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Cracking the code of affordable housing

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That meant proximity to transit, jobs, schools, retail, public access to parks and recreation, and other social infrastructure. The community will be home to offices, schools, services such as daycare, and retail/dining. He found the most successful ones had a sense of community that went beyond the buildings.

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When office-to-residential conversion works

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Zoned business districts cease to function after 6 p.m.” Eliminating single-use zoning so people can live throughout the city, where all of its districts thrive at all times, is a β€œnet positive,” he says. This zoning provides opportunities to create a profitable development.”

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Structural engineering solutions for office-to-residential conversion

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Boston , New York , and San Francisco , are considering ways to improve the financial incentives, change zoning policies and expedite plan reviews, but developers should get a full-service team assembled to take a hard look at a conversion before they get started. Steel or wood is generally easier to adapt in a conversion. Los Angeles, Calif.

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Oregon Incentives and Workforce Development Guide

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Oregon Capital Access (CAP) Program: The CAP helps lenders (banks and credit unions) make more commercial loans to small businesses and provides capital for start-up or expansion. may be feasible for financing smaller projects, particularly within the $1,000,000 to $5 million cost range. loan origination fee.

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Pennsylvania Incentives and Workforce Development Guide

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Grants for planning and feasibility studies up to 50% of the total cost of the planning project or $175,000, whichever is less. 92) known as the Keystone Opportunity Zone, Keystone Opportunity Expansion Zone and Keystone Opportunity Improvement Zone Act (73 P.S. §§820.101- 820.1309) (the β€œAct”). .

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Oregon Incentives and Workforce Development Guide

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The intention is to protect those industrial lands with the potential for future economic development and job growth from conversion to residential or commercial zoning. Express Bonds are placed with the borrower’s bank and may be feasible for financing smaller projects, particularly within the $500,000 to $5 million cost range.

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State by State Incentives Guide

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Alabama Economic Development Loan Program: The state has more than 2,300 commercial lending sources with assets of over $61.3 The Alabama Economic Development Loan Program is used to work with commercial lenders for projects in non-entitlement communities. Enterprise Zone Credit or Exemption: The Alabama Enterprise Zone Act (Act.

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