by Ellen D. Harpel | Sep 25, 2013 | Uncategorized
I was at the ICMA Annual Conference earlier this week as part of ICMA’s Center for Sustainable Communities team. I’m helping ICMA address economic sustainability as part of their comprehensive sustainability efforts. There are many topics that fall under...
by Ellen D. Harpel | Sep 19, 2013 | Uncategorized
The authors of this article from the fall 2013 issue of Communities and Banking estimate that property tax incentives total $5-10 billion per year in the U.S. The article also offers 5 strategies for improving the effectiveness of these incentives. Do not approve all...
by Ellen D. Harpel | Sep 12, 2013 | Uncategorized
Legislative interest in incentives is changing how economic development decisions are evaluated. This post is part of an occasional series reviewing state reports evaluating economic development incentives. Here we look at the September 2013 report, “Comparison...
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