Tag: tax increment finance

Taxing Bodies in a TIF…or Two

We’ve said it before, we’ll say it again: subsidies beget subsidies. Instead of doing what proponents of publicly-funded development believe will happen-that a publicly-funded anchor

allegheny September 17, 2010

South Hills Transit Project Any Closer?

Nearly six years ago the borough manager of Castle Shannon stated "it appears the developer [of a proposed transit village at the Shannon trolley lot]

allegheny April 30, 2012

Plenty of TIF News to Go Around

Call it "the week that was" in news items related to projects on the drawing board, soon to get off of the ground, or those

allegheny November 1, 2012

Insights that Speak to You

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