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Home Builders' Focus on Affordable Homes 'Energizes' Richmond Market

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Richmond-based builder Center Creek Homes only launched two years ago, but is making waves in the city by building low-income housing. The most recent build takes land previously zoned for two single-family homes and will now house five smaller attached homes.

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Top 25 Finalists for Ivory Innovations' Housing Affordability Prize

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In the Finance category, finalists include organizations focused on construction financing, shared-equity models, and renter programs that support increased savings and equity. The fund seeks to build a community of practice and replication model to assist other cities in deploying this innovative fund model in their markets.

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The future of the 20-minute city

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With this in mind, many urban and transportation policies warrant a new model that includes designing for mobility. Because the 20-minute city reduces vehicle traffic and gas emissions, it could offer an excellent development model to implement at scale. And low-income residents with multiple children experience further disadvantages.

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Commercial Construction Trends and Predictions for 2016

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Some of these restaurant groups, such as The Fifty/50 Group and Lettuce Entertain You, are becoming nearly unrecognizable from their core business model as they branch out into new territory such as nightclubs, food service venues and entertainment-driven concepts. Developers and Tenants Create Entertainment Zones to Drive Traffic.

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Transforming shopping malls into 21st century neighborhoods

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With the State of California encouraging housing development in commercial zones, these projects are prime opportunities for alleviating the housing crisis. What otherwise may have ended up as a bidding war, ultimately became a productive collaboration and serves as a national model for economic development.

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Wisconsin Incentives and Workforce Development Guide

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Seed Accelerator: Provides grants to eligible communities and other organizations to support a pre-seed business model program that incorporates training, mentoring and financial assistance to entrepreneurs in their area. The credit is a percentage of “eligible qualified production activities income.” TAX INCENTIVES.

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BUSINESS REPORT: New California Incentives Offer Credits For Job Creation

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California is considered by critics as one of the hardest states in which to grow a business, given its high individual and corporate income tax rates, high sales tax, and conflicting regulations. The San Diego Enterprise Zone, which ended Dec. 31, currently consists of areas of South County, southern San Diego and Rancho Bernardo.