa; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a><br /><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Attraction, expansion and retention of businesses for your community is vital. It is also one of the most difficult things for a community to successfully accomplish. It takes hard work, planning, and follow through.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We recommend that a community go through a formal development of their Economic Development Strategy. But most communities want to get started </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">RIGHT NOW!</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> So in the interim you can use the following as your strategy.</span><br /><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 15pt; margin-right: 15pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">K</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">eep the businesses and jobs that you have </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Retention is actually the first and most important function. “Keep What You Have” is the cardinal rule of any good economic development program. And just how do you do that? Well, here are some simple to remember rules.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1. Run an efficient, honest, and friendly local government.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2. Know your business community.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3. Let your business leaders know that they are appreciated.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">4. Keep your businesses informed.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">5. Help your business community when you can.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Who Does Your Business Retention?</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It works best if you can make business retention a focus of your entire organization. Make your employees and citizens aware of how important it is to retain the businesses you have. Your employees are especially important. Part of their function is regulatory - the police, fire and inspection departments. You need to make sure that they try to do their regulatory jobs with as little negativity as possible. Make sure that they understand that the fiscal health of the community is tied to successful businesses in the community.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If the community has a full time Economic Development professional then retention and attraction are a principle part of his or her duties. But smaller communities cannot afford a full time professional. These duties then fall to an employee or citizen or commission who performs these functions part time. </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Part of the decision of who does these functions is an assessment of the individual personality and character of the person the community chooses to lead their retention program. Some employees are born salesmen with a positive mental attitude. Choosing an upbeat can do kind of employee to meet with and answer questions from your business community can work wonders. Some one who naturally networks with people and can cut through red tape to resolve problems can be key to retaining businesses.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Another way for a small community to retain businesses is to task the municipal economic development commission with this responsibility. Many of the Commission members will be local business men or women with a good knowledge of the other businesses in the community. They can network with these businesses and make sure that the business community knows they are appreciated by the municipality. And they can provide a good interface among the Village or City Council, the administration, and the Chamber of Commerce.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One simple way of showing businesses you care about them has been successfully developed by the Village of Tinley Park, Illinois. Each year the Village hosts a business breakfast where all business owners are invited. The Mayor and lead economic development Board Member give a “State of the Village” address where they let the business leaders in the community know what has been accomplished over the past year and what is planned for the future. This simple meeting helps the business community learn about the City and get to know their civic leaders. It goes a long towards keeping the business owners positive about the Village.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The City of Peoria developed a formal program entitled the Peoria Business Initiative (PBI) with the assistance of Executive Pulse. The PBI Program helps foster a business climate that encourages the retention and expansion of existing businesses in Peoria to provide quality jobs, a diverse workforce and an expanded tax base. The Department of Economic Development with other supportive agencies target existing companies and conduct on-site business visits.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Each PBI visit is an opportunity to:</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Express appreciation for the company’s contribution to the local economy.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Learn more about the company’s strengths, successes, challenges and opportunities.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gauge the company’s opinion about the local economy and recommendations for improvement. </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Respond to and address any business concerns.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Expansion</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">E</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">xpand the businesses you have </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Expand what you have is the second cardinal rule of a good economic development program. Your existing businesses that are successful will expand. You want them to expand in your community, increasing your tax base and providing jobs.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Your successful retention program will have helped keep your businesses in town. Helping them expand in your community is the next logical step. </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So how do you do that? The things that make your community successful will encourage your existing businesses to expand in your community. You can encourage this reinvestment in a number of ways.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You can work with your Chamber of Commerce, your regional economic development agency, consultants, and University supported organizations to conduct seminars on business expansion. And you can help businesses learn about and apply for State and regional programs that will help finance business expansion.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A municipal supported low interest loan program can be effective. Peoria County and the City of Peoria each set up low interest loan programs initially funded with a Federal grant. Money is lent for business expansions at a low interest rate. The business must first obtain private financing for a major part of the expansion proving that the bank views the expansion as credit worthy. The government program is a percentage of the total expansion and is at risk first in the event of a default. </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Other very important programs include Tax Increment Financing Districts, Enterprise Zones, and Business Development Districts. These programs vary substantially among different governments, but generally rebate some or all of the new taxes generated by the new development for a set period of time. The Enterprise Zone can waive the sales tax on the material for the building expansion. And the Business Development District can enact a new sales tax which can be rebated back to the business.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And keeping a positive mental attitude about your community is essential. There will always be naysayers about your community. You want to minimize the negativity and maximize the positive.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><a href="http://www.ci.peoria.il.us/small_business" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Click for the City of Peoria Programs</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Attraction </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">E</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">nhance your community to attract new businesses</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> - </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Attracting new businesses to your community is actually what many people think is the principle part of the economic development function. As we have indicated, the first rules of economic development are to </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Keep What You Have and Grow What You Have</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Attracting new businesses to your community is very difficult, especially if you are in a slow or no growth area of the State.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A major part of this effort is an ongoing effort to enhance your community. If your main entrance to town is an ugly strip, clean it up. And work to get dilapidated areas renewed. First impressions are vital.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The first thing you must decide is what types of businesses you should try to attract. You can go through a formal targeted industry program approach. Or you can try the more conventional approach, which we call:</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Shoot At Anything That Moves And Claim Anything That Falls</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is actually what many programs do. Any time you hear of a possible interest in expansion in your region you contact the company and let them know that you are interested and invite them to visit. And ballyhoo any successes that you have.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A few years ago Mayor Jim Ardis of Peoria learned that the toy company LEGO was considering constructing a major theme park in the midwest. Attracting this theme park would have been a major coup and we went full throttle trying to land them. We invited them to town and gave them the grand tour. We found one site they were interested in and gave them our best shot at incentives. Ultimately they chose not to build in the midwest, which unfortunately happens most of the time with attraction efforts. But it still important to try while recognizing that most of your wins will be much smaller deals.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Some years ago General Motors announced that they were looking for a location for the Saturn Factory. Municipalities all over America went to great effort and expense to put forward proposals to GM. Ultimately they chose one location and the efforts of all those governments did not succeed. And that is the fate of most of these efforts.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But you still have to try. And every once in a while you win. But you have to expect a great deal of rejection, especially if you are not in a high growth area.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So how do you approach your attraction program? First designate who is running your program - is it a full time professional, or the part time effort of a staff member, or the part time effort of a Commission? Then you need to think through what types of businesses you will recruit.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You need a simple brochure. You can spend a lot of money on an expensive marketing piece. Or you can put together a simple one page flyer that says who you are, why you are a good location to locate a business, and a list of the types of incentives available. We recommend that you do both.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You need a good web site that provides information in an attractive and easy to find way. And you want input from the State, your regional economic development agency, and the business community.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Social Marketing has exploded the last few years and is a very low cost way of telling the world about the advantages of your community. There are many different ways to use the internet and social marketing to promote your business and organization. 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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004264893393466763.post-75658337995732881152011-08-07T14:03:00.003-05:002011-08-07T14:03:53.886-05:00Economic Development Publications<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="text">I wanted to provide you with some free publications from the International Economic Development and information on some upcoming events.<br /><br />A recent publication IEDC produced with the National League of Cities<br /><br />The Role of Local Elected Officials in Economic Development: 10 Things You Should Know </span><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eiedconline%2Eorg%2FDownloads%2FNLC_IEDC_EconDevelop10things%2Epdf&urlhash=AEft&_t=mbox_mebc" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration: none;">http://www.iedconline.org/Downloads/NLC_IEDC_EconDevelop10things.pdf</a> <span class="text"><br /><br />Webinar on August 31<br /><br />A webinar is being held on Wednesday August 31. IEDC’s August webinar focuses on helping economic developers better access federal data regarding their communities. The federal government provides a plethora of data that can help economic developers gain insight into both local and regional employment, industrial, and education profiles.<br /><br />Increasing Access to Federal Data: Ways to Navigate and Understand Available Data </span><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eiedconline%2Eorg%2F%3Fp%3DFederal_Data&urlhash=HLMV&_t=mbox_mebc" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration: none;">http://www.iedconline.org/?p=Federal_Data</a> <span class="text"><br /><br />Upcoming Annual Conference<br /><br />It is still not too late to register for IEDC’s annual conference September 18-21 in Charlotte, North Carolina; this is one of the best economic development conferences each year. </span><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eiedconline%2Eorg%2FAnnualConference%2Findex%2Ehtml&urlhash=NtB3&_t=mbox_mebc" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration: none;">http://www.iedconline.org/AnnualConference/index.html</a> <span class="text"><br /><br />Late September Webinar on Project Feasibility<br /><br />Understanding if the Project is Viable for Your Community<br /><br />Wednesday, September 28, 2011 from 2:30 – 4:00 p.m. Eastern </span><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eiedconline%2Eorg%2F%3Fp%3DProject_Viability&urlhash=6KuQ&_t=mbox_mebc" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration: none;">http://www.iedconline.org/?p=Project_Viability</a> <span class="text"><br /><br />Economic Development Finance Course in Baltimore on November 16-18 </span><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eiedconline%2Eorg%2F%3Fp%3DTraining_Finance_MD&urlhash=L-bG&_t=mbox_mebc" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration: none;">http://www.iedconline.org/?p=Training_Finance_MD</a> <span class="text"><br /><br />Another new report for download<br /><br />New Report: Powering Up: State Assets & Barriers to Renewable Energy Growth </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="text">This is the results of 48 states on state assets for renewable energy growth. </span><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eiedconline%2Eorg%2F%3Fp%3DPowering_Up&urlhash=RdlU&_t=mbox_mebc" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration: none;">http://www.iedconline.org/?p=Powering_Up</a> <span class="text"><br /><br />Hope these items are of interest to you. If you know of someone that works fulltime in the field of economic development and they are not members of the International Economic Development Council, you might point them to: </span><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eiedconline%2Eorg%2F%3Fp%3DJoin_IEDC&urlhash=0dAs&_t=mbox_mebc" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration: none;">http://www.iedconline.org/?p=Join_IEDC</a> <span class="text"><br /><br />Best wishes<br /><br /><br />Jeff Finkle</span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004264893393466763.post-12475057764371333962011-07-23T19:36:00.002-05:002011-07-23T19:36:15.623-05:00Economic Video For Peoria<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004264893393466763.post-75459373560773653992011-07-12T18:52:00.004-05:002011-07-12T18:52:35.282-05:00Economic Development in Sarasota<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004264893393466763.post-64185801702590308822011-03-05T17:12:00.004-06:002011-03-05T17:37:07.679-06:00Tracking the Stimulus Money<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.recovery.gov/News/featured/PublishingImages/ARRAEstimatedPie_Dec10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="173" src="http://www.recovery.gov/News/featured/PublishingImages/ARRAEstimatedPie_Dec10.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The US Government maintains a web site </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">to "track the money" spent on the economic </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">recover. This is a good thing - we want </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">accountability and transparency.</span><br />
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An interesting way to promote the economic redevelopment of an older city is to create an artist relocation program. The City of Paducah has one of the oldest and most successful programs, summarized on the web site below:</span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" style="line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 17px;"><a href="http://www.paducahalliance.org/artist_relocation_program.php">http://www.paducahalliance.org/artist_relocation_program.php</a></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" style="line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px;"><br />
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We have some great redeveloping neighborhoods where an artist can find a work-live loft at an affordable cost. We have programs that provide help for artists to purchase and rehabilitate old warehouses. And we have developers who are rehabbing space designed to house artist studios and residences.<br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Our latest blog post on </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Joan Fitzgerald's 2010 book, <a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?APAEconomicDevelopme/e94de0b089/c36b5f1f5f/38f63a62f6" style="color: #147dba;" target="_blank"><span style="font-style: italic;">Emerald Cities</span><span style="font-style: italic;">: </span></a></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?APAEconomicDevelopme/e94de0b089/c36b5f1f5f/768e505825" style="color: #147dba;" target="_blank">Urban Sustainability and Economic Development</a>,</span> is by Bob Lewis, AICP, Chair of the Economic Development Division. Bob's company, Development Strategies, Inc., is involved in an experimental venture that the City of St. Louis is embarking to effectively determine how it can adapt to the themes raised by Ms. Fitzgerald’s book. "I’m thankful that I read <span style="font-style: italic;">Emerald Cities</span>before the City called me!" he says. "You should read it too — just in case..."</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Development Strategies, Inc.'s role in the St. Louis project — being called the Climate Sustainability Plan — is to identify metrics that economically justify going green. Although "sustainable" development is a movement with immense momentum around the globe today, it is a movement that still has to prove its economic value. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Thus the need for economic metrics. The questions become, "Does this save money?" and "How?" Inquiring residents and businesses — who are asked to pay for going green — will want to know. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A quote from the book</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> calls cities "the Saudi Arabia of energy efficiency." As Bob says, in other words, "there’s gold in them thar cities. All we have to do is find ways to mine it." What savings do we get from greener approaches to managing and operating our cities? What added economic development do we attract by going green, or at least greener? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
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EDD Secretary-Treasurer<br />
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Shana R. Johnson<br />
Principal, Civic Synergy, LLC<br />
7001 Loisdale Road, Suite C<br />
Springfield, VA 22150<br />
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Email: <a href="mailto:sjohnson@civicsynergyllc.com" style="color: #147dba;" target="_blank">sjohnson@civicsynergyllc.com</a><br />
Web: <a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?APAEconomicDevelopme/e94de0b089/c36b5f1f5f/7da587ed2c" style="color: #147dba;" target="_blank">http://www.civicsynergyllc.com</a><br />
Blog: <a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?APAEconomicDevelopme/e94de0b089/c36b5f1f5f/35b7a4c4bd" style="color: #147dba;" target="_blank">http://apaeconomicdevelopment.<wbr></wbr>blogspot.com</a><br />
Twitter: @shana_johnson</span></div></div><div style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-color: black; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-color: black; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: black; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: black; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; clear: both; color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 602px;"></div><div style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-color: black; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-color: black; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: black; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: black; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; clear: both; color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 602px;"></div></td></tr>
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