Showing posts with label TIF. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TIF. Show all posts
Saturday, October 05, 2019

Gahan inks emergency decree establishing local Democratic Party's parade float as nation's first mobile TIF area.

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Thursday, January 31, 2019

A Tax Increment Financing (TIF) primer, noting TIF's chumminess with insider corruption, and certain grassroots alternatives to big ticket glitz.

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Tax Increment Financing (TIF) came up a lot when I ran for mayor in 2015, so much so that the Bookseller created a paper for consultation...
Wednesday, October 04, 2017

Excellent point: "Louisville should not spend tens of millions for a soccer stadium unless it creates better jobs."

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Last evening the first step was taken toward a soccer stadium in Louisville. The Fischer administration made a successful appeal to c...
Monday, February 27, 2017

Monday's best social media comment about the Breakwater fire.

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This one, from KLB: "Too bad the developers got a massive TIF handout and didn't pay into any of the fire protection they got....
Monday, February 13, 2017

The latest on HB 1131: Amended and up for a vote on Tuesday morning.

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House Bill 1131 is authored by Rep. Ed Clere, and co-authored by Rep. Anthony Cook and Rep. Steven Stemler, and the legislation deals pr...
Monday, April 18, 2016

Extremely rare sighting of infill construction WITHOUT massive TIF subsidies.

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How is it possible? And how will Team Gahan claim credit? But seriously, let's hope Matt Chalfant decided to ask for his cut of t...
Monday, October 12, 2015

Fire station bidding questions, Part Three: A $1.5 million sale to enable a $2.75 million spending orgy.

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Part One Part Two In 2014, against a backdrop of negotiations with Kroger largely hidden from public view, and in concert with the $9 ...
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Fire station bidding questions, Part Two: I see the $4.25 million contract, but where are the bids?

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Part One Part Three There are no minutes on the city's web site for Redevelopment Commission meetings during the last five months...

Fire station bidding questions, Part One: Missing Redevelopment Commission minutes, Kroger corporate welfare and fire stations.

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Part Two Part Three I've been looking at Redevelopment Commission minutes for 2012 and 2013. Interestingly (ominously?), minutes f...
Saturday, October 03, 2015

The last known photograph of me in a suit.

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It is an indescribable honor to be recognized by Freedom of Speech . I believe TIF bonds should be safe, legal and rare. As for the s...
Tuesday, July 14, 2015

It's just boilerplate to pay someone to make a profitable investment, right?

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Yesterday we were breathlessly told to prepare for yet another apocalyptic weather event that never arrived. Out in search of flashlight ...
Thursday, July 02, 2015

ON THE AVENUES: "Water on the brains: Much less for far more will keep us swimming in it."

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ON THE AVENUES: "Water on the brains: Much less for far more will keep us swimming in it." A weekly web column by Roger A. Bay...
Sunday, June 14, 2015

Whither boice.net and the Reisz Furniture Building?

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The Reisz building in 2006. The Green Mouse's ear turns to the rumorama, and specifically, a recent hint that New Albany's boic...
Friday, May 15, 2015

Jeffie bar the door: Redevelopment don't need no stinking TIF input from schools.

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The piranhas are circling TIF even as we receive another lesson in City Hall's innate non-transparency. A fair share? NA-FC School...
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Friday, March 20, 2015

Duggins on Coyle flats: "Flaherty Collins prefers Spring Street to be shifted to two-way travel."

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But of course, as slavishly representing a mayor beset with moral cowardice, who seemingly remains determined to orphan his own purported...
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Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Duggins tells Redevelopment that in spite of CM Benedetti, Slate Run Road will get election year sidewalks.

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Congratulations, residents of Slate Run Road. It's an election year, and coincidentally, the verdant and burbling TIF springs have mir...
Wednesday, February 11, 2015

With another $2 million in TIF subsidies on the way, Adam Dickey still can't define "quality of life."

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But he knows it when he sees it, and it's called "upscale." Here are the "proper" views of the proposed Coyle prop...
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Thursday, February 05, 2015

Jeff Gahan's re-election campaign, and what $9 million IS and IS NOT buying.

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$9  million is buying a shiny wet bauble, and with this being an election year, the mayor (or more likely, an acolyte) finally has return...
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Wednesday, February 04, 2015

Are we TIF enough? New study shows that TIFs are "popular but ineffective economic development tools."

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But pools ... he didn't say a single word about pools and parks , just factories ... c'mon, tell 'em, Adam ... what was that ...
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Friday, January 23, 2015

Gahan's plan for keep Pillsbury: A $7 million bond issue.

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Props to the News and Tribune's Daniel Suddeath, who is tweeting about the city's offer to General Mills. New Albany City Council...
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